RickR

From Ballblazer.  Penguins, plumbers, and Pontiacs. 
 
 

That is sweet!

Went antiquing yesterday and got this: Star Trek: Generations by MicroProse for the PC.
 
It's never been opened, original plastic still intact. I'm debating whether or not the game is good enough to open and play, or keep sealed in the box.
 
I must say, I love the box art. Kirk and Picard, together, on one box? Count me in!

I decided to do the Euro MOD to play pal games the only thing they can't guarantee it will play all 7800 pal games, as long as I can play ninja golf good enough for me he's is also doing an av mod for me way better than an rf switch I'll post pictures once I get the console back.
Total price including shipping 65 bucks

Rick Reynolds!  Sad but true:  whenever I pipe up on an Intellivision post over on AA, people think I'm him.  So please apologize for me.

yeah I only have mebbe 1 PnP with a key that fits a game ... it propitiatory to that particular PnP ....
 
mine isn't game key enabled ... or mebbe it's game key disabled :unsure: ... I never opened it up
 
I recall that Spongebob sports PnP to be pretty good .... most of the Spongebob ones are ... the pineapple house one is kind of a stinker but it looks cool anyways

I have a Ms. Pac-Man PNP with GameKey support, and it was sold with an extra GameKey. It slots in, and does indeed provide an extra game not already on the PNP. I have never seen any other GameKeys available, but I assume different types were produced. My GameKey has DigDug and... Rally X, I think.

Picked up an Intellivision 10 for a dollar at a flea market.
 

 
It works, and I'll give it a whirl, but even without knowing a single thing about this thing (and I don't) I feel it's probably junk, given that the Intellivision does not make use of four buttons PLUS TWO SHOULDER BUTTONS WTF. 
 
Will happily trade it for something else worth $1!

Half-price day at the Salvation Army today.  Got the stuff below.  The Spongebob plug and play is interesting because it has a slot in it (labeled "Game Key").  Could it be to add more games?
 
 

Rowsdower is a awesome trader!  I mean, who trades 49 games for two?!  That guy does!
 

Ep 251: RealSports Tennis (Atari 2600)

I had quite the eBay score this past week.  I was doing my usual Atari searching two weeks ago when a fairly nice looking lot of 2600/5200 games went up for sale.
 

 
So, a mixed lot of about 50 games.  Pretty standard-looking, with some quality stuff mixed in: an Atari Video Cube, the Mario Bros. label variation I was missing, a clean-looking Sorcerer's Apprentice to upgrade the poor one that I had...  not bad!  Sure, there are a number of games with writing on the labels, but all in all... nice lot.
 
Then, in an instant... I saw it.  A heavenly chorus reverberated in my ears...
 

 
I got tunnel vision.... suddenly, I could see only the boxed 2800 Super Breakout.  The reality around me started to break down a bit, I think -- it's hard to remember exactly.
 

             [ATARI 2800 BOX DESIRE INTENSIFIES]
 
Then I notice the seller... it's a Salvation Army ARC less than 10 miles from where I live!  HOW?!  I've never seen a 2800 box on eBay USA in my months and months and months of looking, and now there's one being sold by a seller less than a 20 minute drive away?  Turns out they *also* had a separate lot with a 2800 console, so... perhaps someone brought their collection from Japan here?  Who knows.  Whatever -- I immediately realize that I have a secret weapon; an ace up my sleeve... not having to pay shipping if I win!
 
Anyway, to make a longer story slightly less long, I won the auction for a great deal less than I was prepared to pay.  I was (and remain!) super excited about that fact; I might very well make back most (all?) of what I spent by selling the duplicate games and the boxes I don't want.
 
So, Wednesday rolls around and I go to the Salvation Army location to make my pick-up.  They'd packed everything up nice and tightly since they assumed they'd be shipping it out to someone.  I just needed to make sure the 2800 box was in there before I drove off with my winnings.  Once I saw that it was tucked in there, I left on cloud nine.
 
Later on that evening I opened the box back up to have my first look.  Okay, nice, nice... lots of upgrades to some games in my collection, a few label variations, good... some good trade bait...
 
Then I get to the beautiful, glorious Super Breakout box.  It's a little bit rough, but it's all good where it counts:

 
I wasn't expecting the manual, so that was a nice bonus!  The box, I'll probably either flatten or try to re-shape a bit, but it's plenty good enough for me as-is.
 

 

 
For some reason the end of the cartridge itself is all chewed up... but it's no big loss since it's not a label unique to Japan.
 
Okay, let's look at these other boxes.  Any japanese stickers on the backs?  Man, that'd be sweet.  Nah, no such luck.  Okay, wait, I have three loose copies of Amidar here... what's in the Amidar box, then?  Please don't tell me it's a fourth copy of crappy Amidar...
 
I pick the box up -- it's HEAVY.  What the?  MY GOD...  IT'S FULL OF STARS MANUALS!
 
The corner of one catches my eye.  HOLY S#!...
 

 
Suddenly I find myself riffling through a stack of about 50 manuals, and glints of silver keep catching my eye.  This is crazy!


 
I didn't even have time to start wondering where the boxes for these might be, because my fingers stop on one of the two pieces of 2800 paraphernalia I was most wanting:
 

 
THE 2800 CONSOLE OWNER'S MANUAL.  The one thing that I didn't get with my 2800 that I'd really, really wished it had come with.  And now, here's one that's fallen into my lap totally out of the blue.  Serendipity!
 

 
"Table of Contents"
(learning Japanese I think I'm learning Japanese I really think so...)
 
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It even still has the insert sheet explaining how to hook it up with a switchbox.
 

 
I'd love to see a Sears Video Arcade II manual now, just to compare!
 
Anyway, this lot is where many of my latest additions to my trade list come from.  I don't know if I'll ever get so lucky again.  One can only hope!

New addition to the game room/ man cave

This went here.     Still a horrible game, but its ALL MINE!   Thanks BB!

Vanguard is good. Focus on that.

Vanguard is good. Focus on that.

Moved post, I'm not all here.  Mods forgive!

That is true.  I have a PAL Starmaster.  I can get it to stop rolling on a computer TV card by adjusting the channel frequency. 

Tomy Atomic Arcade Pinball
Pinball (Tabletop)
Difficulty: None
High Score: 20,440
April 27, 2016

I guess I'll find out when I get this it's coming from Germany it's Ninja Golf heard from reviews it's a really good game

Tomy Atomic Arcade Pinball
Pinball (Tabletop)
Difficulty: None
High Score: 20,440
April 27, 2016

Tomy Atomic Arcade Pinball
Pinball (Tabletop)
Difficulty: None
High Score: 20,440
April 27, 2016

Thanks to Ballblazer's epic post about label variations, I had to pick up the one that features my favorite number.
 

Thank you Ballblazer!