RickR

Thank you, Justin, for bringing this topic up.  Now that I've got my collection out (to take the picture), I'm really looking forward to looking through some of the reels.  Some of these things are really like time-machines...you actually feel/smell/taste your memories from 30, 40 years ago.  Just like music or art can do. 

I'm not exactly sure what to look for. Electrical stuff like that is not something I'm good with. However, I do think this cable is giving the Genesis insufficient power and that the PBC is pushing it too hard and refuses to run after awhile. I have it running Altered Beast at the moment just fine and even restarting the console worked too, but I have a feeling that if I try again later, it won't. I'm going to go buy a proper power cable today.

Great news on finding that PBC!  I kind of went the other way and finally found a real Master System. 
 
As far as the issue you have, it's probably a dirty cart connector.  Take the PBC out and clean the pins that go into the Genesis cart port with q-tips and alcohol.  Clean it several times.  I mean clean it, plug it into the genesis.  Take it out, and clean it again.  2 times should do it.
 
The other suggestion is to make sure you're using a good "Sega" branded power adapter on the Genesis.  Should be the kind that puts out 1.2 amps. 

20-1 victory.
 

For sale -- asking $45 shipped in the USA.
 
An Atari 2600 with composite mod.  I did not do this mod myself.  This console came to me broken, and I simply had to resolder several wires.  It works perfectly.  Repair and clean-up are all I did to it.  Full disclosure -- the A/V ports were placed a little too close together for my taste.  Normal composite cables work just fine...but larger cables (example:  Monster) will not fit.  The mod itself was done properly and looks good to me. 
 
This is for the console only. 
 
Upgrades available for extra:
After-market power adapter - $7 A/V cables (yellow/white/red) - $3 Joysticks - $6 each Games - PM me.  I have a bunch of common games.  Probably $1.50 each (to account for extra shipping cost).  

I don't know how we missed this one.  Rampage, the movie, based on the old arcade game!  Starring Dwayne Johnson. 
 
I just finished watching this at home.  What can I say -- I liked it.  They did a really good job of fleshing out an (albeit ridiculous) story around the game!  It's fun, it moves quickly, and the ending portion is reminiscent of the old monster-movie movies of our youth.  Lots of destruction and fights and WOW. 

Anyways, I say turn off your brain and give it a go.
 

For sale -- asking $45 shipped in the USA.
 
An Atari 2600 with composite mod.  I did not do this mod myself.  This console came to me broken, and I simply had to resolder several wires.  It works perfectly.  Repair and clean-up are all I did to it.  Full disclosure -- the A/V ports were placed a little too close together for my taste.  Normal composite cables work just fine...but larger cables (example:  Monster) will not fit.  The mod itself was done properly and looks good to me. 
 
This is for the console only. 
 
Upgrades available for extra:
After-market power adapter - $7 A/V cables (yellow/white/red) - $3 Joysticks - $6 each Games - PM me.  I have a bunch of common games.  Probably $1.50 each (to account for extra shipping cost).  

For sale -- asking $45 shipped in the USA.
 
An Atari 2600 with composite mod.  I did not do this mod myself.  This console came to me broken, and I simply had to resolder several wires.  It works perfectly.  Repair and clean-up are all I did to it.  Full disclosure -- the A/V ports were placed a little too close together for my taste.  Normal composite cables work just fine...but larger cables (example:  Monster) will not fit.  The mod itself was done properly and looks good to me. 
 
This is for the console only. 
 
Upgrades available for extra:
After-market power adapter - $7 A/V cables (yellow/white/red) - $3 Joysticks - $6 each Games - PM me.  I have a bunch of common games.  Probably $1.50 each (to account for extra shipping cost).  

$25 shipped.  PM if interested, thanks.

I enjoyed this one.  Fun movie just don't think much when watching it. 

:lol:   You got me!
 
Maybe it was the lack of big-name stars.  But the movie felt lifeless to me. 

Our Goodwills here have a return policy.  14 days, you can return it for a store credit.  But you must leave the price sticker intact. 

It does not apply to media.  So CD's, DVD's, and disc-based games are "as-is". 

You're right.  That's not good at all.  Maybe dementia is starting to set in.  You may need to see a neuropsychiatrist!  

I bought a SMS on eBay, and the seller said it was broken.  It was described as "no up or right movement".  Sure enough, when I got it, that was the case.  It looked like someone had dropped something right on the left controller port.  I got a good deal on it.  I figured it would be worth the gamble.
 
I was able to fix the "Up" portion just by resoldering pin 1 on the P1 controller connector.  But resoldering pin 4 did not fix "right".  I ended up testing continuity with a volt-meter and figured there was a bad trace between Pin 4 and the weird buffer looking part on the board.  So I ended up putting in a wire between the two...and now it works!  I'm so excited. 

Please pardon the poor solder job.  I will clean it up.  For now, I just wanted to see if that would fix it, and it did. 

And for kamikaze -- this particular SMS has Hang-On built in.
 
 

Thank you, Justin, for bringing this topic up.  Now that I've got my collection out (to take the picture), I'm really looking forward to looking through some of the reels.  Some of these things are really like time-machines...you actually feel/smell/taste your memories from 30, 40 years ago.  Just like music or art can do. 

I LOVE the View Master.  View Master was invented in my hometown of Portland, OR.  The factory that made them was here for most of my childhood. 
 
Here is a picture of my meager collection.  I have about 50 reels.  The old viewer is long gone, but I kept the one we bought when my kids were young.  Mid 1990's.  You guys are right that the older viewers were really special.  They were heavy and had glass lenses and metal cases.  I have no idea what happened to ours.  The modern ones work well, but feel cheap. 

My favorite reels are the "travel" ones (example:  Yellowstone, Crater Lake, etc).  They really capture landscapes of things that in many cases no longer exist.  The other really cool ones are the ones where they made and photographed little 3D vignettes.  A lot of the old Disney ones (Snow White, Pinoochio) were done this way, and those ones have a "Rankin / Bass" style of art and a 3D effect to them.
 
As far as collecting goes, these things just don't come up that often that I've seen.  But when I see them, I usually grab them.
 
Also pictured is my Fisher Price movie viewer.  I need to find more moves for that thing too.
 
 

I don't know how we missed this one.  Rampage, the movie, based on the old arcade game!  Starring Dwayne Johnson. 
 
I just finished watching this at home.  What can I say -- I liked it.  They did a really good job of fleshing out an (albeit ridiculous) story around the game!  It's fun, it moves quickly, and the ending portion is reminiscent of the old monster-movie movies of our youth.  Lots of destruction and fights and WOW. 

Anyways, I say turn off your brain and give it a go.
 

I don't know how we missed this one.  Rampage, the movie, based on the old arcade game!  Starring Dwayne Johnson. 
 
I just finished watching this at home.  What can I say -- I liked it.  They did a really good job of fleshing out an (albeit ridiculous) story around the game!  It's fun, it moves quickly, and the ending portion is reminiscent of the old monster-movie movies of our youth.  Lots of destruction and fights and WOW. 

Anyways, I say turn off your brain and give it a go.
 

Thank you, Justin, for bringing this topic up.  Now that I've got my collection out (to take the picture), I'm really looking forward to looking through some of the reels.  Some of these things are really like time-machines...you actually feel/smell/taste your memories from 30, 40 years ago.  Just like music or art can do. 

I LOVE the View Master.  View Master was invented in my hometown of Portland, OR.  The factory that made them was here for most of my childhood. 
 
Here is a picture of my meager collection.  I have about 50 reels.  The old viewer is long gone, but I kept the one we bought when my kids were young.  Mid 1990's.  You guys are right that the older viewers were really special.  They were heavy and had glass lenses and metal cases.  I have no idea what happened to ours.  The modern ones work well, but feel cheap. 

My favorite reels are the "travel" ones (example:  Yellowstone, Crater Lake, etc).  They really capture landscapes of things that in many cases no longer exist.  The other really cool ones are the ones where they made and photographed little 3D vignettes.  A lot of the old Disney ones (Snow White, Pinoochio) were done this way, and those ones have a "Rankin / Bass" style of art and a 3D effect to them.
 
As far as collecting goes, these things just don't come up that often that I've seen.  But when I see them, I usually grab them.
 
Also pictured is my Fisher Price movie viewer.  I need to find more moves for that thing too.
 
 

My wife and I will do the Goodwill run once a month or so.  We usually hit 1 or 2.  Some of them are farther away, but usually have much better stuff.  You just never know what you're going to find.  She likes to look at dishes, and has found some pieces that we love and use and others that are worth a ton and we've sold.  The last time we went, I found an XBOX game and a really nice desk chair (which I'm using right now). 

The hunt is a little  harder these days...but still worthwhile. 

It's always exciting to find the PS1 games mixed in with the CD's at Goodwill. 

I actually bought reproduction labels for my DK and Q-bert tabletops a few years back off ebay. They weren't cheap, but they were printed to the exact size and where vinyl laminated stickers. So once I cut them out with an x-acto blade and applied them, they looked stock.

So I just reviewed this new book, Programming Games For Intellivision by Oscar "Nanochess" Gutierrez (Programmer of Hover Bovver on the Intellivision as well as Princess Quest and Mecha 8 on the Colecovision and Flashback). In it he walks you through how to make your own Intellivision game using IntyBasic. 

 
So if this interests you, here are some links to get your started.
 
To order the book:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ga... Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo...   Download IntyBasic: http://nanochess.org/intybasic.html Follow Oscar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nanochess Follow the 2018 IntyBasic Programming Contest to see some games being made this year using IntyBasic that may end up in cartridge form: http://atariage.com/forums/forum/194-intybasic-programming-contest-2018/   Personally, I think it's so cool how someone can learn how to program new games for old systems.

Anyone else here like or collect View-Master stuff? I always loved View-Master. What an interesting medium and such a pop-culture icon. I had the classic View-Master "toy" when I was little, I remember having a few Dumbo's Circus discs. When I was about 10 my grandfather let me look through his View-Master stuff from the 1950s and 1960s. This was definitely not a child's toy, it seemed expensive and felt more akin to a camera or photo equipment from that era. View-Master seems like one of those things that came close to the World of Atari but the two never quite connected.