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Scarf gone in 1!  
 
Glad it went to a loving home.   That GBA game is still factory sealed too  
 
Starbuck is next!

Now this is what I call a birthday present!

Retro Junk Box 9 will be starting soon!
Sign up today if you are interested and meet the requirements below.
Let me know if you have any questions!
 
Here's how the Retro Junk Box works

What It Is: Someone fills a large USPS Priority Mail Flate Rate Box full of retro-related items and sends it to another member. They take out what they want, fill it back up and send it to the next person. It keeps going until it returns to the original sender.

History: The first Retro Junk Box started as a collaboration between The Retro League and Cartoon Retrocast podcasts. It has also been done by The Retroist and The Retro Junkies Network.

Who Can Participate: This is open to members in good standing who have reached Orange Status* (or successful traders with at least 50 posts here), have been a registered Atari I/O member for at least 90 days, live in the US and have been active in the forums or chats during the last month. (See your Avatar to see the fruits you have earned).
* Orange Status is mysteriously rewarded between 100 & 150 posts. 

What is Required: Participants must send the box out within 3 days of getting it, pay for the postage to send it out ($18.85) and must post a photo or video of what they took out. (leave the rest as a mystery!)

Items Taken Out MUST Be Replaced With Items Of Equal Or Greater Value: The Retro Junk Box celebrates the generous and friendly spirit of the forums! Those who participate will be expected to contribute to the spirit of the Retro Junk Box, and must replenish the box with items of an equal or greater value than what they chose to take out.

Those who abuse the generosity of other participants will be denied the opportunity of participating again. Egregious violations will result in the offending member losing prize and event participation privileges, or worse, being removed from the site.

Other Notes: Since it is free to do so with Priority Mail, I would insure the box for $50 to help pay to fill another one in the unlikely event that the USPS ever lost it. Please keep the box mostly (at least 51%) gaming related. Newer items are ok if they are retro related in some way. Please try to be fair in what you replace value wise and please no duplicate games on the same system. Please avoid putting in broken items/games if possible. Please use packing material to fill in nooks and crannies to prevent items from getting broken. (Plastic bags work good for this)

Feel free to reuse and decorate the box!

If you meet the requirements and agree to the terms, please let me know by responding to the thread along with what state you are located in so we can begin to order the list. DO NOT POST YOUR FULL ADDRESS HERE  

Also, if you need to be on a certain spot on the list, because you won't be available later, let us know (for instance, if you are going on a trip or work assignment).

The cart went immediately into the Retron 5 and she played it quite a bit last night 

Oh man! Now i want to play it

That Star Castle one is pretty fun

Worm War I is an awesome game.

Nice picks! I'm picking up some retro today for the junk box, hope to find good stuff

Now I want to know what the Transformer is! 

Yea i saw the pokemon ash grey and thought it looked interesting, but i figured i probably wouldnt find time to play it. Glad it went to someone good

Ohhh!  Shark Shark, that game is awesome.  It has eluded me for years.  

Got the Junk Box today, here's what I grabbed:
 

 
The TMNT stuff and Transformers figure is for my nephew, he loves that stuff! My daughter wanted the Goomba and the Mario candy cube thing, it actually has some Mario stickers inside of it too. Shark! Shark! is for me, I've been looking for a copy for a while, and the Challenger Famicom game just looked cool after watching some Youtube vids of the gameplay. Finally the Pokemon Ash Gray was claimed by my wife, she was super geeked when she saw it :-)
 
The box is fully (and I mean fully) loaded, and will be on its way to AtariBrian on Monday!

Looks like batman beyond

Funny, I just renewed ownership of my site arcade.io yesterday.

Sorry Rows. It could be a bunch of us just happened to be busy around the same time. 
For instance, I've been out of state on a personal matter the past week and was barely online and never logged onto the forums.
Sometimes things just happen like that.
 
Any hoot, nice stuff! What did the DC figure end up being?
And tell the Mrs, nice job on the scarf.

It is possible!  It's not her easiest pattern, but I'll ask her to re-list it on ETSY. 

I saw this posted over at VGF and thought I'd share it here as well.  Arcade.ly is a page that has some clones of arcade games that are modernized versions of classic retro games.  The two games you can play right now are Shoot the Rocks and Star Citadel.  Shoot the Rocks is a clone of Asteroids and Star Citadel is a clone of Star Castle.  Both games have modern and classic versions available to play.  Check out the site here:  https://arcade.ly/
 

Shoot the Rocks


Star Citadel

 
 

She just sent me an email to purchase, thanks

My thoughts exactly! I know is still early for me to get the box but I'm planning to go to a retro game store to stock up for the junk box, better be prepared, but the way awesome space invaders scarf! Is it possible to order one from Mrs Rows? Definitely would like one for when winter comes around.

Absolutely!

Justin - GA
Starbuck - MI
AtariBrian - NY
NSG - TN
Willie - NC
CorreaGonzalez - NY
Kid A - CA
RickR - OR
Me - TX

Hows this?
 

All packed and ready, the Junk Box 9 from Outer Space departs tomorrow for the planet Georgia. 

All packed and ready, the Junk Box 9 from Outer Space departs tomorrow for the planet Georgia. 

Mom never played a video game in her life.   That being said, she understood that we loved them.   She would do her research to find out if the arcades were too seedy for her liking, if not she would take us and come back and pick us up later.    She would also let us go wild in the mall arcade while her and my grandma shopped.

Awesome scarf!

Scarf gone in 1!  
 
Glad it went to a loving home.   That GBA game is still factory sealed too  
 
Starbuck is next!