Anyone collect consoles? WTF is wrong with people?

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No more pong.

I did play pong on my TV and was amazed at how damn solid those whites are... I bet it could perm-burn a plasma TV in 10 minutes.
 
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Interested to see how you progress. I'm doing something similar only on a smaller scale. I'm doing a display with the main old consoles and handhelds, like pre-1995. It's been fun to scour eBay and craigslist for stuff other than arcade cabs. Cheaper too, although not by much when you start adding them up.
 

Yeah... that one. I wonder why I skipped it. My friend had one and it got fried because he liked to play it on the carpet. Static electricity is not your friend.

I left out handhelds, and vectrex is certainly not a hand held machine. Thanks for the reminder!
i have 3 of them,...with various multicarts and like 90% of all the carts for it.
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You gotta add Sega CD- (Sewer Shark was great) on that list as well as the Sega 32x (Doom on 32x was good as well as motocross) adapter for the Genesis. Also don't forget the ever blinding Nintendo Virtual Boy ( That system even had a warning label on it stating that you should not play longer than 15 minutes at a time)... I have been a console player since I was 9 (I am 31 now) I think I have everything on that list with the exception of the Vextrex in one storage bin or another (none for sale though...sorry)...
 
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Forget about the SEGA CD add on (its frigin huge!). if you have the coinage, go for the SEGA CDX (it plays the genesis and cd games and its super small, rare too). the JVC X'EYE does the same thing too for a little less $$.

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If you come acrossed any working Commodore 64's in your quest, let me know. I'm still kicking myself for selling mine at a garage sale about 15 years ago!
 
Have you done any troubleshooting of Intellivision console logic boards? I have the schematics, but I think the GI audio chip is shot in the one I have. It used to work, but the sound didn't work properly (I've had two consoles do that, so it seems to be a common problem). I think it was dead last time I checked it, just reset to a black screen.

I have an Intellivision III which works just fine though.

- James
 
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Out of curiousity. I am not into consoloes at all. I do have a few I got given to me in the past few years, but while everyone else had the Atari...i had a computer. The TI 99/4a to be exact. Which brings to my question. I know th TI was marketed as a home computer though it had cartridges for games so could that be considered a console system? I see in brentradios page he included the Atari system which was a home computer and used Basic programming setup similar to the TI.
I loved the games on the TI. I thought Munch Man was a far better game than 2600's Pac-Man or its clones (for other consoles). For those who may not be familiar....you lay a chain down to fill the maze rather than eat dots. Hard to see if you missed a link.
 
dumb!!! That would make me mad.

I collect consoles although I don't have them all. out of your needed list I have:

Atari - Atari 2600
Atari - Atari 5200
Atari - Atari 7800
Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System
Sega - Sega Master System
NEC - Turbografx-16
Nintendo - Super Nintendo
Sega - Genesis
Atari - Jaguar
Nintendo - Nintendo 64
Panasonic - 3DO
Sega - Saturn
Sony - Playstation
Nintendo - Game Cube
Sony - Playstation 2
Microsoft - Xbox
Sega - Dreamcast
Nintendo - Wii
Microsoft - Xbox 360

Some of these I have multiples of and I have other systems that you didn't list if you consider all of the variations of game boys and other portable systems.
 
Yeah, on the poor packaging front - My other hobby is model car kits (static and RC), and from time to time when I order them through eBay, they're just wrapped in brown paper and the box gets all beaten about. Usually, they're properly packed to protect the box, and are at least double boxed, sometimes with styrofoam blocks/peanuts or wrapped in bubble wrap. You do get the odd seller who skimps on the packaging though. Only had one kit actually have anything damaged in it, but it's annoying to get a beaten up box when some people think "it's just a box" when packing these items. Especially if the box is 20 years old, and when having the box in good condition can greatly increase the price for some items.

I love handheld games - in particular, the Lynx, Gameboy Color and DS. Plus I have about 30-odd tabletop VFD games and game & watches. I have the Q-bert tabletop, and it rocks.

Most of the G&W and almost all cartridges I have are mint boxed, and I would've been plenty p1ss3d if they were all beaten up in the post due to poor packing.

- James
 
Out of curiousity. I am not into consoloes at all. I do have a few I got given to me in the past few years, but while everyone else had the Atari...i had a computer. The TI 99/4a to be exact. Which brings to my question. I know th TI was marketed as a home computer though it had cartridges for games so could that be considered a console system? I see in brentradios page he included the Atari system which was a home computer and used Basic programming setup similar to the TI.
I loved the games on the TI. I thought Munch Man was a far better game than 2600's Pac-Man or its clones (for other consoles). For those who may not be familiar....you lay a chain down to fill the maze rather than eat dots. Hard to see if you missed a link.


No shit.. I was going to mention this..
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I bought the original Intellision recently.. It played for about 2 weeks, and just stopped. The unit started getting really warm, then just quit. I'm try to cap it and see what happens.. I pulled it apart, and didn't see any obvious burns or damage... I've just put it away for awhile till I get some time..
 
Commodore 64 has a cartridge slot, but everyone thinks of that as a home computer.

There was a cartridge-only console version of the C64 though - the C64GS.

- James
 
Commodore 64 has a cartridge slot, but everyone thinks of that as a home computer.

There was a cartridge-only console version of the C64 though - the C64GS.

- James

It was only released in Europe (So that means PAL) and was a flop. I'm not going to add that thing to my list. I'd most certainly have a Commodore 128D above all.
 
I kind of got lost with all the newer consoles in last ten years..that was when I really got into collection arcades and pins...but I do have the vectrex with all games made boxed..coleco vision...about 20 boxed games...atari 2600...with ton of boxed and unboxed games...and nintendo with about 50 games all boxed including all the original NES games that were first released under nintendo name in black boxes....remember they had sports series..action..etc..other than that never got to into the other newer ones although I know how cool and realistic they are playing some of them at my friends...
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I wouldn't doubt some people would put a PCB in a envelope and send it as well... there are real idiots out there.

That's happened to me. It was Puyo Puyo board. It arrived with the pins sticking through the envelope, all completely bent out of shape, and with one of the corners fairly smashed up. Miraculously, it plays flawlessly. Problem is that it was supposed to be a Puyo Puyo 2 board. What an asshole.

I notice your list doesn't have the Virtual Boy on it! You can get an entire US collection of VB games and the system for less than $200 (maybe $150?), and a few of the Japan-only games for reasonable prices. The depth effect is cool and the system looks awesome if you place it in a menacing position like on top of a bookshelf.
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Ugh, I knew it was only a matter of time before somebody brought up a Virtual Boy. Those things gave me a headache! It would be an interesting piece for a collector though. I don't recall seeing anything else quite like it.
 
Don't forget the Odyssey 1. I had one one time but never got to test it. The carts were just chips with out the case. Also came with overlays you taped to your TV as there was no color. I used the overlays for bb practice :-(

Good luck in your quest.
 
All this talk of multigames got me thinking about the NES 190-in-1 I have *somewhere*. Damn are they really worth this much???? Although the one I have is a Famicom cart with an adapter.
 
Also there is the V-Smile and some simular education systems out on the market today. I think there was one back in the early 90's that used a VHS tape.
 
I collect consoles but I really don't see myself buying any of the newest consoles, I don't like the pay for extra digital content model that they are pushing then when your system goes belly up you lose all your content and its not easy to get it back..

I have that system that uses VHS tapes, I got it in a box of NES stuff I bought at a yard sale, it was in the box so I am not complaining since that makes it practically free, unfortunately I don't have any of the VHS tapes for it.
 
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