My mini arcade collection...

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It's probably not what you think. Picture below. Let me think, the first one was Frogger from a nice cashier in a thrift store with three teeth. Next was Astro Wars from my vacation to England at a boot sale (tourist traps got a little old). The others came from various ebay actions through the years. I only like the ones with glowing color VFD displays, 80's technology that is too expensive to reproduce nowadays, I assume. Just like arcade games, they don't build them like they used to. Unlike arcade games, they don't take up that much space.

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I also have the Q*bert, they sell on ebay for all kinds of weird numbers, bunch with 125$ B.I.N then u see ones with 1$ start sell for 20$, such a strange market, but completely classic! i think i still have Atari Football somewhere around, i've seen some huge collections of the mini arcade games, there's a website dedicated to them also.

http://www.miniarcade.com/miniarcade.htm

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/
 
I was buying mini arcades before I started to get full size arcade games.. I have quite a few, but I am still looking for entex crazy climber.. Wished I would have found an adventurevision...

as for smaller, have you ever seen the mini zaxxon...

If your into those, you have to get a vectrex.
 
Your Spiders and Crazy Climber were manufactured in one of the most infamous cities in America: Compton.
 
Ah, I used to own that Stargate. Man that was fun back in the 80's. I remember when my dad bought it... it was at a department store in the electronics section.... begin with a Z... but I can't remember it.
 
Ah, I used to own that Stargate. Man that was fun back in the 80's. I remember when my dad bought it... it was at a department store in the electronics section.... begin with a Z... but I can't remember it.

Zayre?......
 
Cool. I only have a Zaxxon. :)

What's your fave of the bunch?

It's probably not what you think. Picture below. Let me think, the first one was Frogger from a nice cashier in a thrift store with three teeth. Next was Astro Wars from my vacation to England at a boot sale (tourist traps got a little old). The others came from various ebay actions through the years. I only like the ones with glowing color VFD displays, 80's technology that is too expensive to reproduce nowadays, I assume. Just like arcade games, they don't build them like they used to. Unlike arcade games, they don't take up that much space.
 
heheh I remember wanting these soo badly as a kid when they first came out.. my parents never got one for me. I've had to compensate as an adult ;P very cool collection man!

Tom
 
Man, that is definitely a cool little collection! I love how that Astro Wars one looks... very awesome indeed.

I've been meaning to collect some of these mini games. Can you normally find them at thrift stores/flea markets? I go to those places every once in awhile, but mostly find NES, Genesis, or Atari 2600 stuff.
 
Cool. I only have a Zaxxon. :)

What's your fave of the bunch?



It is really hard to say. Astro Command was my first ever video game. Frogger and Q*bert tie for the most accurate arcade ports. Crazy Climber is probably the most valuable. I think I'll go with Astro Command.

+1 on the Vectex, and the new homebrew games are great. I am on the fence about Warrior for $60, it's a little expensive.

Now to find a Entex Adventurevision (yea, right). Where is my spare $1,000....
 
I picked up a few new keychain games off ebay. they came in the mail today.

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I tend to grab anyting crazy climber.. I got this one a few years ago..(I did not get the galaxian)

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Just like arcade games, get what you love to play. Glad I wasn't the only arcade collector with some crossover collecting of these games.
 
I used to have the tabletop Pac-Man when I was a kid. It actually played really well. I wouldn't mind tracking down one of those.
 
I used to have the Pac-man one. I wanted it so bad as a kid and when I finally got it, I was really disappointed with the thing. I guess my young mind was expecting arcade perfection. I also used to have Scramble and a Tron game like those that I liked a lot better. I wish I still had all of those now, I don't know what ever became of them, they either broke or my mom donated them to salvation army when I got older.
 
Those are really cool; you have a nice collection!

I always wanted one of those, especially back around 1983. Pepsi products had a numbers game in the bottom of their pop cans.

You had to collect 5(I think) different codes to "win" a Colecovision tabletop. Of course I had all the numbers but one. And I spent more of my parent's money on Mountain Dew than I should of.
 
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