BSA Starfire

Here you go Couldn't find any AAA batteries to run up the Pocket to show how the Backlight looks, will try and hunt some up tomorrow if I get time. Trade or offers, I collect for nearly everything so let me know what you got

Also found some other bits: Gameboy pocket silver with backlight modification. Gameboy Color Strawberry with no battery cover. Gameboy advance clear with no battery cover. All pretty decent cosmetically and fully working. Will add pics if anyone wants. also after Atari 8-bit carts. Cash offers also considered for this stuff if noone has anything to trade. Best, Chris

As the carts are different shapes you will need to file some bits off round the cart slot or get a cheapo convertor cart(they are only slt extenders really). IFAIK newer games like Virtua racing can cause problems, but I have loads of old Jap Nancot games and some US EA & accolade titles they all work fine.

Have some Gameboy stuff I no longer want, all fully working: Gameboy Advance: James Pond Codename Robocod. Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem. Scooby Doo Cyber chase + Mystery Mayhem Rayman Advance. Gameboy Color: Dragon Warrior 3 Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers Woody Escape from Buzz Buzzards Park R-Type DX Godzilla Monster Wars. Gameboy Original: Star Wars. Killer Instinct. Super hunchback. Krusty's Fun House. Flintstones King Rock Treasure Island. Wanted: Philips g7000/Odyssey 2 Atlantis, Demon Attack & Parker Bros games TRS-80 Co Co carts and tapes. Mattel Aquarius carts. Dragon 32 carts & tapes. Famicom carts.

Here you go, Weetabix vs the titchies, free with cereal back in the 80's. Was a version for all the popular British micro's of the day. Chris

I had the same issue with a Sears Telegames sixer & Atari 5200, the only way I got either to eork was with a mates Windows PC TV-tuner card that supported both PAL & NTSC UHF/VHF, that was years ago however, it was and old ISA bus card. I could never use the consoles at home as we have Macintosh so I sold 'em on. Shame. you could probably get an old PC & Tuner card these days paractically for free, maybe an option? Chris

Wern't the two "mega games" supposed to have been on the speccy with an expensive hardware add-on. I'm sure I read that development had hardly started on either when Imagine went so publicly tits up on BBC TV. I'm sure there was some link with these and the released Shadow of the unicorn on the speccy that also used a hardware add-on. your probably best asking about this here:http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3 Keep me updated if you do find anything. All the best, Chris

Impossamole for the C64 has been claimed

Project X2 for the ps1 the great

Terror-daktil 4D for the ZX Spectrm is unfinishable as the day counter screws up so you can never survive, it has however been fixed by one of the guys on the worldofspectrum forums

Only two I really want are: TRS-80 color computer. Sinclair ZX81 with awesome 1k goodness

Here in the UK the NES was a failiure, everyone hung onto there 8-bits like spectrum or C64(both of which soldiered on until the early nineties) etc or had ST or Amiga. The Sega master did pretty well however, due to clever marketing here by Matertronic(a popular British budget software house). Both the Sega & NES paled in comparison to the ST/Amiga stuff graphically however, the Nintendo looking the weakest of the bunch & £40+ per game pretty much did it for me when ST games were £15 & 8-bit £7.99 for often the same titles. I think the NES was the right product at the right time in the USA but that was not the case here in the UK, there was no "NES generation" here most Brit's when onto 16-bit micros instead. I've never owned a working NES(had two busted ones that went in the bin years ago), my only exposure to 8-bit Nintendo technology is the recent purchase of a Famiclone(that looks like an N64 for £2) with one of those 99-1 carts, after playing games like Arkanoid, Galaga & 1942 on it I'm glad I didn't bother getting one back in the day.....

Philips g7000/O2 Munchkin's Crazychase. Atari 2600 Phaser patrol or Ladybug Atari 8-bit Beef Drop or Star Raiders Dragon 32 Frogger Spectrum Space Raiders or Planetoids Gameboy Dr Mario Gameboy color Pokemon Pinball GBA Pokemon pinball ruby/sapphire Acorn electron ELITE Oric 1 OricMunch Vectrex Minestorm Xbox Burnout 3 360 Fallout 3 Ps1 Ridge Racer Type 4 Megadrive Dragon's Revenge Mega CD Keio Flying Squadron

In all honesty, run like hell and tried for a job at Sony.

Got mine in the UK on monday, damn fast

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Wanted PAL versions of Atlantis & Demon Attack, loose cart fine will paypal plus shipping to UK. Cheers! Also PAL Tandy CoCo any model considered if working. Chris.

ZX Spectrum http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ Dragon 32 http://www.worldofdragon.org/

Brillinat, can't wait to recieve mine

Commodore 64 Impossamole complete by Gremlin Graphics. PS1 Cricket captain complete. Ps1 Music, disc only. Postage will be free, if under £3, cheers!

Hi Nukey, I left out the Atari 8-bit & Apple 2 & C64 as I was trying to keep in what was affordable in the UK in 1983. All these machines were monstorously expensive and only had very limited distrubution channels here. The 800 cost four times as much as the Spectrum and the Apple even more. I wasn't trying to be technical about the platforms either, just showing what a 12 year old kid had a choice of if he/she wanted to play a Pac game at home in 1983. Whitin that framework I think the 2600 pacman stands up very well ignoring all the technical stuff. Best regards, Chris

OK we all say the 2600 version of Pac-Man was a travesty, not worthy to be plugged into the holy cart slot of our beloved 2600. Well what were the alternatives in say 1983? I live in the UK so this is a little British-centric, i have chosen 3 British micro's from the time, all common and under £200 back then, a similar cost to a new Atari VCS with a £30 pac-man cart. The machines are:Dragon 32 ,released in 1982 @ £199, Sinclair Spectrum 48K, released in 1982 @ £199. Oric 1 48K released in 1983 @ £179. You also need to figure in a cost of between £30 and £40 for the cassette recorder so you can load the game. Games were roughly £6/£7 each on tape. OK the games! First up is Gobbleman (no sniggering at the back!) on the Sinclair spectrum by Artic Computing released in 1982. It runs in 16K and is a machine code program(hence LOAD""CODE). Controls are keys only using Q,A,O,P, not bad selections and the responce is pretty tight. Maze is nice a chunky and also blue with smooth corners, however no escape tunnels here. The ghosts are quite well drawn but have no intelligence whatsoever, wandering randomly around the maze. Gameplay is very fast, too fast to be honest & the main gripe right now is that the power pills don't always work! The ghosts flash when you have eaten a pill and depending on the blink cycle you pass right trough them, hopeless! The lost life animation is also very poor, your pac cycles through the standard speccy character set, lazy. On the plus side the sound is OK for the age but sounds nothing like the arcade. The game has a nice high score table. Oric Munch for the ORIC 1 48K Tansoft 1983. Again keyboard only control using A,Z, ",? Good selection and very resposive. The maze is purple and again has no escape tunnels. Graphics are well drawn and reasonably smooth. Maze is purple but has nine variations, the oddity is the power pills are not always situated in each corner. Again the ghosts seem to have no intelligence, just random movement. The real problem with this one is you only have 1 life(shades of Videopac/Odyssey 2). The sound is good, nice and meaty! Scarfman Dragon 32 Microdeal 1982. Machine code game(CLOADM). Controls Joysticks or cursor keys. Well the graphics are awful! Just look at the screen shot, the Dragon was capably of much more than this, sadly I couldn't track down another Pac game so this is it! The maze layout is oK and at least we have the escape tunnels this time. No AI on the ghost again and the speed is too high even on the slowest setting, also the controls are sticky as hell. Sound is just a few beeps and blips, sad as the Dragon is capably of really decent sound. You guys should see the great Donkey Kong clone The King! The Spectrum also had a good few other Pac-Man variants release over the years, here are some I have gathered together: Gulpman 1982 Campbell systems.(lasers instead of power pills!) Spectres 1982 Bug Byte.(lay the dots instead of eat'em) Pakacuda 1982 Rabbit Software.(it's Pesco!) Muncher! 1982 Silversoft. Gobble a Ghost 1982 CDS Micros. Haunted Hedges 1983 Micromega. Ghost Hunt 1984 Kryptronic. Gnasher 1984 Mastertronic(best Pacman on the speccy @ only cost £1.99 in the day!) Hopefully this might make you take another look at 2600 pacman, it's not perfect but niether was the competition! I have ignored the Atari 400 & Commodore 64 as they were very, very expensive over here and the 5200 was never released. Gotta be said though folks the old 2600 is the clear winner here in my book! Best, Chris

I find all this absolutley fascinating, it's one of the best things about Atari collecting, truly thanks you all for the research. Make the quest for the holy grail look easy. AWESOME!

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Have a for sale thread here, has Starglider amongst the lot. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...=141733&hl= Best, Chris