videopac

I should have seen this thread a long time ago but missed it somehow. I am videopac, have used that handle a long, long time and it kind of gives a hint of what my favourite system might be... ? So, let's start: 1.) Love our system and games! Sure thing! I do fancy the European variants more though, especially the Jopac consoles. 2.) Post a reply to this thread and tell us all at least one of the following: a.) How you got your system? Ah, once upon a time... this was a long time ago when we had a nation wide small ads magazine in Sweden, called "Gula tidingen". There you could find ads on everything, listed in categories. The ads were from regular people, not companies. Used stuff. I used to look through the "old computers" and "old video games" sections every week and found a lot of fun stuff to buy. One day I saw an ad for Videopac stuff, the guy asked for a few hundred dollars (well, in Swedish currency of course) and I though to myself that this was one of the group of people who wants to get almost the same amount as they gave for the stuff 10-20 years prior. But, curious as I am, I called the guy and asked what he had. A lot of games, he said, - ok how many, I asked. About two pallets, he said! Woooot?! I'll buy it, where do I send the money? So I paid him and drove there the following weekend with a trailer to the car. When I got there he had "trimmed" the stuff down to just one pallet (haha) but I was happy anyway. Guess he wanted to have some stuff left. Anyway, this was stuff in original shipping boxes, the guy had got the task of emptying a storage and take the Videopac stuff to the city dump... he, of course, put it in his barn instead ? Good for him, great for me! A lot of chess units (packed four to a shipping box) and lots of games (five to each small shipping box and a lot of the small boxes in bigger boxes). That was the find of all times, for me! I think that prior to this I got a complete set-up of a G7000 and all games except the three last ones (58-60) in one go from a former Philips employee. When they discontinued the Videopac system the employees got to pick one of each game for free to take home. He had done that but no one had used the system and the games were *new*. He sold that package real cheap. After getting this set-up I was hooked! b.) Your favorite memory of the system or games? Since I didn't have this system as a kid I really don't have any childhood memories of it. But I do remember when I got hold of an Odyssey 3, that was a real high! So that is probably the best memory I have of the system. Unfortunately I did sell my O3 many years ago... have not forgiven myself until this day! c.) The weirdest thing you have typed into "Type and Tell" to make The Voice say? Ouch, I have never had the Voice... 3.) Consider joining the Videopac / Odyssey 2 Forum here: http://videopac.nl/forum/ I already am a member there. 4.) If you are already a member of the Videopac /Odyssey 2 forum include your user name for that forum in your post if different from your AA username. I will add them both to your spot on the list below. Na, videopac is my handle there as well! 5.) Add the following to your signature box once your username is added to the list below: Official Wizard of the Odyssey 2 / Videopac Brotherhood! Ok, hope to remember this!

Mee too, hot d*mn! ?

Was there any evidence that this was the guy? Seemed quite circumstantional to me, from the text... he must be the one, he didn't reply to my questions. And he is fat (that's a crime in itself... )

Yeah, agreed, great seller! Thanks!

Mine was a second hand Telmac 1800... An RCA Cosmac (CDP 1802) based computer. Bought it in 1979 with money earned working in the summer

Box and manual here as well

Yeah, money sent!

Well, that is what happens... the bidder loses out but the seller get someone else to do his homework... why is it that you feel that the seller is the one to help? I get it that the intent is well meant but, really, why?

Why someone not interested in the item (to buy) would contact a seller just to inform that the item is rare or whatever... that I can't understand. If the item is mislisted and you find it and you are interested in it I would assume that you would bid in the auction. If you are not interested in bidding then why not just let it be? I once found a mislisted Apple I (yes!) in a lot with used PC parts, clearly the seller had no idea what he was selling and the description was vague. I kept a low profile and waited to attack with a nice bid at the end of the auction BUT someone, who was not interested in bidding, contacted the seller and told him that he probably had an Apple I. Well, the guy added info to his auction and more people found the auction. It ended up at $2500 and I had only $800 to bid. I like to think that if the seller hadn't been contacted I would have had a chance to win it. In another auction the seller had a picture up with a lot of interesting stuff, Atari 2600 items, but no real good description. The seller had just a few (or zero, can't remember) feedbacks and that seemed to scare bidders off. I won the lot and was very happy. The seller was going to check shipping and then never got back. I contacted him several times without success. I am quite sure that he was contacted by someone who bought the stuff at a higer price. IF that was what happened then the guy contacting the seller really is a lowlife So, what I am trying to say is that I really don't get why people contact a seller just to mess things up for the bidder. It is beyond me

I once got a video projector shipped to me in a box, loose with a towel wrapped round the projector... the towel didn't even stay on since it lay loose in the box when I opened it. The box was way to big for the projector so the projector had bounced around in there. I was really surprised when I turned it on and it worked! I would have bet almost anything that the bulb would be broken