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4 minutes ago, gilsaluki said:

That's a cool car.  It looks old school, like '80s.  I loved the squared off body styles.  Hated it when every car started looking like a bullet, smoothed rounded body panels.  This cannot be a new model.

Yes, is from the 80's, the brand is still going on.

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2 hours ago, TGB1718 said:

My youngest son who was fortunate to have all my Atari stuff to play on as a child, when

he was 17, he played some Sega driving game in our local bowling alley, the highest scores

throughout the country went to Birmingham for a "drive off" and he won, the prize a Seat Ibeza

I put it down to all the time he spent playing on my 8 bit and ST games

Like This one?

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1 hour ago, gilsaluki said:

Seat Ibeza.  I had to Google that one.  Never heard of it.

Is not Ibiza?

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12 hours ago, 0078265317 said:

Of course he stated so.  But what spare parts?  Who would buy something knowing its can't be used?  What parts can be taken from that other than power supply?  They aren't even that easy to take apart are they?

 

There's projects you can do with it, apparently. A friend drop a kindle and broke the screen, talked to amazon to get it fixed, they send a new one with no charge instead and they didn't ask to return it, Could be this case? or someone pick it from the trash and take it to the pawn shop?

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20 hours ago, Mark2008 said:

I went to e-bay and bought paddles.   Which frankly I would never have done back in the day, because what am I, a millionaire.

But in a fit of irrational exuberance, I decided, I can afford it, and I bought them.

 

Now if you peered into my e-bay history, would it just have paddles....oh ok,  no.  no....I also bought The Musical Atari Book - DataMost and Antic magazine august 1982 (Vol.1 Number 3).

 

In fairness, I have already read number 1 and number 2, so I'm ready for number 3.

 

Now, if you could peer into my reading history have I really read number 1 and number 2.  oh ok, no.  I skimmed them.

 

It's a small community, maybe even one of you sold me these items?  The nice person that sold me the book, said he hoped it completed my collection.

 

lol - I'm not collecting, I just wanted to read the book.

 

 

 

 

https://www.atarimagazines.com/index/anticissues.php You can read all here.

https://archive.org/details/antic-magazine complete with ads

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9 hours ago, cmart604 said:

That’s a French one that’s actually fairly easy to find relative to most other catalogs. I often see them in lots from France. 

They also have a System manua in spanish in the video, yu also have it?

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Does cathalog variants count in this post? I never saw this one. is from a Youtube video of two Spaniards Talking about Intellivision.  Anyone have this scanned?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NOS Atari Games from Venezuela...]

I´m one of the venezuelan Sellers, you can ask anything.

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10 hours ago, stupus said:

I take you dont have any if the ones i mentioned? Have you ever seen any of those?

Sorry, I haven´t seen them.

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21 minutes ago, stupus said:

That's really cool to know.

I know the mpt03 console and games had the little Venezuela stickers on them so I wondered if they were official distributors. He very well may have been the only way the mpt03 ever got a ntsc release.

It seems alot of the games have alot of copies made. But a few titles there are literally only a couple copies of. Super bug and horse racing are very rare and space vultures and super gobbler still dont seem to have ever surfaced. There were also 3 titles that were listed but have never been found at all. Pinball, locomotive and fun with maths.

I always thought they must have made at least a few more of ones like super bug and horse racing and that if they were still out there they must be in the warehouses there.

Those Mpt03 games are not abundant, I have very few of them, I don´t what other sellers have.

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9 hours ago, stupus said:

That's really interesting info! So is the original warehouse owner still alive?

Also surprised the taiwan stuff was bought at regular price!

I wonder if the mpt-03 games were part of the taiwan buy? I always wondered if some of the extremely rare mpt-03 games might ever turn up in some quantity. It's strange how few exist.

Yes, he is alive (that I know off) He was a official distributor of the mpt-03 console, I think that was his first contact with video games. I don´t think there´s games tht have not srfaced, I search all of it.

 

Taiwan stuff was a regular price but he bought a los of stuff, (Fami clone games, Sega, Controllers for several consoles) and most stuff unassembled, so he still have crates of Famiclone Shells, Sega, Controllers parts. he was looking for the cheapest way to buy. did not fore how the consoles will be obsolete. The parents could be the cheapest console but the kids will want the exiting new stuff.

 

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Just now, stupus said:

I never said they had a recycling industry. But from people i have talked to in the past it was my understanding that was why they were sent there. Maybe that was never the buyers intention though.

So you were part of the group that bought the old stock some 30 years back?

It's interesting to hear different info but how are you tied to the company that bought all the games so long ago? It would be interesting to know how you have these details as to how the games ended up there.

I´m one of the Venezuelan sellers who dig up and bought stock from the wharehouse. 

 

The arehouse owner bought all that stuff get contacted in International electronics conventions, after the video game crash, there's a lot of companies trying to get rid of their inventories and get people to offer the stuff. He din´t remember a lot of stuff or didn´t like giving much details. He did mention that he bought the intellivision stuff from a new jersey warehouse and get them for "free" he just pay the trucks, the were really eager to clear the space.

 

he personally new the Spectravideo owner (From Electronic Conventions, Fellow Jew) and maybe this how he get their stuff.

 

Musicland / San Goody returns came from a Software distributor (Maybe Softcell, I dont remember well) that I guess the provide computer games to them and they return unsold stuff in big rectangular boxes made originally for Lp's. this company did a clearance later on and this were most of the Computer games get to the warehouse, theres also Atari, Activision, Coleco, Avalon Hill stock. Stuff purchased norally (Full Distributor price) was the Taiwan stuff, Turbografx, some Nes and Sega. only Taiwan stuff was in large quantities.

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On 6/4/2020 at 2:20 AM, Evanlor said:

Can these only be found on eBay?

Evan

None with the exeption of a Gold Mine game from Spectravideo. PAL is useless in Venezuela.

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On 5/31/2020 at 11:27 PM, Shawn said:

 

I'm hoping for red labeled BMX Air Master myself. I don't believe Fatal Run or Klax in NTSC format ever made it into production. As far as the games in SA, there are also a glut of Genesis and NES titles. The NES titles where the cause of the seizure in the first place as Nintendo dropped the hammer on the pirates down there. I guess the court just seized everything. That room you have pictured there is just the tip of the iceberg. I've seen forklift pallets upon forklift pallets of Ikari, Motorodeo, Xenophobe and others. All those 2600 titles are R1 maybe R2 at best just cause you have to wait for them to be shipped. Aside from that, the actual rarity is nil as you can get them any day of the week NOS for $10 and less. That was just the 2600 stuff. 5200 stuff in very large amounts I've seen Gremlins, Ballblazer & ROF you couldn't burn enough of them to restore a R3 status to any of them.

Sorry, not a single one Red Bmx, very few original Nes and Genesis, but a lot of bootlegs for those.

The legal battle with nintendo was for the Use of "Nintendo Ca de Venezuela" court seized only few games displayed in stores, never went to warehouses.

there was not large quantities of 5200, and some titles more than others.

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On 5/31/2020 at 11:09 PM, Supergun said:

I still think hundreds of cib copies of 2600 NTSC Fatal Run and 2600 NTSC Klax will eventually turn up down there.

I´ve searched the wharehouse and no luck with those, sorry.

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On 6/27/2021 at 10:46 PM, stupus said:

Tons of new old stock games were sent to Venezuela to be recycled by many different companies. 

Thankfully the people who were supposed to destroy them had the foresight to instead store them....also probably not what they were really allowed to do.

And now they slowly pull them out and sell them. Even they dont know how much they have or what they have.  Its literally whatever is next in the wall of the hoard they get to.

Many games that were once rare have now become common for various systems.

Apparently its a massive amount and this has been going on for probably over 20 years now....and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.

 

 

I´m one of the seller from venezuela and I can tell that this is not true, we never have a electronics reciclyn industry. Those games were bought after the crash at very ow prices for the intention of selling them, but the market was not big enough for the market and newer consoles were more popular. 

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Could be they just change the names of the games and inside is the same? I only compared the insides of Space armada. Anyway, these Aurimat variotions are unique and probably only for Mexico.

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Just now, DZ-Jay said:

Hmm ... That was probably during the colonial days when the US took control of the Island.  In the 1970s and 1980s, as far as I remember, Spanish was understood to be the main and common language, with English being something we should co-adopt in order to become more cosmopolitan and increase opportunities.

 

In the end, for better or worse, it's pretty clear across the globe that once people get a taste for, say, McDonalds and Hollywood, there's no limiting factor to accepting other American cultural traits.  Personally, I don't mind too much -- I'm as apple-pie, pizza, and burguers-and-fries an American, as much as I am an arroz-y-habichualas, pasteles, alcapurrias y ron Puerto Rican. 

 

In any case, sorry to hijack the thread.  Let us go back on topic:  Are those Spanish manuals distribution across Latin America, or were they purely for the Mexican market?

 

    -dZ.

yes, sorry for the hijack, to close the theme, Venezuela has oil and we got a lot of US influence and many local brands have english names and some funny anglicisms.

 

As I understand the ones I have are made for spanish speaking market, for spain and latinamerica (the same holes in the back boxes are for several european markets) none of those came from the famous warehouse.

 

My theory is that the mexican company get some translations already done by mattlel (like Space armada) and make their own like in Astrosmash.

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32 minutes ago, DZ-Jay said:

 

Hehe, we had the same in PR. LOL!  I do remember "Rosita fresita" and "Arturito," which were hilarious; and we called Star Wars "La guerra de las galaxias," which is a mouthful, and elevates the war to a galactic level.  Hehehe.

 

Nah, I think things like "He Man" and "Astrosmash" are more like high-concept terms which are otherwise meaningless and devoid of context (as opposed to, say, a "star war," which is a literal title).

 

"Rosita fresita" sounds like a nice and cute way to address the translation.  "Strawberry Shortcake" is not only of alien pronunciation to Spanish speakers, but mostly unknown to the culture itself -- most (all?) characters having names based on American-centric desserts or treats.

 

"Arturito" is a nice anomaly, since it is as meaningless in itself, but I guess it goes in the spirit of Luke Skywalker calling him "Artoo" instead of a more technical "R2-D2."  This is especially curious when compared to C3PO, which in Spanish was left merely as "Ce-tres-pe-o". Heheh.

 

Anyway, I got a kick out of your collection there.  Puerto Rico being so "americanized," we mostly didn't get translated merchandise.  We always got the English stuff directly, but broken English and Spanglish is part of our culture anyway.

 

    -dZ.

there's always has been pressure to wipe off spanish in PR, I may remember that spanish was forbidden at some point? 

 

 

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9 hours ago, DZ-Jay said:

Hmm ... I don't buy that.  I don't find it any easier to say "Estar Estraik," but whatever.  Perhaps they just didn't bother translating some titles.  "Experienced international toy sellers" can be cheapskates sometimes.

 

I guess we'll never know.  *shrug*

 

I just found it curious, that's all.

 

     -dZ.

I do remember having many toys names translated ramdomly, Strawberry Shortcake was "Rosita fresita" but He Man was He man, and had Monopoly (Monopolio) with my country's names. Star Wars was Hilarious, the only name change was r2d2 to "Arturito" did you get that in puerto rico?

 

Anyway Astrosmash is harder to pronounce than Star trike, the should have some reasons (even lazyness) to do so.

 

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2 minutes ago, DZ-Jay said:

Yeah, but I would have imagine they could have done the same for those others, like "Star Strike (Asalto Estelar)" (or something like that).  After all "Cazador Nocturno" is a little bit lame. ?

 

I just found it curious that they didn't even try.  Hehehe.

 

   -dZ.

Mattel beign an experienced International toy seller, they must had a Foreign marketing office that could choose how to name toys in other languajes. Night Stalker is hard to pronounce for people unfamiliar with english. 

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2 minutes ago, DZ-Jay said:

 

 Cool stuff!

 

It's strange that they didn't translate the titles for Star Strike, Lock 'N' Chase, and Astrosmash, but they actually did for Night Stalker and Space Armada.

 

    -dZ.

Could be that the translated name is not cool enough in Night stalker the translation is in () so is more an explanation instead of changed title.

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5 hours ago, nanochess said:

Thanks for the info! I don't have any manuals from Spain to compare.

 

BTW, just uploaded scans at my website https://nanochess.org/intellivision_mexican_games.html

 

I check with my Copy of Armada Espacial and is the same Translation, only Difference is the Leyends on the back and front Covers 

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The Boxes are the International Standards, with the holes in the back for the Languaje - especific manual.

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Long time without login, Hi to all.

 

I compare with my Spanish manual and they are very different, Looks like Aurimat print their own manuals, not the same as the international spanish ones.