Tales from the Game Room

I ordered a copy of "Maria" for Intellivision, and I just sent payment in full yesterday via PayPal. Yet, according to my PayPal invoice, it states that the order is for "My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Manga) Vol. 06." Please correct this, as I ordered MARIA for Intellivision.

I love playing "CARD SHARKS" by Accolade for my Commodore 128D. In a world of Call of Duty games and MMORPG games, I enjoy killing a few hours, playing hears with Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Ronald Reagan.

Loss for words. Life is too precious to waste or take...

Put me down for one, please. Thank you,

I'm good for a copy. Please add me to this list. Thank you, :)

Just ordered mine, Steve. Woo Hoo !!!

I believe that there are plenty of videos of this on YouTube. I too have the soft-modded and a hard modded Xbox systems, with games already pre-installed by the seller. As for creating your own homebrew game, I'd love to hear more about that.

VECTRON for my intellivision. I broke many a controller over that one.

Great stuff! Thank you for sharing! As a radio show host myself, it is appreciated. ~ Ash

I was lucky enough to amass and collect just about most of my collection [both import and domestic] early on. I would purchase games during the life of a system if I really wanted to play them or if they came out of the gate at a low cost. I would also go to independently owned shops where, they may have understood the pricing more, but where I was a regular and bought more, the prices would be better for me. The fact that I was happy to purchase Madden 2001 off of the store for $2-5, became a win/win for both of us, and would create that bond between dealer and consumer that name brand stores just don't wish to bother with, much less pursue. I would also visit the name brand stores from time to time, and when someone came in, looking to sell off their system for whatever they could get for it, I would hang out at the counterand see what the store was offering. You could literally see the tears in a kid who was being offered $1 or $2 for a CIB game. So, I would look to the parent and offer them $5 instead, explaining that I was purchasing the game untested and willing to take the risk, and that they were getting more money from me in the end. I also cannot stress the importance of visiting yard sales and dirt malls/flea markets. You are very likely to find some great treasures there that the owners are not even aware of. To game collectors I say this. Gaming is like any other investment. You have to literally have a strategy in place, a firm final price, great eye contact, a firm handshake, a poker face, and some empathy as a gamer, and unless the game is a steal, always negotiate the offer. Also, a difficult as it may be for some of us, you have to have the guts to walk away from a deal if it is not right, no matter how bad you want the game. Die-hard gamers are like traders on the trading floor: They can smell blood and flim-flam from a mile away. Some will stick to their guns, some will be willing to bend if their goods are going to go to a good home, and some just want the money. Happy hunting. - Ash

I never knew about Jack Nicklaus 4. But, I do have both Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.

I got me a game room too. I converted a walk-in closet to make my video game oasis...

Back in the days of Atari and Intellivision, video games were my babysitter, so that my Mom could watch television in the other room in peace. After that, the games started to become too complicated, and my Mom wouldn't have stood a chance on the grid...lol

In the summer of 1998, while the Sega Saturn love was just starting to dwindle a bit in the United States, I scored a Sega Saturn, 2 game controllers, the 3D game pad, all of the hook-ups, and 10 CIB games and one CD only game for $200.00.

"Burgertime" for my Mattel Intellivision. I still play it to this day!

Personally, I am always fond of the Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision era. I enjoyed not only the games of the era, which were simplistic, creative, original, and easy to pick up and play. But the fact that that they all competed with the goal of bringing the arcade into your home. If you are into video games, then the early 80's were the best time to be a teenager!

William has a copy of this game confirmed for me as well.

A game collector, saves their money, uses up precious time and resources to track down a game, and then goes out of their way to painstakingly care for their find. That is NOT hoarding. If the game creators, publishers, and distributors gave away a game for free, and someone had to have as many copies of that product for the sake of having it, then that would be hoarding. But to want to complete a collection. The gaming community as a whole should be happy that there are collectors out there, or some of these games, good or bad, may have fallen by the wayside, never to even have been noticed. ~ Ash

Your store looks great!

I want one !!!

I once won a childhood bet with my Mom, and because I won, she bought me "Boxing" for Intellivision. Looking back, the choice of game was not the best decision...

Sa-weet! I'll take two of them

I want one! How do I get a copy of Pumpkin Master ???

Any more boxes left? How much for one, if there are?