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<< Prices lowered, items sold 2/2/05 >> Here's a for sale list. I'd like to raise some money and decrease my trade pile burden. I am up for volume discounts if you spend alot. I am always up for trades. Please, no orders under $10. I ship at cost with delivery confirmation. I need to check on all items with a '?' to be certain that I have them. Paypal payment mainly. I'll consider checks from resident DPers and MOs or cash from others, as long as I get the money within a week. Email me at ianoid at gmail dot com (preferred) or PM me to talk business. << The New Deal >> Buy 6 items or more and I'll ship free by Media Mail in the US or discounted to Canada. (If Media Mail gets returned by postal inspectors, I'll have to charge you for shipping, sadly.) Atari 8-bit $6 Deluxe Invaders (usual label fade) $9 Jumpman Junior $15 Pitfall 2 $5 Q*bert Atari 2600 <<sold!>> Alpha Beam with Ernie $50 Atari Video Cube boxed b5/10 $4 Bermuda Triangle $4 Bugs $12 Burgertime boxed b4/10 $6 Commando <<sold!>> Crypts of Chaos $10 Crystal Castles boxed b5/10 $4 Dark Cavern $8 Decathelon complete b5/10 $1 Demon Attack outer box only b4/10 <<sold!>> Entombed <<sold!>> Fathom $6 Fire Fly <<sold!>> Flash Gordon $6 Gopher (square cart) $9 Journey Escape boxed (b4/10) $6 Kool Aid Man <<sold!>> Megamania boxed $5 Missile Command boxed $8 Pengo label tear/no end label <<sold!>> Piece 'O Cake $7 Pitfall $6 Pole Positn $8 Pooyan end label torn $2 Popeye box only b3/10 $10 Q*bert boxed $5 Raiders Lost Ark (label variation) $4 Reactor $8 Sears Warlords boxed (text label) box has some wear $5 Shark Attack $7 Skateboardin' $8 Sky Jinks boxed b6/10 <<sold!>>Slot Machine boxed <<sold!>> Smurf <<sold!>> Snoopy and the Red Baron $6 Solar Fox $9 Solar Storm $6 Sorceror <<sold!>> Sorceror's Apprentice boxed b4.5/10 $5 Spacechase $5 Space Cavern $5 Space Jockey $12 Star Wars Empire Strikes Back boxed b6/10 $14 Star Wars Jedi Arena boxed b5/10 $9 Starmaster boxed b5.5/10 $8 Target Fun complete b4/10 $4 Trick Shot $4 Wizard of Wor Instructions: $1.50 apiece or all 8 shipped for $11 in the US or Canada Airlock Breakaway IV Firefly Kool Aid Man MASH Pac-Man Sears Pong Sports Warlords Sears Atari 5200 $6 Astrochase $6 Blue Print $3 Dig Dug $2 Pac-man 5200 Instructions only: $1 or 6 for $5 except Miner 2049er Centipede Football (instructions missing cover and back and playbooks intact with tape) Frogger $3 Miner 2049er Pole Position (loose cover and back) Popeye (torn pages) Soccer System Manual missing back cover Tennis Commodore 64 (cartridges) $4 Centipede $4 Fast Load $12 Gold Record Race $12 James Bond 007 $4 Kids on Keys $2 Lemans $4 Ms. Pac-Man $4 Pole Position $2 Radar Rat Race $3 Star Post Commodore VIC-20 $2 Choplifter loose(label worn but intact) $7 Gridrunner Mattel Aquarius $5 Tron Deadly Discs (tears on end label) Nintendo NES << sold! >> Bases Loaded << sold! >> Defenders of Dynatron City << sold! >> Game Genie << sold! >> Ghosts N' Goblins << sold! >> Mystery Quest << sold! >> RC Pro-am << sold! >> Shingen the Ruler << sold! >> Space Shuttle Project << sold! >> Stealth ATF << sold! >> Thunder and Lightening << sold! >> Vegas Dream boxed Instructions:<< sold! >> Burgertime Cobra Command Commando ?Donkey Kong Classics inst only ?Duck Tales inst only ?Excitebike inst only ?Gauntlet inst only ?Gauntlet II inst only Mach Rider Ninja Gaiden instructions only Willow Wrestlemania Xevious Nintendo Famicom $20 Famicom Disk Controller attachment RAM/cable cartridge only (no disk drive) Virtual Boy $6 Panic Bomber new in box Japanese Nintendo 64 $7 Castlevania 64 $6 Hexen $2 NHL Breakaway '98 Sega Dreamcast $2 Jet Grind Radio complete rough disc surface $7 Typing of the Dead sealed $4 3rd party Controller with vibrate add in Sega CD $4 Who Shot Johnny Rock? boxed (manual front cover color copy, no manual) Sega Game Gear $4 Judge Dread $4 Mahjong II Japanese cart loose (I think) $2 Wimbledon Japanese cart loose Sega Genesis $3 New generic controller with joystick screw on attachment $6 32X Mortal Kombat II complete $6 Arcade Classics complete $5 Championship Pro-Am boxed $0.75 Desert Strike box only $2 Earth Defense loose $4 Ex-Mutants complete <<pending>> $3.50 Faery Tale with instructions $6 Fantastic Dizzy loose $5 Hit the Ice complete <<pending>> $5 Megadrive Ka Ge Ki wrestling complete $2.50 Megadrive Klax loose $5 Megadrive Landstalker complete $2.50 Megadrive Whip Rush loose $5 Megadrive Wonder Boy III complete $0.50 Mortal Kombat box only $6 Mickey Mania complete and $1 box only(no cart) $6 Mystic Defender complete $2 Ooze, the loose $1 Pele box/inst only $5 Revenge of Shinobi boxed $6 Rings of Power complete (label has a tear) <<sold!>> Rocket Knight Adventures complete $6 Shadow Blasters complete << sold! >> Toe Jam and Earl Funkotron complete $4 Wolverine boxed (end label lifting) Sega Saturn $5 Street Pad Controller new in blister pack $6 Andretti Racing complete $10 Alien Trilogy complete $6 F-1 Challenge complete $8 Magic Carpet complete $2 Quake case/insert only Sega Master System $2 Alien Syndrome loose <<sold!>> Great Baseball complete <pending> $1 Marksman/Trap Shooting box/inst/catalog only <<sold!>> Rampage boxed <pending> <<sold!>> Thunder Blade complete <pending> Sony Playstation $4 Themepark import complete Sony Playstation 2 << sold! >> Mad Maestro boxed TI-99 $3 Picnic Paranoia (label imperfect) Vectrex $2 Cosmic Chasm instruction only

It may seem like tons of people are entering the hobby all the time, but in reality there are few jumping in that are that hardcore- fewer current folks striking it rich to start spending out of control. Welcome to my world. Space, the final frontier.

So is someone going to put together a summary page of the findings of this wild ROM hunt? Perhaps with #,title, cart scan,screenshots,rom image and similar rom list? I still don't have a grip on how many of those Homevision titles are really out there- I have maybe 6, and you guys are listing 20 or so. What I really want to know is how many have that 'official' looking Homevision cart label. There are alot of pirates with the 'Homevision' logo pictured, but I'd like to know how many have official Homevision releases, if there is such a thing.

You gotta be really into it to keep those things around. They may be geek trophies, but few older guys take pride in their geekosity to that extent. There have been alot of big spenders in and out of the hobby. Some stick. Most don't. That's why many of the rarities we see selling are the same carts- guys get into it and then get out. Turnaround could be 6 months or 2 years. I like your scenario, but it is a small hobby- hardcore collecting. And although collecting on the average level grows, few are really that serious as to jump to the $1000+ level, thankfully. I think that it will even out for a while, rather than taking some kind of jump any time soon. One deep pockets buyer doesn't persistently raise prices. One sale. One cart. Most of us think in terms of averages. I don't buy the (games are cheap) world is coming to an end theories. We'll see!

Yeah, over $1000 for a lot like that, the seller's expectations were too high. I can see getting over $1000 if the stuff were parted out tested, guaranteed, with lots of pictures, classy ads, and a reputable seller. But for a lot, you can't be expecting THAT much more.

I would be embarassed if my name came up as asking those questions. Unfortunately, it could be me on crack. "Ianoid asked: Do any of the cartridges have a blank end label and a black label with white writing that says 'Return to Jan Boehm' on it?" Everyone's looking for a deal. That is, until someone from Atari Age tells the seller how valuable his carts are. THEN, there are NO DEALS! Hey now!

Those carts are well known (apparently not THAT well known) pirates by Action Hi-tech, found mostly in Australia. The boxes reveal the company that sold them. There are some other labels used- like a flying saucer thing. Likely from the same Taiwan source as Zellers games and others with crummy label art and similar bold end label typeface. Not THAT exciting or valuable, but fun for us collectors in the PALaxy. Does this belong on the eBay sub-board?

There is no question that Adam has a good point. However, getting new heavy hitters into the hobby that will spend a ton requires several things: large cash resources, strong sense of nostalgia, and lack of sanity in paying for old games. The last part is sort of contrary to most who make money- presumably they played their cards right, so why would they go and spend more than anyone else amassing their collection? I suspect that most people who make alot of cash will be slightly more careful in how they spend it, and more concerned with market values. I agree that it is possible, even probable, that someone will jump into the scene and get spendy. However, this has probably been happening all along. There are folks who are bumping prices constantly, without those few heavy hitters we know about here on AA even bidding or buying. As people increase their earning potential, they tend to decrease their spending potential (ie. kids, wife, family, priorities), so this too goes against spending. The mid-life crisis thing is another story- I can see a guy in his 40s going nuts and buying up everything he can. Adam, I know that you are well researched in the collectibles- the best indicator would probably be precident. Have other collectibles hobbies had their Johnny come latelys with deep pockets? Is it common and regular for that to happen? I can say that I'm amazed at how high prices for certain old computer titles are going- both cartridge and non-cartridge. I would say that Atari 8-bit stuff is one of the more explosive markets out there- where prices can vary wildly from one week to the next.

As the popularity of the hobby becomes better known, and the odds of Lochjaw scores being trashed decrease, prices will likely drop with time. And then there's also the phenomenon of saturation. Once all 5 of the psycho spenders get all or most of the items that we want, there will be fewer and fewer folks who consistently spend. Most of the high end action is stuff moving between high level collectors, anyway, which represents some degree of attrition in the high money spenders, like Dennis here parting out his awesome stuff.

I take Bitcorp pretty seriously ever since I picked up a Bit 90 Computer/Colecovision compatible. I realize that to manufacture an actual computer, the company must have take themselves seriously. I would guess that most of these roms are on similar chips and/or boards. Anyone care to open up their carts and compare boards and chips? I think that inspecting ROMs and screenshots alone will limit us in determining the provenance of these games. Would I open up my carts? Not if I have to sacrifice the labels- but then I'm sure we can find some that have worn labels to open up.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...0&userid=ianoid is the link, or you can seller search ianoid. Thanks, ian

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Angelfire can be troublesome, especially to those of you outside of the US. Here's my tradlist copied into a message. Ianoid's Trade list Atari 8-bit Deluxe Invaders (usual label fade) Fun With Art Jumpman Junior Pitfall 2 Q*bert Atari 2600 Atari Video Cube boxed b5/10 Autogame Vanguard/Zaxxon (no end label) Basic Programming complete with overlays Bermuda Triangle Bugs Burgertime boxed b4/10 Commando Cony 2600 4 in 1: Hero/Cocinero/Pengo/Time Pilot Crypts of Chaos Crystal Castles boxed b5/10 Dactar O Pulador Q'bert (no end label, overall good) Datasoft Enduro (label wear, overall good) Decathelon complete b5/10 Demon Attack outer box only b4/10 Fathom Fire Fly Flash Gordon Frogger II Threedeep Gopher (square cart) Journey Escape boxed (b4/10) JVP He-man (label wear, overall good) in a Colecovision case Kool Aid Man Maxgames River Raid very good Megamania boxed Missile Command boxed Pengo label tear/no end label Pitfall Pole Positn Pooyan end label torn Popeye box only b3/10 Q*bert boxed Raiders Lost Ark (label variation) Reactor Sears Warlords boxed (text label) box has some wear Shark Attack Skateboardin' Sky Jinks boxed b6/10 Slot Machine boxed Smurf Snoopy and the Red Baron Solar Fox Solar Storm Sorceror Sorceror's Apprentice boxed b4.5/10 Spacechase Space Cavern Space Jockey Star Wars Empire Strikes Back boxed b6/10 Star Wars Jedi Arena boxed b5/10 Starmaster boxed b5.5/10 Target Fun complete b4/10 Trick Shot Wizard of Wor Instructions: Airlock Breakaway IV Firefly Kool Aid Man MASH Pac-Man Sears Pong Sports Warlords Sears Atari 7800 Crack'ed Dig Dug sealed Galaga sealed Hat Trick Jinks sealed Karateka complete (box smooshed) One-on-One Pole Position II sealed Xevious (end label damage) Atari 5200 Astrochase Blue Print Dig Dug Gorf Pac-man Space Shuttle Instructions only: Centipede Football (instructions missing cover and back and playbooks intact with tape) Frogger Miner 2049er Pole Position (loose cover and back) Popeye (torn pages) Soccer System Manual missing back cover Tennis Atari Jaguar All out! Atari Lynx Crystal Mines II sealed Gates of Zendicon Gauntlet Ishido sealeD Klax loose,sealed Paperboy Super Skweek sealed Zarlor Mercenary Colecovision BC's Quest for Tires BC II: Grog's Revenge Decathelon Nova Blast Popeye Slither Tutankham Handheld Nintendo Snoopy Tennis with cracked LCD,no battery cover Tandy Sports Arena with Baskeball overlay Commodore 64 (cartridges) Centipede Chalkboard LogicMaster Fast Load Gateway to Apshai Gold Record Race James Bond 007 Kids on Keys Lemans Logic Master Math Mileage Pole Position Radar Rat Race Sea Speller Star Post Commodore VIC-20 Choplifter boxed,loose Gridrunner Mattel Aquarius Tron Deadly Discs (tears on end label) Nintendo Game Boy ?Super Marioland 2 inst only Nintendo NES Bases Loaded Defenders of Dynatron City Game Genie Ghosts N' Goblins Mystery Quest RC Pro-am Shingen the Ruler Space Shuttle Project Stealth ATF Thunder and Lightening Vegas Dream boxed Instructions: Burgertime Cobra Command Commando ?Donkey Kong Classics inst only ?Duck Tales inst only ?Excitebike inst only ?Gauntlet inst only ?Gauntlet II inst only Mach Rider Ninja Gaiden instructions only Willow Wrestlemania Xevious Nintendo Famicom Famicom Disk Controller attachment RAM cartridge only (no disk drive) Super Nintendo Adams Family (rental labels need to be removed) Cacoma Knight Bizyland Deep Space Nine Desert Strike Family Dog Hunt for Red October Hyperzone Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday Secret of Evermore Street Fighter II Super Battletank War in the Gulf Super Empire Stikes Back with instructions Super Battletank ?Super R-type (Super Famicom) Super Strike Eagle Turn and Burn: No Fly Zone True Lies Instructions: Killer Instinct comic (Armada No. 1) NHL '95 Super Mario World ?Super Game Boy instructions and guide Top Gear ?Total Carnage Virtual Boy ?Controller only Panic Bomber new in box Japanese Nintendo 64 ?Mortal Kombat Trilogy inst only Castlevania 64 Hexen NHL Breakaway '98 Sega Dreamcast Jet Grind Radio rough disc surface Typing of the Dead sealed 3rd party Controller with vibrate add in Sega CD Adventures of Batman and Robin instructions only Ecco Tides of Time instructions only Who Shot Johnny Rock? boxed (manual front cover color copy, no manual) Sega Game Gear Caeser's Palace Instructions only Judge Dread Mahjong II Japanese cart loose (I think) Wimbledon Japanese cart loose Sega Genesis New generic controller with joystick screw on attachment 32X Mortal Kombat II complete Arcade Classics complete Championship Pro-Am boxed Desert Strike box only Earth Defense loose Ex-Mutants complete Faery Tale with instructions Fantastic Dizzy loose Hit the Ice complete Megadrive Ka Ge Ki wrestling complete Megadrive Klax loose Megadrive Landstalker complete Megadrive Whip Rush loose Megadrive Wonder Boy III complete Mortal Kombat box only Mickey Mania complete,box only Mystic Defender complete Ooze, the loose Pele box/inst only Revenge of Shinobi boxed Rings of Power complete (label has a tear) Rocket Knight Adventures complete Shadow Blasters complete Toe Jam and Earl complete Wolverine boxed (end label lifting) Sega Saturn Street Pad Controller new in blister pack Andretti Racing complete Alien Trilogy complete F-1 Challenge complete Magic Carpet complete Quake case/insert only Sega Master System Alien Syndrome loose Great Baseball complete Marksman/Trap Shooting box/inst/catalog only Rampage boxed Thunder Blade complete Sony Playstation ?Dino Crisis 2 inst only Themepark import complete Sony Playstation 2 Mad Maestro boxed TI-99 Picnic Paranoia Turbografx 16 Nothing right now Vectrex Cosmic Chasm instruction only Video Brain Blackjack sealed Checkers sealed Math Tutor I sealed Music Teacher I sealed Pinball sealed,complete (end label missing) Tennis complete (end label missing) Vice Versa sealed Wordwise 1 sealed Xbox Buffy Chaos Bleeds inst only

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MEWA:IT Weird arcade item. I have to say that anything with the fuji is automatically twice as cool.

My tradelist is at www.ianoid.com and it's pretty much up to date. My auctions are at: http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...0&userid=ianoid Please check 'em out. If you want to buy stuff from the tradelist or work out a trade, PM me or email me at ianoid at gmail dot com.

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I actually like power sticks quite alot, but if you play with them for a long stretch, they induce cramps, like a mini Pain Line joystick. I usually have one of two of these onhand, but sorry, right now I have none. ian

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...0&userid=ianoid I have a few things up right now, should be more soon. The main item is a 2600 set with your choice of 25 of 60 games. Reserve is $100, but the Buy It Now price is $125. I'll throw in a couple extra 2600 titles of your choice if you use the BIN and tell me you saw this ad. ian

Goes without saying. Packing things up (especially alot of it) is a pain in the arse. It could take 3 hours and a dozen boxes and tons of packing to responsibly pack respectable collections. Time is often more valuable than money.

You know, you're probably right on the number, but I just didn't test every game or list them out to make sure that they have that number- I have had clones with '256 games' that end up being 12 games repeated over and over. I just hate for someone to be bummed if there are repeats. I think that for play value, these systems can't be beat- there are some great titles.

These clones take Famicom carts, have built in games, and have a second 9 pin port, and are in good condition. None include power supply, but all take 4 AA batteries. The all have simple AV outs. I will include an AV cable if requested to the first to purchase- but I only have one AV cable to spare. The guns are untested- I couldn't get either to work with Duck Hunt on any of the consoles, so maybe I'm using them wrong- the guns are as is. They are all sold tested, as described and functional. All include the battery cases. $14 Super Joy III - the grey one - has 68 or so games listed, and I didn't notice repeats, but there could be some. These have some cool titles like Contra, Galaga, Burgertime, Pac-man and many more. Comes with a gun. $5.50 shipping with the gun. $12 Megajoy II - the blue one - seems to have fewer games than the other two (repetition factor), but has at least 20 games built in. comes with a gun. $8 Super Joy III - the red one - same as above, but I couldn't get sound out of it. Could be my fault, but sold with that caveat. No gun. $12 Power Joy PJ-08 pirate multicart cartridge only with alot of games- at least 30, but there are more than 60 listed. Excellent condition. $3.50 Genesis clone controller seems to be unused, with joystick screw-on for gamepad and slow mode (presumably a start repeater like those for the NES) Free shipping with any other item. $2.50 shipping. I would like to get $7.50 for it (Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 boxed, no instructions) +$3 shipping in the US, $4 to Canada or $5 anywhere else. These clones take Famicom carts, have built in games, and have a second 9 pin port, and are in good condition. None include power supply, but all take 4 AA batteries. The all have simple AV outs. I will include an AV cable if requested to the first to purchase- but I only have one AV cable to spare. The guns are untested- I couldn't get either to work with Duck Hunt on any of the consoles, so maybe I'm using them wrong- the guns are as is. They are all sold tested, as described and functional. All include the battery cases. $14 Super Joy III - the grey one - has 68 or so games listed, and I didn't notice repeats, but there could be some. These have some cool titles like Contra, Galaga, Burgertime, Pac-man and many more. Comes with a gun. $5.50 shipping with the gun. $12 Megajoy II - the blue one - seems to have fewer games than the other two (repetition factor), but has at least 20 games built in. comes with a gun. $8 Super Joy III - the red one - same as above, but I couldn't get sound out of it. Could be my fault, but sold with that caveat. No gun. $12 Power Joy PJ-08 pirate multicart cartridge only with alot of games- at least 30, but there are more than 60 listed. Excellent condition. $3.50 Genesis clone controller seems to be unused, with joystick screw-on for gamepad and slow mode (presumably a start repeater like those for the NES) Free shipping with any other item. $2.50 shipping. I would like to get $7.50 for it (Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 boxed, no instructions) +$3 shipping in the US, $4 to Canada or $5 anywhere else.

I wish I'd waited for this deal. Would have saved me $5. I can't really complain, as I've enjoyed Mr. Driller for DS quite a bit already. Did you hear me say Time Attack? Time Attack!

Aha DTP! I recognize you from eBay, yes? Fine taste in 8-bit computer stuff?! Anyway, no 8-bit Atari computer stuff or 2600 stuff being listed that would be in your league. Some other old stuff like Nintendo Game and Watches and NES and a nice Coleco Galaxian tabletop will go. Plus loads of other goofy stuff. I'll try to post an ad mid-week for the lot. I need cash to pay for more video game stuff, as usual. And right back at you Dojosky- thanks again for the goodies and fast service.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...0&userid=ianoid I will be listing a load more stuff tomorrow, so please have a look and spend a buck. All proceeds immediately recycled into the video game community.

So my biggest best thing on the eBay chopping block is visiable at this link. A good condition Sunnyvale heavy sixer Atari 2600 in original box with a stack of boxed games. http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...0&userid=ianoid I hope to add a bunch of SNES, NES and N64 to my store site at www.joystickjockeys.com today.