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I was going through my controllers, to further prune down my collection. I came across a joystick "coupler" of sorts. It is about 4 inches long, with two male 9 pin atari type connectors that feed to a single female connector on the other end. It may have been to a "CBS something," but I'm not sure... Any ideas?

Hey everyone - no carts from the collection sell-off this week, but here's a bunch of great looking Electronic Games magazines from 1983. I've been reading through these, It's fun reading reviews and stuff from back in the day. They don't really make game mags this great anymore. Like I said, reading these can put you into a collecting frenzy when you see ads for stuff you don't remember! Anyway, here they are: January 1983: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255450813 Feb & March '83: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255443210 April & May '83: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255444632 June & July '83: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255446598 August & September '83: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255447957 October & November '83: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255449848 Three "Video Games" magazines from 1983: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8255455285

I used to be wacky about having two of everything, as if there would be a time that one would stop working, I'd be "covered." I would get at least 2 of every system, etc. What made me think I'd get to play all the stuff??? Impressive to say the least. 1 Craxy Climber is nothing big, but 3, thats cool. 1007963[/snapback]

Actually 3, one from a flea market, one from an auction, and the other I traded some good Colecovision stuff for. Man, the stuff I've had through the years has been great. I could start a "cringe" thread for stuff I've sold off. Would be hard to match that dude's Quadrun, but the unused Vectrex, NOS NES top-loader... I'm sure other guys who are in "scale down" mode could share some good stories! Just curious, how many did you have? 1007782[/snapback]

My last one... Remember when this was really really hard to find? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8253267644 Ends Saturday morning.

Oh yeah, put a crazy Climber cart up too.

Enough cart sales for a while - I'm staring to dig into my classic game magazines. These old Electronic Games and "How to win at Video Games" magazines are great reading if you never saw them before. It's fun to see the ads for rare stuff, and reviews of games when they were current... Anyway, they're in great shape, and I'm doing a few auctions a week: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdog_captainQQhtZ-1 Thanks. I ship to Canada for forumites. Just let me know, and I'll get the cost.

I've seen a ton of these NES top loader knockoffs on ebay - with two controllers and an LED light. They have 8 games built-in. They are saying that these will play NES games. As they say, if it sounds too good to be true... At 8 bucks, I wouldn't mind a unit with the a/v cable. Do these work?

Yeah, I forget about the snipers and label stuff. I've been out of the loop for a while. Once I get one of my 2600 a/v modded, hopefully soon, I may end up falling right back into it...

**Shameless Last Dat-And-A Half Bump** I can't believe no one is hot for Bumper Bash! All of the auctions are still pretty low if you're looking for some of the rare ones. Oh well, still making space for the kid...

Dodge 'em - how could I forget? One of the ones I play often, and one I owned originally back in '79. And another Bowling fan! While I've owned Sloar Fox 5 times over, I never played it. Sounds like I missed a good one. Time to find the emulator file... is there Stella for OS X?

Oops - just saw the "must have" thread. I'll read that one. I see I missed Kaboom too. Geez.

I've often tried to get my gigantic classic game collections down over the years. I've had so many things, there's no way I'd ever be able to keep it all. So, I tried to prune down each system to an absolute 25 games. When it came to systems other than the 2600, it wasn't too hard. I even was able to sell the whole systems that I pruned. After several years of selling off 2600 stuff, I'm still at like 100 or so. Sorry if this has been done, but who can make a 25 game, no regrets 2600 list. No multicarts, but you can keep stella somewhere on your computer to make it less painful. Maybe after I read a few examples, I'll get that collection down some more! My "today" list, not good enough to actually pull it off: 1 - Missile Command 2 - Adventure 3 - Bowling 4 - Space Invaders 5 - Warlords 6 - Berzerk 7 - Circus Atari 8 - Starmaster 9 - Turmoil 10 - Enduro 11 - Pitfall 12 - Casino 13 - Enduro 14 - Pressure Cooker 15 - Tapper 16 - Carnival 17 - Video Pinball 18 - Skiing 19 - Breakout 20 - Football 21 - Defender 22 - Star Voyager 23 - Superman 24 - Track and Field 25 - Yar's Revenge Crap - I forgot H.E.R.O.! See, it can't be done... Someone try though -

I have been editing the auctions to add international bidders, by popular demand... lots of running around to the UPS/Post office for me - I usually underestimate shipping, so I'll get exact amounts for these lots after they end. Forum vets can also have the benefit of PayPal use. I'm restricting the commoners (non-forum international) to money order only... But it's nice to see this stuff go to hardcore guys on AtariAge, so bring it on! Thanks

I have another round of my collection up on ebay. I'm making space for the family, but can't bring myself to sell EVERYTHING... I probably bought half of this stuff from the regulars here over the years, back in the usenet days! Anyway, there's a bunch of stuff, slightly organized: Silver Label Carts, Text Number carts, and a couple of others - highlights: Pengo, Gyruss w/manual, Up 'n Down http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249832824 Imagic carts, with Subteranea, Laser gates, Shootin' Gallery, Quick Step, more: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249835338 18 Activision carts 11 with manuals: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249839863 18 Red label carts w/ Off the Wall, Sprintmaster, a PAL Klax & a PAL Fatal Run http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249843252 Shrinkwrapped set of 10 games w/Xenophobe, River Raid II http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249860365 Bumper Bash by Spectravideo http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249857653 A NIB 2600 Jr. w/ 28 carts that everyone on here probably already has: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8249852859

Sorry - haven't checkd back. I'll ship to Canada (for actual shipping cost) for forum vets. I had a couple of bad Canada deals in the last two years.

There was somebody that would mod a 2600 for the a/v output for $25 shipped. Is he (are you) still out there? Is an s-video mod preferable these days? I've been out of the loop... Thanks Dan

Just selling off the more of my 2600 collection in the next few weeks. Hav a Spy Hunter cart with an stick adapter thing, my entire XEGS collection with 40 something different games, also have a very nice Mattel Football that I bought NIB off one of the old usenet auctions around '97: 2600 Spy Hunter & stick thing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8248071837 Mattel Football NIB & Baseball : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8248174427 XEGS collection: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8248059074 Kid on the way, bailing the closet space out in a mild panic! Thanks Dan