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Mine has arrived here. I'll test it this evening when I get home.

stephen_usher wrote: 12 Sep 2023 15:05 Mine has arrived here. I'll test it this evening when I get home.

Nice, mine has been shipped now but I'm not expecting it until Thursday TBH.

Having a scout round eBay this morning, and I picked this up, untested, for £29.99, not a bad price :)


I thought I'd have a look at the Colecovison while I was at it, but wow, they are really quite expensive. I'll be leaving it for now!

I think you need to start attending RRA (Retro Repairs Anonymous) @rubber_jonnie :)

rubber_jonnie wrote: 30 Sep 2023 10:09 Having a scout round eBay this morning, and I picked this up, untested, for £29.99, not a bad price :)


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I thought I'd have a look at the Colecovison while I was at it, but wow, they are really quite expensive. I'll be leaving it for now!

Got that one too back in 1985, when its production has already been stopped.

I had two consoles at this time, the second one was a Magnavox Odyssey 2 (or Videopac):

Icky wrote: 30 Sep 2023 10:31 I think you need to start attending RRA (Retro Repairs Anonymous) @rubber_jonnie :)

You'd think I'd be a founding member...

HigashiJun wrote: 30 Sep 2023 12:26

rubber_jonnie wrote: 30 Sep 2023 10:09 Having a scout round eBay this morning, and I picked this up, untested, for £29.99, not a bad price :)


Screenshot 2023-09-30 at 10.06.48.png


I thought I'd have a look at the Colecovison while I was at it, but wow, they are really quite expensive. I'll be leaving it for now!

Got that one too back in 1985, when its production has already been stopped.

I had two consoles at this time, the second one was a Magnavox Odyssey 2 (or Videopac):


Videopac.jpg

I always really liked the look of the Videopac, looked so modern, but I was never a console fan until my first one, a Mega Drive. In 1985 I was probably still using my Spectrum, maybe even a 800XL.

Do you still have them, that Videopac looks cool.

Managed to snag a copy of Zaxxon for the Intellivision from ebay too:


It's a game I'm quite fond of, but not very good at...

I like the way they say, "Based upon the real arcade game." :-) Nice get out clause.

Oh wow @rubber_jonnie. :)

My uncle had one of those Intellivisions in the mid 80s.

I spent quite a bit of time on Snafu (a Tron cycles/snake clone), the official Tron game, where you wander around a maze and there was another game, sort of like the trench scene from Star Wars; cant in the life of me remember the name though.

Yeah, it wasnt a bad system.

I think the next time he bought a new game machine it was an STFM.