I've been absent from Small Scores for a while. Expo planning, new baby on the way (any day now), and craziness at work. When it rains it pours.
My in laws made the drive up from Florida over the last 2 days and my father is law brought up his "video game closet" and gave all the stuff to me on the condition that it will stay in the family and be loved. That shouldn't be a problem. Everything in these pictures are the original systems and games that my father in law purchased when they were first released.
2 Atari 5200 systems with the boxed trackball. He says he bought a second because the first stopped working so I'll practice my 5200 repair skills once I figure out which one needs them
Awesome
Sorry for the dark pic. His Odyssey stuff was wrapped in plastic to prevent box wear, which is why everything was so well preserved:
He also kept a handful of the Odyssey Newsletters
And inside the Odyssey system box, we found...
And inside the SNES box we found:
and he must have been a Nintendo Power subscriber because:
Really excited to add a nice big lot to the collection/museum. Really awesome to have some really great older stuff that you really dont see boxed very often. Thanks again, Jim!