2011 is over, I don't know if you know but it left us awhile ago. So it is time for me to play catch up with some of the stuff I bought but didn't post about earlier.





I somehow became a Spyro fan? It's confusing because I still have not played a single Spyro game yet own three of them. How does this happen? You can tell me in the comments section. I think I paid $2 for this:

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Here's one to make you jealous. We got to go to garage sales on a Friday, a rarity because of work and all. So this one sale is obviously people changing their lifestyle, I think they were selling everything but the kitchen sink, no wait, that was there too. Seriously. So there is a PS2 sitting there, I wasn't too interested at first as I had just bought one, but I had to ask. It had a price tag with a stupidly low price on it. The price was $5. ?!? All this for $5. Two dance mats, couple of controllers and memory cards, a few games, two demos (one sealed), a PS2 slim with box, a bunch of cords for the PS2 and random RCA cables. When I was buying it the little boy sitting next to his mom at the cash table was crying about it, I felt bad for him. I just tell myself it would have gone to a reseller if not me though. $5!

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That PS2 came with this connector. An RF adapter for the PS2? Who knew?

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I don't remember how much all this was. I think I got it all on the same day for less then $20 and the NES game was probably $5 of that. There is some good stuff in there. I like old boxed PC games. Twisted Metal: Black Online is rareish I think. The Sims games turned out to not be complete, they had like disc 2 of 2 from one game and disc 1 of 2 from a different Sims game. I got most of this from a charity thrift store, they were running a sale on cds and I bought all the games, some were pretty dirty and gross but cleaned up okay.

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So I don't know my Mac products. I thought this was an Apple 2 when we spotted it at a garage sale. It's actually a Macintosh Classic. Oh well, I just need Oregon Trail now. Also it will look good sitting next to my Vectrex. This is now the only Mac/Apple product in our house. $5.

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This was mentioned in my last blog post. It is a PONG console. Not just any PONG console though. This is dare I say the first? Sure there were other ways to play PONG at home before this but this was the first wide spread, stand alone, commonly available version. Made by Atari, sold to Sears, branded Tele-Games.

Almost immediately after this was released copies and variations by all sorts of companies came out, including Atari. Interestingly this has on screen scoring, something many of its imitators did not. Also it is not black and white, but has a color gradient going from left to right, so the puck changes color as it moves.

I got this off Craigslist (for $20) from a guy who collected and refurbished arcade machines. He wrote a book on arcade collectors and their machines and wanted to have a picture from the beginning of the home scene, so he bought this PONG to be in his book (http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2010021). I bought it from him, so my PONG console is the same one featured in a book! How cool is that?

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