Sunday, June 29, 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Spent my Sunday at SRGE. Sold a couple of this and only bought a little.
Microsoft retro group at Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Vectrex, heavy Sixer, PC FX Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Custer's revenge at Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

BackLight MOD Nomad Sega at Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014  Family Computer Keyboard

POrtables, many Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Super Famicom games Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

My Little Poney Monopoly Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014 

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014


Seattle Retro Gaming Expo 2014

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Atari wireless controllers in West Seattle

Rare enough, especially in the wild. ok price. $15 for the pair, with the usual battery leak
Atari wireless controllers
Atari wireless controllers, battery


Thursday, May 29, 2014

Another trip to the Living Computer Museum

Took another trip to the LCM last week end. Since my last visit, a few things changed, some pieces got moved, and a large amount of space was given to computer real people grew up with (PDPs are cool, but don't talk to me like an Apple II does).  they still have that huge backroom dedicated to early 80s mainframes, it is a cool room, but I wonder if they could use the space in a better way.
It is nice to see that they setup pretty much every classic computer with flagship games and let people play with them. I was happy to play with a Sol20 (that I only knew from the Byte ads). made me want to get one one day.  See pictures below.
An interesting thing was that most of the games were not on original disks, Now that make the experience even more real, but I was surprised to see something like this there.

Amiga 500 at the Living Computer Museum, along with a set of non original disks

A 486 PC at the Living Computer Museum playing Little Big Adventure

Commodore 128 at the Living Computer Museum


IBM PC at the Living Computer Museum

Classic book library (my garage has more :) )

Cool PET at the Living Computer Museum

Atari Pong, that is not even classified as computer AFAIK

Atari 800 and Donkey Kong at the Living Computer Museum

Atari 400 the Living Computer Museum and a shoe box of carts

Vic 20 at the Living Computer Museum, playing Sargon II from a cart

Commodore 64 at the Living Computer Museum, with Lode Runner

IBM PC Jr at the Living Computer Museum with some king quest game

Original Mac + and empty box to see signatures, at the Living Computer Museum

The Microsoft Corner the Living Computer Museum

C128 at the Living Computer Museum with multiplan

Lisa at the Living Computer Museum

Apple IIe with Summer Games at the Living Computer Museum

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Sylvania Intellivision at the end of late video game hunt trip

I left this evening with the hope of finding something great.

First stop was at the Mercer Island Thrift Store where typically you don't find anything old, but you find last gen stuff at great prices. Or high end Hi-Fi equipment that the great folks of Mercer Island discarded.

Mercer Island Thrift Store 7710 Se 34th St, Mercer Island, WA 98040(206) 236-3625
of Wii remotes for $1 a piece, well anything. This time, it seems that they are a little savvy, and they prices all the PSX, PS2, Xbox video games at $8. There was a lot but nothing really interesting for this price,

Then I followed to the big Seattle Goodwill on S Lane St.
Seattle Goodwill
1400 S Lane St, Seattle(206) 860-5711
I like this GW because it has huge rows of electronics, many tvs, vcrs, Tivos etc..    There is rarely anything crazily unique, but at least it is fun, and sometimes you find stuff like tonight. In the middle of printer alley, there was a Sylvania Intellivision, the rare version of the console. $9.99
I bought it home, gave it a good clean up and it works great.


I passed on the $24.99 Xbox

Printer Alley, 40-50 printers in a row.

America, you are getting fat.
Your Wii Fit boards are at Goodwill

Rock Star is not as cool as what it used to be, a dozen of Guitar Hero instruments

Genesis games, in box, but only sports one

Big Box Commandos Behind Enemy Line.

Sylvania Intellivision

Sylvania Intellivision

Sylvania Intellivision playing astrosmash

Sylvania Intellivision

Sylvania Intellivision

Sylvania Intellivision

Sylvania Intellivision