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  Topic: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?
LM

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PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:44 pm   Subject: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?

Interesting analogy about collectible fields tanking due to death of buyers... Right now (or 10 years ago), toys from the 40-50s are worth seemingly tons of money. Tin toys, wind-up toys, stuff li ...
  Topic: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?
LM

Replies: 8
Views: 6765

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:28 pm   Subject: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?
@ Blanka

I've definitely noticed (and taken advantage of) price decreases that have occurred in various markets since the Great Economic Maelstrom of 2008.

Heck, I bought an acre and a half of ...
  Topic: Papa's collection on display
LM

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PostForum: Brag section!   Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:15 am   Subject: Papa's collection on display
He's smart.
A couple years back, I too went on a tear and bought up a lot of tabletops. My own collection looks similar to that one.

I mentioned in another post, but I haven't really checked on ...
  Topic: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?
LM

Replies: 8
Views: 6765

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:56 am   Subject: Anyone else noticing meaningful price increases?
Particularly amongst the always popular tabletops, but across the board?

I attend to my HHVG collection once or twice a year, since I"m pretty much at where I want to be.

I admit I haven't ...
  Topic: Coleco Tabletop Missing Labels
LM

Replies: 4
Views: 3484

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:52 am   Subject: Coleco Tabletop Missing Labels
Brilliant. I need one of those.

Thanks.
  Topic: betamax players read credit cards?
LM

Replies: 4
Views: 10025

PostForum: Off-Topic Chat   Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:51 am   Subject: betamax players read credit cards?
I used to work at a hotel where we swiped peoples drivers licenses with a magstripe reader to fill in the data on the check-in card. You would be amazed how many people were 'horrified' that this coul ...
  Topic: Post your underrated handhelds here...
LM

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Views: 2850

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:36 am   Subject: Post your underrated handhelds here...
I can think of several, but one that really jumps to mind is Mattel Star Hawk.

An early handheld flight simulator, really, really good dynamic gameplay considering it was made in the early 80's. O ...
  Topic: Horrible news
LM

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PostForum: Off-Topic Chat   Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:12 pm   Subject: Horrible news
Thanks for all your support, everyone, and just an update, it took almost two months but the accident report was finally finished, and it places the blame squarely on the semi driver, who received two ...
  Topic: Tsukuda 'The Dracula' joystick issue.
LM

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PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:05 pm   Subject: Tsukuda 'The Dracula' joystick issue.
Got a decent German packaged version of [url=http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tsukuda/TheDracula.htm]The Dracula sold by Schmidt Electronics, Orange frame, with box (box has some image loss on the front ...
  Topic: Weeeeeird..... Tomy Break Up.
LM

Replies: 3
Views: 3436

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:32 pm   Subject: Weeeeeird..... Tomy Break Up.


If you turn the game off (after it's working properly) and then right back on, does it still take 30 seconds to 'warm up'? Or it only if it's been off for a few minutes?

Rik

You're definite ...
  Topic: Weeeeeird..... Tomy Break Up.
LM

Replies: 3
Views: 3436

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:16 am   Subject: Weeeeeird..... Tomy Break Up.
OK, this is odd.

First, the game uses a 9v and three AA batteries. Weird.

The strangest part is that it seems to need a 'warm up' before working.
Like, I turn it on (brand new batteries) and ...
  Topic: Entex - 3-D Grand Prix repair - ALMOST WORKING ... HELP!!
LM

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Views: 2572

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:26 pm   Subject: Entex - 3-D Grand Prix repair - ALMOST WORKING ... HELP!!
Slowly but surely, as I acquire more and more of these, I'm learning that a number of 'non working' games are really common sense fixes for anyone with half a brain and a screwdriver to take the caseb ...
  Topic: Working on a Coleco Pac-Man
LM

Replies: 9
Views: 6947

PostForum: Handheld Games   Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:37 am   Subject: Working on a Coleco Pac-Man
Hooray, it worked!

Still one glitch- the joystick won't manipulate Pacman so he goes right. Up, down and left are fine.

Any idea on what to do here? I do have a spare unit I can cannibalize for ...
  Topic: You're wasting your time and your money on toys/junk
LM

Replies: 23
Views: 18975

PostForum: Off-Topic Chat   Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:45 am   Subject: You're wasting your time and your money on toys/junk
"midlife" seems to be the magic number on nostalgia collectibles.

It was that way with sports cards in the 1980's- when the guys who collected them as 10 years olds in 1955 turned 40 (giv ...
  Topic: You're wasting your time and your money on toys/junk
LM

Replies: 23
Views: 18975

PostForum: Off-Topic Chat   Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:29 pm   Subject: You're wasting your time and your money on toys/junk
I'm with Dan. I think retrogaming has colossal potential and yes, we're already starting to see it.

I started retrogaming 6 years back- first buying vintage NES ,then working into other things, ev ...
 
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