phitter's Electronic Baseball Game Collection

phitter · Last edited by phitter on Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:57 am; edited 8 times in total

Here is my electronic baseball game collection. Certainly not as impressive as a lot of your collections are...but I sure like it. Also, see more photos of my stuff at: http://electronicbaseball.blogspot.com/

Tandy/Radio Shack

Entex

Mego

Sears, Bandai

Tiger, Sears, Fonas

Mattel

Epoch

Micro Electronics (4 Button)

(5 Button)

LJN

Parker Brothers

Main Street Toys, Bandai, Caprice, Coleco

Tiger, AHI, Micro Electronics, Galoob, Tomy

Four Star, Conic

Tiger

VTech

Regency

Sportcraft

Loose - Tiger, Regency, Coleco, Nelsonic, Sears

Console Carts

Misc. Other Games (Impressive, huh!)

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hiparco · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:55 am Post subject:

Impressive collection phitter. A lot of beatiful games and boxes!!!I have some of them.

I like mattel "World Championship Baseball" i never seen before..
Do you know wich number of baseball games are? Because you have a really good number...

Keep collecting phitter. Wink

What's your favorite handheld of these collection?

bye

Petrolpol · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

Nice collection !!!

Looks like you still need this one (from Gakken) : 8183813557

Happy hunting Smile

Rik · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:28 am Post subject:

You know, I'm still pretty convinced that Montreal, Canada is NOT in the U.K. ... I've never really been sure why he lists his auctions that way. When you look at a complete list by seller, it just says they are all located in the United Kingdom (which can affect whether people in the US or Canada will bid on it since some people don't like buying things from overseas...)

Petrolpol · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:46 am Post subject:

True, more and more people are doing this! Can't figure that out either...

blue6demon · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject:

Well i live in Montreal in Canada it's definetely not in the UK Laughing

Maybe he has a warehouse here or something...
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Keep on playing... no matter what !

nicknicknickandnick · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject:

Or is he listing his items on the eBay UK site which puts the words United Kingdom by default?

phitter · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:02 am Post subject: Newest Games Added to Collection

Fonas, Tiger, Sears

Parker Brothers (Boxed Carts)

Amico

phitter · Last edited by phitter on Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:56 pm; edited 4 times in total

This will reply to hiparco's post: I do not claim that this list is exhaustive but it is what I have compiled to date as to games I have and games I want. For the record, I only collect games issued in North America and I purposely avoid the newer LCD/Tiger-type baseball games.

I am sure this list would be several times bigger if Japanese baseball games and other games marketed worldwide were to be included.

Electronic Baseball Games

Videogame Console Baseball Titles

Atari 2600

Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo

Other Systems

Anyone is certainly invited to supplement this list with other Baseball games!

-phitter

Eggie · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:05 am Post subject:

Hi Phitter,

Do you konw the value of the Micro Electronics Baseball (the big one, kind of tabletop)? You have it boxed.

I want to buy it loose (if i'm lucky)...

Please let me know...

Regards, Egbert

phitter · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:44 am Post subject: Micro Electronics Baseball

Egbert-

Of the two versions I have seen of the game, it appears that the 5-button model (56-301-06) is much less common than the 4-button version (56-303-06). (But I certainly welcome comments if this has not been the experience of other collectors.)

I would think that a loose 5-button should be in the $25 (all money in U.S. Dollars) range and a complete in box at $50 assuming it has the Styrofoam inserts and instruction manual.

I would think a loose 4-button should be in the $15 range with a complete in box being in the $25-$30 range. It seems as though the white plastic of the 4-button model is more prone to yellowing with age so I would be willing to pay a premium for a nice white 4-button model, regardless of which version of the box it came in.

There was a time that this game saw some good competitive bidding on eBay and prices were higher than the ones above. I think that things have calmed down and the games do pop up from time to time.

If you look in the Missing Games section under the Misc. Baseball Games Updates, I posted some more detailed photos of both versions of the game and all three box versions.

I hope this helps. By the way, how popular is baseball in the Netherlands? Are you a baseball fan, too or just interested in getting the game for your collection?

-phitter

Eggie · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject:

Phitter

Thanks for the great information.
The one i saw is with 4 bottums, the seller says that he don't know if the game is working.

I didn't know that there are 2 versions. I will take a look at the pictures, the baseball games are verry populair in this forum and i forget to look at the missing games list.

I'm not a baseball fan an baseball is not verry populair in The Netherlands but it's more populair then 10 yaers ago. It's a nice game for my collection.

I'm glad that my bid on this game is about 12,5$ so not to high.
I think that the seller want's a higer price and he is not able tot test the game.

Regards, Egbert

scotthay · Guest

That last post brings up something I have been wondering about, I see this with consoles on Ebay all the time and a lot of the electronic handhelds also, why do people say they are unsure if they work or not, I can understand them saying "put in batteries, lights come on and it makes sound", maybe they dont' know how the game is supposed to play, but to say that they are unsure if it works or not, come on, go spend fifty cents on a battery or take one out of your smoke detector for five minutes and fire it up. To me if it says "unsure if it works, or unable to test" I translate to mean it is junk and doesn't work. What does everyone else think about this?

Dan · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

I can't tell you how many times "untested" has turned out to mean "junk" for me! Not always innocently, either -- when the battery terminals are corroded to all hell or broken off it's very convenient to label it untested.

So I learned the hard way to ask questions. When they don't mention things like clean terminals (or the presence of a battery cover!), I now ask. Sometimes you can guess, when they managed to test other things that use batteries in their other auctions current and completed, I feel justified in assuming they are being deliberately misleading and steer clear.

The exception I make is with games that use button cells, I can see the odd seller not familiar with these games not having those lying around...

Linda · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:51 am Post subject:

I think one guy I dealt with takes the cake.
He said "did not want to buy batteries so game untested"
I received it with it the old batteries still corroded in the game. They were so corroded they could not be removed. Evil or Very Mad

He didn't mention that part.

Linda