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What I learned this winter

Posted by Ransom, 23 March 2009 · 3 views

This winter, I picked up a Genesis, an Atari 5200, and an Atari 7800. Here's what I learned:

Sega Genesis: Genesis is a very nice game system, even better than I remembered from '89. The arcade style controllers rock, and there are a lot of really good games for it. Oh, and right now, they're all pretty inexpensive -- and it's...



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Restoration

Posted by Ransom, 18 March 2009 · 3 views

I'm sending off my remaining loose carts to Albert today -- eleven VCS carts and two 5200 carts. I hope he's able to turn them into something good! I'd really like to buy about half a dozen games listed in the Atari Age store, but they're all currently out of stock. :(

Anyway, as I was packing those loose carts for shipping,...



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Clearing out some stuff

Posted by Ransom, 16 March 2009 · 12 views

Looks like I'll definitely be getting rid of some 2600 carts, thanks to Mirage1972. And over the next year, we'll go through the 400+ games in the closet one by one, play them, and decide whether to keep each one.

But what I really need to do is decide what to do with the stuff in the basement. It's really wasteful to have all that...



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A busy 5200 day!

Posted by Ransom, 14 March 2009 · 13 views

I got lots done with the 5200, and played some games as well!

The biggest deal to me was figuring out how to separate the shaft from the ball bearing in the idle assembly of my second-hand 5200 trak-ball. I don't have proper equipment for that, but I know you need some way to carefully and forcefully press the shaft out of the ball...



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It's starting to come together

Posted by Ransom, 13 March 2009 · 1 views

I recombined the two broken 5200's into one good one. One had a good motherboard, bottom case, and storage compartment lid (and a smashed case top), while the other had a nice case top but a bad motherboard and missing lid. So I took 'em both apart, cleaned everything up, and then assembled the good stuff into a pretty nice looking...



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Woo hoo! 5200 Tak-ball!

Posted by Ransom, 10 March 2009 · 16 views

My el-cheapo 5200 trak-ball arrived last night (with bonus 5200, power pack, and controller -- all to be used for parts).

I plugged the trak-ball in and....it worked! Well, the buttons all work great, including the keypad and Start|Pause|Reset. The ball did sense all four directions, but it moved very roughly.

So I opened the case and...



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Road bumps on the way to video game nirvana

Posted by Ransom, 03 March 2009 · 10 views

Ran into a little road bump.

It seems the late model Genesis 1s, all Genesis 2's and all Genesis 3's are incompatible with many of EA's early releases. Including one of my favorites, and one of my biggest reasons for owing a Genesis -- Budokan. So now that I have two working Genesis 2's, I have to go hunting for an early model...



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Almost done!

Posted by Ransom, 26 February 2009 · 5 views

Looks like ColecoVision is about all that's left now.

My collection as it stands is:

Atari 8-bit Computers and 130 games
Atari 2600 and 88 games
Mattel Intellivision and 58 games
Atari Lynx and 54 games
Sony Playstation 2 and 19 games
Atari 7800 and 16 games
Atari 5200 and 14 games
Atari Jaguar and 14 games
NEC Turbografx-16 and 14...



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