Mr. Postman Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) As many of you already know, I'm fairly new to the hobby. I've been around 2600s my entire life, but only around a few months ago did I start digging through all my closets and organizing all my carts that I've picked up over the years. Within this recent time I've been blessed with wonderful luck at garage sales and swap meets and I would say that within such a short time a have a pretty dandy selection of carts to play. Since then I have a stack of 2600 consoles in my room and I've been giving them to friends along with extra doubles I have in hopes that one day maybe it'll spark the same interest in them that we all have for our beloved system. Anyhoo, what's the best way to go about organizing and displaying your collection whist still having them all accessible for play? I have all my manuals and boxes on a shelf in my room and my carts sitting out in rows on the floor in my living room. Obviously this isn't going to work out for long, I've witnessed family and friends accidently kicking entire rows of carts at a time. I've got to get my babies displayed properly! I think this would be a great time for all of you to share information and pictures of your displayed connection if you'd like. I'm sure everyone would get a kick out of the show-and-tell, and it'll really help out us newbies find that special place in our homes for our 2600 carts. Here they are in all their glory, sitting on my dirty carpet. Enjoy!: Edited July 10, 2006 by ResOGlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBP Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Cool collection. I just moved house so all mine are in boxes at the moment, however I have a set of shelves I made up which hold 150 carts each, and I arrange them by manufacturer. I am a completist and I like to be able to see instantly where the holes in the collection are (I am most of the way through the third shelf at the moment) Out of interest, there are a few carts in there which I don't recognise: What system are Dawn Of The Dead and the one above it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Postman Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 Out of interest, there are a few carts in there which I don't recognise: What system are Dawn Of The Dead and the one above it for? Dawn of the Dead is a hack of Worm War I done by Salem Frost Games, and the cart pictured above is the Wolfenstein VCS hack of Venture that is sold right here on AtariAge.com. The third row in is all my pirate carts, and you'll see an Activision prototype of crackpots on the very last row to the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBP Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Dawn of the Dead is a hack of Worm War I done by Salem Frost Games...The third row in is all my pirate carts... Ahh, good good. I don't follow new releases at all, so I hadn't heard of the Salem Frost stuff until now. Apart from the top 5, what are all the carts in row three? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Postman Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) Dawn of the Dead is a hack of Worm War I done by Salem Frost Games...The third row in is all my pirate carts... Ahh, good good. I don't follow new releases at all, so I hadn't heard of the Salem Frost stuff until now. Apart from the top 5, what are all the carts in row three? Atari Mania 32 Super Jogos - Serie Prata (32 super games - series silver) Atarimania - Lost Luggage (Atarimania is a different company than Atari Mania) Tron - Phoenix Dactar - 4in1 - Venture/Sexta Feira 13/Frostbite/Entobed Conector - 4in1 - Pengo/Star Treck/Galaxian/Super Tennis (Yeah, that's how they spelled Star Trek) CCE - Enduro Video Tiger - Enduro ArteVision - Jawbreaker Edited July 10, 2006 by ResOGlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wester Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) Damn you, you got a Dawn of the Dead! I just missed that one. Nice collection you've got going there. As for my display, non-existent right now, I have all of my Atari carts in a plastic drawer unit the same as the ones in AA's loose cart storage tips section. But I'm working on my side room, which will be my gameroom and have all of my gaming goodness displayed. P.S. Have you checked that Spacechase to see if it one of the monogrammed carts, that is going to be a little quest of mine,as well as some others on the forum. Here's the thread that I found out about it in. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...=16&t=90101 Edited July 10, 2006 by Wester Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagFan422 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 i've ran out of room for my 2600 stuff. I don't know what i'm going to do now, i had a book case with a shelf removed that held about 270 loose carts. I've exhausted that space and don't know where to go from there. i guess its time to buy a bigger house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamme Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 I keep my games in boxes that are either on the floor or on top of things in my basement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jferio Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 I display all my games on a bookshelf. Instead of stacking, I put my carts all 'on end' (sideways, label out) so that it's easy to grab any cart without having to extract it from a stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Just hit my link at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) ResOGlas, Could you show me a picture of the end labels of the Conector, Video Tiger and Atarimania cart? Edited July 10, 2006 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_vr Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 This is my display... and I am running out of space badly.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Most of my 2600 carts fit nicely in these shelf units I have. I usually just pop 'em open and grab a cart, but I can pull the drawers completely out for display. The drawers slide into units like the one at the end here. At least it keeps them out of harms way Unfortunately I don't have anywhere near the space to display all the boxes for various systems, so most of them are pressed flat for storage. Some boxes do have shelf space for each system. Though again, due to space limitations I have to double stack most shelf stuff. So at the moment these guys are behind these guys And there's a bunch of Colecovision behind these guys I really need more space. Or less stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_dos_man Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Just hit my link at the bottom. dude! that is the best setup at atariage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Just hit my link at the bottom. dude! that is the best setup at atariage! Thank you, but what I really need is an Atari kiosk to sit right next to my glass display case, that would finish off my room nicely. :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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