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jaybird3rd

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In Topic: Venezuela?

Yesterday, 11:02 PM

My understanding is that, in the years during and after the "video game crash", video game publishers and vendors often liquidated their overstock merchandise in the South American market. Perhaps some of those stockpiles either ended up going to Venezuela directly, or were accumulated there over the years.

Whatever the reason, I'm glad these stockpiles still exist and are being made available again. They have brought previously-rare titles down in price and into the hands of collectors, and I've had very good experiences overall with the Venezuelan resellers.

In Topic: Papa Intellivision Website

Yesterday, 9:22 PM

View Postrevolutionika, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:37 PM, said:

yeah pretty cool site. his son comes on here sometimes. nsd7? or something? i cant remember his AA name.
Son-in-law. Here is one of the threads he contributed to.

In Topic: gal-ih-guh or ga-lah-ga (galaga)

Yesterday, 9:07 PM

Here's how I hear them: the second pronunciation (the wrong one) sounds like "gull-log-guh", with the emphasis on the second syllable, while the correct one sounds like "gal-ih-guh", with the emphasis on the first syllable. It should sound just like the word "galaxy", except for the last syllable.

In Topic: Intellivision Purchases and Deals

Yesterday, 5:59 PM

View Postcmart604, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:59 AM, said:

That's awesome! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Some quick snapshots from my office this afternoon, including the INTV System III box I got the other day (apologies for the crummy cellphone pics):

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In Topic: Do you think pc's from the late 1990's & early 2000's will ever be classic?

Yesterday, 4:58 PM

View Postjtoubeaux, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:53 PM, said:

Does the 5150 look like the jr? I can't remember. My dad had an XT I think at his work in 1983 and it copied some Atari disks for me. Don't know how but it did.
The original IBM PC (the 5150) looked very much like the XT, except that the PC also had a DIN-5 cassette port next to the keyboard port, and its expansion slots were one inch apart.