Old Console and Computers. Any Collectors?

[Nik_Barbour]

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^ Nice collection for a non-collector!

I also still have my Donkey Kong Game and Watch in its box.

I remember really wanting the DK as a kid. I got £1 a wk pocket money at the time for cleaning dad's car etc, and I think the dual screens were about £25 or £26ish. It took a long time to save for, but I got one eventually.

[Mulletino]

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^ Nice collection for a non-collector!

I also still have my Donkey Kong Game and Watch in its box.

[Nik_Barbour]

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Not a collector but I have a few of the usual items...

Sinclair ZX81
Spectrum 128k+2
SNES (pal)
Gameboy (1st version)
Gameboy Advance
etc

But also still have one of these...

Videomaster Visionscore

And a handful of game/watch...

[trip2themoon]

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I've been quite lucky in my collecting. A mate of mine gave me the 520 STE with a monitor, HDD and a tonne of games, software and peripherals along with a 48k Speckie. Another mate gave me a Mega Drive as a replacement for the Ridge Racer disc that he somehow managed to destroy and that same mate also sold me an old Atari VCS with paddle controllers and games for £5 and an Amiga A1200 for £12. A mate who managed to acquire a Master System Converter whilst working for a Fedex distribution hub sold me that for a tenner. It was lovely, looked factory fresh and still had its shine after being a decade old. Another mate sold me a boxed Mario 3 pack NES for £6. He's exactly the kind of person you want to buy a console from, he hardly used it. If you bought one from me you'd get a well used machine.

A US or Japanese SNES is a must have and they are pretty common. Once you've played the games on NTSC you'll never go back to PAL.

A strange thing I've noticed with SNES games on Ebay is that anything Konami goes for silly money now. You can't get a cartridge only Turtles in Time for less than £40 now. Does my head in when I see 'Rare' on that game. It sold in the millions. Castlevania 4 is another that people are wanting daft money for now and it was a big seller. Once saw a boxed Mario World offered for £400. £400 just beacause it still had its factory cling film on it. I thought: Good luck mate, trying to sell the most common SNES game for £400. Why would you not use your games? I don't understand those nut jobs who get their games sealed in hard plastic and than whack a stupid price tag on it because it's VGA rated.

[darren]

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Yes ive a snes
a japanese snes
a nes
a gamecube
commodre 64
commodre 64c
spectrum 128k
n64
spectrum 48k
commodre 64 tape deck
wii
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games include
super metroid
mario 2 and 3 for nes
yoshi's island
zelda link to the past

ocarina of time.
And around 60 to 70 games between commodre 64 and the spectrum consoles.
Streetfighter 2.

And aro

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all i have is a bbc model b, and a grandstand games console. thats my retro stuff complete.

i've got a ps1, x-box, x-box 360 elite and a x-box 1. thats my modern collection.

[Mulletino]

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Growing up I had heaps of systems, sadly I never kept any of my original consoles/computers other than the Atari 2600 we had as a family in the 70s and the Megadrives we had.

I did start collecting retro machines about 15 years ago and collated the following then:

C64 with 1541 drive and heaps of software
Amiga 1200 with 030 expansion and CBM monitor, again with heaps of software.
Amiga CD32 with heaps of games.
Amstrad CPC 464
C128D

I ran out of space and we were moving overseas so I got rid of all of the above, outside of eBay to collectors at bargain prices, real bargain prices. Wish I hadn't tbh.

I never seem to get offered any consoles, i have a mate who's colleagues keep throwing them at him. I even found him a perfect condition SNES, with three controllers for AU$29 in a Cash Converters, I was more Sega than Ninty so thought he'd prefer it as he was after one for ages.

So now all I have are the following:

Atari 2600 (light sixer, the original one I had as a kid still) - with heaps of boxed games.
Sega Megadrive
Sega Megadrive 2
AT@Games Megadrive (doesn't really count)
Master System Adaptor for the MDs.
Heaps of Plug n Play TV Games
My original Donkey Kong Game and Watch I had as a kid.
PSP - downloaded the Megadrive collection today and my one year old was playing Sonic, so proud.
Original Xbox
PS2 - my original from near launch and still working, in fact it is powering this Arcade table I made, using a HDD connected to the Network Adaptor and HDadvance with all the retro compilations on.
Nintendo Gamecube

and the not so retro:

Wii (x2)
Xbox 360
PS3
WiiU
Xbox One
PS4

I pretty much concentrate my collecting on the Atari and Megadrive, although I did buy the C64 Cassette of Ghostbusters the other week, purely because I loved that game but don't have a C64 to play it on!

I too would love a Master System, the original. I had one when they came out and the design is still a thing of beauty. I sold my one to get an Amiga 1200 back then. Oh and a 32X, i'd love one of those and a Colecovision, always wanted one of them.

[trip2themoon]

Through a bit of luck at getting them offered to me at bargain prices and keeping my old systems I've managed to build up a decent collection of old consoles, computers and games. I was wondering if there are any other collectors among us and what do you have? This is my list starting with the newest system and working back:

PS3
Nintendo Wii
PS2
Nintendo Gamecube with Gameboy Player (the Gameboy Player is like a new system in itself)
Nintendo 64
2 UK PAL SNES and 1 US NTSC SNES with a Super Wildcard and Universal Adapter.
Sega Mega Drive with Master System Adapter
Nintendo NES Mario 3 pack. Got this boxed and in great condition for £6.
Amiga A1200
ST 520E
Atari VCS and a 2600
48k Speckie (need a tape deck and power pack for this)

Handhelds:
DSi XL
DS Lite
Gameboy Advance SP (not worth getting an Advance if it's not the back lit one)

The only system I can't play right now is my Speckie, my mate found it in his mum's loft but there was nothing else with it. Although I have the Master System converter I would like to get a Master System again. An original though, not the horrible 2 that looks like a toy. I'd really like to get my hands on a Mega CD. The MK1 Mega Drive hooked up to the original Mega CD was always a nice looking set up. Both the MK2 MD and MK2 Mega CD were a bit cheap and crappy looking.

If you ever played a US or Japanese Mega Drive or SNES in the PAL region you'll know how crappy the PAL system was for gaming. The screen being squished and the games running slower. MY American SNES is the best system I've ever bought. The Super Wildcard is an amazing invention. Mines is the 24Mbit but I've heard that later models went up to 40Mb. Mine has enough internal RAM to be able to load SF2 Turbo on to it. Being able to copy the cartridges on to 3.5 inch floppy discs was fantastic. I have about 120 SNES games on disc and about 30 cartridges.

When me and my mates used to visit the pirate game dealers at the Barras Market in Glasgow there was a stall for SNES discs too and you could pick up a Wildcard for £230. I got mine for £100 but this was way after the pirate floppy disc game scene was over.