Check out the bid for the games that was not high enough

From: Dean Calver <deano_at_rattie.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Nov 15 02:30:01 2002

> Whoa! Who in their right mind would pay that much for video games? I guess
> it's people who spend their entire lives in front of their TV playing
> Disembowelment III or whatever is currently on the top 10 list. I'm not
much
> of a video game person myself, but I do have fond memories of spending $20
> in quarters on PacMan at a local place called "J.V.'s" as the day went by
> without me.

Hey nothing wrong with video game collecting (or modern video games either).
Its alot like the other (normal) side of classic computers but with more
joysticks and strange attachments (Don't ask about the Sony Trance Vibrator
for Rez). We seem to spend a massive amount of time cleaning contacts (old
cartridges are already oxidizing) and it involves the same kind of care and
attention that 'real' computers but with a game at the end (tracking down
cables, disk drives etc).

One of the good/bad things is that just having a system is only the start,
for the popular systems number of titles may range in the thousands (there
are believed to be around 14000 games for the ZX Spectrum). I haven't
managed to test most of the titles I own yet (5 minute per tape, 1 minute
per disk) and I only have a small collection (1000+ titles). Of course
testing time also involves playing the games which can take a long time for
quality titles.... (Things like Mario, Zelda and Elite can take weeks to
really test :-)

Bye,
    Deano
Received on Fri Nov 15 2002 - 02:30:01 GMT