The Atari games have really nice artwork. I remember that the cover artwork had a much higher significance back in the 80s than today. Today, when collecting retro video games, I don't look at the covers most times. But back then, we sat in front of a Niedermeyer or Hartlauer catalog and stared at the cover photos of the games for hours, imagined how the game could be. The actual graphics of the game, that we often saw only after we bought it, was not that important, because we had the cover artwork in mind, and our imagination somehow connected the cover artwork with the actual game graphics. That was great and I miss this feeling somehow with today's video games, where the cover artwork doesn't count, but only the in-game graphics.
P.S.: Got another parcel with very nice content today, will post info and photos in the next 2 – 3 days 
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Dieter said:
P.S.: Does anyone know why Casino has the "Special Edition" on it?
Really don´t understand the meaning of this "Special Edition" sign. I know it from other early games like "Superman" and "BASIC Programming". Where are the Atari specialists here?
Nice to see a Parker Atari 5200 game box.
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Received a better box for my Colecovision Frenzy, which is torn pretty badly, and boxes for Tarzan (just had cartridge so far) and Roc 'N' Rope (completely new entry to my collection) today! Unfortunately, all these are replacing NTSC versions and thus no spares for the Computer König guy aka RichMan.
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Intellivisioner said:
Dieter said:
P.S.: Does anyone know why Casino has the "Special Edition" on it?
Really don´t understand the meaning of this "Special Edition" sign. I know it from other early games like "Superman" and "BASIC Programming". Where are the Atari specialists here?
Nice to see a Parker Atari 5200 game box.
Every Atari 2600 game is special compared to the inferior systems... 
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Dieter said:
P.S.: Got another parcel with very nice content today, will post info and photos in the next 2 – 3 days
Ok, this is a nice item, so I have set up a little page for it: http://www.classic-consoles-ce.....age-module
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hi
My latest acquisitions are as the following.
zx81 computer for £1.50 car boot sale on the 6/12/09
psu not working trying to get one.
Channel F Fairchild game X 4 on ebay £13.99 on 29/1/10
hand held
Super space invaders 2 made by entex
boxed with instructions
for £2.00 in a car boot sale on the 23/5 /2010
Consoles
Acetronic mpu 1000 without psu or games
not tested.
Snes without psu, joysticks or games .
working.
Atari 2600 woody 6 swicher without psu, joysticks or games.
working.
All three games console for £5.00 in a car boot sale on the 23/5/2010
Atari 2600 joystick £1.00 car boot.
grandstand (adman) tv game 3000 colour pong 1977 for £3.00 pounds on the 6/6/10
SNES joystick and psu for the SNES console I bought last week for £6.00 pounds.
2 Binatone psu for £2.00 on 23/5/10 and 6/6/10
Atari paddel controler £1.00 car boot on 23/6/10
ZX81 computer psu for £1.00 car boot 23/6/10
Tomy
Tomytronic 3-d SKY ATTACK in box without instructions for £1.00
in a car boot sale on the 11/7/2010
Sega mega drive system with the following games
Pga tour golf 2,Paperboy ,The Simpsons Bart's nightmare, Marko's magic football
,Sonic 2 and Sonic 3d flikies island
4 joypad two rf units and power suply
the lot for just £5.00 in a car boot sale on 8/8/10
Handhelds
Tron handheld for £4.00 autojumble on the 9/9/2010
bandai missile invader £2.00 autojumble on the 9/9/2010
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I bought a few PS2 games this weekend in Berlin, for example the first release of Dog's Life with the elusive sticker set and a few 505GameStreet games. Also awaiting some neat small packages with 'Engine games.
@Prinztronicman
nice stuff you got there
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Got some nice stuff, mainly for Atari XL/XE and Atari 5200 over the last weeks, for example:
FROGGER ATARI 400/800 GAME NEW FACTORY SEALED
BLUE MAX ATARI 400/800 COMPUTER GAME NEW
FUN WITH ART ATARI COMPUTERS GAME NEW FACTORY SEALED
The Pawn Atari 400/800 Disk Game (Magnetic Scrolls)
Atari 400 800 XL Football boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL The Last V8 Boxed disk
Atari 400 800 XL Spy vs Spy Advantage Boxed Island
Atari 400 800 XL The Chessmaster 2000 complete boxed
Atari 400 800 XL Jawbreaker II 2 complete boxed
Atari 400 800 XL ENERGY CZAR SCRAM Invit Program BOXED
Atari 400 800 XL Gateway to Apshai Complete in box
Atari 400 800 XL Temple of Apshai Complete in Box
Atari 400 800 XL Datestones of Ryn in Box Epyx
Atari 400 800 XL Crush, Crumple and Chomp! in Box Epyx
Atari 400 800 XL Rescue at Rigel in Box Epyx
Atari 400 800 XL Jumpman Complete in Box Epyx
Atari 400 800 XL Spy Hunter Boxed Sega with Cart
Atari 400 800 XL Congo Bongo Complete Boxed Sega
Atari 400 800 XL Kaboom Complete Boxed Activision
Atari 400 800 XL The Sands of Egypt complete boxed
Atari 400 800 XL O'Riley's Mine boxed Datasoft
Atari 400 800 XL Q*bert Cart w/ manual
Atari 400 800 XL Soccer complete in Box cart
Atari 400 800 XL MECH BRIGADE SSI BOXED complete
Atari 400 800 XL Computer Ambush SSI BOXED complete
Atari 400 800 XL Galaxian boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Centipede boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Missile Command boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Super Breakout boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Video Easel boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Zork I Infocom boxed complete
Atari 400 800 XL Atlantis Complete in BOX
ATARI 400 800 ZEPPELIN by Synapse RARE Boxed NR
ATARI 400 800 DRELBS by Synapse RARE Boxed NR
ATARI 400 800 SHAMUS: Case II by Synapse RARE Boxed NR
Intellivision Game: Kool-Aid Man (CIB) Cleaned & Tested
ATARI 5200 TRAK-BALL CONTROLLER NEW NEVER USED
Atari 5200 Miner 2049er Complete Boxed
Atari 5200 James Bond Complete Boxed
Atari 5200 Gyruss Complete Boxed
Atari 5200 Pitfall II Lost Caverns complete in box
Atari 5200 Space Shuttle complete in box w/ overlays
Atari 5200 Robotron 2084 complete in box w/ coupler
Atari 5200 VCS Cartridge Adaptor - Play 2600 Games
Only 10 games needed for a complete boxed Atari 5200 collection ... 
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I mainly bought PS2 stuff in September:
BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles
Cabela's African Safari (Waiting for)
Cartoon Network Racing
Car Wash Tycoon (Waiting for)
Code Lyoko : Plongez Vers (Waiting for)
Destroy All Humans!
DJ: Decks & FX - FG DJ Radio (Waiting for)
Eagle Eye Golf (Waiting for)
Energy Airforce (Waiting for)
G-Force
Girl Zone
Gun Club (Waiting for)
Habitrail Hamster Ball
Harvest Moon (Waiting for)
Hidden Invasion
Homerun
Homura
Jelo (Waiting for)
Kidz Sports Basketball
Kidz Sports Ice Hockey
Lake Masters Ex
Master Chess (Waiting for)
Masters Of The Universe: He-Man: Defender Of Grayskull
Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation Vs. Zeon
Monster Attack
Monster Trux Extreme Arena Edition (Waiting for)
Offroad Extreme
Radio Helicopter (Waiting for)
Robot Warlords
Silent Scope
Soccer Life! (Waiting for)
Son Of The Lion King
SOS The Final Escape
Splashdown
Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time
Starsky & Hutch
SWAT Siege (Waiting for)
Taxi 3 (Waiting for)
Time Crisis 2
Titeuf: Méga Compet' (Waiting for)
Tokyo Road Race
Veggie Tales: Larry and the Bad Apple (Waiting for)
Veggy World (Waiting for)
World Fighting (Waiting for)
Zoocube
Looking for country-exclusives ones and games from Midas, Phoenix and 505 right now.
AtariBuff
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... someone is addicted to PS2 games
Me for myself received some HuCards for the 'Engine and expecting a few to show up next week. Also bought Ocean Commander (thanks for the tipp!), Bible Game and a few other obscure stuff for the PS2.
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AtariBuff said:
... someone is addicted to PS2 games
Me for myself received some HuCards for the 'Engine and expecting a few to show up next week. Also bought Ocean Commander (thanks for the tipp!), Bible Game and a few other obscure stuff for the PS2.
Well addicted and addicted. About 30 of the games were bought at the EuroCon-weekend and they became really cheap in England. The most expensive one I bought there was £ 4 and lots of the games were sold for a Pound.
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hi acetronic fans
more info on 16 hobby module
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hi AdrianI won it yesterday waiting for it to come.this is what he put on it on ebay.the unusual thing about this console is you can programme it and store games on cassette…..it comes with what looks like a home made cassette interface and also a folder containing what looks like someones lifetime of work……including programs etc…mostly hand written, this is quite interesting, although i must say its way over my head…..ive tried the console with the carts and it works fine, however i have not tried the programming side but ive no reason to think it doesnt work, there are 3 cassettes included which i presume have programs on them, but again i dont know.the console is boxed and in excellent order as are the 6 boxed carts.Adrian pongman from pppwoow sounds really cool – keep me updated what happens next :-)
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my lastest acquisition is
A commodore 64 c computer boxed with the following
citizen printer boxed
1530 datassette unit c2n boxed
5 1/4 floppy disk drive boxed NOT a commodore made unit boxed
8 cassette games
a joystick super pro zip stik boxed price on box £14.95 swansea microstore in the 1980 -1990's
the hole lot for £10.00 in a car boot sale on the 10/10/2010 
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