Sorry for falling into nearly full time lurker. I do lurk though, looking at all the shiny things you guys keep getting. If I was commenting though, seems like most of the time it would just be some iteration of, "Whoa! Neat! Nice grab!"......which I would do for like every other post in this thread.
For the most part we haven't been out looking for games. Haven't even been going to garage sales I'm sad to say. My time has been mostly taken up with boring adult stuff. Any of you know how that is? Can't stay out of it completely though, so here are a few small things and one big one for ya all to take a lookin at:
Couple of games and a cable. Sins of a Solar Empire I have on Steam but I like to collect real games too you know. Tribes 2, can't pass that up. A cable I didn't really think was that component cable for the Gamecube but as I didn't remember exactly what it looked like I grabbed it.....this is all thrift store stuff and prices to match by the way.
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The Ultimate History of Video Games, actually got this a couple months ago but didn't remember to post it until I saw it a couple pages back in small-scores. The Haynes manual because
someone might be getting a sweet pickup from a farm shortly.
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I promised a big score. Not big like as in NWC cart or a baby or something like that. Something better.
Blinking Light Win was an awkwardly name Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.c...win-resurrecting-your-nesGot it today, and raced to put it in and be the first to post about it here.
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Grabbed an NES off the pile of ones that sometimes have issues and got to work
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Good thing the NES comes with a built in holder for the screws
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Worked great so I fully upgraded my NES with the included stickers. Realized too late it was ironic to have this picture with the light off.
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Arcade Works is making them to sell from their website:
http://www.arcadeworks.net/hardware/blw.htmlWhile this thing is great and obviously I was willing to Kickstart it, I think of it more as an interesting mod rather than a better-than-original solution. The NES I took out from under that TV still works fine after 30ish years and will make it's way up to the game room. It will be fantastic if this new thing works that long (there is nothing to doubt that it will.) Other solutions for hard to start NESs are totally valid too.
o man yeah i was following that kickstarter. I might have to grab this now. Looks great.
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