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Huge score!

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Man you would not believe this lot of games I got off of Craigslist last week. I've been sorting through it for days, jesus christ this is a lot of stuff. Here's what I know I have so far:

Atari 2600, 1 heavy 6 switch, 1 or 2 4 switch, 2 jr models.
4 large boxes of games, something like 300 of them. I've already found a few rare ones like Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Atari 5200 and 20-30 games

Atari 7800 and maybe a dozen games

Sega Master system and a couple dozen games, with 3d goggles (housing cracked but functional)

NES with a couple games

SNES with a few games

N64 with quite a few games. I got paper mario, golden eye, and a few other good ones.

*Vectrex* with multicart
This is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever owned.

A pong system.

A Fairchild Channel F system with maybe half a dozen boxed games.
This was apparently the first video game system with interchangable cartridges

a box with a bunch of assorted Atari 8 bit, coleco, oddyssey 2, intellivision, and probably cartridges for a few other random systems

another box full of game manuals and marketing material
I already went through this box and found a bunch of intellevision overlays (!) and original Sonic 2 and Toejam & Earl posters that were packed in with games. They're getting framed!

Oh yeah, and a huge box of controllers with it! I've got all sorts of weirdo controllers. Like the Amiga Joypad, remote control 2600 controllers, and a whole lot more.

I've taken a few pictures so far, here's the whole collection in the condition I got it:

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Here's the pong and the vectrex:

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The total cost for all that was $425. I think it's got to be worth 2-3x that much, especially with all those weirdo controllers. I'll take some pictures of them, I'm going to need some help identifying some of this stuff. :D
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Thats great. The Vectrex is one of the coolest systems. I think 425 was a good deal.
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Congrats. If you need any help on what controllers are what feel free to post. I noticed what looks like an Atari wico based Joystick beside the Coleco steering wheel.
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Post by pompeyparsons »

That's a really nice haul. The Vectrex seems to be the talk of the retrogaming world as of late. Congrats on getting one.
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Holy...
The term 'jealous' does not begin to describe what I think of you...
A Vectrex? DO WANT
The best I've gotten from Craigslist is a Dreamcast with two controllers and some sports games and a NES with one controller and a few games including Micro Machines for $30.
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I'll beat you up for the Vectrex
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