About 5 minutes later she comes back with a Huggies box full of Commodore goodness. The guy was actually asking $15, but she told him we only had $12 handy and he took it! And in addition to the C64 and floppy drive, he also included the user's manual for both pieces, 2 old-school joysticks (including a WICO BOSS), the book "How to Use the Commodore 64 Computer", 8 sealed blank 5 1/4" floppy disks (handy since I got rid of mine long ago), and a decent little pile of miscellaneous commercial software - Blue Max (I actually had a copy of this one back in the day), Star Trek Evolution, Alien, Bits Pieces and Clues (with African Adventure, Pirate Adventure, and King Tut's Tomb text adventures), My 64 a Computer Tutor (yawn), and Games I & Games II - 2 compilation disks of some sort. When the C64 was the new kid on the block back in 1982 this haul would've cost about $1000 new, but here in good ol' 2010 it's only $12 - not bad!
And I already have my existing C64 games that I slowly accumulated in the last year or two when I came across a good deal - Hardball! (sealed), Telengard (sealed), Deadline (sealed - got that one for $1 shipped!), Wheel of Fortune (sealed), Suspended, One on One: Julius Erving and Larry Bird, On-Court Tennis, On-Field Football, and Beyond the Forbidden Forest. Who knows there might even be a few others buried in my closet. I'll also be hooking up my old Commodore 1526 dot matrix printer. Surrounded by this much retro hardware I might accidentally slip back in time to 1983 like Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time. Hmm... that chick flick reference might be a little too obscure. Oh well.
I was a little too busy this weekend to hook everything up but don't be surprised if there is a spike in the number of Commodore 64 posts around here pretty soon.
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What an absolute bargain! A swift and excellently planned move too. Can't wait for the C64 post...
ReplyDeleteTwelve bucks? That's great! I'm really glad for you MP :)
ReplyDelete@ gnome: Indeed - I got lucky as it involved very little money and virtually no effort on my part at all. My first C64 post will be a 10-part critical essay: "Space Taxi: Pad 1 or Pad 3?"
ReplyDelete@ Mik: Thanks Mik! Next on my list is a Sega Master System so I can finally start playing some of those Master System games you've talked about. But so far I haven't stumbled across anyone selling one in my "wait for a deal" price range of < $20. They're less common over here than the C64s.
Wonderful! Too bad they're uncommon there, a MSII here in Italy is rather cheap (and by "rather" I mean "10 bucks or even less for the loose system"). But then again, shipping is way too expensive... Ever planned an european trip? :D
ReplyDeletePicks up pen and jots down '11/29/2010: Mik offers free room and board for trip to Italy. Said welcome to stay as long as we like.' ;)
ReplyDeleteActually my wife is Italian - or more accurately, her mother's parents were, so yeah a trip to her motherland is definitely on our someday to-do list.
Have you got the C64 hooked up yet? Of all game systems, this is the one I most associate with you.
ReplyDeleteLittle effort on your part is right considering Mrs. Madplanet did all the work for you!
It is the one I associate myself with the most as well! That was back when computers had character - be they VIC-20, C64, Mac512, Apple II, Speccy, whatever. I've had quite a few PCs since my C64, but who the hell knows what kind they were other than a 286 here, a 486 there, a Pentium over there. Just nameless, faceless, soulless components. I have to look down at the logo of my laptop this very moment just to remind myself what brand it is (Fujitsu). Oh and I really only started paying attention to the console scene again maybe 3-4 years ago.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mrs. MP is quite a gal. Think I'll keep her.
Nope - despite my excitement I still haven't had a chance to hook up Cici yet. Work work work!
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