Magazine #6.2 3/99
Magazine #6.2 3/99
Classic Gaming Expo '99
Part II
Museum
The museum was even bigger than last year and contained hundreds of 'Holy Grails' for the classic video game collector. Rare machines, hardware and software prototypes, promotional items - there was something for everybody! The whole collection was guarded by a tough but friendly old lady :) Here she is:
The guardian of the treasures!
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Atari Stunt Cycle - very hard to find with box! | Atari Game Brain - unreleased Pong-type, cartridge-based console. |  |
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Coleco Telstar Arcade - with the funky triangular cartridges! |  |
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Intellivision: the old keyboard (computer), with PlayCable adapter (cable program was available in Canada and a few select US Cities), Japanese Bandai Bandai version with Soccer game, new ECS Computer (for Intv II) and Keyboard, Draughts (= Checkers). |  |
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Various Intellivision prototypes. |  |
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Atari Video Music - psychedelic color patterns on your TV for the groovy 70ies! |
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Colecovision setup - with Atari 2600 adapter and steering wheel. |
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Personal arcade - a Colecovision clone. |
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The original Odyssey videogame - the first! |  |
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Odyssey2 console with The Voice speech synthesizer. |
European Chess Module - doesn't run on the US Odyssey2. |  |
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The ultra-rare Odyssey3 or better: Odyssey Command Center. Got one for trade/sale? Please send me some mail (and remove the REMOVEME part)! |  |
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The Voice Module. The Modem - must have gotten pretty hot inside... |
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Vectrex dust cover. |
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Vectrex setup with Vectrex carry-bag. |
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More Vectrex pictures, including the original Vectrex prototype - notice the board inside! |  |
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Color Vectrex - dual layer color phosphor on a b/w tube, notice the burnt-in spot on the tube (left). |  |
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Very nice Vectrex promo material! |  |
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Channel F System. |  |
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Emmerson Arcadi 2001. |
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Bally/Astrocade Professional Arcade. |
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RCA Studio II. |
Microvision - grand daddy of Gameboy. |
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Omni - hadn't see that one before. |
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Looked like a huge Simon-type thing. |
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Adventurevision - got one for trade/sale? Please send me some mail (and remove the REMOVEME part)! |
Entex Select-A-Game - extremely rare cartridge-based VFD handheld. |
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Some very nice Entex handhelds. |
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Some nice Coleco and Tandy handhelds. |
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Atari Cosmos holographic game prototype. Atari Space Invaders - only the box has been found. |
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Original Nintendo Family Computer = Famicom with rare disk drive, 3D glasses, keyboard and Space Invaders game cartridge.! |  |
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Sega's Mark III (SMS). |  |
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Sega's SG-1000. |  |
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Sega home computer... |  |
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Hmm... looks like some joystick to me... I forgot what
was so special with this one... |
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Atari MIRAI system - does anybody know what this is? |
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Game Pocket Computer with cartridge. |  |
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Commodore SX-64. |
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Coleco Telstar Gemini - yummy! |
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Imagic games and promo-items. |
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Close-up of Imagic Sky Patrol for the Atari 2600. Unfortunately the prototype doesn't work :( |
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Some of the rare Playboy Electronic Entertainment issues. |
Cool Imagic stuff! |
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Pac-Man paraphernalia. |
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Groovy Atari buttons - for mellow gamers like you. |
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Some awards - I had to retouch these a little to bring out the lettering. |  |
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Thanks to:
The CGE'99 staff -
great show!
The NWCGE guys (Lee for the packing tape, Steve for the pictures, Rob for the
cashews :)
Leonard for the 'Pong' picture and his great book!
The Plaza for letting me check out late and not charging me an extra day!
Pictures and texts © 1999 by CyberRoach™
Publishing, no content may be duplicated without the written consent of the
author!
Many pictures © 1999 Steve Bender, one picture © 1999 Leonard Herman, all used
with permission - thanks guys!
Classic Gaming Expo '99, World Of Atari and others are claimed and/or registered
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