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From the upper left: Roc'n Rope for the ColecoVision on top of a throw-in Donkey Kong cartridge, CP/M System Reference Card/Pamphlet and Radio Shack Software Games Pack Three for TRS-Model I/III featuring Meteor Mission 2 and Cosmic Fighter (two cassettes).

Bottom row, starting from the left: Atari ST versions of Sorcerer Lord, Times of Lore (yet more Origin stuff!), Windwalker (the sequel to Moebius, which I have the Amiga version of) and the well-known Empire

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From left, an actually hard to find Tandy joystick with a round connector. I'll be using this on my Tandy 1000 systems, though I believe this will be good when I acquire a Color Computer 3 (right now I only have a 2). On top of the empty Tandy external disk drive chassis (for a 360K 5.25" drive) is a black case with blank 5.25" disks to add to the pile

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New additions to the collection - Suspect for the Atari ST: another great Infocom addition; North Atlantic Convoy Raider for the Atari 8-bit on disk: another great Avalon Hill bookshelf game with highly unusual contents (for instance, instructions with different system requirements and version information); and a "green screen" for use in my digital video productions

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A request of my Sega CD collection to date

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A request of my TurboGrafx-16 software collection to date

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A request to see my CD-I collection to date (there are a few video CD's towards the last part of this sequence): 1 of 4

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A request to see my CD-I collection to date: 2 of 4

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A request to see my CD-I collection to date: 3 of 4

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A request to see my CD-I collection to date: 4 of 4

Wild Card

On a visit to my parents with Christina and Amelie, I snapped this photo of an old photo of me they had from my early teens in the 1980's. This was one corner of my room - which was an entire attic area - where my collection would eventually grow from. As the picture shows, I was something of a collector even before there was such a thing, really. Check out the ergonomic metal folding chair!

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Even more ColecoVision cartridges to add to my collection. Sewer Sam is my second talking cartridge for the system, Squish 'Em Sam being the other, same company

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From left, the sequel to the Legacy of the Ancients (C-64), Questron II (Amiga) and Shard of Spring (C-64). The latter two add to my ever expanding collection of SSI software, which is among my all-time favorite

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Vectrex cartridges at minimum should come with overlays. These come with everything, which is especially nice. Into the Eagle's Nest is for the Amiga, while the remainder is for the Atari ST

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A closer look at more great Atari ST software to add to the collection. Balance of Power is the original version--I also have the 1990 update for the Atari ST as well

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The last of the Atari ST software and some extra NES hard cases that the ColecoVision cartridges came with. I'll mate those cases with NES cartridges rather than the Coleco stuff, which have their own bin

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More Atari ST stuff and the first shot of the deluxe Texas Instruments (TI-99 and 4/a) computer software and loaded Peripheral Expansion Box

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This Texas Instruments software comes in beautiful binders and contain a mixture of cartridges, disks and cassettes. They really knew how to package productivity applications back then...

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The infamous and hard-to-find TI Peripheral Expansion Box, loaded with two disk drives, extra RAM and more. It appears to have all the necessary cables and even a complete set of documentation. I can't wait to try this absolutely enormous and very, very heavy beast

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The back of the TI Peripheral Expansion Box (PEB). I can't stress enough how big and heavy this thing is! At first I thought that interface cable was a leather strap to pull it out of the box it was shipped in. I hope it works. In any case, something of this size will require yet another minor restructuring of my workshop to accomodate it, but I have some ideas. My TI-994/a collection was overgrowing its present space anyway...

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Galaga '90 for the Turbo Grafx-16 and Teddy Boy for the Sega Master System. NEC's Turbo Grafx-16, Sega's Master System and Atari's Lynx are among the few systems to eschew the traditional cartridge casing model and go for slick wafer designs. Of course Sega's Master System cards were not the primary game medium for the system (in fact this is my first card, not counting the 3D goggles interface) and were quickly phazed out when storage capacity became a limiting factor in comparison to the traditional cartridges

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Breakers from Synapse/Broderbund, a sophisticated contemporary competitor to Infocom's text adventures. Two SSI games; I obviously already have several versions of Phantasie and completed the series on the Commodore 64, but I wanted a working copy of the original on Apple II. A later version of Suspended, complete with board and other "feelies"

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A big boost to my magazine and related paper materials collection. My original Electronic Games collection as a kid was sadly lost, but now I've more than made up for the original quantity I had and even added significant quality, with early issues like these that I never had. I'm still missing a few that I had, but I feel that I've "recovered" and then some... It's "just" a Tandy catalog in the upper left, but it focuses on their early computers, which always fascinated me (part of the reason why I collect them). The Odyssey 2 newsletter/magazine in the lower right is quite unique as well...

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More magazines and some Odyssey 2 flyers

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Even more magazines, including some obscure computer-related ones. My magazine collection is quite beefy now when you add these to what I already have. I'll need to start scanning a few of the more interesting ones. I also have some great ideas for content for Armchair Arcade...

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Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis on disk for the Macintosh - a classic LucasArts adventure game. Mission Impossible from Adventure International (Scott Adams), sealed, for the TRS-80 Model I or III, cassette, in its original wrapped styrofoam packaging. Kampfgruppe for the Atari 8-bit, another SSI classic to add to the collection (SSI had THE best cover art over the life of their releases and considering the volume of titles published, had THE best overall packaging and inclusions inside). The ORIGINAL version of Telengard (text-based) from Avalon Hill for the Apple II on disk, complete, even including the poster based on the cover art

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Even more boxed Commodore 64 software. I literally have thousands of disks for the Commodore 64 and 128 (throw the Plus/4 and Vic-20 in there as well), and dozens of boxed items. These titles and the next set also seem to have some sequel disks included inside as well. Also shown is a Spider-Man 2 LCD pen game to go along with a Hulk one

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Even more Commodore 64 and 128 software, this time with nicer packaging examples. The top two titles are for the C-64 and Trinity is for the C-128 only, as it was one of Infocom's titles that required at least 128K to work correctly