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I don't use Paypal, andI generally only do trades, but if you want to take a look at my gametz listing it's at https://gametz.com/user/Wookie/AvailableGames.html

Once was enough. Does Wes Bentley always play creepy types?

And people ask me why I won't ship internationally....

10/10. Nearly every line is quotable. 

5. A real disappointment after the first one. No real interest in seeing it again.

I'll have to ponder this for a bit.  Meanwhile, where are yours? Can't start a thread like this without showing your own faves.

Not a great movie on its own, but the midnite showing thing with audience participation is something everyone should experience.  I saw it back in the 70s before it became a phenomenon so had no idea what I was getting into when a group of us went. Never really had an experience like that before.

FWIW, the stage version is even more fun as the actors usually play along with the audience. We go every time a local troupe puts it on.

I shipped a package cross country to the "verified address" of a PayPal user, then got a panicked message that they had moved but neglected to update PayPal. Jumped through some hoops to verify he was telling the truth then began the odyssey of trying to get fedex to reroute to the new address. 

Called and got fedex to issue a change order, but the package still went to the old address. Luckily, they refused delivery and requested a return to sender. It arrived back in my local sorting depot where somebody noticed the address change paperwork, made out a new sticker and resent the box, but the tracking number was apparently still tied to old address so it got delivered there again, refused again, and sent back my way again, where the depot again saw a problem, issued a new tracking number, and sent it out again. But this time, they screwed up the address, putting the new street address together with the old city. That address didn't exist so, yes, it started back my way again. Finally got a fedex supervisor on the phone and we're both looking at the tracking info seeing this box go back and forth across the country 3 times, had a good laugh, and (hooray) he got it straightened out.  Took 3 weeks to get that box where it belonged.

This was back before I quit using eBay. Nowadays, I'm sure they'd say it was my fault and reimburse the buyer.

Hmmm.... There's a few systems I only need one more game to mark as complete, so I'd probably go for:

TG16 Magical Chase

Colecovision Wizmath

Atari 5200 Bounty Bob Strikes Back

Studio II Bingo

Intellivision Spiker

Some not-so-great games there, but it's always nice to finish a system.

78 for me, though for some it's been so long I couldn't tell you much about them.  There's a couple on there I've never heard of.

9 for me. Not just a great movie, with one of the most iconic monster debut scenes of all time, but it made me a fan of H.R. Giger's artwork as well.

I'm with Tabonga on Pinball Wizard. The song only makes sense as part of Tommy. I heard it on the radio as a single first and couldn't understand why there was a song about some disabled kid playing pinball, then I heard the full rock opera and had one of those now-I-get-it moments. 7 as a single, 9 as part of Tommy.

The other song I hadn't heard in so long I forgot it existed, but on rehearing, it's OK. 5.

I'm gonna owe a little this year for the first time in awhile.  I did a pretty good job in the past of balancing withholding vs taxes so I'd get a small refund every year, but forgot to account for the extra income from higher interest rates in 2023. Rates were near zero for so long that I didn't even think of it when they went up. Wasn't much, but enough to upset my carefully balanced system.

SSI, Avalon Hill, and Epyx.  I'm actually surprised how few of these games I have boxed.  Maybe I haven't uncovered them all...

Electronic Arts, which was a favorite of mine back when they were publishing other people's games.  Many many hours spent with Archon, Mule (oops, 2 copies in photo), 7 Cities of Gold, Bard's Tale, Pinball Construction Set, etc. The later stuff not so much.

I also really appreciated the shelf-friendly album packaging of those early releases.

Very impressive. I look forward to future sets.

Infocom, with several packaging variants shown.  Sadly, no pre-Infocom Zork ever came my way.

21 hours ago, avatar! said:

All of it

Seriously, whatever you can take pics of I'm sure everyone will enjoy looking at, thanks.

I did have a particular interest in certain companies or series, so I'll show a few of those as I uncover them.  Ultima, and by extension Origin, was one, so here's a bunch of stuff for them.  I was never lucky enough to find Mt Drash, but I got many of the others for various computer systems.  With the exception of Ultima II, packaging was the same over the various systems so I only show 1 of each.  I also got a few compilations and rereleases so they're in there too.

2 hours ago, avatar! said:

I'd love to see detailed pics of your games! I see you have Zork, Loom, Ultima -- great stuff

I can probably do that. Something in particular you wanted to see?

Part 2, again hastily photoshopped together from a bunch of separate images.  This has the Atari, Apple, Amiga, non-Coco TRS-80, boxed disk & tape games from the earlier systems, and a mish-mash of other computer stuff. Should pretty much finish the computer software collection except a few stray bits.

This is actually several pictures from about 10 years ago that I photoshopped into a single conglomeration. This shows the Commodore VIC20/C64/+4, TI99, CoCo, Tomy Tutor, Panasonic JR-200, PCjr, and Timex-Sinclair collections (carts + selected hardware).  Doesn't include disk or tape software for those machines, or my Atari 8-bit, ST, Amiga, PC, Apple, or cp/m stuff, but I had this photo handy.

Ha, I discovered that I was not only looking at an outdated copy of my spreadsheet, but a recent change had caused the last (alphabetically) two systems, Xbox and Xbox360, to be omitted entirely from the summary page.  The actual total is 10,956, which still omits a bunch of computer stuff as well as variants for some consoles.

Breakdown:

3DO                        166
Action Max                4
Amiga CD32/CDTV            14
Atari 2600                 621
Atari 2600 Imports/Homebrews        179
Atari 5200                 71
Atari 7800                68
Atari Jaguar            57
Atari Lynx                 93
Bally Astrocade          32
CD-I                    205
Colecovision              147
Emerson Arcadia         34
Entex Select-A-Game        1
Fairchild Channel F        26
GCE Vectrex             50
Intellivision            132
MB Microvision            13
Memorex VIS                45
Neo-Geo MVS                6
Neo-Geo Pocket Color      50
Nintendo 64                298
Nintendo Famicom        56
Nintendo GameBoy        403
Nintendo GameCube        328
Nintendo GBA/DS/3DS        591
Nintendo NES            765
Nintendo Switch            5
Nintendo Super NES        735
Nintendo Virtual Boy    15
Nintendo Wii            372
Nintendo WiiU            166
Odyssey2                 74
Playstation                714
Playstation2            547
RCA Studio II            11
Sega 32X                40
Sega CD                    145
Sega Dreamcast            266
Sega Game Gear            304
Sega Genesis            713
Sega MegaDrive            104
Sega Pico                20
Sega Saturn                259
Sega SMS                162
TG-16                    100
Tiger Game.com            20
Tiger R-Zone            11
VideoBrain                1
Watara Supervision        40
Wonderswan              1
Xbox                    368
Xbox 360                147
        
        
Computers (only cartridges counted):       
Atari 400/800…          250
CoCo                    109
Commodore 16/+4            8
Commodore 64            328
Commodore VIC20            178
IBM PC jr.                15
Mattel Aquarius         14
MSX                     1
TI-99/4                 230
Timex Sinclair 2068        5
Tomy Tutor                28

Spirited Away is a masterpiece, and many of the others are very good.  The exception, for me, was Totoro.  The story was OK but the little girl spent so much time screaming that it frazzled my nerves.

I picked up about 10 of these on DVD for $1 apiece at a g-sale a few years ago and watch them semi-regularly.

10,400 by my Excel sheet, although that number doesn't include most of my games for various computer platforms. It's way too many but I'm not motivated to do the work of selling.

I wish I had kept track of how I obtained each one and price paid, but didn't think of until it was too late. The total outlay, especially for all the hardware, would probably be a depressingly large number.

7/10.  Wasn't the best movie I saw last year, but it was top 5 for sure.  I'll likely watch it again at some point.