Control Issues

Nope. I used to have a setup like that, but this time decided to just bring them down one at a time and hook them up when I want to play. I've got the cables all organized in a separate storage thing that makes it pretty easy to swap out consoles.

...and a ElGato HD60 S capture device.

Also, got a couple new toys... RetroTink 2X from CastleMania games...

Figured I'd start a thread here to post about collection and pickups... I mean, that's what this is for, right? lol First... stuff on the new shelves.

I have a certain NES guidebook by Pat Contri. Bought it from Pat himself at Retropalooza in Arlington Tx a couple years ago. Didn't even realize he had signed it until I showed it to my daughter earlier this year and she pointed it out. Her mother is a librarian and she has several books signed by the authors. When I told her I bought it directly from Pat, she said she immediately started looking for a signature. Anyway, it's a great book. Not sure if I'll get the SNES one, though, as I don't have as much nostalgia for that machine. I got a TurboGrafx that generation.

I wouldn't say collect... and I don't cook with it often... but I do have a cast iron skillet that I enjoy using when I use it. It reminds me of watching my mom cook when I was a kid.

Surprisingly, nothing gaming related for Christmas this year. That said, we are selling the house and moving to an apartment in Dallas. Closing is today and moving day is tomorrow. With money from the sale, we intend to get some new furniture, including some new shelves for the gaming stuff and possibly a new chair. So I'm counting that as gaming related Christmas gifts. Plus, just the reorganization and display of stuff is a gift in itself!

This was the Pi pie. The joke was pi r square.

I've also scoured my old photos to see if I had any others that I could use as "proof" if someone claimed it wasn't me... lol. I have other pictures that show the counter the bowl was sitting on. The floor of the kitchen... lol Added them to this post. The pic that got "famous" and a pic of the kitchen where I took the picture. The bowl as on the counter between the fridge and oven on the left. You can see both of them in the bowl pic. Also you can see the patter on the floor in both pics...

I think my biggest bit of fame was when a picture I put on Reddit was picked up and reposted by George Takei (or his social media team) on Facebook. It was a picture of a pie I made back when I was a math teacher. A square pie with the Greek letter Pi on it. It was made for "Pi Day" (March 14th). It was kind of funny because I posted it on Reddit, then it got posted by Takei on Facebook, then people commented on my Reddit post saying I stole it from George. Sigh... people... Another picture of mine from Reddit has been picked up by other sites and you'll sometimes see it around Halloween. I had a plastic container of fast food condiments (ketchup, hot sauce, honey, ranch dressing...) that I posted with the caption "I know what I'm handing out for Halloween this year." It was pretty popular on Reddit and got stolen by various "funny" Facebook pages. Interesting to see someone share a post with a picture you took. Anyway, once again, there were idiots. A lot of people posted about how I was going to get my house egged or rolled with toilet paper. It was a joke, dummies. I wasn't actually going to hand out ketchup packets. I bought real candy. (And then ate it all myself and didn't hand out anything...) My girlfriend was on the local news in Louisiana once. She worked at a vet clinic as a vet tech, and the local station had a guy with a segment where he went and did someone else's job for a day. My gf wrote in about her job and he came to her clinic and "worked" her job for the day.

I guess you could say that I might be someone else's "guy" they knew. People always talk about how they knew the TurboGrafx was a thing, but never knew anyone with one. I had one. Got it when I was in high school in the early 90s. Not sure of the exact year, but it was before the SNES was out in North America. Still have it, too. It's the system that I've owned the longest. Added a few games and controllers after it was discontinued. Got some of the same games I had rented before when the store sold off their rental games. But there might be someone out there thinking, "I knew a guy back in high school who had Blazing Lazers." lol

Pong Clone. Don't remember exact model. I've searched before to find one that fits my memory, but I was pretty young. Got a 2600 later... so I'm sure Combat was second...

I can't be for sure that this is the only one out there... it certainly wasn't back in the day, but I doubt that anyone else kept it. And I'm sure it falls into the "rare but probably not worth anything" category... but I have a letter from Sega to retailers that came with promotional materials to help them sell the Sega Saturn. Also have some of the promo material that was on the counter for customers to read and such... wish I had the VHS video that is mentioned in the letter, but I can't have everything. (The imgur link is to a gallery of scans of all that stuff.) https://imgur.com/gallery/2ZX4upv