Funny that you mention that, my father used to be part owner and wrote for a video game bulletin, back before glossy mags and what not, the kind of paper that reminded you of the penny saver material where if you handled enough of them you had ink on your fingers, but I digress...
So the other day he shows up with a trash bag with older game cartridges and says"don't know if they would be worth anything but you played them all the time, so here you go." When I went through them I found quite a few prototypes for a lot of our systems that we had, atari, coleco, intellivision, etc.
The funny thing is when I was playing them I had no idea that they were pre-release demos or prototypes, and that my dad was watching me play them for his articles...wonder if I can get some back royalties for something like that, anyways. I told a guy at work about what I had, and he absolutley flipped out, wanted to see them, touch them (he is a friend but that kind of weirded me out) and then offered to buy or trade for them, almost did it but decided that for now, would rather keep them, sentimental attachment kind of crap so go ahead and call me a schmuck if you want. Anyways, just thought I would chime in with the overzealous obsessive sub culture that is out there. Maybe I should by a safe?
1. That there was an article in the KC Star about this same information November of last year and people are now talking about this.
2. In the same paper I found an article about installing camera's at known areas of the city where violence, gang "discussions", and or drug dealers were known to hang out, but the ACLU came out against this policy stating that "we were drifting toward a surveillance society".
3. The police department that want the cameras to watch for criminals, find something wrong with people videotaping their disgressions.
Double standards are great, and I bet the lawyers can't wait until the lawsuits start coming in...
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Funny that you mention that, my father used to be part owner and wrote for a video game bulletin, back before glossy mags and what not, the kind of paper that reminded you of the penny saver material where if you handled enough of them you had ink on your fingers, but I digress...
So the other day he shows up with a trash bag with older game cartridges and says"don't know if they would be worth anything but you played them all the time, so here you go." When I went through them I found quite a few prototypes for a lot of our systems that we had, atari, coleco, intellivision, etc.
The funny thing is when I was playing them I had no idea that they were pre-release demos or prototypes, and that my dad was watching me play them for his articles...wonder if I can get some back royalties for something like that, anyways. I told a guy at work about what I had, and he absolutley flipped out, wanted to see them, touch them (he is a friend but that kind of weirded me out) and then offered to buy or trade for them, almost did it but decided that for now, would rather keep them, sentimental attachment kind of crap so go ahead and call me a schmuck if you want. Anyways, just thought I would chime in with the overzealous obsessive sub culture that is out there. Maybe I should by a safe?
I find it interesting:
1. That there was an article in the KC Star about this same information November of last year and people are now talking about this.
2. In the same paper I found an article about installing camera's at known areas of the city where violence, gang "discussions", and or drug dealers were known to hang out, but the ACLU came out against this policy stating that "we were drifting toward a surveillance society".
3. The police department that want the cameras to watch for criminals, find something wrong with people videotaping their disgressions.
Double standards are great, and I bet the lawyers can't wait until the lawsuits start coming in...