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chriswyattchriswyatt
edited June 2016 in Chit chat
I bought these a couple of days ago for £15 from a little shop down the road:

Systema - Three Action Games In One Pack - 1301ARG
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Pretty sure it's a good price, or potentially a bit of a bargain. Looking online, I can't find much information about these items, and I reckon they're probably quite rare. Pretty sure they're worth at least £10, especially as they have the box and manual included. The box is slightly tatty, but the games look like they've never been played (I wonder why? :-?). I would have happily paid £5 for just the one without the packaging, personally. What are people's opinions on the possible value? After a Google search, I managed to find out that it retailed for about £10 back in 2002, probably around a time when LCD games were dwindling in popularity, I would imagine.

Also, I thought it would be interesting to start a thread about odd collectables, particularly video game hardware and software, but can be anything really; no strict rules.
Post edited by chriswyatt on
My only Speccy game (so far): a simple snake clone

Comments

  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Not really collectable but maybe one day I could skelp them on fleabay for a couple of hundred times more than I paid for them? :))

    http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee7/dm_boozefreek/7441EE53-71EF-4A01-B695-E1118E2B4554_zpsk2scloux.jpg

    Did find them quite interesting though, found them at the Jungle Jim's in Ohio back in about October last year. Just had to have them, obviously I've not drank them, and probably won't because me and energy drinks don't get on too well these days.

    Makes me feel twitchy :))
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  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    I was planning on keeping my Colman's 200th anniversary jars after I'd eaten the mustard in them, but probably a lot of other people had the same idea anyway. I am a bit of a hoarder, and I do have a lot of stuff that I probably should just chuck in the bin.
    My only Speccy game (so far): a simple snake clone
  • saddestmoonsaddestmoon
    Hmmmm... I'm partial to the lure of a good button badge / pin (especially if it's speccy related).

    Eg: Jack The Nipper, and
    Auf Wedersehen Monty badges.

    Always wished there were JSW / MM character / sprite badges - different coloured backgrounds, with a specific JSW / MM character, for example.

    I would have collected then all! :D

    I guess I can just design my own now, and get them made by a company...

    :p
  • Your Spec-chumYour Spec-chum
    I'm not really a collector but I own a 6 switch Atari 2600 and lots of games, Amstrad 464 and a couple of boxes of games, a boxed and still never been used James Bond 007 pack Spectrum+2A, and my best is my +3 Spectrum with multiface, divEnjoy, over 100 disk games/programs. I also have three large boxes of vinyl records, and 2 shelving units full of CD's.
  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    Looks like those image links in my first post are broken; thought that might happen. Fresh links:
    https://goo.gl/photos/PhoE1ytDoDEr3bTp7
    https://goo.gl/photos/xK56fFBAAmE2vKd38
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  • def chrisdef chris
    used to have an 8 track cartridge of (iirc) Mike Batt's Motoring Melodies. or something similar. anyway it was green and had a car on it. tragically I never got to hear it as I never had an 8 track player to go with it and the cartridge got lost. tbh I cant even remember where it came from or why I had it.

    anyone here actually got or used an 8 track cartridge music player thingy?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Were 8 tracks even a thing in England? I know there's a big scene in the USA, but I've never even seen an 8 track player or tape/cartridge in real life?
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  • SpexSpex
    They were certainly available in the UK, but cassette took over as it was cheaper, according to what old folks have told me!
    One of my ex managers told me he got an 8 track for his car and drove home to Liverpool where it was pinched whilst he slept at his parents house.

    Retro computing is an unusual collectors thing in that a buyer quite often wont care that the item is not "mint". Toy cars with box are a lot more valuable than without for instance. In retro computing it seems more important that the item works or could be easily fixed. The pleasure of owning a retro computer collection seems to be in using the collection. For other things, it is merely looking at the collection.

    Value of these items? No idea! Sit on them for a bit and watch what happens on ebay is probably the best advice.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited June 2016
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Were 8 tracks even a thing in England? I know there's a big scene in the USA, but I've never even seen an 8 track player or tape/cartridge in real life?

    me neither in fact never seen one at all so here's an original one

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Extremely-Rare-Vintage-Akai-CR-80T-8-Track-Player-FM-AM-Tuner-Recordable-/182182639009

    looks like the kind of thing someone would use to send a shipping forecast across the atlantic with.

    apparently there was another old gadget called a 'disc burger' which was designed to play vinyl records in cars. can't find any info pon net but Ive definitely read about them....

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  • moggymoggy
    edited June 2016
    Yes they were a big deal at the time and being one of the "old folks" Spex mentions, I admit I had one in a works van (early 70's) and the sound quality was out of this world for the era,and the endless tape loop it worked on meant you could just leave it running without rewinding.
    The tape cassette was like a brick though.

    The tapes I eventually binned could have been worth something now though.

    The record player was made by Phillips (Mignon) and was only fitted to high end motors over here but was pretty big in the states.

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  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    apparently there was another old gadget called a 'disc burger' which was designed to play vinyl records in cars. can't find any info pon net but Ive definitely read about them....

    Surprised that can work. It would have to be stabilised somehow, maybe with a load of extremely well calibrated pistons in lots of different directions? That's the only way I could imagine that working.
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  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    Spex wrote: »
    Value of these items? No idea! Sit on them for a bit and watch what happens on ebay is probably the best advice.

    I guess that's the best thing to do. I'm convinced I've not made a loss with these. This item looks similar and the seller is trying to get £40 for them: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-3-Action-Games-In-1-Pack-Pinball-Dino-war-Car-Racing-By-Systema-Job-Lot-/252432428442?hash=item3ac6252d9a:g:LRsAAOSwUV9WnB16.
    My only Speccy game (so far): a simple snake clone
  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    The record player was made by Phillips (Mignon) and was only fitted to high end motors over here but was pretty big in the states.

    How does that thing work?!
    My only Speccy game (so far): a simple snake clone
  • def chrisdef chris
    yeah doesn't seem like it would work, on paper. the problem would obviously be keeping the needle in the groove going over bumps.round corners etc... it obviously didn't take off as a gadget either way. surprised there is no mention at all on the net though. , but I'm 99% sure I read about it in more than one place.
    moggy wrote: »
    I had one in a works van at the time and the sound quality was out of this world
    couldn't help reading that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice :)
  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    I could maybe imagine not just a needle, but something bigger, sort of cushioning itself on the record as it spins around, with some kind of stabilising mechanism. A bit like a little car driving round the record. If it's on the record, and jumping up and down with the record (rather than being a big lever like a usual record player), I could maybe imagine that working.
    My only Speccy game (so far): a simple snake clone
  • moggymoggy
    edited June 2016
    "couldn't help reading that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice " :)

    Lke it :))

    A bit of info on both here..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

    And here..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Hi-Fi

    This comment at the end of the Wiki answers the how did it work bit I think..

    " standard 7" records had their grooves worn down rapidly by the high stylus pressure used to prevent skipping."
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  • chriswyattchriswyatt
    That was interesting. Yeah, I thought about a heavier needle, and according to that article it basically ruined records, so what a great idea that was.
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  • moggymoggy
    In reality total crap!!

    A bit more on 8 track.

    http://www.8trackheaven.com/archive/work.html
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    8 track cassettes and players, yup seen tons of the stuff in the UK, mostly moldy snapped tapes and rusty players. Boot fair fodder. One of the Notting Hill Music exchange shops in London had a basement with a huge shelf of cassettes of various groups - they were selling them for a pound a pop.
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  • moggymoggy
    Like most things, good for the period and then superseded for something better as no doubt Ipods and their up to date equivalents will be for what ever the future holds.
  • def chrisdef chris
    moggy wrote: »

    And here..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Hi-Fi
    nice. found a vid of one 'in action' from the links (except not with the car running sadly)




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