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ION iCade Arcade Cabinet for iPad
List Price: $129.99
Sale Price: Too low to display
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FOLDS IN HALF FOR GREATER PORTABILITY2-AXIS DIRECTIONAL PAD PROVIDES NAVIGATION CONTROL4 ACTION BUTTONS 4 SHOULDER BUTTONS &;TURBO ON/OFF BUTTONSCONNECTS TO COMPUTER VIA RETRACTABLE USB CABLECOMPATIBLE WITH MAC(R) & PCUPC : 0812715011857Shipping Dimensions : 0.75in X 6.00in X 7.75inEstimated Shipping Weight : 0.25
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Atari / Intellivision / Colecovision / Sega RF TV Adapter! HOOK UP YOUR VINTAGE SYSTEM TO A MODERN TV WITHOUT A SWITCH BOX!
Sale Price: $0.54
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Hook up your "Vintage" Video Game System to a modern TV THROUGH THE STANDARD RF ANTENNA CONNECTION, found on the back of any of today's newer televisions! By using this adapter, you avoid trying to attach the double "screw in" spade connectors found on your old video game system's switch box! No newer TVs have had this "old school", "double spade" antenna connection since the 70's and early 80's! This adapter is compatible with any of the following systems:
* Atari 2600
* Atari 7800
* "2 Port" Atari 5200 (this adapter will not work on a "4 Port" system)
* Atari 400
* Atari 800
* Commodore 64
* Commodore Vic 20
* Commodore 128
* Intellivision
* Colecovision
* Sega Master System
* Sega Genesis
* and other older computers and video game systems that have a single male RCA output for both the video and sound!
Have you lost or broken your old switch box? This unit completely replaces it!
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JOYSTICK-IT iPad Arcade Stick
Sale Price: $5.42
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Bring your tablet-based gaming to the next level with the JOYSTICK-IT Tablet Arcade Stick. The JOYSTICK-IT gives you a real physical joystick for increased precision with touchscreen based games. Simply press down to attach the JOYSTICK-IT to your tablet based computer's screen for improved gaming. No wires or batteries needed.
The JOYSTICK-IT works with thousands of different game apps. Any game that has an on-screen control pad of some kind is perfect for the JOYSTICK-IT. Simply run your game of choice, place the JOYSTICK-IT over the on-screen control pad and push down. The JOYSTICK-IT sticks to the glass of your display and is ready for action. The lightweight solid milled-aluminum construction of the JOYSTICK-IT adds more precise movement and faster response time for enhanced playability. When you're done, simply pull-up on the JOYSTICK-IT to remove from the screen.
closeup retro gaming dual-gaming action
Hardware Compatibility
The JOYSTICK-IT works with any device which features a capacitive touchscreen. This includes the iPadTM and many AndroidTM tablets. The JOYSTICK-IT will work with mobile phones that have capacitive touchscreen displays, however it may not be ideal for this purpose because of its size.
Game Compatibility
The JOYSTICK-IT will work with any game that features a virtual on-screen control pad of some kind. Games that use swiping, swipe-style joypads, joypads with variable on-screen locations, or complex finger based gestures will not work properly with the JOYSTICK-IT.
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Coin-Op TV: Volume Two
List Price: $17.99
Sale Price: $17.99
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COIN-OP TV DVD Volume 2 brings more unique interviews and event coverage to you from events all over the world! Volume 2 includes interviews with Eugene Jarvis (Robotron and Defender creator), Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War), Tommy Tallarico (Video Games Live), Falcoon (King of Fighters SNK), Donald Hayes (World Record Holder), Leonard Herman (Author of Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames), Jeff Anderson (Videotopia), Adam Wood (World Record Holder from The King of Kong movie), Man-Faye and other cosplayers from Anime Expo 2006, numerous artists from the 'I am 8-bit' art shows from 2005 and 2006 like Craola and Jon Gibson (Nerdcore Calendar), a Galaxian tribute and more!All episodes have been re-mastered for DVD featuring over 90 minutes of content! Bonus content with never before seen audition tape with Cyndee San Luis (host on upcoming volume 3 release) and Top 5 Arcade Games with Hailey Bright!This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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Atari TV Game
List Price: $29.99
Sale Price: $18.42
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Classic Atari action in the comfort of your home! 10 amazing 8-bit games, faithfully recreated! Centipede, Pong, Missile Command, Asteroids, and more. It's the perfect take-anywhere gadget! Generations of video game fanatics will fall in love with the Atari 10-in-1 Plug It In & Play TV Games, a plug-and-play 8-bit gaming system that contains 10 classic and beloved Atari video games in one Atari 2600 joystick replica. You get Centipede, Pong, Missile Command, Asteroids, and more. With all of the hardware built right into the joystick controller, this is a portable, affordable, and perfect take-anywhere gadget! Controller measures about 5-inches tall x 4-inches wide x 4-inches long. Games include: Centipede Breakout Gravitar Real Sports Volleyball Pong Yars Revenge Circus Atari Missile Command Asteroids Adventure
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Jakks Ms. Pac-Man TV Game
List Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $55.00
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One of the most popular games of all time. Ms. Pac-Man is back!
Enjoy 5 Namco titles that defined the 80s.5 Video Games built inside and connects directly to your TV!
Includes: Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, Mappy, Xevious, & Galaga
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Jakks Atari Classics 10 In 1 TV Games
List Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $37.47
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Today's video games with all their bells and whistles had to begin somewhere, and that somewhere was your living room, in, say, 1982. Remember Asteroids, Missile Command, and Breakout? How about Centipede, Adventure and Gravitar? This TV Games Video System--just a "smart" joystick and nothing else--delivers 10 classic games in all. The joystick has the typical up-down-left-right movements, and single functions to select, start, and reset games. Front-and-center is a big, red fire button ("fire" being the only way to propel or kill things back then). The unit hooks up to your TV via those yellow and white AV output jacks (which should already be on your TV or VCR), and requires 4 "AA" batteries. --Diane Beall
With the Atari 10-in-1 TV Games System you have a completely self-contained gaming system. Take 10 classic video games with you wherever you go -- all you have to do is hook it up to your TV. The system is even designed to look like a real Atari 2600 joystick!
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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
List Price: $19.95
Sale Price: $10.46
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With all the whiz bang pop and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world the visionaries who made them and the fanatics who played them. From the arcade to television and from the PC to the handheld device video games have entraced kids at heart for nearly 30 years. And author and gaming historian Steven L. Kent has been there to record the craze from the very beginning. This engrossing book tells the incredible tale of how this backroom novelty transformed into a cultural phenomenon. Through meticulous research and personal interviews with hundreds of industry luminaries you ll read firsthand accounts of how yesterday s games like Space Invaders Centipede and Pac Man helped create an arcade culture that defined a generation and how today s empires like Sony Nintendo and Electronic Arts have galvanized a multibillion dollar industry and a new generation of games. Inside you ll discover: The video game that saved Nintendo from bankruptcy The serendipitous story of Pac Man s design The misstep that helped topple Atari s $2 billion a year empire The coin shortage caused by Space Invaders The fascinating reasons behind the rise fall and rebirth of Sega And much more! Entertaining addictive and as mesmerizing as the games it chronicles this book is a must have for anyone who s ever touched a joystick.
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Hacking Video Game Consoles: Turn your old video game systems into awesome new portables (ExtremeTech)
List Price: $29.99
Sale Price: $198.52
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Space Invaders and Asteroids are back!Loved that Atari(r) when you were a kid? So did Ben Heckendorn - so much, in fact, that he successfully resurrected it as a slim, go-anywhere portable. When Playstation(r) and Nintendo(r) aficionados got jealous, he created miniaturized, fully functioning, battery-powered versions of those too. Now it's your turn. Every secret is here - complete instructions, materials lists, tool tips, even advice on finding parts. Just wait 'til they see this at the high school reunion.Ready? Let's get startedPlans and instructions for building eight handheld, classic video games* Choosing a game system - Atari(r), Nintendo(r), Super Nintendo(r), or Playstation(r)1* What you'll spend* Electronics and soldering 101* Hacking portable TVs for their screens* Building the case - CNC or freehand?* Yank the cord, install the batteries
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Classic 80s Home Video Games
List Price: $24.95
Sale Price: $14.55
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The early 80s was a pioneering time for home video games. Consoles from Atari, Mattel, Coleco, and others dominated many American living rooms. This guide takes an in-depth look at the classic consoles, games, accessories, and related merchandise manufactured between the introduction of the Atari VCS in 1977 and the great video game crash of 1984. The great consoles from Atari--the 2600 VCS, 5200 SuperSystem, and 7800 ProSystem are all covered in depth, as well as the amazing Coleco Vision, Intellivision, Odyssey-2-, and Vectrex gaming systems. More than 2,000 full-color photographs complement detailed listings for loose and boxed items. Consoles, cartridges, manuals, accessories, and related merchandise are listed and priced in an easy-to-use, checklist format. Products are listed by console and manufacturer for easy reference. See Donkey Kong, Frogger, Asteroids, Centipede, Pac-Man, and many other famous stars from the 1980s systems in this must-have title on classic video games. 2008 values.
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Asteroids, one of the most memorable space games, was released by Atari in November 1979, and can be summed up as a game of cleaning up the screen. Player controls a ship in the middle of a field of asteroids and shoots large, randomly moving boulders to pieces, and continues shooting the pieces to even smaller pieces, while avoiding collision. When all the fragments have been destroyed, player enters the next field, where the asteroids are now moving faster. The ship possesses inertia, and when the asteroids blow up, they send pieces in many directions at different velocities. It is the first video game with a developed physics system.
There was yet another feature that made a breakthrough with the Asteroids. Usually, in earlier games graphics consisted of little groups of pixels. Here Atari introduced laser-sharp, angular game graphics with their "Quadra-Scan" vector monitor. Today vector graphics is no big deal, but at the time, it was very futuristic, and added a new layer of realism to video games.
Asteroids did not just pop out from nowhere. Its roots go back to the very beginning of video gaming. Its immediate precursor was an arcade game entitled Space Wars, where the wedge-shaped little spaceship already appeared. Space Wars in turn was direct offspring of the truly ancient computer game Spacewar, a program written in 1962 for PDP-1 machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Because Spacewar was popular among MIT students, there had been attempts to turn it into arcade game. Different spinoffs include such titles as Computer Space and Galaxy Game. They all failed to attract the public, who found the games confusing and the controls cumbersome. These space games, appearing years before the advent of Pong, were simply too ahead of their time.
Asteroids, however, succeeded to break into mainstream, and became a wildly successful hit game. As a mark of its pedigree, it has a button, which, when pressed sends the ship to a random location of the screen. This "Hyperspace" feature was already in Spacewar.
Very soon after its release, Asteroids rose to the top, and ended the reign of Space Invaders, the previous emperor of arcades. 70 000 cabinets were sold worldwide. Some came with extra large boxes to accommodate all the coins of Asteroids-hungry gamers. Asteroids was making so much money, that together with the sales of VCS home consoles, Atari provided about third of all the revenues of its parent company, Warner Communications.
What are the reasons behind the success of Asteroids? It comes down to a winning combination of meticulously designed and tested gameplay and vector graphics. The motions of the asteroids and the spaceship were executed with gracefulness never seen before in space games. This helped to produce a strong sense of immersion, of being really inside the game, floating in space. Player feels like a hero; there is a great sense of accomplishment in getting asteroids demolished, wave after wave. Ultimately, Asteroids appeals to some deep instinct of tidying up the debris - and having fun while doing it.
You can play Asteroids and other free space games at SpaceGameStation.com.
How You Can Save on Video Games
One of the most popular forms of recreation is a video game. These are very different from the Atari games that some people grew up with. The video games nowadays look very real life and it’s almost like watching a movie unfold in front of you. However, you get to participate!
Gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry each year. While this pastime is not something everyone may be comfortable doing, it is something that nearly everyone has heard about. One of the drawbacks to this hobby is the cost of the games and the gaming system. Many of the best gaming systems can often cost over $300 and the games are over $50 each. So what can you do to help you save on video games? Here are some tips to help:
Rent Your Games
There are now a number of companies that offer you the chance to rent video games. Instead of purchasing a game to only find out you don’t like it, you can rent the game and give it a test run. Some companies charge one flat rate for you to rent each month, while others charge per item. This is a great way to play your favorites without shelling out hundreds of dollars.
Join a Club
On the same note, you can join a video game club and receive all of your rentals from an online company. Pay your monthly fee and you can rent as many as you want, provided you do not exceed your limit. Keep them as long as you want and return them when you are through. The company then ships the next game on your list. As long as you pay your monthly fee, then your membership continues.
You can also find online coupon codes to get the first month free just to try the service out. Companies such as Gamefly and Gameshark offer these online discount codes on everything from free shipping for purchases to ten day free trials in their services. If you can use coupon codes, you will see the savings add up. This is especially true if you purchase a lot of games each month.
Turn in Your Old Games
Some companies offer you the chance to build up points towards a new game simply by bringing in the games you don’t want anymore. The more popular a game is that you turn in, the more points you get. This can be a great way to get you hands on a game that you don’t have the cash for. However, remember that you probably paid for that game at some point, so you want to make sure it’s worth it to turn it in.
In Closing
Even though video games are expensive, you can still save money by following the above tips. Turn in your old video games and get credit towards the purchase of a new one. Join a club to receive games each month with a small fee or simply rent each game on a day to day basis.
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What is the best gaming system for a 4 year old & the parents that has games similiar to the old Atari....?
Specs that we would like: inexpensive system (not handheld), 2 controllers, games like the classic Atari....
Mario, Donkey Kong, Asteriods, etc......
Fun clean adult & kid games!!! Thanks:)
Thank you both for your replies. Due to the cost, we have decided to look for a used Nintendo 64 for now & may upgrade to a Wii later:)
Nintendo 64s what you're looking for. Or Gamecube or Nintendo Wii but Nintendo 64s more oldschool and that seems to be what games you want.
Librarians stockpile retro video games for cultural preservation
The University’s effort to conserve popular culture through video game preservation has not been affected by the school’s budget crisis, though the initial $590,000 grant for the effort will be expended by next month, researchers said.
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