collectors and collections

Given our shared hoarder characteristics, I assume we are collectors of more than just firewood. What do, or did you folks collect?

In my youth I collected comic books, stamps and coins. I still have a lot of the old stamps and coins, but the core of comic book collection has been gone for awhile now.

 

I have a closet full of Atari 2600 games. And Atari 2600s.

 

I remember Atari...Space invaders? I think I was a freshman in HS when it came out. It was after Pong.

 

I’d trade a saw for a version of River Raid I could play on the system my kids have.

 

Atari 2600.. Space Invaders, Frogger, Kaboom, Asteroids, Pitfall, good times right there.


Not much of a collector myself.

Many things I should have held onto, but didn't.

 

Ain't that the truth. I spent a number of my pre 64 quarters, Kennedy and Franklin half dollars on candy The 90% silver coins used to show up quite often in my payments during my paper route days as a boy.

 

Had a paper route as well, and I'm sure more than one quarter dropped into a video game was worth more than $.25 then, let alone now.

I was rough on my matchbox cars, but I'm sure many of them would be worth something today.

Had a baseball card collection that I threw away when they went on strike. Have never watched a game since then.

If I had a time machine, I'd kick my younger self in the arse over many decisions, but, meh.

Life continues.

 

Pretty sure I have that one.

 

I always perfered Galaxian and Spider Fighter in the space shooter category.

 

Loved Galaxian, never played Spider Fighter though.

 

You should try it. You play a space farmer protecting his fruit crop from interstellar spiders.

 

Grizzly Adam can I come hang with you and your games for a weekend??

 

If you bring me some good bagels and a babka!

 

Sorry hovlandhomestead we're straying from the topic.


Where's that train gif?

 

Done n done.

 

I've got a Commodore 128 too.

 

Never got on one of those. We had Commodore 64's at school, and parents purchased a TRS-80 CoCo2 for us kids.

Didn't have tape drive, so all the programs I made got terminated by the power switch.


But I still loved making programs.

Man, some good memories hashed up in this thread.

 

We have a lot of our boy's old Nintendo games somewhere, but no working console.

I like going to sporting collectable shows and picking up old fishing lures, reels, spearing (fish) decoys, and old ammunition shell boxes.

Out hunting the woods, I pick up deer and moose antlers, various animal skulls, interesting rocks, etc.. We have remnants on our land of an old homestead. I have found some cool old objects there such as old pots and pans, bottles, cans, square nails, etc.. I have come across a few abandoned old cars and trucks from so long ago that there are no traces whatsoever of any tote roads for miles.

 

CoCo's were my fav. I had a 1, two 2's, a 3, a 3 expanded to 512k ram and the MC-10. OS-9 was the first UNIX style OS I ever ran.

 

I have no idea what you are talking about here guys, but I like your enthusiasm