WTT Top Loading NES for Vextrex

[wfg97079]

WTT Top Loading NES for Vextrex

[RayB]

You want the Vectrex or the NES?

[pointdablame]

You usually put what you have to offer first, so I'd say he wants to trade his top loading NES for someone else's vectrex.

Wish I had one, I've always wanted a top load NES.

[MrArcade]

A vectrex is MUCH more valuable than a nintendo

[flampoo]

Toploaders are skyrocketing. Original ones, at least. Too many people are modding them out with with A/V jacks. (tip: the scanlines are still there!)
I've got a toploader and I'm keeping it. I've been offered an X-Box and a few games for mine.

[GGKoul]

Top Loaders are going for @ $100.  And with the A/V Mod @ $125.  So the Vectrex is worth more.

[crashwg]

Why the heck would anybody want an NES???  Last time I checked 99.9% of games are emulated on the PC.  Heck, the only NES game that I can play on my NES and can't emulate on my computer is Clu-Clu Land!

And lets not forget that you can get the entire collection of NES roms on the PC...  I'd like to see someone try that with an NES!  Can you immagine the storage space you would need for all those cartridges.

Oh, and what the heck is a Vectrex???
NM, I'll google it.

[Kremmit]

I'm confused, guess I'm not keeping up on console stuff  Why are toploaders so super-groovy all of a sudden?

[SteveJ34]

Why the heck would anybody want an NES???  Last time I checked 99.9% of games are emulated on the PC.  Heck, the only NES game that I can play on my NES and can't emulate on my computer is Clu-Clu Land!
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Nostalgia.

I have a frontloading unit and the full series of Megaman games....that's what my son and I enjoyed the most during the day and still do from time to time (well, I do, he requires high level graphic game play now .

NES was the first system I played video games upon with my son when he was 2, he's in high school now.

Weird....perhaps...

Before his post I had never seen or heard of a vectrex and I was certainly around when they were manufactured. It was interesting to search them out and read up on what I missed.

[JoeB]

Why the heck would anybody want an NES???  Last time I checked 99.9% of games are emulated on the PC.  Heck, the only NES game that I can play on my NES and can't emulate on my computer is Clu-Clu Land!

And lets not forget that you can get the entire collection of NES roms on the PC...  I'd like to see someone try that with an NES!  Can you immagine the storage space you would need for all those cartridges.

Oh, and what the heck is a Vectrex???
NM, I'll google it.

Yes.. I do know what it takes to store it.  I'm 72 games away from owning every single one (and about 1/2 are complete in the box) along with 50+ accessories for it (including a mint in the box toploader).

Playing NES on the PC is just like playing MAME on the PC.  It's not the same.

How fun is playing track and field or duck hunt on the PC?  You can't hook up the power pad, power glove on any gun to the PC.  Sure.. you can try (hope) to hack the controller to hook up to the PC.. but I'd rather play my NES on my 42" TV.

Oh.. and emulating on the XBOX + TV.. the colors and feel is still not perfect.

I'm all for emulation.. I have a MAME machine with over 150 games on it.. including most of the daphne games.

But I'm a perfectionist at heart above all.  That's why my mame machine has an Arcade VGA, uses a JPAC and connects to a true wells gardner 25" arcade monitor.  Being the perfectionist that I am, I can tell you that they still did not perfect NES emulation.

[flampoo]

I'm the same boat as JoeB. I've got about 400+ original NES games and good number of peripherals. I've also got most of them on my PC. But it's not the same. It's more than a hobby.

The reason toploaders are getting more and more popular is because original frontloading NES's are near vintage. With a toploader you rarely (if ever) have to replace the 72-pin connector. For a serious NES gamer that's a big deal.

I used to fix and sell original NES consoles on ebay. At one time I had more than 50 of them sitting in my garage. Anyone who has ever owned one can tell you how tempermental they are. Instead of having to buy a different working console every three years, you buy a toploader and it works forever.

Although, I do have a hard time getting my Tengen games to play on my toploader.

[GGKoul]

I can relate.  I have @ 100 NES, 200+ Genesis and @ 50 SegaCD games.  

And I love that I can when my buddy's come over, I can hook up the Sega Genesis Model 1 and play all the NHL / Madden games the same way we could when we were skipping High School.

[RayB]

WFG: Is the Vectrex working? What games and accessories do you have with it?

[spidermonkey]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=8126066787&rd=1

Heres one up for bid. It ends tomorrow afternoon. I'll bet that the bidding will go ape-$hit in the last minute or so. I saved it in my "items I'm watching" list so I can see the bid history tomorrow when I get home. It should be good for a laugh.

[RayB]

Heres one up for bid. It ends tomorrow afternoon. I'll bet that the bidding will go ape-$hit in the last minute or so.

I wouldn't be so sure. I've heard the legend of the Vectrex selling for $1000 (many years ago), but it seems that for such a "rare" system, there sure are alot of them on Ebay on any given day...

In fact, here's one in it's original box with several games, and it sold for $212, which is perhaps high for an old system, but not exactly outrageous:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=8124435876&rd=1

And look here, only $61:
http://search-completed.ebay.com/Vectrex_W0QQfromZR6QQpfidZ0QQsofocusZbsQQsoitemstatusZ2QQsorecordsperpageZ50


~Ray B.

[ChadTower]

If you know where to go, you can get Vectrexes a LOT cheaper than that.  I recently got 2 Vectrexes and 12 complete games for $120 shipped.

Hell, I have one in my cube here at work, a whiteboard with office high scores for Minestorm, and the playstation controller adapter to play it with a dual shock.

[RayB]

I have a complaint: Why do people come in here, start a thread, and then never come back to discuss the questions we raise?

WFG, I'm looking at you!  

[wfg97079]

sorry guys
I thought I would get notiified of any replies

anyway
I HAVE the top loading nes in great condition and am looking to get a vectrex

[wfg97079]

here are some pocs
http://miltonsoffice.com/tlnes
will also consider other trades
let me know

[wfg97079]

bump

[wfg97079]

no more interest?  people seemed into it and then nothing?


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[RayB]

...Cuz no one in their right mind would trade a Vectrex for a NES.  

[andrewonawall]

just got one. $30. mint. wife found it in a local antique shop. guess u gotta look in places that others don't.

[Lilwolf]

Vectrex + the vector vga card and you have a true vector mame.

Also a Vectrex would make a sweet arshe cocktail table.  And you should be able to do it without damaging the console at all (just lie it down under the glass and place some black construction paper to hide everything else below smoked glass or something.  Or line it up below a non-attacked bezel.

[RayB]

That's a cool idea Wolf. I used to have a spare Vectrex with no controller, but I had to ditch it years ago.

I have one of those multi-carts that uses dipswitches to select games. I wonder how I would go about making it easier to select games if the unit were in a table...?!!?

[SirPeale]

That's one of my future plans to make a VectorMAME mini cabinet, using a Vectrex for the monitor.  Likely I'll never do it, as it would be a *very* expensive project.

[ChadTower]

What vector VGA card?  The only vector generator I know of is the Zektor board, which is not VGA.

[Lilwolf]

Sorry, thats the one.

I should have said... Vector PC Videocard.

[ChadTower]

Sorry, thats the one.

I should have said... Vector PC Videocard.

Yeah, the Zektor board isn't a videocard, it's an external board that you use via parallel port.