Bought Space Invaders at Estate Sale!

[tiggertoo]

This is great!

I have a small collection of these old handhelds (and various other old toys)

No groans please

[APFelon]

Wow! I used to have that exact same handheld! I haven't thought about it in years... I wonder what ever happened to it...

APf

[1UP]

Hey, I remember playing that in like 5th grade!  One of the guys at school had it.  The funny thing is, I'd see kids with that kind of stuff and get all excited about it, but when I actually got to play it, I was disappointed by how bad the LED graphics were...especially the Coleco Pac-Man game--that looked worse than even the Atari 2600 version, if that's possible, although Coleco did get the intro music at least halfway right...  Wish they had MAME on PDAs back then!  

[NY_in_TX]

Dude!  I just dug up my old one last month!  I used to play that game non-stop.

I put the 6AA batteries into it and it started right up...annoying sound effects and all.  


Nice score.  I've got a few different ones.  I shoulda kept better care of them.  Like the game watches, the desktop mini's, and the original tiger LCD games I got from Japan.  

kind of an interesting change in culture that this brings about.  Estate sales were usually sources of antiques, furniture and cars.  Wait until the estate sales have mint Star Wars toys, Transformers, and Galaga cabs  (and maybe Paige's cruel joke of boxed up iRobots)

ny

[Ghoward]

My brother had one of those, in fact I think it's in my parents attic, next time I'm in the UK I'm going to have to look for it now.

Gary

[spidermonkey]

http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Epoch/Invader.htm
Heres the one I grew up with.