My 100th Game

[dreamcaster]

On Saturday I picked up Mario Paint for SNES, bringing my total games collection up to 100 games!

I know it's not much, especially compared to some of you long-time collectors with 2000+ games.

But I was just so proud of all the time and effort I've put in to get this far - I just had to announce it!

100 games spanning 13 consoles.

Hooray for me!

[thekeepr]

Congrats on passing the "99" on your cart collection. Wow....how long has it been ago that I got to 100 games, will have to drag out the printed list and see. I started logging my collection into a Works database program back in 1996.....still have the first printout, and made a new list about every 30 days till this day!! Can look back on my prior printouts to see when I picked up a new game by the month. I'm currently at about.....(drumroll please!!) 5000 games for about 40 different systems. This includes all my carts,original disk programs(no pirates) and some of my dupes. I need to update a few list...my 2600 list is not to accurate in the dupes dept.....haven't kept track of all of those extra's I have.
By the way, just a general question....how much does it cost to ship something to Aus. and vice versa. Is it a pain, do you have to fill out a bunch of paperwork at the 'post, is the exchange rate favorable for this, etc,etc,etc.
Let me know if you can answer this. Thanks The Keeper of the Old Games :) :) :)

[dreamcaster]

Thanks, thekeepr.

Sorry, I don't know about postage to and from here. I'm guessing it would be a lot though!

Currently the exchange rate is $1.00 AUS buys about $0.60 US.

There you are!

[geelw]

shipping to any country outside the u.s depends on a number of factors:

what you're sending
how much it weighs
type of item (gift/merchandise/commercial sample)
how fast you want it to get there

go to www.usps.com, and check out the international rate calculator- that helps a lot!

from washington to australia, if you sent 2-4 2600 carts via airmail parcel post, depending on packing. it would be about about $6-8, and take 10-14 days, or $12-$15 for EMS (you can try to squeeze them in a global priority envelope to save $, but some countries don't get GPM service) which is 3-5 days (i think australia gets an extra day or two added because it's so far). surface mail you use if you hate someone dearly- up to 2 months (or longer). by boat... :-D