Hi all! Question from a new member.

[cgreg]

Hi. I know this isn't the intro thread but...my name is Chuck, I'm from MA and have a wife of 22 years and 3 kids. I'm not a huge game collector or player anymore,(my specialty now is actually toys, action figures specifically for myself). I was, way before they became collectibles an avid player, before the days of cds, of cartridge level games which was derailed by marriage and kids. N64 is probably my favorite but the 2600 will always be in my heart as my first. I was also a game room junkie in the 80's. It was my first job and Burgertime was by far my fave. It's the only game I can say I ever mastered.

That's my intro now my question: in my toy acquisitions I came across a copy of Super Cobra for Intellivision. Not mint by any means but in researching ebay for reference found very few examples. Boxed versions were around $100. Is this game considered difficult to find because of the rarity of the title or the rarity of the machine it's played on. I know the basics of vg value and usually the hardest to find are the ones made by smaller companies. This one is by Parker Brothers who weren't known for electronic vg's especially but were a major company for distribution of their stuff.

Thanks in advance, and any toy questions feel free to ask happy to help.

C-

[Steve W]

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that Super Cobra was not released here in the US, it might be European. I know for a fact that their other Parker Bros. release, Tutankham, definitely didn't come out here.

Welcome to the forums! I wonder if it's due to getting older (I'm in my 40s now), but when I go thrift store shopping I spend more time looking through the toy department than I do looking for games. I don't have any interest in action figures, my particular strain of geekery is old electronic handhelds and assorted games from the '70s and '80s, like Simon, Coleco tabletop arcade games, and Mattel LED handhelds along with other oddball gadgets and toys. (Might I direct you to the last page in the Electronic Toys thread (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124686&page=3) with photos of a part of my collection.)

[cgreg]

I think having kids pushed me to toys. I specialize in Mego figures but like anything from the 70's and 80's. With my kids it was the early Power Rangers, Xmen, and wrestling. I was already a toy guy at that point but that pushed me over the edge. I would take them to find wrestling or PR stuff at shows and end up spending hundreds on my stuff.

I also have some handheld games. Picked up a nice Coleco Alien Attack last week. Love the Mattel sports games with the red dashes.

The new video games, while the graphics are great, the whole up-down-left-left-right-A-B crap doesn't do it for me. I prefer the simpleness of a character going right when I move the pad right.

Thanks for the input on the cartridge. I never thought being a PB release it wouldn't have been in the US.