Something unique from my collection

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

This is something I had almost completely forgotten about until it turned out that my dad had saved it all these years. You might find it somewhat amusing. I was bowled over that it had been kept, and was in this kind of shape. It's not a proto, or anything earthshattering - more sentimental than anything. Especially if you're an Odyssey 2 fan, of course. ;)

You can see it here (http://www.thelogbook.com/odyssey/magazine/letter/).

Ah...childhood.

[DasCrewShtool]

as you laready know I too am a packrat from wayback, I think that kind of makes us like insane, er maybe it just means that we need to clean house and put all of it on E-Bay with no reserve, REBEL!!!

[Quintracker]

I love stuff like this, I have one similar from nintendo. I had written them asking how to beat the technodrome in teenage mutant ninja turtles :embarrassed: About 6 weeks later or so (time has no meaning when you're a kid) I get an answer from them explaining how to beat it. Of course, by then I had already beaten it and moved on to several other games LOL

[Oobgarm]

Seeing this makes me wonder if I still have the old letter I wrote to Kemco/Seika regarding the difficulty of Shadowgate.

I wasn't very old at the time, and was not into the types of games where there was a lot of thinking/logic involved. I couldn't even get inside the castle, I had no idea all you had to do was use the OPEN command on the skull above the door. So I wrote a mean-spirited letter to them detailing my dislike for their game. They sent a response rather quickly, telling me how to get through the frist few rooms of the game. It worked, and I went on to beat the game not long after. It has since become one of my favorite games ever, go figure.

[Flack]

Forget Kevin Bacon, PDF is like six degrees from gaming history or something with that letter!

In seventh grade as part of a school assignment we all had to write a letter to a celebrity. I did Stephen Spielberg. Our teacher told us to say something unique in the letter so I put that I had seen Back to the Future 27 times. That was actually about 24 more times than I had really seen it, but whatever. Spielberg's secretary wrote me back about how that must be a record, and sent me a Back to the Future t-shirt, which I wore proudly around the school for about a week straight. The letter also said that Spielberg was working on a new movie called The Color Purple ... I kept thinking, man, that must be the coolest sci-fi movie title ever!

[Lady Jaye]

I have somewhere a printout of the email response I got from Steve Wozniak (from 1998 or 99). I had learned not too long before that that he and Steve Jobs worked on Breakout. In my email, I asked him how he actually did it. He sent me back a lengthy answer that HAD to have come from him, not just a form letter. That was pretty cool!!!

[Nez]

I recived a letter from nintendo power when i enterd the arena. The arena is when they post challenges and if your send a pic of it completed and the tv they will give you something. Any who the challenge was to unlock all the codes in Goldeneye (N64) and I had so I sent a picture to them. Nintendo Power send me a letter back and thanked me for my entrance. They did this again when I sent in my cheets of how to float your car in san fransico rush.

[oesiii]

I have somewhere a printout of the email response I got from Steve Wozniak (from 1998 or 99). I had learned not too long before that that he and Steve Jobs worked on Breakout. In my email, I asked him how he actually did it. He sent me back a lengthy answer that HAD to have come from him, not just a form letter. That was pretty cool!!!

Me too :) I bought a clam shell iBook the first day they were released in 1999 and I was discussing my impressions on an email list. The next day I got a long personal reply from Woz about my impressions with some nice suggestions. He's the best 8-)

[dreamcaster]

That reminds me, I got a letter from Nintendo Australia with the Jet Force Gemini game I won back in January 2000.

And it also reminds me of where it is.........nooo! I've forgotten where I put it!

*madly searches*

[Captain Wrong]

Cool. Amazing how things like that survive the passing of time.

[vespertillio]

Earl, that's great. Let me know if you would ever like to donate it to my museam. :D It would look great framed next to the Odyssey3. :-P Lol. Anyway, you still have to come on down to the big D sometime and have a great evening of classic gaming.

Fred

P.S. Just kidding about the above request btw. :D

[-hellvin-]

That's pretty awesome. Sentimental items rock. ;)

[Kamino]

I've got nothing of that sort. throughout the years, anything that did not possess monetary value was placed on the rubbish heap, which became the burnpile.....
alas, no one will ever see photos of me from when i was five 8-)

[y-bot]

Wow, Earl that is awesome. The only thing I have like that is my Imagic Numb Thumb Club membership card with my name scribbled on the back. I saved the Imagic magazines for a long time but they must have been thrown out at some point.
y-bot

[o2william]

Wow, I'm jealous! How amazing that such a letter survived all this time... I notice that tomorrow is exactly 21 years to the day after the letter's date -- coincidence?

Somewhere around here, although I can't find it right now, I have a letter sent from Nintendo to me (actually to my aunt) concerning an NES-related story I wrote as a kid. (My aunt mailed it in to Nintendo without my knowledge.) Nintendo essentially says my story is very nice but they have no use for it. LOL

I did manage to find a Feb. 11, 1988, letter from the Nintendo Fun Club News (in the pre-Nintendo Power days) thanking me for sending in some game tips. It's signed by Michelle van Ackeren, Nintendo Fun Club Representative.

I've also got a packet I received from Nintendo when I asked them for some game information. It contains a form letter, The Official Game Pak Directory from October 1994, a brochure advertising console repair services, and a list of authorized repair centers. I've also got some form letters from when I joined the Fun Club News and subscribed to Nintendo Power.

I forgot how many times I wrote to Nintendo over the years. :)

[dj898]

if any of you remember PlayMate for B/W Mac from years ago.
I used to have letter from the author with a diskette when I couldn't locate the seller I sent letter to the author and to my amazement he wrote back and put the diskette as a good will...

wonder I'm still have that letter and diskette...
not much of use since I no longer use Mac...

cheers
p.s. it's precursor to Virtual Valerie for Mac CD-ROM. :p