Man I am so mad.. [eBay Insanity Contest]

[yuppicide]

I didn't know the eBay contest ended 6pm EST.. I thought it was midnight.. I come home to post some new auctions and it's over. :( Oh well..

I had a "similar" idea to the video game appliances before he posted his.. mine was "Gary Kitchen's Kitchen Appliances" -- most people don't know that as the video game crash came Gary Kitchen toyed with designing kitchen appliances.

Such items were:

Microwave GK-1 -- Gary designed a microwave for home use, but it had a series of binary code on the front to program it to cook.. ie: 1011010001. Test markets showed it's too complicated to use and Activision shelved the idea. This was a pre-cursor to Gary Kitchen's Gamemaker for the Commodore 64. Even though it was complicated as well, Activision decided to release it anyway.

Wireless Toaster GK-1 -- Most people don't know that Gary actually helped Atari design their wireless controllers. Imagine waking up in the morning and having breakfast on your sunlit back porch. The reason the toaster didn't catch on is because it used an infrared beam, which made it almost impossible to use anywhere practical because the toaster had to be in direct view of the infrared receiver to work. People also burned their hands on the toaster because it was metal.

Pac-Man Juicer GK-1 -- Activision couldn't secure the rights to use Pac-Man as a juicer, so very few of these ever got produced. People stuck an orange into Pac-Man's mouth and cranked the handle. He went "wokka wokka wokka" and out came fresh orange juice.

... I had more in the works, but obviously don't need to work on them anymore.

[Querjek]

I was going to do one with the 2 Master Systems that I use as bookends, and the Genesis sports carts that I use to support a bookshelf, but I got home too late to get the auction(s) up.

[Ed Oscuro]

Well, I'm going to post the text I wrote up in the eBay Insanity Contest thread, just so it doesn't go to waste (won't be good next year LOL )

[Cryomancer]

i personally am impressed that no one made a warm chocolate puddin' monitor. I would have, if I could have thought of a good way to pull it off.

[yuppicide]

Well, I'm claiming those ideas in my original post for next year, so nobody can take them. I still have some pictures made here that I'm saving for it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Erm, nevermind then...guess it'll have to go here:


Fallen basketball hoop too big to pick up? [Ed Note: Yes, there was going to be a picture of a fallen basketball hoop. My big hurdle...speaking of sports equipment yes heh...would've been getting together some kind of "success!" picture; would've been hard to tape together enough stuff to look like a Katamari, and you sure bet this basketball hoop wouldn't have been in it.]

Grapefruit halves refusing to fold up like a tidy tangerine? [Easy; had half a grapefruit, and tangerines]

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[qbertandernie]

i was going to post another too...shouldve read the directions better i guess.

checking my stupid auction i just notcied the views are at something like 950...

WTF?

[Lord Contaminous]

Y'all love the thrill of battling the entire world for one small thing don't ya?


fuck that I'm all about BIN.

[Gapporin]

Ha ha, nice background info on the 4-D Warriors there, Ed.

I really wish you could've pulled off the warm' chocolate puddin' monitor, Cyromancer. That would've rocked so hard.

[Ed Oscuro]

Interestingly enough, I've been to a couple INTA conferences...INKA is totally made up, though :)

[yuppicide]

I didn't totally care about the prize. I had fun making up stuff!

[Mr-E_MaN]

I was going to post one too but I procrastinated and I got left out. :(

[zektor]

Yeah, I had alot of fun with it last year and was going to do one or two this year myself...but life got in the way :)

[Crush Crawfish]

I made one, and had a few other Ideas, but I got lazy. Oh well.

[qbertandernie]

the other thread is locked, so heres the statement i got today...also at 1600 views!

a few things. A) this is NOT a top load NES... it's a front load. You have it standing on it's back. B) why do you have a Genesis controller with it. that wont work. C) Sonic the Hedgehog is for the SEGA GENESIS. It will NOT work with that beat up NES you have. You really should pull this auction and save yourself the embarassment.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8162184592

[Kamino]

i had a few ideas, was too lazy, and too cheap to piss away the listing fees.

[yuppicide]

So when do they announce the winner anyway?!

[digitalpress]

So when do they announce the winner anyway?!

It doesn't work that way.

I'll put up a page with ALL of the auctions, and our members will vote on each one. Instructions to follow. I should have it all in place this weekend!

[yuppicide]

Yeah, that's what I thought. I just hadn't heard anything in days so I figured I'd ask. Thanks for the info. Can't wait.



So when do they announce the winner anyway?!

It doesn't work that way.

I'll put up a page with ALL of the auctions, and our members will vote on each one. Instructions to follow. I should have it all in place this weekend!

[Cryomancer]

Check out mine for someone asking if I also have a pong net I could sell, and I now have a serious bidder as well.