CV and Odyssey 2 apprails please

[Atarileaf]

I'm trying to par down my collection to systems I had as a child and some sentimental value for. I never had a colecovision growing up so I find myself not really playing it.

I have 3 systems with psu's, a half dozen or more standard controllers, a couple super action controllers and about 25 or so games, the only semi rare one being spectron. Other notables are BC Quest for Tires, centipede, defender, congo bongo, frogger. The rest are your standard donkey kong, dk jr, gorf, mr. do, etc. All games are loose, no boxes for any games or systems

The problem of course is that these systems are so finiky I'm afraid of advertising them only to have someone come by to see it and I can't get the thing going. They all work, games are clean, switches are as clean as I can get them without desoldering (which I don't know how to do) but sometimes it takes a few tries of removing, reinserting, repeat to get a game going. Once in and playing they seem fine. Some of the controllers don't seem to work great. Shocking, I know.

The Odyssey 2 is boxed with joysticks, rf adaptor, and psu with 5 boxed games - freedom fighter, monkey shines, cosmic conflict, munchkin, and speedway/spinout/crypto logic. Odyssey 2 works great and is a nice clean looking unit

Any idea what I might expect for these two seperate items? These will be sold on Kijiji, not ebay. I'm not shipping this stuff.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Odyssey 2 boxed is a bit more desirable. I'd say $25-30ish for that including the games, only a handful of O2 games carry any value at all and none of the ones you listed are worth anything.

CVs go for $30-40ish in good shape so if they are flakey then maybe only $15-20 or so with some controllers. Clean the games and cart ports on the consoles with a women's nail file and see if they will work better.

All games but Spectron are approximately worth $2-3 each and Spectron is worth at least $25 maybe more to the right buyer.

[Atarileaf]

Odyssey 2 boxed is a bit more desirable. I'd say $25-30ish for that including the games, only a handful of O2 games carry any value at all and none of the ones you listed are worth anything.

CVs go for $30-40ish in good shape so if they are flakey then maybe only $15-20 or so with some controllers. Clean the games and cart ports on the consoles with a women's nail file and see if they will work better.

All games but Spectron are approximately worth $2-3 each and Spectron is worth at least $25 maybe more to the right buyer.

thanks, I did end up getting $30 for the Odyssey 2 on kijiji. I'll try your nail file approach but can't that scratch the connectors?

[vintagegamecrazy]

Just do it very lightly to the pins on the console, it will remove some corrosion usually helping make a better connection.