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[tiggz]

so. guess what i just won. hee!! i'm also bidding on this, which is just the best thing ever. oh elusive childhood. come back!

i totally blame my sister for this. i hadn't used ebay since 2004 and she asked me to find my nephew a video game and now i'm thinking of random things i want to buy. ebay is totally addictive and evil and i really need to stop.

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[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Hee. I think we still have our old Atari at home.

[glow-boy.livejournal.com]

We had one of those as children. That brings back memories.

AHHH!

[drunkprincessq.livejournal.com]

omg. I LOVE Atari. I used to get up early before school to play super breakout. Angie used to come over early before school sometimes to play as well. Good times.

[hollyn.livejournal.com]

If they won't ship to the US, you can use my address here if you need to.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Careful, the Pheonix game is in PAL format and might not work with your system. Your TV is NTSC not PAL. PAL is for UK TVs.

[tiggz.livejournal.com]

video games are regional too? surely something from the 80s isn't...

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

They have to be as they are designed to work on TVs and the TVs in the US and Europe have been different since before video games. So, I really don't think that game will look right on your screen, if it will work at all. At worst, it won't play at all. At best, it'll be fine, but it's likely to either look like playing a PAL tape in an NTSC VCR (which isn't good) or be completley unwatchable.

[pidgehuss.livejournal.com]

HA, I find eBay totally addictive as well. And I think I'm going to have to resort to using it this Christmas to find Buffy S2 for my sister for a good price, since she really could care less if something is used. She's so meticulous about getting the seasons in order and while she likes 2, she LOVESLOVESLOVES 3 (erm, me too, except I was a big Xander-and-Willow fan and there's LOTS of that in S2, so I cuddle with my copy of S2 on occasion) and I want to get her S2 so she can go ahead and get S3 when the whim strikes her. And while I'll be randomly cruising the internets looking for a cheap price, I very well may have to use the eBay and then I'm going to fall into the pit of searching for random stuff that I really don't need but TOTALLY want anyway, because it is like crack, the eBay buying. ::shakes head::