Superauctions- St Louis Aug 14th

Forgot to post this earlier:

Auction Results- St Louis SuperAuctions event on 8/14

Standard Auction Results Disclaimer: These are not for sale by me, I do not own these, I do not know who bought most of these, the ones that I do know, I will not share their info, I do not know if the owners are interested in selling them, I do not work for and am not affiliated with SuperAuctions or any other auction company.
This is for informational/educational purposes only!   Prices can vary widely and these prices may not be representative of actual value, This list is not presented as an official price guide, nor is presented as a suitable replacement for a price guide.  I cannot and will not be held responsible for anything at all resulting from the use/misuse of this information... blah blah blah.....  Feel free to share but please credit me if you do.  For more Auction results see: http://home.mchsi.com/~retrogaming/auction.html

Gunblade NY- 150
Silver Strike Live-150
Centipede- 200
Batman Forever- 400
Samurai Shodown (not working) 75
Silver Strike 2009- 200
Big Buck Hunter II Sportsman Paradise- 225
Call Of The Wild 06- 150
Silver Strike 2009- 275
Jurassic Park The Lost World- 175
Star Wars Trilogy- 325
World Series 99- 125
Golden Tee Fore 2005 (w/Topper)- 175
Golden Tee Fore 2005- 225
Lethal Enforcers- 75
Super Monaco GP- 50
Area 51- Pass
Terminator 2- 125
60-1 Multicade- 450
Hydro Thunder (blurry monitor)- 125
Tekken 3- 50
Area 51/Maximum Force- 200
Golden Tee Fore 2004- 337.50
Mortal Kombat 4- 325
Crossfire Paintball- 200
XMen- 275
World Series- 187.50
VR Vortec system- $50
Revolution X- 80
Golden Tee Fore Complete- 475
Silver Strike Bowling- 100
Area 51- 80
World Class Bowling- 50

**"Junk" row**
Space Encounters (not Working) 50
Battlezone (n/w cord locked in cab) 500
Shuffleshot- ??
Thunder Blade- 50
Skins Game (Not Working)- 50
900-1 Multi in relief pitcher cab (250)
Rip Off, n/w serious water damaged cab, looked complete- 75
X-Men vs Street Fighter- 125
Armor Attack (n/w was working earlier) 125
Run N Gun- ???
Blitz 99- 175
Deer Hunting USA (had small gun not rifle)- 100
Crash (pretty nice, rolling screen but working) - 200
Super Street Fighter II Turbo- 212.50
Head On (n/w) 25

**Drivers**
Star Wars Trilogy Sitdown (in pieces, working ,monitor very orange)- 75
Harley Davidson- 325
Crazy Taxi High Roller (no monitor)- 125
Cruisin World- 325
SF Rush The Rock- 275
Crazy Taxi- 275
California Speed- 275
Police 911 II- 62.50

Recent Console pickups Part 2

Got a fantastic deal today on 40 games for NES, SNES, N64 Xbox and PS2... Local pawn shop is closing out all of their console stuff... paid $20
Nothing too amazing, mostly common titles, but 50 cents a pop is too good to pass up, even for commons.

NES Games:
Wall Street Kid
Defender II
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Section Z
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge
Rescue The Embassy Mission
Gotcha!  The Sport
Tiger Heli
Back To The Future II & III
Bad Dudes
Rygar
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet II
Top Gun
Rush N Attack
Battle Chess
After Burner
RBI Baseball
Rad Racer

SNES Games:
Choplifter III
Super Black Bass
Revolution X
Mortal Kombat II
Spider Man/Venom Maximum Carnage
Star Fox
Dino City
Toys
Scooby Doo Mystery
Toy Story

Sega Genesis: 
The Humans

N64: 
War Gods
F1 World Grand Prix
San Francisco Rus Extreme Racing

PS2:
Future Tactics: The Uprising
Spyhunter
Lemony Snickets
Ratchet & Clank Going Commando
GoGoGolf (japan)

XBox:
Sega Gt 2002/Jet Set Radio Future
Ford Racing 2


I Also recently picked up these:
PS2:
Hot Shots Tennis
Legion, The Legend of Excalibur

Xbox:
Flatout
Project Gotham Racing

Again nothing amazingly rare, but for the price, I couldn't pass it up.
Also, I have my collection online at RFGeneration.com
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?name=RedWolfJC&folder=Collection

30 Days 30 Beers: Day 30

Day 30:

The Bitter End- Two Brothers Brewing Co.

Clever eh?

Anyhow, this one's pretty good... Figured it would be more bitter with the name?  Still, nice flavorful APA, lemon/pine really stands out, almost too much, but doesn't quite cross the line.  A little too much carbonation, in my opinion,  but not enough to ruin the experience.

Final Thoughts:
Definitely was good to get out of my "comfort zone" and try different varieties.  Some that I thought I would love I just found OK and some I thought I wouldn't care for ended up being favorites.
If you enjoy beer, I highly recommend taking on this challenge.  Even if you do it just on Friday and Saturday instead of 30 straight days.
I think I'll be taking a bit of a break from this, but I may do another one in a few weeks... Fall Brews are starting to come out.

30 Days 30 Beers: Day 29

Day 29:

Fat Tire


(Stock Image)

Ok, umm, I think it was pretty good... I drank quite a few of them at the bar.  They seemed to taste pretty good, and went down easy.
I wish I could remember more, but we split a couple of pitchers of Bud Light after that, which sucked, but I wasn't paying for it so I didn't bitch too much.
Editor's note:  This was consumed on Friday 8/3, but I didn't post it until 8/4...

30 Days 30 Beers: Day 28

Day 28:

Original Flag Porter- Darwin Brewery UK

Holy crap, the smell... Seriously almost dumped it right down the drain without drinking it.  Thought at first it smelled like Brandy, but I don't think that was it... maybe a weird cross between raisin and black licorice?  Ridiculously overpowering though.  Caveat: I am not a fan of black licorice or raisins (and Brandy and I had a falling out years ago) so maybe the average person wouldn't even notice the smell.
 
Fortunately for me, the taste is much different than the smell with the licorice/raisin barely distinguishable.  Some hints of chocolate.  Quite sweet.  To be honest, there's not a whole lot of flavor there.  Not nearly what one would expect from the smell.  Very drinkable.

Bottle states it was brewed with yeast that was salvaged from a ship that sank in the English Channel in 1865 using a 19th century recipe... Interesting history

Recent console pickups

Just a few console games/systems I've picked up, what I paid and an estimated value (based upon completed ebay listings)

PS1 Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI  Paid $1 Value  ~$15-20
PS1 Wipeout Paid $1 value $2-5
PS1 Sentient Paid $1 value $5
PS1 Tomb Raider Paid $1 value $1-5

XBox 360 Kinect Sports  Season 2 Paid $1 value $15-20

Atari Flashback 2 complete in box near mint Paid $5 value $15-$25

Magnavox Odyssey 200 complete in box- Paid $15 value $15 (or 100 billion dollars OMG WOW R@R3)

Atari Lynx- Loose, fully working w/ Paperboy and Cyberball carts Paid $10, value $40

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program...

...to bring you the following message.

Dear dumbass eBay Sellers:
Your shitty ass 1977 pong clone consoles are not worth $1000.
Your shitty ass 1977 pong clone consoles are not worth $500.
Your shitty ass 1977 pong clone consoles are not worth $100.
Your shitty ass 1977 pong clone consoles are not worth $50.
Your shitty ass 1977 pong clone consoles are not worth $10.

Now normally I wouldn't complain about such a thing, but since you can't seem to get this through your stupid pathetic little minds, and keep relisting them over and over and over again, completely unaware that the reason nobody is buying them is because nobody wants that crap at any price, let alone the ridiculous amount that you seem to think this "one of a kind gem" is worth, I find it has become necessary to point this out to you.
Not that it will matter. 
You'll go on thinking that you're sitting on a gold mine, and the only reason someone hasn't jumped at the chance is that black guy in the White House (or if you're on the other side, substitute the Prez with those damn tea party obstructionists in congress) has single handedly ruined the economy so much that there is nobody left that can afford this piece of history, (despite the incredibly "reasonable" price you are "sacrificing" it at...
But lets be real here... Even if the item was actually "Like New" (and just for reference, putting a beat to shit item in a plastic bag, and putting it back into an original box that looks like it had been run over by a herd of stampeding cattle does not constitute "like new") as you claim, you would be lucky to get 10% of what you are asking.
Yes, it is true, there are Pong systems out there that can bring a decent price.  An original first run Odyssey (not Odyssey 100-5000, or Odyssey2) can fetch a pretty penny if it is complete.  And something like a Nintendo Color TV Game is highly collectable for collectors of all things Nintendo.  But you don't have a  first run original Odyssey, or a Nintendo Color TV game... you have some shit ass Radio Shack toy that had over 2 million produced, and at least a few hundred thousand (if not more) are currently sitting in closets across this wonderful country waiting for their owners to dig out and throw up on eBay (for way more than they're worth.)

Just so you know, my intentions are honest.  I am not trying to convince you to drop the price, so that I can come in and snatch it up and sell it off at a 1000% profit to my secret connections in the gaming community.  To be honest, I have no intention of purchasing said pong unit.  I have several of my own, and lets be honest, if you've played one, you've played them all.  Not a whole lot of variety there.  Hey, you can even add me to your list of unapproved bidders if you want.  All I am trying to do is give you a bit of reality here, and maybe save you a bit of cash (those eBay fees have got to be a killer)
So with that, I bid (no pun intended) you good luck in your future endeavors, and hope that just maybe a bit of this will sink in.
Sincerely
A guy who knows just a couple things about collecting video games.

30 Days 30 Beers: Day 27

Day 27
Ranger IPA: New Belgium Brewing


Flavor hits you like a freight train right out of the gate.  But in a good way...
Interesting combination of citrus and pine flavors.  Bitter, as it should be.

Haven't really mentioned head or lacing on these as I'm not really sure how much of a difference that the visual makes, but this beer had a great head (1" plus of frothy white) to it, and probably the most lacing of any of the beers that I have tried so far.

Not bad, not bad at all.