I went out in search of used Nintendo games yesterday. The second store was a goldmine of poorly organized collectibles, junk, rare unlicensed carts, and random accessories I hadn’t known existed. It was as if a garage sale had exploded in a game rental place twenty years ago, and no one bothered to clean it up.
After picking through a heap of vintage consoles and computers (think 128K memory on down), I discovered the January 1991 issue of Nintendo Power–with Megaman III on the cover. I bought it for a buck, and found this gem inside:
Steve “Mr. T” (seriously–I couldn’t even make that up) Wozniak showing his high score aboard the Concord between London and New York. Classic.
March 24, 2008 at 12:25 am
That is awesome.
I wish I could score as much as the Woz.
March 24, 2008 at 3:08 am
Man, and I thought I was good at Tetris.
March 24, 2008 at 7:24 am
Oh Woz, this is Wez..
… I’d attempt to play tetris, but I fear the machine will explode from the sheer awesomeness of me touching it.
I simply could not live with myself if anyone got hurt from the flying shrapnel of a Gameboy.
– Wez
March 26, 2008 at 2:36 am
You should really take a look at the Commodore 64. Had some great games, especially Spy vs. Spy and Castle Wolfenstein. Was a PC ahead of its time, too.
March 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Funny that Richard just mentioned Commadore 64. My mom was going to toss ours so I grabbed it. Would you like it Marc? It’s the drive, the keyboard, a joystick and a bunch of games. No monitor – we always used a tv. You can have it for the price of shipping it. Let me know if you’re interested or any of your friends.
March 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hell yeah, I’ll take it.
I don’t have nearly enough old crap lying around.
March 27, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Sweet, I’ll call you soon and get that sent to you. We accepted an offer on our condo, so we have to find a new house now. At least the Commodore 64 will be one less thing to move!
May 29, 2008 at 9:49 am
try to get it for myself one! woz doing really good!