The top of the book shelf is a practical place to keep console boxes. I like to keep all my consoles nice by keeping the retail packaging. If you throw them out, you're basically throwing money away. Anyone who's tried to buy an old console on ebay knows it's worth more with the box.
fucking lol ok go for it
It's newly manufactured? Not a sacc'ed NES pad?I ordered a Atari 7800/2600-compatible gamepad from Retrogameboyz
It's a NES-style pad, placement of the control elements is near perfect and the D-pad is smooth but firm enough at the same time to give a good feedback. Love the concave buttons. It's built very sturdily, comes with a long cable of almost 10 ft. Highly recommended if you're looking for a decent pad for the Ataris or the C64, probably works on a bunch of other consoles/micro computers as well. I chose the rainbow edition to fit to my Euro/PAL 7800, there's also a woodgrain finish version available if you like that sorta stuff.
It also comes with two extra buttons (like select and pause on the NES), there are mods that let you pause a game from the pad instead of having to push pause on the machine. I prolly won't add that mod to my machine coz I'm sitting right in front of it and have easy access to the pause button but I can see how this may be a prob for some setups so it's nice to have.
Having a dedicated game room like all the goobs online was my dream for many years. I had all my game stuff in storage for long enough. Now that I have the space I'm going to keep the things I love out where I can see them.
Newly manufactured, and made of injection-molded parts, no 3D printer stuffs or anything. It's really well made, I've inspected it inside and out and found no points to complain.
Cool. I kind of want some. I got some NOS 7800 pads, but the D-pad on those is not the best.
Keeping the packaging, for me, was never about "collecting" or keeping the "value"... it was just about keeping everything together... and I've been so minded since I got my first Mega Drive in the early 90s.
I got two of them but never really got comfortable with them. IMO the distance between the D-pad and buttons is too long and yeah, the D-pad itself is quite crappy too, even more so if you screw on that silly little thumbstick. It's better than the US controller but not much.
I don't see the difference between our shelves full of goobstation stuff and Kern's trannyformers stuff
I was that kid who cut open my action figures so I could keep the hanger board.Keeping the packaging, for me, was never about "collecting" or keeping the "value"... it was just about keeping everything together... and I've been so minded since I got my first Mega Drive in the early 90s.
Fortunately, our house has more walk-in closets than occupants, so all the boxes live in one of those nowadays.
and yet...the plaster is falling off the walls...
No no sir, have you not heard about / seen the renovation? Plaster has never looked better. Check the toy thread.
my bad for not staying current on the saddest thread on the forum...
Settle down noob, above your pay grade etc
