What's new and updated in July & August 2001?


Updates July & August 2001
Aug 30th	I (Manu) am back from USA, so the updates should be back into normal rhythm sometime next week. In the mean time, here's what I brought with me : Game Boy Advance (Arctic) GT Advance Racing Championship (GBA) Pac-Man Collection (GBA) Pokemon Gold (GBC) Test Drive 6 (GBC) Pelikan Light Shield Advance Mad Catz Light/Magnifier for GBA Loose NES games : Star Wars, Jeopardy!, Ultima Exodus, Mickey Mousecapade, Kung Fu, Pro Wrestling, Faxanadu, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Mutant Virus, Loopz, Fester's Quest, Ninja Gaiden II, Airwolf, Life Force, Swords & Serpents, Baseball, Roger Clemens MVP Baseball XboX Promotional Brochures N64 Folders Atari 5200 (home at last!) Atari Anniversary Edition for Dreamcast Bleem! GT2-Pak for Dreamcast Vib-Ribbon (PSX, was cheap) Space Channel 5 T-shirt and promotional music CD Seaman postcards Coleco Gemini paddle controllers Ms. Pac-Man (Genesis) Ms. Pac-Man board game NCrew phonecard Atari 2600 games (loose) : Tron Deadly Discs, Sky Jinks, Shark Attack, Starmaster + some common doubles The Secret of Monkey Island (Sega CD) Tiger Q*Bert Arcade Games table top (cheap-o)
Aug 19th	Lots going on. On the arcade front: the second Big Run now has a new home, the upright Virtua Racings are now more or less working (both still need their controls adjusted, buttons repaired & one has a video board problem) and even the Space Gun cabinet is now in one piece. Sadly though, the board appears to be dead. Big thanks to Jari again. Revamped the Arcade page and added a section for the projects. Games consoles: Received Eye of The Beholder for Sega CD, Sim City for Super Famicom and WrestleMania Steelcage for Game Gear. Thanks to Rami M. Me and Ville also bought a Game Boy Advance, one of the Arctic flavour. Home computers: Acquired a huge pile of Dragon stuff, including a brand new and boxed Dragon 32, a boxed Dragon 64, a large amount of software and something called the Finlux Dragon 32 which I'd guess is a pretty rare system... Also placed a NIB Dragon for auction. A huge pile of thanks to Joanna Kurki, Markku Reunanen and Lauri Immonen. Updated all the games lists accordingly and added a video game dream. No What's Up? this week, but lots of updates to keep you busy...
Aug 12th	Got the second Big Run to work! It's now for sale, go here and bid, bid, bid!
Aug 11th	Manu acquired a Game Boy Advance with GT Advance in the U.S.! He also got us 2 copies of the Bleem!Cast GT2 disc, very cool. Furthermore, a successful eBay auction yielded Samurai Shodown for the NeoGeo MVS - for $9! Again, Manu's bringing it over when he returns. I can't wait... Yesterday, me and Ville were interviewed by Mr. Jeff Young for his article on video game collecting. He was a very nice guy, and we had a fun 2-hour chat. Last night I had a video game dream, and I also shared something with the world in my What's Up?
Aug 5th	Manu's happily over in the States, while we're slowly catching up on the sleep we lost last weekend... Found Dreamcast "Dream on #4" and "Police Quest Collection" & "Sam & Max Hit The Road" for PC - dirt cheap. One of the Big Runs is working now, god it was dirty inside! Thanks to Jari, once again. Stay tuned for our 'Big Run 25" Super Deluxe' project... Also wrote a new What's Up?
July 30th	The Finnish Collector's Meeting was a success! Maybe there wasn't as many people as we expected, but we sure had fun. Thanks to all the cool guys who were there ! Pictures of the event can be found from here. Thanks again also to our sponsors : Game House, Real Games and Voionmaan opisto.
	Some stuff got traded at the party, but the new stuff we have now is : Hinotori (Firebird) for MSX 2 (excellent condition), a Soundic game console, Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters II for Gameboy (boxed), Cat Trax and Basketball for Intervision 2001 (boxed), 1000 Miles Rally (JAMMA board)... and probably some other stuff as well. The latest batch of arcade 'junk' looks pretty promising too, the Neo Geo cabinet is working already... but the 4-slot board quite isn't, at least not yet.
	Me (Manu) will be leaving to USA for a month, so Mikko will handle the updates for a while (expect a slowdown in update regularity). I promise I'll bring some stuff back with me, so stay tuned!
July 27th	PELIKONEPEIJAISET - The Finnish Collector's Meeting starts TODAY.
July 27th	Because of the above, everything's bit of a mess, but I think we received the following arcade stuff yesterday (big thanks to G again) Taito Space Gun (Needs repair) Sega Virtua Racer upright (Yes, another. Needs fixing) Some parts and monitors for the Virtua Racer Twin. 2 Jaleco Big Run uprights (Need a little fixing) SNK Neogeo cabinet (small, white) with a 4 slot Neogeo board (this needs a little fixing too) Capcom Three Wonders JAMMA board Geez!
July 26th	Peijaiset is one day away! A HUGE HUGE pile of arcade stuff arriving soon. Oh boy. Updated the Handhelds that use cartridges FAQ to version 1.8.
July 25th	Lots of updates on the handhelds that use cartridges list : fixed links and added lots of Game Master information and clones, thanks to SlyDC's FAQ.
July 24th	Mikko picked up Incredible Crisis for PSX from his trip to Sweden.
July 23rd	The Finnish Collector's Meeting is getting close, if you wanna be there, let us know now and we'll send more information!
July 23rd	Updated the Zemmix page and some other pages a little. Added Ring of Red (promotional copy) on PS2 games list.
July 20h	Received Fields of Glory, Akira and The Chaos Engine for CD32 and Archer Maclean's Pool, Breathless, Alien Breed 3D and Xtreme Racing Data Disks for Amiga.
July 20h	Went through some old papers and found interesting stuff to be scanned. Check them out! (Includes things like advertisements for Sam Coupe and C-64GS).
July 19th	Updated on the handhelds that use cartridges list : divided it onto two pages so it will load up faster, added some information about Gamate and pictures of a red Game Gear.
July 18th	Little updates here and there. The Finnish Collector's Meeting is getting closer and closer!
July 18th	Added one eCard and the latest What's Up? -column
July 16th	Received : - Amiga 1200, boxed (Computer Combat pack + 170 MB HDD) - Sinclair Spectrum +3, boxed - Tatung Einstein - Japanese MegaDrive I - Elite for the BBC! - A600 to replace the one we donated a while ago Possibly one of the largest-ever thanks to Kevin Dempsey.
July 12th	Added some information about Colorvision, Mega Duck (FAQ) and Cougar Boy on the Handhelds that use Cartridges list.
July 12th	Added some games we received a while ago : Mean Arenas and Total Carnage for CD32, Jaguar XJ220 (PAL) and Afterburner III (NTSC-J) for Sega CD.
July 11th	Received Legend of Kyrandia for Amiga, some more CD32 games, Vectopia for Vectrex and Mikko built a thingy for playing JAMMA games on a TV. Sold the Double Axle to get money and room for new games (on their way..).
July 3rd	Updated, fixed, checked, redid and added stuff to the links page!
July 1st	Ville found a cool N64 carrying bag for mighty cheap. Some updates on the Zemmix pages again.
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