I picked up a bunch of weird stuff during my California trip. Here I’ll show two of them.
This LCD Star Wars pinball game cost me $15 which wasn’t bad considering it was new. A glance on eBay tells me I wasn’t ripped off. The guy that sold it to me made mention of treating it carefully since the plastic packaging had become brittle but of course I was going to open it!
And here it is! Note the poor sticker affixed between the buttons, as if after they made it they realized they forgot to brand it! You’ll also see that the only Star Wars evidence in the actual game screen are the droids on the backplate…
The batteries had of course leaked (it’s 24 years old!) but not seriously and it was an easy clean. I popped two more in and:
It has flashing lights, a vibration function and very, very poor gameplay! Also the game itself has nothing to do etc Star Wars, and I imagine the others in this like (such as a Barbie game) play identically 🙂
A curiosity though, already in a box never to be played again!
Following on, I also bought this for $5 at an amazing antique store in Gilroy:
A European Panini sticker pack from 1983! Panini made gazillions of sticker sets for just about every sport and licensed brand you can imagine and sadly they barely distributed outside of Europe. So I never got any Dark Crystal or E.T. or Pope John Paul II stickers in my youth…
The ‘original’ art stickers in this set are strange and difficult to look at for long periods, but most of the stickers were from the cartoon;
I bought this in the hope of sending you all some He-Man nostalgia via future postcards but the adhesive is too weak after 35+ years and these will therefore remain as priceless additions to my collection 🙂
Oh and even though this post was just supposed to be two treasures… here’s some of the rest of my purchases:
If I remember correctly that blue Next Generation set has a card depicting Picard’s fish Livingston. The best card and character. 🙂
I also recall Adam and I fanatically playing ticket machines in some arcade to get a box (or boxes?) of that Next Gen set.
We sure did! At Timezone in the Newie Mall.
You were near to a full set, so we kept playing the machine that paid out the most tix for our time/effort, exchanging them for packs, then opening those to check if they contained the cards you needed.
Talk about a hard way to complete a set 🙂
(It probably amounted to about a box worth from that arcade, though, as I said, you already had a heap of the cards.)
Incredible story! To think they had trading card packs as redemption!!