On a recent visit back home, I ended up helping my dad take some measurements in the
basement. Once we were done, I turned around and realized how AMAZING our video
game collection is!

I've said before that my parents were and are gamers. They pretty much went along with most
every gaming purchase I showed interest in. Aside from the CD-i. My parents were very
wise. So as a result, I was that kid that had just about every system.

The great thing now, come 2008, is that we never sold any of our systems, and didn't throw
away most of the boxes. Just about everything you about to see is either actually in the box, or otherwise being
used in my parent's house.

So, for your retro enjoyment, Behold! The Tubatic Family Console Collection!


Turbo CD. I used to use the CD unit by itself as my personal discman. It was cool, but
hands down the worst discman I ever had.


Yep. I have a 32X. I had Doom, rented some fighter game set in space. And that's about
it.


Lots going on in this picture. Notice the TurboExpress, which was fucking genius. I think
my dad still uses it as a portable TV. That gray folded thing on the left. Power Pad. Also,
the box for the case to the PXL camcorder. We kept the box for that, too.


Notice the box on the right. I had soo many Transformers. There's probably two more just
like that one. Notice here the Mario Paint box and the Caleco Vision near the top. Smurfs
was the bomb.


Lethal Enforcers and Super Scope at the top of the heap. Also Super Simon keeping my
mom's PS2 box in check. And take note of the red box near the middle.
That was a basically a tabletop "Game and Watch" style game involving Mario and Buckets
of paint. I played that game ALOT!


I'll have to come back and raid this box. There's another right under it, full of NES
cartridges. Highlight here: Legend of Zelda 1 and 2, in box, gold cartridges. Coolest Boxes
EVER!


And to bring it all home, here's our first Macintosh. Hypercards FTW. We had a cassette
tape memory unit for this rig. Doesn't even do color. And I dare say, it has about 1MB of
HardDrive, if that.

There's a bunch of other stuff in this room that would boggle and amaze you. There's no
trace in these pics of the Captain Power vehicles, our Pong console, or our Commodore64.
Next time I'm back home, I'll see about getting a few more snapshots to tickle your retro.

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