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Post by VECTREXER on Oct 25, 2020 9:58:56 GMT -5
I believe that eBay listing is the first one I acquired. Cool Mat. Did you happen to archive the listing using archive.org or archive.is? Can you show us your button for comparison? |
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Post by Mayhem on Oct 26, 2020 9:41:29 GMT -5
Didn't archive the listing. I can certainly try to take a photo of both badges (the black one and the white Vectrex expert) tonight.
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Post by Mayhem on Oct 27, 2020 4:56:30 GMT -5
And here we go, a shot of both badgers, I mean badges...  |
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Post by hcmffm on Oct 31, 2020 3:12:31 GMT -5
Thank you for this picture of the two badges, Mat. Very interesting to see the difference in size - with its 3.5 inches the Pace Setter badge is really, really big.  |
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Post by kokovec on Nov 4, 2020 11:19:12 GMT -5
I believe I had that pin when I was younger.
My Dad would come home with tons of SWAG from CES back in the day.
I believe my mom threw them all out at one point.
Back then no one was thinking that this kind of stuff had any real value.
It was just marketing junk.
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Post by VectorX on Nov 4, 2020 12:40:50 GMT -5
^It was all new back then anyway. When I worked for a law firm in '96, even though I'm an Atari fan, a guy not much younger than myself who worked there said he wanted to get every single game for the 2600. And that sounded silly to me since there was barely a "retro" scene back then. Took a few years before I understood that.
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Post by VECTREXER on Nov 9, 2020 23:22:26 GMT -5
And here we go, a shot of both badgers, I mean badges... Badges?!?! Wen don't need to stinkin' Bad,,,, Wait a second! We'd love more badges! Vectrex Badges! |
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Post by tzarroomba on Nov 9, 2020 23:30:50 GMT -5
I believe I had that pin when I was younger. My Dad would come home with tons of SWAG from CES back in the day. I believe my mom threw them all out at one point. Back then no one was thinking that this kind of stuff had any real value. It was just marketing junk. Interesting. I asked my mother if my grandfather went to a Chicago convention in the 80s. Her immediate and flat response was “Oh, probably.” Apparently he traveled to a lot of conventions. I went searching for videos and pictures from CES at the time, but unfortunately there wasn’t much, and I couldn’t find any sign of one. |
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Post by kokovec on Nov 10, 2020 16:39:11 GMT -5
People didn't take many pictures back then. They were expensive to develop.
All of the photos in our family albums are of vacations and weddings.
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Post by VectorX on Nov 10, 2020 17:14:58 GMT -5
^Yeah (on a side note), people weren't taking selfies and pictures of their food and showing it to people and the like  |
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Post by tzarroomba on Nov 10, 2020 20:46:43 GMT -5
Oddly enough, he was big into photography. Though now that I think of it, I don’t remember seeing many photographs. Mostly just an evolving collection of cameras. As far as the CES documentation, the best footage I found was a French news piece. But across the board, Atari stole the show, along with a bunch of oddball things like electronic briefcases, lol.
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