{"id":200,"date":"2007-02-19T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/200"},"modified":"2007-02-19T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T22:14:47","slug":"forget-hd-television-here-is-colecovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Forget HD Television&#8230; Here is Colecovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first and third Mondays of every month mean that St. Vincent De Paul&#8217;s Thrift Store has a 50% off sale. My past few visits have been marked by a yearning to pick up a box that had been sitting on the floor for weeks. The $75 price tag just threw me off every time. I gave into the urge today thanks to massive savings.<br \/>\n<a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Colecovision','400','299');return false\" href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/random\/2007\/colecovision.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"72\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Colecovision\" title=\"Colecovision\" class=\"lightbox\" src=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/random\/2007\/.thumbs\/.colecovision.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a Colecovision with the Atari 2600 Expansion Module and it came with 32 games. Now, I already own two Colecovisions and that wacky expansion dongle. But you never know what you may find when you pick up these collection. I got three games that I do not have in my collection. Defender (Sears Tele-games label), Star Wars: Jedi Arena, and perhaps the oddest Atari 2600 cart ever, the Xonox Double Ender. When I pulled this cart out of the box I was rendered unconcious for hours by what I believe to be a roundhouse kick to the face. When I came to and my blurred vision cleared up I read the cart label. One end of the cartridge was Artillery Duel and the other end was Chuck Norris Superkicks. Sweeeeeet!<\/p>\n<p><a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'','','');return false\" href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/\" \/><a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Xonox','300','400');return false\" href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/random\/2007\/xonox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"96\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Xonox\" title=\"Xonox\" class=\"lightbox\" src=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/random\/2007\/.thumbs\/.xonox.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first and third Mondays of every month mean that St. Vincent De Paul&#8217;s Thrift Store has a 50% off sale. My past few visits have been marked by a yearning to pick up a box that had been sitting on the floor for weeks. The $75 price tag just threw me off every time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forget HD Television&#8230; Here is Colecovision<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[110,535],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-thrift","tag-colecovision","tag-thrift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}