much Hey nothing wrong with video game collecting (or modern video games either). Its alot like the other (normal) side of classic computers but with more joysticks and strange attachments (Don't ask about the Sony Trance Vibrator for Rez). We seem to spend a massive amount of time cleaning contacts (old cartridges are already oxidizing) and it involves the same kind of care and attention that 'real' computers but with a game at the end (tracking down cables, disk drives etc). One of the good/bad things is that just having a system is only the start, for the popular systems number of titles may range in the thousands (there are believed to be around 14000 games for the ZX Spectrum). I haven't managed to test most of the titles I own yet (5 minute per tape, 1 minute per disk) and I only have a small collection (1000+ titles). Of course testing time also involves playing the games which can take a long time for quality titles.... (Things like Mario, Zelda and Elite can take weeks to really test :-) Bye, Deano