Benway's Collection
Vintage Computers, Retro Video Game Consoles and Handhelds 
Consoles
Atari
Atari VCS - Sunnyvale. Heavy Sixer. Woody |
Atari 2600 VCS - Vader |
Atari 2600Jr Rev A |
 Atari 2600Jr Black |
 Atari 7800 |
 Atari Jaguar |
Nintendo
 Nintendo NES |
 Nintendo Super NES (SNES) |
 Nintendo Virtual Boy |
 Nintendo 64 |
 Nintendo Game Cube |
Sega
 Sega Master System |
 Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD |
 Sega Mega Drive II, Mega CD II & 32X |
 Sega Saturn |
 Sega Dreamcast |
Sony
 Sony Playstation / PS1 |
 Sony Playstation 2 |
Various
 Amstrad GX4000 |
 CBS Colecovision |
 Commodore C64GS |
 Mattel Intellivision |
 MB Vectrex |
 NEC PC Engine |
 Neo Geo AES |
 Panasonic 3DO |
 Philips Videopak G7000 / Magnavox Odyssey II |
Handhelds
Nintendo
 Nintendo Game Boy |
 Game Boy Pocket |
 Nintendo Game Boy Color |
 Nintendo Game Boy Advance |
 Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP |
 Nintendo Game Boy Micro |
Sega
 Sega Game Gear |
 Sega Nomad |
Various
 Atari Lynx II |
 Bandai Wonderswan |
 Gizmondo |
 MB MicroVision |
 NEC PC Engine GT |
 Neo Geo Pocket Color |
 Quickshot Supervision |
Computers
Acorn
 Acorn BBC Micro Model B |
 Acorn Electron |
Atari
 Atari 600XL |
 Atari Portfolio |
Commodore
 Commodore PET 8032 |
 Commodore VIC 20 |
 Commodore 64 (C64) |
 Commodore Plus 4 |
 Commodore C16 |
 Commodore Amiga 500 |
 Commodore Amiga 1260 Tower |
Oric
 Oric 1 |
 Oric Atmos |
Sinclair
 Sinclair ZX81 |
 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k |
 Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ |
 Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ 128 |
 Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 |
Tandy Radio Shack
 Tandy Radio Shack TRS80 Color Computer (CoCo) |
 Tandy Radio Shack TRS80 Color Computer 2 (CoCo 2) |
Various
 Apple Macintosh SE |
 CGL Sord M5 |
 Dragon 32 |
 Eaca Video Genie |
 Mattel Aquarius |
 Memotech MTX 512 |
 Toshiba HX-10 MSX |
Miscellaneous Items These don't really belong here, but have been included for their general interest or novelty value.
 T-Mobile MDA Pro |
 Nintendo / Time Out - Game and Watch - Toss Up |
I began this collection around 10 years ago, with the intention of collecting every home computer I could remember from my childhood, and anything
noteworthy from later years.
This soon crossed over to games consoles and handhelds too, though I'm less concerned about the vintage of these,
as consoles are generally considered retro as soon as they're no longer current generation.
I picked these machines up from a variety of places, including car boot sales, Game Station shops, ebay (obviously), and a few were donated by my girlfriend.
Clearly, this collection is a work in progress, as there are some very obvious omissions, including assorted Sinclairs, Amstrads, and Ataris, etc... not to mention many of the much rarer machines such as the Jupiter Ace and Elan Enterprise.
The intention of these pages is to provide useful information to collectors... the kind of thing I myself would have found useful when looking at retro computers and consoles while browsing ebay. Obviously, I can't compete with the likes of Wikipedia for weight of detailed information, but for concise details that will be useful to console and computer collectors, I hope this site will prove less heavy going.
Please note: None of these machines are for sale, so please don't email me asking if I will sell one to you.
Also, I get a lot of emails from people asking me if I'd like to buy their *insert console model here*, and while I'm very grateful for their interest, I really must decline all such offers.
Without the safeguards put in place by ebay, and its feedback system, I really don't consider it safe to be buying from complete strangers online.
Price guide and advice for buyers and sellers.
I get a lot of emails from people asking me if the old system they found in their loft is worth a lot of money. As my collection and details of it is clearly incomplete, I have put together this guide to give an idea of the value of a lot of systems out there, many of which I don't own myself.
There is also some useful advice for both buyers and sellers, on what to look out for, do's and don'ts, etc.
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