Benway's Collection
Vintage Computers, Retro Video Game Consoles and Handhelds
These links now point to pages on Benway's new website: Retro Gaming Collector
Consoles
Atari
Atari VCS - Sunnyvale. Heavy Sixer. Woody |
Atari 2600 VCS - Vader |
Atari 2600Jr Rev A |
 Atari 2600Jr Black |
 Atari 7800 |
 Atari Jaguar |
Grandstand
 Grandstand SD 070 |
 Grandstand VEC / Fairchild Channel F II |
Nintendo
 Nintendo NES |
 Nintendo Super NES (SNES) |
 Nintendo Virtual Boy |
 Nintendo 64 |
 Nintendo Game Cube |
Philips
 Philips CDi 210 |
 Philips Videopac G7000 Magnavox Odyssey II |
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 |
 Panasonic 3DO |
 Radofin 1392 |
 SNK Neo Geo AES |
Handhelds
Nintendo
 Nintendo Game & Watch - Ball / Time Out - Toss Up |
 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 |
 Tiger Game.Com |
 Watara / Quickshot Supervision |
Computers
Acorn
 Acorn BBC Micro Model B |
 Acorn Electron |
Atari
 Atari 600XL |
 Atari 65XE |
 Atari Portfolio |
 Atari 520 STe |
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 ZX80 |
 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
 Amstrad CPC 464 |
 Apple Macintosh SE |
 Jupiter Cantab, Jupiter Ace |
 CGL Sord M5 |
 Dragon 32 |
 Eaca Video Genie |
 Enterprise 64 |
 Mattel Aquarius |
 Memotech MTX 512 |
 Texas Instruments TI99/4a |
 Toshiba HX-10 MSX |
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 Color Genie, Acorn Atom and Bandai Pippin etc.
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.
Also note: due to the increasing number of emails I get on a daily basis, asking me where to sell assorted games systems and computers, I am no longer replying to such emails. However, I will answer that question here, as the answer is the same in every case - ebay.
It might also be worth contacting Retro Scene, retrogames.co.uk, or Console Passion , to see if they may be interested.
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