Extremely rare Adventure Vision system up on eBay

by Kyle Orland { Jan 23rd 2008 at 2:15PM }

So, you think your classic gaming collection is pretty complete, huh? You think your unopened Vectrex and mint-condition Fairchild Channel F make you a true collector, do ya? Trust us, your collection means nothing unless and until you own your own Entex Adventure Vision.

Released for about two seconds back in 1982 (only about 10,000 were produced), the LED-based tabletop system is currently being sold on eBay complete with all four available games for a "Buy it Now" price of $5500. Amazingly, the auction has been up for nearly three days with no buyers, seemingly showing that people would rather put a down payment on a car than play a monochrome, 150x40 resolution version of Defender. There's no accounting for taste, we suppose ...

[Thanks, Steven R.]

Tags: adventure-vision, auction, channel-F, classic, eBay, entex, monochrome, retro, vectrex

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bloo @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:19PM

How did you know about my Vectrex and mint-condition Fairchild Channel F?! Either way - I'm not buying this thing - maybe if it were sub $500...

xFenixKnightx @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:21PM

Ill take the Vii over that thing thank you very much!

Co @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:26PM

eBay FTL

WiNG @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:27PM

There are no bids because it's a Buy It Now ONLY auction.

Which sucks, but it also prevents lamers from posting the kind of fake bids that ruin auctions like this.

nerrrrrrd @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:28PM

maybe it'll be worth something in another 25 years or so.

StarFoxA @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:30PM

I wonder if I can find ROMs of that.

StarFoxA @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:35PM

Yep, I found all of the games that that guy has listed.

NATO_Duke @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:46PM

Oh, that ol thing. We probably have 3 in our basement.

Do we have a basement?

WiNG @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:56PM

Depends. Do you you live in the Alamo?

BPM4:Guns of the Idiots @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:30PM

I was sent by Large Marge.

JS Beckerist @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:50PM

They are next to your bike

NATO_Duke @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:56PM

WiNG! Nice work on that one!!!!

Terry @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:00PM

"The Adventure Vision uses one vertical strip of 40 red LEDs and a spinning mirror to produce an apparent screen resolution of 150X40"

You a freaking kidding me? That's so simultaneously cool and lame!

Lone Starr @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:05PM

"you own your own"

I'm detecting massive amounts of win in this sector, sir.

Evan @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:51PM

I had something similar looking when I was a kid, except it was mechanical! It had spaceships and asteriods printed on a transparent film that rolled across the screen between two spools, and some LEDs leading that lit up to represent laser fire. Damn, I'm old!