In the late 1990s I moved to Long Island from upstate New York. In Ithaca I was very active outdoors with hiking and mountain biking. It just wasn't the same walking the greenways next to the crowded motor parkways, so I decided I needed a hobby. I thought it would be fun to collect old computers, but I quickly found out that collecting them took a lot of space and money, and after setting them up once, there wasn't much to do. Some of first home computers doubled as video game consoles - collecting the media was more entertaining, but it was still very hard to find. While scouring garage sales and flea markets I kept coming across tons of media for true home video game consoles like the early Atari's and Nintendos and started collecting those. It was easy to…
Atari Ace
Atari Ace is a website that sells vintage video game systems and games. I started the site in the late 1990s as way to help fund my hobby and get rid of duplicate equipment. Although there is a lot of items for sale from my personal collection, you'll notice some of the prices are very high on items that I'd have a hard time parting with. My father Mike Wood helps with the site and sells all of the Atari 2600 inventory. Eventually I'd like to put my entire collection onto the site and have it be more focused on the collection than the sale of the items.