The Last Repair Man

Wow, you still have this thing? I haven’t seen one of these in about 50 years. I mean, yeah I can help you with it, but in the last person in the world that I’ve seen one of these other than you of course. Did you find this in your grandparents or great grandparents Addict or how in the world did you get a hold of this thing?

It’s yours? You’ve owned this since you are a kid.? How old are you? And where did you buy this? Yeah, I can fix it, but I can give it a reasonable price on it too if you wanna sell it to me. Are you sure I can give you a top dollar for it off the record of course. You don’t wanna sell it to me do you want me to fix it? OK I can’t do that but it’s gonna be hard to find these parts. This is from the Stone Age or video game cancel councils. Your parents got this for you how long ago yeah I’m a hoarder with video games so I do understand that, but I still don’t have mind of these. I got rid of it when I got the new gaming system. You sure you don’t wanna sell this? I can look for cheaper parts on eBay or Amazon. Maybe maybe somebody has second parts keep trying to get one of these things at a Goodwill or Salvation Army but none of them have it. Am I dreaming right now even though with the number of this is 8300 right very good. It’s a 2300 realize this company doesn’t even exist anymore. The finding parts is gonna be challenging to say the least. The day, the first to find online and buy them it’ll be a lot cheaper for you and for me be easier for me less time. OK you want me to do what I can do it to be paying for the items and the labor of finding the items. Do you understand? OK, I can find a them. You’re gonna want an estimate though, right? The number to parts cost in what parts are missing. I need to assemble it and put it back together with the last person on the face that knows how to do that before that happens, which is always a possibility, but I put it in my will that it’s yours. When did you buy the stuff? Didn’t your parents bought it for you? When you were young makes sense you realize there’s a possibility that I won’t be able to fix it. I might just want the trashcan you do know that, right? You want the parts understandable you’re afraid I might steal it. Put it back together without your knowledge. Understandable. Go to the games for this doesn’t pass what you have all the games for this. Do you know if they work? of course, that’s why you want me to fix it. You might not like my estimate, especially if I’m buying the parts. You can see a lot of these games online on YouTube for free? But people are cat some parts from old Ataris, too. I understand you’re busy. It’s gonna be keeping me busy too. I have some rare games that are willing to trade some of those rare games for… you’re not interested. They also sell CDs that have all the games on them for PCs.? I could I could I can give you one of those CDs for free then you could play the games and how does that sound? You’re not interested I know I’m the last person on the face of the year that can fix one of these things but you’re the last person on the face owns one of these things to match in heaven or we could partner together we could I’ll move in with you for rent reasonable to me they had in the arcades. We’re not the Pac-Man on the guitar and I know where the ghost go and why they go where they go games like this and pong. I can tell you the secret to beating pong. What do you think I’ll move in with you. Pay rent. You already have a roommate he doesn’t want me to fix it at least visit sometime and enjoy it. We don’t even know what hook this up to a TV or modern TV. I should say you know the adapter hook up to modern TV TV today don’t have the cable because everything is digitized satellite there’s no more cable so this won’t even hook up to your TV. You don’t understand that right so you need an old school TV to go with the system one of those big box TVs and nobody else is anymore, but I can get it for you. Let me play the games at least twice a week. Hell, I’ll even do the labor for free. Can’t get a better deal than that you just have to pay for the parts. I know you don’t know me, but let’s get to know each other. Go out to eat sometime talk about what you’re interest in the Atari 2300 is what it means to you and what it means to me. Yes I pray a guitar writer, but you’ll need a floppy disk drive to make that work or do you? Do you have any property discs too? You got the Atari drive and the Atari printer? What exactly do you have in your house? Everything Atari? What do you mean everything? Even have the advertisement saying that you will no longer need a typewriter? WOW! most people today don’t even know what a typewriter is. And nobody in the right mind, though with a floppy disc is except for you and me. You got any VCR’s or VHS tapes you have DVDs like everybody else how about eight tracks or eight track players? With the old tapes or CDs but now everybody has LPs nobody has tape players anymore of VCR or VHS tapes. I’d like to do a scavenger hunt in your home. Make good offers. I have money for it. I am the manager here after all.

But I wouldn’t sell it I promise I wouldn’t sell it to anyone. I just use it for my own Entertainment. I know that you can guarantee that I can’t guarantee that, but you have my word on that we could shake hands. Just talk to people when people owned Ataris. I could tell you about the gaming system. They had before the Atari too. I might be able to get my hands on some games with the game printed out on paper to see how you were doing, but you’re not interested. What can I do to entice your interest OK I do understand that you just want me to do my job but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’re the last person on the Earth to have all this equipment and think about it. What will happen to it after you pass away? Do you have any children? Are you married? That’s what I thought did what will happen to it after you passed away. I’m engaged in my kids with supervision. It’ll be educational. A lesson in video game history I could even teach them the evolution of games. So what do you say?