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  4. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    The problem is: I dont want to spend money on shipping for a cart and again money on shipping the box. So I would definitely buy a CiB Copy of TNT Cowboy and probably also of the other two games (but just 90%). If Elektronite would say definitely "there are no boxes" and that would stand as a final word I also would buy a cart only, better than nothing, but I really would appreciate a boxed version.

     

    The situation is pretty unlucky for both sides: You are waiting for sales and I am waiting on a final word about the future of the stuff and I am really not comfortable with buying my games in pieces. Importing stuff costs money, time and risk of damage every time. It would be great if there would be a better solution, so maybe... pre orders? :D I totally get why sellers are not very happy with that, but Elektronite made its name as trustable, so for me the situation is completely different and as a customer I would prefer a CiB pre order instead of buying in chunks.

     

    Edit: And to be honest: If the "final word" would say "no boxes", I buy the game and out of nowhere there would be boxes, because the game sold well, I would also not be happy with it, because of all the reasons above :) I rather have a clear and honest information than getting wrong information to get me into buying someting.

  11. Posted

    Got my three games today, thank you very much!

     

    Short question about the silver sticker ob the back: Is that the serial? All of my games say "BSR-120", so I have #120 for each of them? I am not sure if that is the correct interpretation, because it was the first batch and as far as I know it was a lot less then 120 copies ^^

  14. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    Not original, just released by the copyright holders and licensed. Wait... :lol: I wonder why we call anything Post Mattel original then, may we should shrink the official collection just to the Mattel branded games. 

     

     

    Edit: The funny part is: If the BSR would have released that stuff in the mid 90s, before the whole "platinum club" became a thing, everyone here would say "yay, re-release, just like many other games" and we would talk about 127 official releases at least. 

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  16. Posted

    On 4/6/2015 at 3:44 AM, Rev said:

     

    Anyone who purchased this will be contacted. And will be taken care of. No worries folks. ;-)

     

    I guess its too late to worry, but still I doubt it will be taken care of. So Game Factory just stays a not working piece of plastic in my shelf. Deal, as a serious collector I dont care of the stuff is actually working or not :D

  17. Posted

    Ask them. But its very good that its Spiker and not Blix, because Spiker is an actual good game and I own it, so my whole point of view has a better ground and doesnt looks like I am trying to legitimate my collection :lol:

     

    And I am collector and gamer, I dont really care for ROM only releases (so I hope TNT gets a CiB release). As far as I remember our paths crossed already in the HSC area some years ago. So you may have noticed that I am not just interessted in more boxes for my shelf. That is the reason why I stopped to buy all homebrews, because more and more of them just are not good. Rushed out, low quality control. But its fine, because most people dont actual play the games they are paying for, so why bother into making them good.

  18. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    8 hours ago, mr_me said:

    Never said the new spiker doesn't complete a collection, unless you consider yourself a serious collector.  If you count that cartridge than your collection is not complete without the new Deep Pockets and KOTM.  If you count those cartridges than why not count Miner 2049er, Boulder Dash, and Hotel Bunny.  They're officially licensed and legitimate. 

     

    Yet again your "serious collector" is wrong and arrogant, but the second part is true at least. While I dont know about the licenses for the mentioned games, at least Deep Pockets and King of the Mountain have to be bought in the official version to be in a full set. And if the others are licensed its true for them as well.

     

    And here the bummer: Blix. Wasnt that from the BSRs? If yes, there is a very small limit for people who can get a real full set.

     

    But its sad that instead of joy about the release of a much overpriced game its just more sad try to protect the status of be something special for owning a old copy. Yeah, feel free to think so, but you will never be the authority to determine who a serious collector is and who not. But to be honest: I never expeted anything else, most of the so called "serious collectors" do not even care about the game, they just buy it for display.

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  19. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    2 hours ago, the1hatman said:

    The existence of a club does not make it the standard. Your own personal definition of your collection does. 

    Yes and no. In this case its not even a definition thing, its just a fact: The Re-Release is licensed and official. There is no discussion about that. Its pretty disrespectful towards BSR if you pretend its less worth or not a real deal. It is a real deal, deal with it if you have a 1k bucks game in the shelf which you could have get for a lot less now :lol:

     

    Personally I hope the price of Spiker plummets.

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  20. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    Fun fact: If you dont count Re-Releases you have no complete collection of you have Super Series Big League Baseball as your only variation of the game. I think that underlines why this makes no sense.

     

    Edit: And as I said some time ago: The official and legitimate Re-Release of Spiker will be MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more rare than the Release back then. So as a real collector I like rare things more than expensive things. And please dont forget, I own the old Spiker, so I am not biased to be a "real" collector with the Re-Release, nor I am considering to trade the old for the new one, I will put both in my shelf.

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  21. Posted

    10 hours ago, mr_me said:

    Either way a serious collector knows their collection is not complete without the original INTV spiker.

    Thats just your opinion and I dont think you are the collectors authority. For me statements like that are elitist nonsense.

     

    @Intymike

     

    I really dont care and if I read here that some people really try to exclude Intellivision Inc versions the whole "real collector" thing reached a new level of ridiculousness :lol:

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  22. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    20 hours ago, First Spear said:

    My POV is that the re-release should not be considered “125 canon” because it is a re-release, and should be visible and marked in some way. That way the game would get out to people that truly want to play the game on the cart, which matters most in my opinion, but also respect those that have had the game since the 90s and that it’s different. I think it would also blunt the impact of people that just profiteer and speculate on game value in the community. 

     

    If we count out Re-Releases, I wonder how many Platinum Member would be left, because some may (I am for sure) have the 125 with INTV Inc versions and they are also Re-Releases.

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