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  3. Posted

    Both of your examples still conform to my original post and statement.

     

    Hi Jerry,

     

    Please don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or anything. I was just pointing Adam towards two more models I had stumbled upon, as I thought he'd be interested in them. He's a collector, you see :)

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

  5. Posted

    That label was made by Roloff de Jeu, better known as Deleto. He made it as an April 1st joke. It was a big hit on #rgvc, as almost everybody fell for it at first. The excitement of this "find" was just so big that people wanted to believe it was true. Also, there hadn't been too much fraud back then so people weren't as suspicious as they are today. Ah, those good ole days of fun... :)

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

  9. Posted

    I'm mainly amused because Marco keeps saying how much rarer the original games are compared to modern homebrew games but he and the other bidders are creating a very nice rarity here :)

     

    Okay, let's assume you expected a serious answer from me :)

     

    I never say that originals are rarer, I say they shouldn't be in the same league or category as homebrews. Some of the homebrews are artficially created rarities, that's kind of 'cheating', I think. Others are artifically created valuables. Sometimes that's the same, sometimes it's not.

     

    In this case, I cannot but admire the work sniderman put into this. I know some of you programmers think "what, it's only a hack!", but I think "to each his own" couldn't be more suitable in this situation.

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

     

    PS: WIZ, why are you such an angry man? :wink:

  11. Posted

    Yep, it is the Men-A-Vision game. It's not likely we will know how many games of Air Raid were produced or released. But perhaps that goes for Video Life as well? I have a letter from CommaVid that states that they intended to produce 1200 games combined of Magicard and Video Life. They may have ended up with only 20 Video Lifes, like the CommaVid guys told John and Sean. What amazes me is that we can account for about half of the Video Lifes in existence then. I don't think any other game, besides Cubicolor and homebrews, has that high of a "hit rate".

     

    If there were hundreds or even thousands of Air Raids, I think it would be likely that we should have seen some more. I personally know of only two popping up in the past ten years, but perhaps others know dozens more owners. Who knows, Men-A-Vision may have been some kind of homebrew company - are there any ads known to exist?

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

  18. Posted

    Let's face it, the NES doesn't deserve a site like AtariAge  :ahoy:  

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

     

    Why not?

     

    Maybe when NES fans have realized that what Nintendo did was easy compared to what Atari had established, then the time will be right for a mature NES community that knows its place in videogame history, with cool sites like AtariAge :cool:

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

     

    PS: :evil:

  19. Posted

    There you go :)

     

    I indeed bought a box of Mexican games and kept all the titles that I didn't have yet in PAL format.

    And I indeed want to collect as many games as possible, but I'm not really into collecting both PAL and NTSC releases, nor label variations. Thus they ended up on eBay :)

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

  25. Posted

    Today I listed another nice lot of unusal Atari 2600 games. They are pirate games with well-known titles like S.O.S., See Saw, Mole Hunter, Normandy Landing and many others, but the cool thing is that they are in NTSC format!

     

    If you always wanted some of these cool Taiwanese pirates, but didn't want to bother with the PAL format, here's your chance to get a big batch of pirate games that you can play on your NTSC console/tv:

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3002236007

     

    Good luck!

     

    Cheers,

    Marco

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