Mikebloke

Sorry probably meant £500 😛

This is such a non committal post, it doesn't even say anything. Poor backers...

Looks like alien invasion went for a reasonable price despite boxed. The other us exclusives didn't go too high considering. If I had the funds I might have even considered buying myself for CIB copies... Oh well. Whizball went for 500... Really man.... I got it myself in the past 12 months for a tenth of that...

I think when people who normally sell clothes second hand for first hand prices, start buying up games it hits this "collector" price. I've noticed it's really common to see that as their other items because it never really screams 'this person likes to play games'. I do wonder how much this is price fixing too.

You are probably right, I think the whizball situation is comical but will probably be disastrous for those of us wanting to collect. Dread to think what a copy of checkers is going to go for in this mess.

Might be some nice boxed ones there if they don't go silly price. Not sure if I'd goto the trouble of getting US exclusives boxed. No checkers, the journey continues.

Nice collection! I wish one day to get as many as you do but being uk based and late into the game is already a non start. Glad we've proved YouTube wrong, that's more than 2 copies in this thread alone XD

Absolutely! They've taken my money so it's just a waiting game now until they arrive. Hopefully I'll have them by the end of the month and I'll post up a sample.

Atari announces 500 developer units will be produced Atari then announces 500 developer units is about to be produced Atari announces 500 developer units is nearly at the point of being produced Atari announces that production is on hold due to manufacturing faults Atari announces that production of 500 developer units is to start being produced Digital trends announces that 500 units will possibly maybe who knows when might maybe be shipped by the end of June Have I just summed up the last 6 months of updates correctly.

Playstation might get away with it if they were really edgy like with their PS1 advertisements (think wipEout and other stuff!) I feel like Intellivision could be potentially creepy in a socially unexpected way. I mean Night Stalker, there is only a number of ways to interpret a name like that. Maybe Austin Powers meets Westworld, it could go either way! Maybe Sega could build a miniature park where the seats are designed for ferrets, but still only admit humans into it. Makes perfect business sense.

There's almost certainly more than 2. However, how many are known to be in collectors hands? I don't know. Would love for some AA'ers to out themselves as owners, I'd be surprised if there isn't at least two owners on here. That said, it is certainly one of the rarer games for the console, so owning it is already impressive.

Who said anything about Americans? Also, I mentioned software solutions as well. It doesn't have to mean that these things gets released in the west, they could just add it to their mega drive collection on steam... Just a waste of good IP, that the only thing some of these games are ending up on... is something completely useless. So yes, its frustrating.

There would literally be thousands of us who would be prepared to pay up to $50 to legally play games like the shining force game gear series on anything playable including steam. Hell, many of these games are already on things like the 3ds virtual console! It feels like a massive waste that the only product some of these games is being released on is a joke product. They could literally stick this on the existing collections which already includes some game gear games anyway,and charge us the usual going rate for individual games. Its like sega doesn't even want free money.

There is hope for it yet! Just the waiting game on the multicards now (they've taken my money so they must have started them!) but I've already started designing some 'mini games' for that zelda feel which can benefit from the variations that will be available. I'll experiment with the switches to see if we can find any new types too to take advantage of.

So we finally get all the shining force game gear games rereleased, and the screen is how small?!? Given they were not all translated, OK there is CD but final conflict never was - it would be curious if it did find itself outside of Japan. Its only saving grace would be a TV out cable, hell even if its composite only. The big screen accessory seems an amusing throwback similar to the tower thing for the mega drive... But why micro it that small. I mean half the total games are rpgs of some description, how is anyone going to read it? So 1) it's too small 2) many games were never released in English, so chances of western release unlikely 3) pushing the big screen accessory likely means no TV out 4) we would totally pay the price of all four for one version that was readable and had a bigger library, or some way of adding more. It could probably get away with filling it with all the sonic spin off games and anything else sega still owns. Shame. English and TV out and I would buy the shining force one.

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More than 0 but less than 500. If they've found refinements to the manufacturing process, it means they made one and it didn't work, so now they are fixing it. Yet again blaming the Chinese supply chain even though it hasn't been effected for months.

Although the games might remain compatable with new consoles. The consoles themselves may reach retro status. There was something the other day about original x box live features being rebuilt to access specific things, and there is already fan operated servers for things like metal gear online even though Konami has killed it long ago. In that sense, some of them have probably already reached specialist status that might be more suited to someone who might be regarded as a vintage collector, as it requires some degree of specialist knowledge to bodge a system to think it's going to Konami.jp when instead it's heading somewhere else.

Not only this but if the rumours are true, even sega will get a new console to market before atari does! (sega are about to announce something big, and it's already rumoured they might be the name for x box in Japan).

I don't think anything that is normal sized carts have anything special, not even the Parker or imagic games as far as I'm aware. You have the chess module with the big brick that is supposed to sit on top of your machine awkwardly though. Guess the one ozyr mentioned might be the only one. I don't think there is anything limiting a dpc+ style system for a new cart, it's just not been developed enough to warrant it. The keyboard capability might make it attractive for some unique features I guess.

I think the definition by culture is also a noteworthy mention, if only to try and avoid it being solidified as a way of classification. Don't get me wrong, I was the sega equivalent to a Nintendoid growing up, and there is plenty of 2600 fan boys here who will gloss over the fact the channel F did most things first, but we are defined largely by nostalgia and our own age or availability. There was an article the other day about a guy who's girlfriend thought she recognised the American snes model "except black" turns out it was a Bulgarian nes clone that looked like a mega drive, but she had the same nostalgia feel as anyone else gets over their selected nintendo/sega/atari machine. I don't think sega or atari fans drown out the rest in the way Nintendo ones do though, I'd trust them more to give an honest account of competitors. So many "history of gaming" series focuses firstly on some atari or arcade classics before juggernauting into hours of nes content. I think we'll start to see better recognised categorisation in this decade as we start hitting 50 years.

Ps2 games still make a decent shelf space in high Street shops in the UK that sell games. X box don't get the same love. Interestingly gamecube is starting to downgrade despite (or rather because) high prices. When I was still in the job of selling them, ps2 consoles were a good cheap device to sell people who just want 30 minutes of fun without the hassle of the internet or online gaming.

Awhile ago I posted this: I think most of it is still relevant. The only way to get out the use of retro or modern labelling is to create more relevant labels. I still struggle with what ps2 type consoles should come under, but I think they aren't generally used now by anyone but collectors. Maybe the odd person still using them as dvd players.

I'll see if I can convince the wife and son to play while I hold the pac man character XD next time the odyssey is booted up for sure. I just don't think my son would keep to the boundaries of the walls

Purely speculation but probably money. Its one of the later numbers, but then you had the 7400 games. You also have the design documents to essentially make a nes(ish, maybe closer to 7800 released games) styled sequel console. There was certainly enough fight in them even at the introduction of intellivision and colecovision to try and stay in the market. Being a title people wouldn't normally know about, it might have been dirt cheap to produce. It might also be a simple fact that it was easy to replicate, it fits well with the system. I couldn't imagine donkey kong being produced, the 2600 was far too important not to produce for, but the poor videopac had no chance. Maybe it was a test case, if it had done well they might have attempted bigger licences. Shame really, despite the graphics being dull as hell, it's enjoyable and one I often pick up and play.