Mikebloke

I think we can do better than that. Xbox 1st X

Seems really cool even if they are just the old disk versions, but I try to avoid buying outside of steam because I forget they exist!

I'll buy 19 off you.

Cool ill join if I can

Thanks! Time to dig out my wallet again...

1) Fix their games 2) Rehire Obsidian to make a sequel to New Vegas 3) ??? 4) Profit!

I'm genuinely impressed that a mailing list in 1993 had 2,000 people on it! Especially for the Turbografx! I have to admit I haven't tested my blazing lasers yet on my system, which I'm 99% sure was originally a US version before being modded for RGB. I should probably do that sometime. Its a shame about the OP, both bomberman games, Final Lap Twin, would love to own these games, but not particularly common complete availability for the UK (at least, not the US version).

Here in the UK, I still remember people raving about games like Morrowind and Fable being on a console, even though it was traditional PC territory, and I think that's the sort of reputation it grew on. There is actually a surprisingly good list of games for the system if you are looking at it from the time it was out, though now it might just be easier to get the PS2 versions in some cases. I remember the original controllers being too big to actually press the buttons but my hands have grown since then. My next door neighbour had one, and yes we did play halo on it. I personally think the Halo series is overrated, but it was still fairly fun to play. Personally it was out of my price range anyway, and as a now retro collector of it, its not one I seek games out for specifically. Its a rare day when it leaves its X box box. I do appreciate what it did though, I think the X box did "serve a purpose". 360 and the one though, I feel didn't really have a good reason to exist and I don't think either innovated anything other than the Kinnect (which ironically is non-existent for one use, but the 360 version sparked a massive software drive and its applications outside of gaming is massive). 360 games seem to be more common and cheaper than their sony alternatives, but this just seems to be because X box people tend to happily upgrade and sell old stuff on, giving a higher market supply.

They should be forced to get name approval from a committee of retro enthusiasts and preservationists to ensure proper and clear referencing in ten years when it gets even more difficult to separate the X box series X with the X box 1 X and the the X box one from the X box 1 and the Xbox with the X box.

Thanks for this! I will admit I haven't looked at it since, and part of me is thinking of just replacing the top case with my working one and switch the controller cases, but this will go a long way into solving the problem. Thanks again.

People have more interesting lives than me

I did wonder if the recent recognition of Jerry Lawson has contributed to some of the price hikes. He's had his name mentioned a good number of times now. I'm still convinced it's all scalpers hoping to get some poor sucker to pay a few thousand dollars for a game that used to go for under 500 in a near complete library set.

Just checked my own emails and apparently I sold acey deucey boxed for £5 last year. Sucks to be me! Lol!

Edit: sorry I read it as 11 to 15 not 11 and 15... Ignore most of the below... Haha! About £10 a game loose for those numbers. Baseball is nearly as common as blackjack, and sonar/robot war doesn't tend to command much more. Backgammon sometimes gets more money. You might get more in the current climate but unboxed they won't command much more I would have thought. No. 15 as you say is rarer. However, it regularly flips from being low priced to higher priced. Unboxed you might start at £20 and do it as a bid. It's not as uncommon as people think, supply is low but so is demand. Again, current prices might be higher. If you sell put it as an auction and see how it goes. Could always take the risk of putting them in one sale and slap a $100 $50 starting bid.

Still three days to add a bid lol. I'd be interested to see if it gets the same level of stupidity of bidders this time round. I'll be honest if I was going to sell, I'd sell now. I forgot to check it out but I think there has been some SABA and the Swedish one going recently and I don't think they've been commanding the same prices. So what is it about the regular Fairchild/Zircon ones that seems to be attracting so much attention.

Wish I could help as it would be interesting information to know. In my own searches only the really big hitter hucards tend to have numbers available, usually when they had a big advertising campaign in Japan. That might be another place to start to see if figures are available for the bigger ones. They sold a good few million consoles, so I imagine some games went into 6 figures... You'd hope. We never got any games officially released here in the UK (blazing lasers as a pack in game technically is the only one) but the import scene was big, and often related to Japanese games just as much as English translations from the states. For the UK the pc engine / turbografx scene was probably similar sized to the snk import scene, it was well established and console sales and parts/repair were commonly available. Japanese consoles were more sought after than American ones as they'd need power converters and different tvs anyway. This doesn't help in the slightest but it does show that enough was produced in Japan that a significant number found its way to Europe. I think some of the other countries (usuals, Spain, France, Italy and Germany) had pc engine interests as well. I think topics elsewhere cover this part of the pc engine history outside of Japan, I downloaded an old import catalogue at some point so those are still available for viewing 30 years later.

I'd be fine with it being unfolded too, I'd happily pay any extra cost for shipping to UK if its more for being 'bigger'.

Good to know it's a UK one at least! I'm based in the UK too BTW, though I imagine some foreign units finds its way here time to time. I might try unscrewing it all, I notice the leakage has possibly gone down one of the holes on that daughter board to the main one underneath, I'll try and work out if that has gone onto anything important. With a bit of fiddling I have found I crash to green screen a little more often.

Yes, I believe most if not all pal units come with this "daughter" board as described in other threads. It's a bit of a curious one, if player 1 starts the soccer game it's possible to play an entire game and not have a problem.. Homebrew games seem to work well other than the colour issues. Interestingly the start screen appears to work in standard pal colours but need to double check later when I fish my current system out of storage.

Hi everyone. I've tried scouring the forum for some insight in some issues with an ebay purchase I recently grabbed. I'll include some pictures too. I grabbed this one because: 1) it had a box and I wanted a box 2) my rf wire is dodgy and I don't think it was original anyway, I often used my 7800 wire but it pops out the back of the intellivision because its not intended for it. 3) mine has a big fat 2 labelled on it with permanent marker. Not sure why! 4) controllers looked nicer 5) possibly good for modding composite. It did come untested without a power wire, that's fine I have about a dozen I can use. It does boot up, and some games work perfectly fine, but most don't. Sometimes the colours are way off, pink instead of white, red instead of green. Take soccer for example as pictured. Moving right controller on the start screen sometimes resolves the palette or at least gets it closer. Often it just crashes to the fabled green screen of death. Some components have appeared to leaked. Gentle tugging of wires doesn't appear to change any result. I do have a multimeter available, I'm just not technical enough to know where to stick it! Any help appreciated to get this back into working order. MOV_0607.mp4

Mario Karts blue shell is a big one, because in most games its virtually unstoppable. In fact it's sometimes better to slow down to also hit people behind you so you both start at 0mph. It's not just online it ruins, it ruins single player too. Some of the MK games has such strong requirements to getting new stuff unlocked that getting 2nd in one race prevents you getting the top points awarded (looking at you, mario kart 8). Anything total reversal in mario party is equally sucky. I wouldn't be happy with that either. I find they were always poorly optimised for pal as well (not an issue these days but back on gamecube..) Command and conquer 4 limiting number of units and following dawn of war style capture points mechanics. Destroyed the franchise, only just been partially recovered with the remaster of TD and RA1.

There was something like this in India years and years ago, but without the VR.

That's what I meant. Thank you.

Alright which ten of you bidded more than $100 for something worth about $50. I think we can officially confirm that the channel F scene has gone silly.

Finished Frostpunk (PC) last night, as the last dlc came out. I will probably achievement hunt for the last ones I need, after I get the last two for Gemcraft Frostborn Wrath (PC) which I technically finished ages ago but just need to finish the trial levels.