Mikebloke

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.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary (can you believe its today!?) of the original Puck/Pac man location testing, on 22nd of May 1980, I am releasing my latest Magnavox Odyssey homebrew Puck Man! With everything going on the Odyssey homebrew scene, and myself ordering a set of multicards for the system I hadn't had time to focus on my own projects, but this was one I was inadvertently started recently, thinking about what other games could be done with the limitations of the system. I also wanted to poke a little fun at what kind of game could be multiplayer but potentially socially distancing compliant (an oxymoron?!) The Odyssey controllers have fairly long wires, so you could actually do this... This may also be the first 3 player Odyssey game (quote me if I'm wrong!) I've attached the ruleset, some overlays (including an enlarged version) and the "accessory" you will need to attach to something so you can use it as a pointer to indicate the position of Puck Man. This is a little bit of fun, so not to be taken too seriously! As this is a licensed franchise of Namco, I will not be selling any copies of this. There is other users who do produce physical copies of homebrew who might be able to make one for you at cost, as long as they make it clear the price is to produce the box and overlay, and not the sale of Namco's owned content. Pac man is a trademark of Namco, blady blah blah etc you get the picture. * PS: With the above stuff going on and Ramadan still ongoing, I've had to rush some of this. I have also moved from windows 8 to 10 with a new laptop, and switched from openoffice to Office2019 (wow, I feel human again!) I also tried to manually make a maze, but realised it would be better to just use a grid based program to "paint" a maze with objects. This also means I can adapt and include a number of mazes quickly, which I might well do in a few days for some maze variation. Some of what I've uploaded might need tidying up so I will attempt to do that too. I have not tested the sizes yet on a real tv, but followed the same sizing as my other homebrew game. I will check into real sizes another time, but wanted this out before the day was done! Puck Man (Odyssey) Demake.odt

16,500 pretty rubbish at this game.

18000 exactly!

Jaguar in the UK with 5 games, think 4 was boxed went for £225 recently. I did consider bidding on it but my own little project was potentially going to put me in the red after having to buy a new laptop, so I didn't bid. The seller had 0 rep as it was a new account that probably helped it a lot. Normally sellers expect that for a damaged boxed jaguar, sometimes not even complete or with cybermorth. Regarding younger collectors, I'm afraid to say there is still very committed collectors. There is one kid I know who delights in telling me about his jaguar knowing its the only retro system he has that I don't (outside a nuon, neo geo aes, it's the only retro console I don't have!), he will stupidly follow my footsteps and try to find and buy everything. A few more people I know are being smart and only collecting for one system or company (good luck Nintendoids!). I feel I may well wait, generate a good pit of money and one day try and go for a bigger set, perhaps including a CD, there have been times where it was possible but I chose to be sensible and keep my money. The price does limit, but apparently people still pay so it will still be awhile before I grab one.

As someone who has enough devices that use scart to fill that board I overwhelmingly approve. Can't believe new tvs no longer support it! I tried to do a similar shelving setup with something from aldi. It's essentially a 3x3 grid with the top three not split, so it's 6 boxes and a full row. That's good as a lot of the bigger stuff I have (like the g7000 videopac) doesn't fit in a cube. It's the first thing I've seen that did the job I wanted. I had thought about adding additional shelves as none of the consoles that do fit in the cubes need to be that big, I could easily double the capacity using that.

I would say so, but everyone has their own methods of systemising it. I track my collections by region of release, because with most consoles there is region locking, or games that didnt reach here in the UK, it wouldn't be games I was expected to find when they were released if they were only found in Germany for example. Chess for the channel F is a good case of this as it never officially released in English - slightly ironic perhaps as the F8 was specifically developed for such high level processes and was eventually used for many electronic chess games that released afterwards. The console was essentially a big advertisement banner to say "buy our chip!",which people ultimately did, just not for the console market. My spreadsheets is divided into: UK as that's where I live Europe - PAL games traditionally, many often are still in English. I might also include Australian in this United States - also in English, but from 3rd gen onwards has lockout Other - Japan being the obvious, but Brazil is also notable. My personal logic is to base it on my practical ability to play. My collections are based on them being practical and playable. If I ever buy anything sealed, it's going to be opened (scandalous!) thankfully everything produced on the channel F can be played on any clone or regional variation of the console, but I still divide by what region they released in. Most early consoles also had numbering systems for games, but atari dropped this logic. It also means that for those, any games without a number (democart for instance) which officially released, I don't consider it a true part of a gaming collection as it was never originally intended for retail sale - they sold the democart eventually to make up losses by selling stock they had, even if it was intended for stores to showcase. I may well buy one one day, but it'll only be a bonus for me personally and not an essential buy.

I'm pretty sure the turbografx mini was announced after atari started lying about production units being made. It's since produced and shipped their units, and still no sign of the ataribox 500 units getting to people it was 'intended' for. Konami is hardly a hardware powerhouse, quite the opposite it's gone from being a software powerhouse to a plinko machine maker. Konami has had a similar fall of disgrace to atari but it still produced a competent product. Konami might have some slight advantage regarding producing arcade and plinko machines but even that might have been contracted out.

If you were planning on selling it, I would probably be interested as I don't have gamecard 7 and 8 yet, but can't help with value. I imagine there is a couple of people who would buy it due to its rarity, but people like me would probably only buy it because we need the game cards! I'd be super curious if a value ever pops up somewhere regardless. I don't think I personally could justify a 3 figure number for it, but perhaps others can.

It was for initial numbers for ordering in bulk. By aiming to bulk buy a lot more than anyone originally perceived, I was able to get them cheaper than they normally would be. This in return allows more people to be in a position to afford one, or more in some people's case. Rather than only getting 20 produced and charging $40 each for example, I've got considerably more and charge $25 each instead for the same product. I've ordered double what has already been reserved, so there is plenty more available if anyone is late to the thread. My long term plan was if someone was discover this is 2 or 3 years time and ask "any left?!" I would be able to oblige with the same price, as it would have already been produced and I would have recouped most of the intial cost. While I've got a list of users and quantities, there is no danger of anyone missing out. I will also make sure everyone who has asked for some so far definitely have it reserved until they pay or tell me otherwise. If someone wanted a set of ten+ now though, I would have to go increase the production order (which would be simple enough given it hasn't started yet).

Its strange, pre-3 I'd have said GTA2, I had a love for it for quite awhile. The next one was Vice City, which was also the first (and only!) game I bought a console (brand new!) for. I do like San Andreas but I found out the hard way when I tried to escape PC version jittering that the PS2 version is in mono sound and is awful! A more powerful PC seemed to help a little but it still suffers from some issues. I was completely put off by IV, The immigrant-can-only-swear-in-english stereotype was too strong, the background story of the brothers is hinted at but never really explored meant they never got any serious character development, which is a shame because it seemed like it was ripe to create that scenario. The biker dlc was ok, but way too short, think it was like an hour or two? Then you had ballad of Gay Tony, wow! This is a DLC, this saved IV for me and it could well have been a full blown game in its own right. I've tried to play V, admittedly only on a 360, and it played well enough it wasn't like it was slow or anything, but I just got... bored. Maybe I've played too many games of the series now but something about it just doesn't catch my attention at all. I've had no urge to buy it on sale on other platforms.