(from the article)
"accusations were actually raised against one American magazine for leaking a Biohazard 2 beta."
that made me ^__^
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(from the article)
"accusations were actually raised against one American magazine for leaking a Biohazard 2 beta."
that made me ^__^
I know a couple of guys who have prototypes that they can't even talk about. If word got out that they were leaked, it would probably turn into a situation where the person who hooked up the guys I know would get fired or worse.
A lot of console prototypes and dev and test gear comes from former magazine reviewers. I got an unreleased Genesis game (Payne Stewart Golf) and two unreleased Game Gear games (Berlin Wall and Street Hero) from Shane Bettenhausen from EGM. I sold Payne Stewart to a friend, but I have both GG games. He didn't even bend me over for them... all three cost $125.
I also have a Genesis dev cart called CHEATA (Chuck's Excellent Art Took Animator) and two unreleased NES games, Airball and Star Trek 5. They'd all be dumped, but I am quite possibly the laziest person on earth. I have a Turok 3 proto for N64 (lawl) and a Famicom Wideboy, which is a dev board that lets you play GB games on a Famicom, and in turn, a top loading NES. I also have a bag of dev NES stuff (empty boards, empty cases) too.
And then there is Assembler. Who sold his car to finance all the crap he bought from the Acclaim bankruptcy auction. Stacks and stacks of test units. Protos. You don't know how pissed I was that I had to travel for work that I missed that. And of course DreamTR, who has over 1000 protos for various systems. He probably has 100+ unreleased games and god knows what else that he can't talk about because he doesn't want to mess up his career.
We're talking about the British mag Retro Gamer, right? I haven't seen the latest issue here, and now I really want to read that article.
People with unreleased Genesis games they can't talk about make me a sad panda. :(
The Assembler message boards always struck me as some kind of rich inner circle for people to really piss away their money.Quote:
Originally Posted by portnoyd
but in a cool and interesting way that i like to read about
I have traded with ASSEMbler several times over at GTZ. I always love talking to that guy.
It was a really good issue, you should pick it up (or if you need help, pm me).Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
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RE: "They should dump the romz or they're losers, etc.":
Why should anyone be obligated to give away what he/she worked hard to put together and paid a lot of money for?
If I have a really nice house with stuff in it that not a lot of people would ever have access to, do I have let homeless people live there?
Pretty much the single most reaching analogy I've ever heard.
It's more a matter of the game having a greater chance of simply ceasing to be if it isn't released. It's not a matter of laziness or ignorance on the owner if he wrote mame drivers for the damn thing.
no, but you do let them handle and try to ruin said hard to find stuff.
Can I use your Brett Hull CD as a hockey puck?
PLEASE????!!!
Chances are, people who have this stuff have other collector friends that they trade with in order to assure there are a number of backups around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
They don't have to give out roms just because the technology is available and people want it.
No just the cart.Quote:
Originally Posted by JesusC