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Jinroh

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  1. Great stuff Lance! 🙂

    Would be interesting to see what comes of those EPROMs. 🙂 Wonder why the Touchdown Football is labeled so late if it's NTSC. Maybe someone actually made it more fun? 😛

    Sending the defective carts to South America is bleh, not something I agree with, but in the Tramiel mindset, it keeps from having to destroy them, and how can you get bad press for a bugged game pre-internet if it's all the way down in South America, I'm sure that crossed their minds.

    The monitor EPROM maybe is a code debugger of some kind of burn in or test cart, who knows. 😛

    Interesting stuff as usual. ❤️

  2. Very good ideas Lance! The solar charger is a good idea. Weird about the uneven battery discharge though. 🤔

    I don't vape, but I have some rechargeable vape batteries I planned on doing something with years ago, those could be used in a series with a circuit to run a Lynx I think. They are 5v each so they would work nicely I think with a custom barrel connector to slide into the Lynx. 

    Charging, could also be done with a crank charger. One of those could be built with junk drawer stuff. Geared DC motor, voltage regulator, capacitors, etc.

    During Hurricane Floyd in 2003 I think it was, I had my Sega Genesis Nomad and its battery pack. That lasted me well enough to play Sonic 3 for a while. 😄

     

  3. On 8/19/2023 at 6:18 PM, Video 61 said:

    Next time we talk about money laundering an entire company  :nintendo_professor_hector:

    The juiciest details. 😛

    15 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    Im guilty of this but I'm trying to remedy that.  I may have a channel but I haven't posted anything in a long time.  My need for games to be in fancy boxes is nothing more than a want for a complete in box game.  It is easier to obtain the game by itself and get the PDF version of the instructions but I all about the physical contact and trying to experience areas I missed as a kid. I am referring to old stock new in box and complete in box games.  I am not referring to homebrew games.

    There is nothing wrong with that, they look great. 🙂 Social media and the companies like Limited Run Games, and New Atari, are feeding into the FOMO culture we have right now. If you don't get it NOW! You'll lose out! Ebay, FB, marketplace, etc. they fall into that too, everything old is rare, even if it's not. Just to get an artificial value to something. "ATARI 2600 COMBAT CART! RARE!! VITNAGE!!! L@@K!!" -Buy It Now  $1000! 

    So people willingly pay for something that they will think is premium.

     

    Some of these limited editions though are they really limited? Some seem to be like "It's limited to how much money we can milk you for, then we'll stop making them." Others it's like limited to what, 50,000 copies? 100,000?


    Is it really that rare then? 😛

  4. 3 hours ago, Video 61 said:

    hi @Jinroh yeah! thanks and im glad you remember the days when they did that! I mean here’s my thing about packaging today: when i release a new game for an Atari system I keep prices down to make it affordable for me to make and you to buy. some new games are $50-$60 dollars if not more and not everybody can afford that. Jack Tramiel would say they make computers "for the masses, not the classes". And when I put out a game and keep the costs low, they scream about my boxes and scream about my clamshells but what about a CD rom jewel case? that thing's under a buck. It’s got a little glossy thing in it but it’s real small. Some manufacturers only have a glossy picture of the game on the front not on the back. This obsession with fancy glossy boxes and packaging, its fine and looks nice but you have to have the numbers for that, a lot of numbers sold, to keep the cost down. otherwise people are paying $50 and there's not much left for the developer to survive.

    Yes especially when you need to split the cost among a bunch of people, that extra stuff adds up.

    The most vocal collectors seem to be Youtubers who want fancy games to look good on camera or in their shelf. So that probably drove things that way.

    Sure they can afford it, but I sure can't most of the time. Growing up I'd buy maybe one new game a year brand new. The rest, I'd grab the cheap used copies the video store was liquidating.

    CD-ROMs is a good point. One reason the Playstation PSX beat the N64 in sales. I remember PSX games were like $30-40 since they were CD-ROMs, and N64 games could be upwards of $70 because they were on cartridge. I would only get a new N64 game very rarely. $70 in 1996 that's like $136 for a game today. Luckily the video store had $10 and $20 N64 games back then. 

  5. Great info as always @Video 61 I always love reading about your tales from the trenches. 😉 I remember the days of ziploc backs pinned to the board at the computer store too with a photocopied sheet with a 5.25" floppy in there. I really lilke your packaging. 🙂 It's unique and fun. 

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