If I had a spare £7,000

Mr Vengeance

I've always been very interested in Darxide on the 32X. I'm a bit of a history buff in general, and the history of video games also interests me. I find the who Sega in the early to mid-90's fiasco to be particularly interesting.

That a game like Darxide even made it out - an exclusive game for an add-on system that was failing badly, which came out at the end of its very short life exclusively in Europe makes it the thing of legend in my view. I do believe it was originally intended as a Neptune launch title. I really want a copy some day...... I win the lottery!

o1s1n

Texture mapped polygons dude, texture mapped!

I'd love a copy of it myself. But it's only going to happen if I find the thing in a charity shop.

Mr.Saturn

Mr Vengeance wrote: »

I find the who Sega in the early to mid-90's fiasco to be particularly interesting.

It is something of a brilliant thing, made all the more brilliant by the fact that, at one stage, they were just about winning the war with SNES. That's a feck-up that takes active, prolonged effort.

Also, if we had £7,000, we'd be millionaires.

Mr Vengeance

o1s1n wrote: »

Texture mapped polygons dude, texture mapped!



I'd love a copy of it myself. But it's only going to happen if I find the thing in a charity shop.

I'd likely pass out if I found one in a charity shop! Could you imagine if you found a box-load of them in an old warehouse or something? Or a box of Euro Kizuno Encounter carts?



I'd feel pretty bad though about paying a few quid for a Darxide or the like from a Charity shop.... though I'm sure I'd get over it!

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

It is something of a brilliant thing, made all the more brilliant by the fact that, at one stage, they were just about winning the war with SNES. That's a feck-up that takes active, prolonged effort.

Also, if we had £7,000, we'd be millionaires.

Nintendo are trying their best recently to pull a similar stunt to mid-90s Sega. Case in point:




Sony was also at it with the launch of the PS3, but after they redesigned the machine, stuck it back out at a knock down price and got some games out for it they've done quite well...... lets hope Nintendo can recover and regain their crown as one of the best video games companies in the world.

Warren3

o1s1n wrote: »

Texture mapped polygons dude, texture mapped!

I'd love a copy of it myself. But it's only going to happen if I find the thing in a charity shop.

Or a car boot sale. There is no way I could justify that amount of cash. The most I have paid for a game was £80 each for The Wily wars and Metal Slug AES converstion and I thought that was a awful lot.

Pyongyang

Warren3 wrote: »

The most I have paid for a game was £80 for Metal Slug AES converstion and I thought that was a awful lot.

:eek:

Umm... was that CIB? If so you got the bargain of the millenium.

o1s1n

Ah an AES Metal Slug conversion isn't too much I don't think. It's only the real deal that costs about two grand.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah an AES Metal Slug conversion isn't too much I don't think. It's only the real deal that costs about two grand.

Ah I read that as the AES home version. By conversion we're talking about MVS boards stuffed in to an AES cassette?

o1s1n

Yep! An MVS cart converted to look like an AES home cart.

Warren3

Pyongyang wrote: »

:eek:

Umm... was that CIB? If so you got the bargain of the millenium.

Yep both CIB. It took and few months of shopping about but the bargains are out there. Got the Wily Wars from Germany and the Metal Slug was uk based

WastedSpace

If I had a spare £7k I'm sure there's many things I could buy. But I don't

Either way that's pretty cool!

Warren3

Just put a £500 bid on the games and was instantly declined.

That was my limit

o1s1n

I see he has 12 declined offers. It's such a shame you can't see the amounts.

Warren3

That would be a great idea so if I saw someone had put a bid of £750 in I would not bother bidding but it sort of turns into an auction then does it not??

o1s1n

Warren3 wrote: »

That would be a great idea so if I saw someone had put a bid of £750 in I would not bother bidding but it sort of turns into an auction then does it not??

Well an auction has a set time and people bid until that time.

With offers like this the seller decides at what price he wishes to let it go.

I think the offers are hidden as it makes people offer more.

Think about it, if you could see the offers, and saw loads of rejected ones around €500, you're probably going to offer something just a little bit above that figure. And maybe the seller will just give in and accept it as it's the best offer he's been given.

I think when you can't see the other offers it creates an illusion that there must be huge ones, so people may offer a lot higher.

That's the only reason I can see for hiding them really. Making more money for sellers (and ebay).

Warren3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320784962035?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1431.l2649

I bid £100 on this but it is going for a crazy price!!!

o1s1n

Holy crap, tell me that was you who got that for £400?! :eek:

Pyongyang

You can still buy the boxed edition if you didn't win the loose cart!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DARXIDE-Sega-32x-megadrive-SUPER-ULTRA-RARE-/320780719788

Warren3

o1s1n wrote: »

Holy crap, tell me that was you who got that for £400?! :eek:

Sorry no chance £400 for a cart only!!.

I am sure another one will come up soon

Warren3

Pyongyang wrote: »

You can still buy the boxed edition if you didn't win the loose cart!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DARXIDE-Sega-32x-megadrive-SUPER-ULTRA-RARE-/320780719788

Yeah saw this as well. It is from the same guy selling the cart

o1s1n

He also sold this lot for $365 because of Kolibri -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320755831730

God damn it, I still cry whenever I think about passing up a Kolibri cart on ebay for €30