Makismo
Ghost of Captain Kidd


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- May 14, 2002
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Dion Dakis, the self proclaimed pseudo god of the Neo Geo Freaks. The only thing he really is - is a con artist pure and simple. Let's take a trip down memory lane. Remember when he sold King of Fighters 2000 English version. He bought the copies up and produced his own inserts and instruction manuals for the game and kept the originals for himself. Thus ruining the value of the game. Big question - does it really matter? Do you buy the game for the game or for the art? If he has enough money to buy all the carts why can't he put his logo all over it? SNK did not say that he could put his own inserts and manuals on it thus people were angered. Some people buy Neo and paint them different colors without SNK's permission - who is to say that Dion Dakis can't do this as well. Does painting the carts ruin their value? Oh course! But that is your game and you can do whatever you want to it. Those were Dion's games, thus he can do whatever he wants with them. He wanted to put his own labels on it to show his superiority over everyone. To show that you are buying his games and that even though he plastered his logos on them, you would still buy them. He could have just sold them the way he got them but didn't because he believes he is the Neo Geo god and wants you to believe that as well. However, passing off a bootleg as the original is illegal. If you bought a ball signed by Babe Ruth and learned that it wasn't the real deal you would go into riggers. It is sad that the one guy who is rich enough to buy thousands of Neo Geo games would use his wealth to destroy the sancitiy of the games. Why counldn't he fight to actually bring these games out and not just sell bootlegs for more than they are worth? The answer - He is an evil man who only wishes to fill his pocket books with gold at your expense and doesn't really care about you or the Neo Geo at all. You are the means to an end to him - that is all. In the real world there are good people who actually care and there are bad people who pretend to care but really have their own agenda. He is a master showman, a propagantist, he is slick and smooth as a night crawler on a humid summer night. In conclusion - the road to Hell is paved with gold. Beware...
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