The best Game.com thread EVER!
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GameStop would probably buy one from someone for 1 cent and then try to sell it for $60.
lions3
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It was sitting against the back wall. I asked the guy behind the counter to pull it down just cus of this thread. I asked how much. He had no clue. I joked that I would give him $5. The guy spend the next 10 minutes looking up info on the system. He was laughing about the system being out for 3 years and having a total of 20 games. Plus the fact that an adapter existed for getting this device online.. There was even a text only browser. WTF.
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For your viewing pleasure I found this today. Haha
That store has had a funny smell for weeks. Now I know why.
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Pretty sad he couldn't come up with a price even using online if he could figure out it lasted 3 years and barely had games released for it. 20 games, 3 years...hell the Virtual Boy was like 8 months (seriously) and got 14 (USA) or 22 (including JPN) game releases and it wasn't even loaded with shitty titles either.
I meant it though days ago, for the god awful novelty of it if I ever found one of those things excessively cheap I would buy it just for the experience of it all. I know it's terrible, but you know a LOT of people consider Japanese monster movies god awful too and I can't get enough of Godzilla movies for over 20-25 years now.
I meant it though days ago, for the god awful novelty of it if I ever found one of those things excessively cheap I would buy it just for the experience of it all. I know it's terrible, but you know a LOT of people consider Japanese monster movies god awful too and I can't get enough of Godzilla movies for over 20-25 years now.
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Oh man, if you come down for CAX again next year Kid Panda and stay again we might need to fire it up.
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This, although for a retail location I might go higher. Any store that has to "look up" the price of something on the internet can fuck off, you know how much you paid for it and what profit margin you like your store to have.
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100% agreed and that's basically my policy on any store when it comes to games or in general various stuff. If they don't price it, and you see them check ebay or worse yet the very broken video game price charts website tell them don't bother to waste their time if you catch it and just walk away. With ebay+amazon they'll look for the highest paid value some collectard did despite condition. And the VGPC algorithm is broken (jj admits it openly in the past) because it can't see the condition of a game or account for any extras short of a 'CIB/Complete' setup which is drops into that next scale they do (and then new/sealed.)
If the guy should take what he paid +25% ...$1.25? I'd do that.
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Hyperscan > Game.com
Tanooki
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Wow a game.com raffle?!
I don't do youtube, hate being on camera, but something that god awful I think would be pretty amusing to attempt a review of, just need to find a few games for it to really understand the depths. Seems they're worth like $5/ea on most of them on ebay.
I don't do youtube, hate being on camera, but something that god awful I think would be pretty amusing to attempt a review of, just need to find a few games for it to really understand the depths. Seems they're worth like $5/ea on most of them on ebay.
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lions3
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It just got real boys and girls. A RAFFLE is now setup for one lucky winner!
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?268356-Game-com-Handheld-White-Elephant-Raffle
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?268356-Game-com-Handheld-White-Elephant-Raffle
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hahahaha, this is great!
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I'm sure the Game.com isn't as bad as people say it is. Judging by the video reviews, the only significant flaw with the original system is the super ghosty screen, which granted is terrible, but maybe the later versions are better. The games all seem kinda lame, but you can't disagree that they're better than Tiger's usual LCD game fare.
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Did you end up buying the system from the store?
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O man I cant wait to see the video from the winner!
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No, sorry really it is bad. The screen is poor, the buttons flat and cheap with little press, and the games awful. I think objectivity solitaire and lights out are the best games on the system. Not to spoil the excitement of the raffle winner, but anything resembling action gameplay is unplayable. I was really excited for this system, and the screenshots on the back of the boxes looked promising... But the actual games played nothing like you expected or wanted to ever experience on your worst enemy.
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Maybe I'm off base here, I haven't even touched one before I don't believe. But if someone went into this expecting a Tiger LCD game more than a Gameboy game shouldn't you be setting the bar pretty well for what to expect? A lot of the LCD games were not great or even good, serviceable, but the few that took the right liberties or played to that limited panel/buttons well were fun in small bursts.
I'm a bit of a sadist I guess as i can not resist picking up stupid Tiger handheld games when I find them. I usually get them and sell them after awhile, but I have a few I just don't let go of. Recently I got rid of Street Fighter II which I almost second thought out of but it got bought as it was so bad it was good in how it was limited, but I've also sold others like Ninja Gaiden (good, but not great) and some bad ones too. Recently for a dollar I grabbed the old blue pinball one and it's overly basic. Yet I have had for awhile with the manuals Castlevania II, Karnov, and Baseball. Without manuals I have Mega Man II, and the super sound(better audio) Sub Wars. They're all unique and take liberties on the NES ports but they actually can be fun, and the sub war one is actually a blast as you hunt down other subs, have a really cool sonar to ping, and can repair damage and throw up a shield at the cost of some energy making for a challenging game on that one near old 1st year gameboy basic quality.
I'm a bit of a sadist I guess as i can not resist picking up stupid Tiger handheld games when I find them. I usually get them and sell them after awhile, but I have a few I just don't let go of. Recently I got rid of Street Fighter II which I almost second thought out of but it got bought as it was so bad it was good in how it was limited, but I've also sold others like Ninja Gaiden (good, but not great) and some bad ones too. Recently for a dollar I grabbed the old blue pinball one and it's overly basic. Yet I have had for awhile with the manuals Castlevania II, Karnov, and Baseball. Without manuals I have Mega Man II, and the super sound(better audio) Sub Wars. They're all unique and take liberties on the NES ports but they actually can be fun, and the sub war one is actually a blast as you hunt down other subs, have a really cool sonar to ping, and can repair damage and throw up a shield at the cost of some energy making for a challenging game on that one near old 1st year gameboy basic quality.