JoeAwesome
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Imagine thinking this statement in a social situation came from a well-adjusted adult.
Puzzle I II III Revolution - weird Puzzle de Pon R variant?
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Imagine thinking this statement in a social situation came from a well-adjusted adult.
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Just making a general statement of dislike of this hypothetical distributor. I think you're taking this a bit too seriously.
I had one of the Bang Progress kits, and I have to say I was not a fan.
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Well-adjusted adults create reddit cry threads about the hyphen.
JoeAwesome
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You think I’m taking this a bit too seriously?
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I can honestly barely imagine talking about MVS kits "in a social situation." This is an old gaming forum ffs. What are we supposed to talk about?
JoeAwesome
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Same shit, different day.
The answer, of course, is more Turfy strats.
The answer, of course, is more Turfy strats.
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No, I'm just trying to be funny now. I am still stuck at home with covid and you guys are too goddamn serious. At least wyo gets it.
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What's the isolation story - is that still a thing in america? Or just self imposed?
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Nah, nothing official. I took two weeks off to spend with family. I have two brothers in town for the first time in a year. I spent one day with them (asymptomatic and unaware) and got my mom sick. I've been isolating from them since, so nothing to do with my time now but sit around sick.
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If you count your SHOCK T2 that makes five like @mmsadda had mentioned. kind of interesting. Unless there's more of these things. I noticed four have serials and one does not which would make me think it was different people, unless he just got lazy. ( I'm also assuming all the serials are the same)
SHOCK T2 (SERIAL)
PUZZLE I II III REVOLUTION (SERIAL)
MR. DODO (SERIAL)
CONCORDE B STAR
BANG PROGRESS (SERIAL)
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The fact that 3 of the games are Visco games also seems notable.
Notable of what, I have no idea, but it seems odd that if you threw darts and picked 5 random Neo Geo games that you'd end up with 3 from Visco.
Turned up these eBay photos of a Mr. Dodo kit
picclick.es
And this listing for a Concord B. Star kit
offerup.com
I'm surprised this stuff flew under my radar for basically forever, plenty of info of these existing out there. Just limited info/speculation on the why they exist.
Notable of what, I have no idea, but it seems odd that if you threw darts and picked 5 random Neo Geo games that you'd end up with 3 from Visco.
Turned up these eBay photos of a Mr. Dodo kit
Mr Dodo / Neo Mr Do Neo Geo Mvs Full Kit 100% Original Snk! • EUR 249,99
MR DODO / Neo Mr Do Neo Geo Mvs Full Kit 100% Original Snk! - EUR 249,99. ¡EN VENTA! It's original 100% SNK. I'm selling MR DODO / NEO MR DO FULL KIT for Neo Geo Mvs. It's original 100% SNK. The game is legit 100% official SNK. Here in Europe the dealer replaced (only for 5 games) cartridge...
And this listing for a Concord B. Star kit
NeoGeo Rare- Concorde-B-Star-Blazing-Star-MVS Kit for Sale in Beverly Hills, CA - OfferUp
Open Box (never used), Concorde-B-Star-Blazing-Star-English-MVS Kit Mint condition Official EPROMs- check against - MVS Excellent- English cartridge. Has unofficial label applied over the original label. This is one of the rare instances where they didn't remove the original label and just...
I'm surprised this stuff flew under my radar for basically forever, plenty of info of these existing out there. Just limited info/speculation on the why they exist.
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The same distributor, or more than one distributor doing similar things.
There must have been some reason it made sense for someone to do this. You would think it wouldn't be beneficial to trick operators into buying the games, since you'd end up with unhappy customers. Maybe these new titles make more sense to French speakers or in another language or something?
There must have been some reason it made sense for someone to do this. You would think it wouldn't be beneficial to trick operators into buying the games, since you'd end up with unhappy customers. Maybe these new titles make more sense to French speakers or in another language or something?
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In keeping with our wildly speculative bullshit, the few of these carts I've had seemed to come predominantly out of Italy.
Hell, I thought the first known copies of Bang Bead to make it into collectors'/gamers' hands were Bang Progress carts out of Italy back in the day.
I used to think it was done to drum up interest in harder to sell games, but now think it makes more sense that this was done to make titles more appealing or sensible in another language (again, I assume Italian)
Hell, I thought the first known copies of Bang Bead to make it into collectors'/gamers' hands were Bang Progress carts out of Italy back in the day.
I used to think it was done to drum up interest in harder to sell games, but now think it makes more sense that this was done to make titles more appealing or sensible in another language (again, I assume Italian)
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Is it possible this was done to skirt some regulation? (Somebody couldn't sell certain titles in a territory, so they retitled them.)
This thread ended up being more informative, and more amusing than I ever imagined. Come for the games, stay for the drama. Thanks everyone.
This thread ended up being more informative, and more amusing than I ever imagined. Come for the games, stay for the drama. Thanks everyone.
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I think it's more than speculation: I don't know what was his source, but FTL once wrote in this forum that those carts were relabeled and sold at ENADA - a big coin-op expo here in Italy. I own a full Bang Progress kit, directly purchased from an arcade operator, and I've recently got a Concorde B. Star box with the purchase of some MVS carts from a guy (one of those is indeed a Blazing Star cart, but I'll never know if it came from that kit). Looks like we're the source of the Evil.
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Man I just got to this thread and I'm glad the autism still runs strong @ neo hyphen geo dot com. lmao
So bizarre that a distributor went through all that trouble but it kinda makes sense to me. I think what probably happened is that those games were poorly or not distributed in Italy, and when a distributor came across those kits for cheap they were already old news for operators who had SNK print material. So they just made new names and labels for them so no operator would be averse to ordering "old" games.
...at least until they saw the different title screen name and copyright date but then it would be too late, lol.
So bizarre that a distributor went through all that trouble but it kinda makes sense to me. I think what probably happened is that those games were poorly or not distributed in Italy, and when a distributor came across those kits for cheap they were already old news for operators who had SNK print material. So they just made new names and labels for them so no operator would be averse to ordering "old" games.
...at least until they saw the different title screen name and copyright date but then it would be too late, lol.