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Like the title says, it's unused of course, been in a box for almost two decades and still smells like that solvent they used.

Don't think it's worth anything though.

Oh, it was a bargain alright. I think he had one or two copies left after that in his storage space of Sega swag he was cleaning out. Didn't try to hustle with the price or anything, just "$200 sound fair to you?" and that was it. Don't know if he even was into video games, maybe he was a lower level executive or something and just got a lot of free stuff.

Off topic: but the best deal I ever made was probably a Vectrex, in box, two controllers, overlays and five-six games with boxes. $25

It was from an old tv-repair shop(50's/60's) that had always been around, the owner died in 2000 I think, still running the shop up until then, and after that his daughters cleaned out the shop and sold the inventory. The Vectrex had sat on a shelf in the back for decades at that point and I had no idea what it was other than it looked neat. Maybe if someone manufactures an A4 sized 4k display with HDR it can emulate how cool a vector display looks.

Same here, $200 for a still shrink wrapped copy, but that was a whiiiiile ago. Dude who sold it had worked at Sega and found a bunch of stuff in boxes while moving around, nice guy, he threw in a bunch of beta/RC discs of various things as well.

There's only two games that I regret buying, Section Z and Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

They weren't bad games, and I would know, I buy and play bad games. I bought Matt Hazard on the Xbox360 and they put Earth Defense Force 2025 in the case by accident. I didn't return it, I like EDF, but I went to another store and got Matt Hazard knowing full well what that game is. I pay and play bad games.

Section Z isn't bad, it's mediocre, and when it came out on the NES it was somehow a budget release where I lived. So it was cheap. Almost 30 years later I'm still annoyed about buying it.

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence deserves a place in my mildly spicy place of hate and regret. At the time that game was released I lived in a place where strange things happened, things didn't make any sense. So one day a debt collection agency sent a giro for me to collect some money, 60-70 bucks or so, it was really strange as I had no debt nor had I ever paid any money to them. It wasn't a fake check or anything, it was the real thing. So I went into the city, collected the free money and wandered around. I saw a place selling games, went in and saw a new Castlevania for the PS2. I like Castlevania so I spent the debt collectors money on it, went home, played it and... I hadn't actually spent any of my own money on the game, but I still felt cheated.

@itwongo: Pro-strat. Map A and B to triggers as well.

Inverted or not is such a non-issue that it doesn't matter, it's not like he's raising the kid on DVORAK.

Personally I've reached enlightenment and no longer remember if I play inverted or not in both first or third person or which thumbstick is for movement/camera control.

@wallee321 said:

Nah, the consoles would have to be manufactured way before CNY anyway if they launch in March, Nintendo probably needs to start manufacturing soon-ish.

My hot take is that the wild success of their mobile phone experiments have forced them to pull the brakes and reconsider what they're trying to accomplish with the NX.

Not including touch would be an insanely bad decision.

The "man cave" was made as an excuse to gather friends and play NHL, or FIFA.

That's what it is, it projects depth no matter your perspective, it's a forced perspective. It's worth looking into if you're interested. Maybe look into dot3 bumpmapping compared to parallax mapping and compare the two.

I just remember the headlines and bought Siren and Clock Tower instead. Fucking Siren, what a piece of shit that was.