Green Gibbon and Game Souko
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Green Gibbon and Game Souko
I am the coolest person here. Few people would contest that fact except out of jealousy. The reasons for my superiority are many. Here is one of them.
キタ━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!!!!
There are a couple of scuffs around the right control dials and naturally the box looks its age (and still has the original price sticker on the bottom-right!!!), but for the most part it's in excellent condition. Whether or not it actually works is another matter. I think I need a 30-year old TV to test it. And a game cartridge.
In the same trip I also got a Mega Drive, Famicom Disk System, Terebi Oekaki and Handle Controller for the SG-1000/SC-3000. All fully loaded with boxes, manuals, and mail-in registration cards! The Mega Drive is in amazing condition right down to the packaging. It can't have been used more than a few times. The box has ads for the Mega-CD and Mega Modem, so it's not the original 1988 packaging material, but I'm pretty happy with the discovery regardless.
Famicom Disk Systems are a dime a dozen here, but this is the first time I've seen one with all the original packaging materials. It's got a two-color comic manual with some wonderful 1986 manga art that goes into some amazing detail about the system. It explains not only how to set it up and write games at Disk Stations (I'd love to see one of those), but also how the insides work. It makes me happy.
The whole shebang for less than 13,000 yen!
Not that I'm a nerd or anything.
キタ━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!!!!
There are a couple of scuffs around the right control dials and naturally the box looks its age (and still has the original price sticker on the bottom-right!!!), but for the most part it's in excellent condition. Whether or not it actually works is another matter. I think I need a 30-year old TV to test it. And a game cartridge.
In the same trip I also got a Mega Drive, Famicom Disk System, Terebi Oekaki and Handle Controller for the SG-1000/SC-3000. All fully loaded with boxes, manuals, and mail-in registration cards! The Mega Drive is in amazing condition right down to the packaging. It can't have been used more than a few times. The box has ads for the Mega-CD and Mega Modem, so it's not the original 1988 packaging material, but I'm pretty happy with the discovery regardless.
Famicom Disk Systems are a dime a dozen here, but this is the first time I've seen one with all the original packaging materials. It's got a two-color comic manual with some wonderful 1986 manga art that goes into some amazing detail about the system. It explains not only how to set it up and write games at Disk Stations (I'd love to see one of those), but also how the insides work. It makes me happy.
The whole shebang for less than 13,000 yen!
Not that I'm a nerd or anything.
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Re: Green Gibbon and Game Souko
Any chance of a scan of the that FDS manual?
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A shitty, simplistic, thirty-year-old "games" platform? AWESOMEEEEEEE
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How does it work? And what is the red penguin thingy?
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Crazy Penguin wrote:How does it work? And what is the red penguin thingy?
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It's totally not nice to talk about your mom behind her back.A shitty, simplistic, thirty-year-old "games" platform? AWESOMEEEEEEE
Considering I would have to completely ruin it to scan it, no. I'll snap a couple of photos later, maybe.Any chance of a scan of the that FDS manual?
I can't imagine it works very well with one of the worst button layouts in videogame history. I think each of those dials only controls horizontal or vertical movement - there's two sets for two players. I'll never know unless I can find a game cartridge to plug into it. (The red penguin is on the Terebi Oekaki box.)How does it work? And what is the red penguin thingy?
Supposedly the "flagship" game is Kikori no Yosaku. Japanese retro gaming sites speak of it in reverent tones.
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Re: Green Gibbon and Game Souko
I understand. Though, I should've known that scans would be available somewhere on the internet.
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Re: Green Gibbon and Game Souko
You're sick in the head.
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Ew, my mum is thirty?Green Gibbon! wrote:It's totally not nice to talk about your mom behind her back.A shitty, simplistic, thirty-year-old "games" platform? AWESOMEEEEEEE
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(TEMPORAL/ONTOLOGICAL/PREDESTINATION) PARADOX?j-man wrote:Ew, my mum is thirty?Green Gibbon! wrote:It's totally not nice to talk about your mom behind her back.A shitty, simplistic, thirty-year-old "games" platform? AWESOMEEEEEEE
Re: Green Gibbon and Game Souko
I have a Master system I, it still works, fixed it like ten times, It was my first videogame console, got it in 1990. Being stuck with a Master system while everyone else in town had a Nes is the reason I am here today. While I got a "Brick" gameboy in 1994, I didnt get a big console till 2000, when I bought a playstacion.
While some people think is cool to have an old videogame console in perfect state, I find it fun to use them. I dont collect stuff I wont try to use, even if that means I may end damaging it.
While some people think is cool to have an old videogame console in perfect state, I find it fun to use them. I dont collect stuff I wont try to use, even if that means I may end damaging it.
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PLAYSTATION. T. NOT C. STOP FRIGGIN' MISSPELLING IT.Arcade wrote:playstacion.
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Still better than those people who call the first PlayStation "PSX" despite that being a separate home server device thing.Shadow Hog wrote:PLAYSTATION. T. NOT C. STOP FRIGGIN' MISSPELLING IT.Arcade wrote:playstacion.
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BUT IT'S SO EXOTICShadow Hog wrote:PLAYSTATION. T. NOT C. STOP FRIGGIN' MISSPELLING IT.Arcade wrote:playstacion.
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From now on, I'm totally calling it the Playstacy.
Totally.
Totally.
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As a little brat from local TV station SBT would say:
"PREIS-TEI-TION! PREIS-TEI-TION!"
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Re: Green Gibbon and Game Souko
man when I was in japan I couldn't even find a good video game store. I went with normal people I think was the problem. they were always rushing me in akihabara when I was trying to buy some hentai. I did find an awesome figures of gurren lagann though.