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redsox2012:
There are some deals on Ebay if you know what you're looking at. I just won this auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281107953135?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
While it may look like just a lot of common games, there's one gem in there. The "Venture" game is a super rare variation, as it says "for Colecovision and Adam" on the label. Most were produced with just "Colecovision" on the label. A CV rarity list shows this particular variation as a rarity of 9 out of 10. It's the rarest commercially released game, as the only game that gets a 10 is one that wasn't available to the public.
I thought I was going to get it for the opening bid of $9.99, as there were no other bids until the final minutes. Someone else obviously spotted it, because there was a bidding war in the final few minutes. A member that I was chatting with on the AtariAge forums says that he would pay $100+ for this game. Lucky for me as well is the fact that many of the other games in the lot, while common games, were ones I needed for my collection. Plus, there's some nice manuals there too, and I love having original manuals with my games.
I just wish there was a Venture cover here that I could print for it.
Beastman1975:
--- Quote from: wiggy on May 18, 2013, 01:10:45 PM ---Wow!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290914586082?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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that's pretty cool but my 1 question is this , why would a Japanese man sign his name in English?
not saying this is fake looks legit compared to pics of his signature available online just made me curious
shenske:
--- Quote from: redsox2012 on May 18, 2013, 07:21:41 PM ---There are some deals on Ebay if you know what you're looking at. I just won this auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281107953135?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
While it may look like just a lot of common games, there's one gem in there. The "Venture" game is a super rare variation, as it says "for Colecovision and Adam" on the label. Most were produced with just "Colecovision" on the label. A CV rarity list shows this particular variation as a rarity of 9 out of 10. It's the rarest commercially released game, as the only game that gets a 10 is one that wasn't available to the public.
I thought I was going to get it for the opening bid of $9.99, as there were no other bids until the final minutes. Someone else obviously spotted it, because there was a bidding war in the final few minutes. A member that I was chatting with on the AtariAge forums says that he would pay $100+ for this game. Lucky for me as well is the fact that many of the other games in the lot, while common games, were ones I needed for my collection. Plus, there's some nice manuals there too, and I love having original manuals with my games.
I just wish there was a Venture cover here that I could print for it.
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If you don't need all three of those Q-bert carts i may be interested in one :)
JDavis:
--- Quote from: Beastman1975 on May 19, 2013, 10:54:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: wiggy on May 18, 2013, 01:10:45 PM ---Wow!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290914586082?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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that's pretty cool but my 1 question is this , why would a Japanese man sign his name in English?
not saying this is fake looks legit compared to pics of his signature available online just made me curious
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Signatures are more of a western thing to begin with. Eastern countries like Japan tend to use stamps/seals for official purposes that we would use signatures for.
So signing things as a celebrity is often done in romaji (the roman alphabet that we use), but it's not universal. Off hand: Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and Keiji Inafune (... I think. You can kind of make out a K, at least) all sign in romaji, but Eiji Aonuma and Nobuo Uematsu sign in kanji.
Vanilla_Dynamite:
Hi Guys, I have just put my E3 Ocarina of Time Link statue from 1997 on ebay, this is one
of the rarest Zelda statues ever, and I wanted to let you all know so you don't have to miss
this chance. Greetings Bart