^^^ the bit cases are NES-only I believe.
@Stoneage - Will most definitely check em out in a couple of weeks! (And buy some)
I 1000% support something made in the US, not to mention a fellow retro game vendor. If the bit-cases are nice, then you'll have no probs selling thousands to the folks here (including myself) alone. I know I'm already sick of cutting up UGCs :/
I look forward to meeting you. I too am tired of the UGC. Its nice to see a few people like Seymour making some alternatives.
As do I!
I listened to a podcast interview with you. My beginnings seem to mirror yours pretty closely. You started with the flash carts and I with the GBA backlight kits, both sourced from overseas, both products sorta boutique, and both tricky to obtain (I think you mentioned western union as the payment option for the flash carts? Ick.). I would really like to speak with you at some point about your biz and how you dealt and are dealing with the growth. I never expected for this stuff that I do to become a full-time job for me, but it has, and rather quickly. I've also started outsourcing and may have just hired my first employee as of last night
Also, I should mention that my thoughts/concerns with the vac-formed parts had/have absolutely nothing to do with your product specifically. It's just been my experience having worked in used game/music/movie retail for a number of years coupled with my post-college work (industrial designer) that have somewhat put me off of vac-forming as anything but a prototyping process. It's an especially crippling process for us designers, since, as you probably know, the forms one can create are stifled by the process. Nice to hear that you've been putting them through some serious endurance tests
I think many, if not most of us would agree that the UGC is far from a perfect product. Of course it was never intended for us collectors, but the fact remains that they do the job, and that's about it. There's nothing to be excited about with them.
I feel strongly that made in the US is important to a lot of folks here and elsewhere (though a LOT of the members here reside outside the US, which probably makes them largely indifferent). In an age where most everything is outsourced to overseas manufacturers, and where domestic jobs are drying up, I think people will really appreciate the effort to stay domestic. I will
GLADLY pay more for a domestically-made product and applaud the effort!
