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larryinc64:
It did seem there was ether the cheep common stuff or the realy expensive stuff, though last year I was looking for Saturn stuff and found nothing. There was quite a bit of Saturn and CD, but I only got a Clockwork Knight CIB for around $15. Almost got a Scudd but it was scratched up.

On a side note one booth had a copy of SNES Wild Guns in the box stolen. :-[

palmer6strings:

--- Quote from: redsox2012 on October 16, 2016, 11:21:26 PM ---I did see a copy of Buster Douglas Boxing for SMS. It's completely out of my price range, but it was nice to actually see one in person. It was priced $500 which is a little high.

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I looked up this game and personally, I'm curious why it's so expensive. I wouldn't ever spend that much on game that doesn't look fun (which it doesn't) even if it's extremely rare.

redsox2012:

--- Quote from: palmer6strings on October 17, 2016, 04:48:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: redsox2012 on October 16, 2016, 11:21:26 PM ---I did see a copy of Buster Douglas Boxing for SMS. It's completely out of my price range, but it was nice to actually see one in person. It was priced $500 which is a little high.

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I looked up this game and personally, I'm curious why it's so expensive. I wouldn't ever spend that much on game that doesn't look fun (which it doesn't) even if it's extremely rare.

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Two reasons. First, Master System games are region free. European and U.S. cartridges are exactly the same, only the packaging is different. With loose MS carts, there's no way to tell if it was originally a U.S. or European release. However, in the case of Buster Douglas Boxing, it was a U.S. exclusive release due to licensing. In Europe it was released as "Heavyweight Champ" with no endorsement.

Second, it was released in the U.S. in the early 1990's when Master System was nearly extinct in the U.S. Very few copies were made. At this point, the U.S. Master System market consisted almost entirely of ports of popular Genesis titles, and Buster Douglas Boxing seems to be, by far, the least common of the games with U.S. specific packaging.

After Buster Douglas, Sega released four last games in the U.S. (Sonic the Hedgehog, Strider, Spider-Man & Golden Axe Warrior). However, these didn't have U.S. specific packaging. Sega simply took the European cases and slapped a U.S. UPC Sticker on them. These still have the multi-lingual artwork and manuals. Sonic the Hedgehog is the most famous of these, and is the most valuable Master System game. The last one sold for nearly $1000 five years ago, and I haven't seen one sold since.

TDIRunner:
The nice thing with Buster Douglas Boxing is that you can easily tell the difference between a US and PAL release due to the different name. It's virtually impossible to tell a US Sonic from a PAL version which makes it really easy to try and sell a fake PAL sonic as US version and charge big bucks for it. :-\

wilybird:
know what guys (and gals)?
nostalgia is dope.
i love the feeling of that... well, that 90's feel (i was born '86).
case-in-point, just marathoned stranger things on netflix, it's set around pre-atari, or atari's first years (feel free to correct me), but everything, the music, the imagery, the references..... i loved it, and as a plus the plot was great and the wife and i binged on it for two days, we were sad when the final 8th episode was over...

i said all that to say/ask this... nostalgia feels good. but some of these games.... i try to introduce to my boy (6 yr old) and the games are just.... hard.
river city ransom held his attention for a bit but was even too hard even for me... blaster master was fun but too hard for him....

do y'all (i'm texan :P) collect for the sake of collection?
do y'all collect to play for yourselves (play w/ yourselves, lol)?
do y'all collect to play w/ kids...?

let me know if i should re-post this elsewhere..
maybe that crossroads thread, idk.

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