Joshua Rogers

If 10,000 households were really trialed, then I think eventually one will pop up. The BT SNES "Interactive TV" cart showed up a few years ago on retrocollect, and according to https://www.telecompaper.com/news/bt-joins-forces-with-nintendo--59186 it was trialled in 2,500 homes. https://web.archive.org/web/20170621192046/https://www.retrocollect.com/News/bts-long-lost-super-nintendo-interactive-tv-service-trial-cartridge-discovered.html A lot of different programs over the years have used Nintendo systems to do things, NES, SNES, and especially the GB. But the real question is whether it was ever /actually/ made. Who knows.

Happens to me too. Feel like it's something to do with some privacy app I have which blocks the cookie or something.

Cool!! Never seen that box nor manual before. I'm surprised it didn't have a hangtab box since the UK version of this game had a hangtab box.

@bowser amazing find with the SMB manual. "What this means is that the initial batches were imported as fully assembled units from Asia." This isn't necessarily true. They could have (and most likely did) come broken down from Japan. In terms of it being similar to the Asian version, this was already known also the price/date too: The game protectors probably had nothing to do with Samurai, maybe they had a licensing deal, since Samurai was in a completely different region of India (Samurai was located in Rajasthan) "A discussion on legit vs pirate Samurai carts. I have some very interesting findings which lead me to a controversial conclusion. Will update soon." Years ago on NA after I first interviewed the CEO of Samurai about the NES, I was apprehensive to say that Samurai sold pirate carts. These days I am not so much. 1. https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19911015-indian-entertainment-electronics-industry-goes-through-turbulent-times-814947-1991-10-15 "But Samurai isn't giving up. It recently introduced a cheaper model at two-thirds the previous price" Likewise: However, Samurai actually trademarked the term MicroGenius in India in 1990: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IdrxHA9MnCEJ:https://www.quickcompany.in/trademarks/540483-miclo-genius+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pl&client=firefox-b-d It is known that in at least Russia and Poland, Sega allowed distributors there to sell pirate consoles, because it would create brand recognition for the company and it could still sell software and make some money. Could it have been the same case here? Remember, Samurai once again in 2007 was the distributor for the Wii and DS in India, so it's not like the company has bad blood with Nintendo..

I heard a rumour from one of the developers of Die Hard that this game was exclusively sold at Toys R' Us, and the lack of presence in NP aids to that idea too

It's possible I'll touch on NP, but mostly the very early days, and actually looking how it was first started in France by Ron Judy.

A new blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-bus-tours-nintendo-sega-challenger-campus-challenge-rogers/ In this blog post, I look at Nintendo UK's "Nintendo Challenger Truck", which toured England showcasing games in a huge truck. I also look at the use of Nintendo's Campus Challenge '91 and Campus Challenge '92 cartridges in Europe; something that all collectors should be interested in. Indeed, these 2 cartridges were used in Europe. I know of a Campus Challenge '91 in private hands in Europe, which to my knowledge basically puts the total amount of cartridges known at.. 2. Have a read

Bump. So nobody knows whether Ice Climber came with a converter?

Given that Ice Climber was slightly censored for American audiences (seal turned into a yeti), does anybody know whether Ice Climber was released with a FC->NES adapator version? I know there was a thread on NA with a list of games confirmed to have FC->NES converters, but I can't find it.

We use https://www.videogamesage.com/forum/39-general-collecting-discussion/

Samurai launched in 1987 and ended in 1992 or something like that.

You could have asked them to open it and grade it at qualified. But that sucks

http://gamehouse.by/goods/7660/ взломщик кодов / Breaker of Codes Much more info here https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://www.emu-land.net/forum/index.php%3Ftopic%3D23381.30&prev=search

As some of you guys know, I've been working for nearly 6 years documenting the release of the NES outside of the USA/JP, focusing on regions such as India, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Korea, etc. I was originally writing a book and finished maybe 60% or so of it. However, I had a change of mind and have instead decided to make it into a youtube series; an audio-visual medium for analyzing an audio-visual console... The series will have a major focus on the NES in these regions: India, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, South East Asia, South Africa, Australia, South America, England, Italy, Eastern Europe, and Canada Right now I have no videos but if anybody that remembers my work on NA would like to subscribe, I hope to work on it quite a lot over the next month and a half. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtK7cbz-zPbMhYwIYNQIE0Q

I was doing some reading and came across this lawsuit: https://casetext.com/case/cory-v-nintendo-of-am "In this action for alleged violations of sections 50 and 51 of New York's Civil Rights Law arising out of the use of certain photographs taken of plaintiff, a model, on package boxes of a video game manufactured by Nintendo of America, Inc., defendants, Nintendo, Geers Gross Advertising, Inc., an advertising agency which represented Nintendo, and McCann Erickson USA, Inc., which acquired Geers Gross and later represented Nintendo, appeal from the denial of their motion to dismiss the complaint. In March 1986, plaintiff agreed, for a fee of $1,250, to pose for a photograph which would appear on a package back for a Nintendo product. Plaintiff participated in two other photography sessions, for which he was paid $750 and $500, respectively, and signed a document, known as a "model's voucher", prepared by his agent, McDonald/Richards, Inc., in connection with each of the three sessions. These vouchers grant to Geers Gross "or those for whom they are acting" the right, inter alia, to use and/or publish the photographs of plaintiff for a period of 12 months. Subsequent to each session and the signing of each of the vouchers, Geers Gross sent McDonald/Richards a "Model Release" for plaintiff's signature. These releases, which do not contain any time limitation on the use of plaintiff's photographs, were signed in plaintiff's name by a representative of McDonald/Richards and returned to Geers Gross. Defendants thereafter used the photographs on packaging for a video game manufactured by Nintendo." I guess it's the father in the picture, based on some google searching. Funny. I guess it wasn't such a happy family after all

They've been on Archive.org for awhile including issue 1 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"NintendoAge.com"

Yes. C64 and Amiga are American products, but either way in terms of video games for them they are not well known as gaming systems outside of let's say Europe and Australia. Spectrum is a UK obscurity which most people outside of the UK wouldn't know.

Yeah this is the company that sold all the "ASIAN VERSION" nes,snes,gb,n64,etc. games. They're legit and in terms of distribution, they are the oldest still-running collaboration with nintendo, they were selling game & watch since i guess 1980. The owner is an Indian guy living in Japan, he did an interview somewhere where he said his favorite thing in japan is sushi haha

Video games, in the public domain, have until recently been seen largely as Japanese and American produced products. Is this accurate, and if not, what does a more global history of video games tell us? Not sure if people will be interested, but it does include parts of my interview with the CEO of Samurai, the company that distributed the NES in India. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/video-game-history-around-world-essay-joshua-rogers/?trackingId=O0XiASoVQquF64c6HRH5HA%3D%3D

An update on my side: Functionality is basically nearly complete, however the frontend looks like it was built in 2000. (Big inspiration from bootgod for the style obviously.) I still need to work on user-based collections though which I've found to be difficult enough for me to put it last on my todo list.. This is the page for basically 'viewing all CIB releases (including variants)': I have not actually added many inserts that I know came with certain games,but I did add it for a couple. In Asterix's case, when you hover over the "?" it says "There is much more one insert for this game; visit the game page for more information." When you hover over the "?" next to the GBR cart for 10-Yard Fight, it says "There is an optional/alternative entry for this product; visit the game page for more information" - This is because there is a 3-screw and 5-screw variant for this cart, with absolutely no difference with the manual/box. The "view all carts" page lists both versions of the cart properly however. Basically everything will have an individual page there too. Clicking on 'AUS', you'll search for all games released in Australia, clicking on 'Battletoads' you'll go to the page which lists everything about this releases (eeevvveeerrryyything....), clicking on box,manual,cart,insert,seal,distributor,etc. will show some page with the proper information too. So if anybody is good with html/css and wants to collaborate, feel free to msg me.

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I wouldn't really consider the Zapper boxes w/ games inside the same thing as this, because you could then start including consoles that had games inside them other than the normal ones (smb/dh, for e.g.) I'm talking about games that were attached to other physical, non-gaming items. The blister pack games don't really fall into this category but it is just a wildly different packaging than other things. By the way for on topic talking.. Pretty well known collector hipsilon is opening some of his BNIB stuff which contains everything for this list: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbB--iqHrUqrG9J_LVH4Xw/videos

Weird, it's impossible for me to find that listing on ebay.com. Probably because I'm out of the USA. Anyways, very cool. I didn't know such a thing existed. Are there any other promotation things like this and Golgo? I don't think there are any in NES regions, only perhaps the pal-b blister pack games.

+1. Golgo 13 is probably one of the weirdest NES game releases because of how it went against nearly all of Nintendo's guidelines for "child-friendly content"... Could anybody post the link to this McKids VHS bundle? I see nothing on ebay.com

I think the whole 5-screw/3-screw difference has just been hyped up and somehow become popular. Maybe the right question is "why does anybody care about the 3-screw / 5-screw difference?" Nobody cares about the different in the PAL regions at all.