Joshua Rogers

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/

10 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

 Barring homebrews? Has to be either NES, PS2 or Master System

 

Sega Master System

First Game(s) released were Hang-On, and Teddy Boy in Japan on October 20, 1985
Last Game(s) released were Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, and Mickey's Ultimate Challenge in Brazil on December 1998.

 

PS2 first games were released in March 4, 2000.....the Brazilian PS2 wasn't even launched until 2009. And Pro Evolution Soccer '14 was released in November 8, 2013.

 

For NES the first games were on July 15, 1983 and the last licensed game was Wario's Woods European release in 1995.........but who knows when the Samurai or Playtronic launched.

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

21 hours ago, galacticlint said:

Once upon a time back when sealed Genesis games were only modestly above CIB copies in price, I bought a sealed Gunstar Heroes.

Having previous success with VGA I sent it in to be graded and expected a 85 grade or so.

It came back ungraded and they said it was a reseal.

Trusting VGA that it was a reseal I opened the Gunstar to confirm CIB contents. I found it was indeed brand spankin' new, fruit roll up and insert poster and everything. Pin connectors on the cart immaculate and perfect under magnification.

I was so mad that I pretty much sold my whole collection.

In retrospect I should have just been happy I had a 100% CIB minty copy, but I got all bent out of shape for some reason.

Moral of the story is that VGA is staffed by actual human beings who sometimes make errors. They are not God almighty.

Genesis games come with a variety of different seal styles, depending on the company and print run.

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"

23 minutes ago, Sumez said:

So pretty much the whole ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga etc. scenes are basically irrelevant?  

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.

folder1/
   ../pics/
   ../good-pics/
    ../good-pics/good2-pics
   ../actually-good-pics/
   ../stuff
   ../REAL/
   ../REAL-stuff/

9 minutes ago, Speedy_NES said:

There are a bunch in Europe. Couple examples: Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Zapper pack, Duck Hunt Zapper pack grey/orange.

In the US, technically AVE Trolls could be included, as there are versions with a troll, and versions without.

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.

11 hours ago, DoctorEncore said:

Man, I can't believe I'm still seeing new stuff. NES is the best 

+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.

5 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

Sonic was identical between the US and PAL release except for a UPC sticker on the US release (a few games have similar UPC stickers: Spider-man, Strider, and Golden Axe Warrior). AFAIK Sonic is the rarest, even excluding that there would naturally be more demand because it's Sonic.

IIRC Buster Douglas could be rare because it was released the same year Douglas lost the title to Evander Holyfield (and Sega went on to have Holyfield endorse their next game) plus being on the SMS. I could be getting this mixed up with a Mike Tyson story, but I'm almost positive this story is in the book Console Wars. Something, something everyone sitting around having drinks watching Buster Douglas lose the title just as their new game was released.

It was Douglas in the book, yes.

I don't know whether this is a misprint but it's certainly an error.

The Australian Adventures of Lolo 3 box has the same UPC  as the USA version of Trax on GB https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gameboy/585974-trax/images/138770

5 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

My ideal system would take a reverse approach to archival, by allowing the list to build itself by archiving everything that does exist, in a physical sense.
Scan a cartridge, box, and manual and they receive all their own unique ID's which itself can then be associated with a title.
Take those ID's and bundle them together and you have an archived release variant. This allows infinite flexibility since some games have the same components across different releases.
Take FFF Athletic World, and Circle Seal Athletic World. Different boxes and manuals, but same cartridges!

That is exactly how my system works. Lots and lots of pal-a carts that are exactly the same between regions but with different boxes and manuals. No need to create more entries for the same cart, they all link to the same thing. This way if a page for the cart is made, it could able be shown "What did this cartridge come in?"

4 hours ago, Tulpa said:

Give the choice. Some games we have it down to the day, but others we just have a year.

There should also be a "disputed" or "best guess" caveat. The first SMB game would be one of these.

I sort of deliberately left out any release date schema. It ..could.. be imported from bootgod, I guess. I don't think there are more than say 10 games outside the black box series that the release /date/ is known actually. And to be honest, I think release dates for the NES aren't meaningful since even in the US, releases were so segmented.. One part of the country got the game on month, other parts of the country got the game other months.. I don't think there was any publicized release dates until sonic 2sday/mortal monday.. If we use flyers or whatever, we know that in many cases games were not actually available when they were printed, which leads to some publications listing games that were never released, so that's not a great way to get dates either. Maybe if it's imported from bootgod it could be assigned Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4 [year] of the earliest pcb..

48 minutes ago, LaytToTheParty said:

Personally, I don't really care for the "I have this" feature, but it seems like something that a lot of people will want, so I still think we should implement it at some point.

A "leaderboard" for adding to the database would be awesome! It sounds like a great "reward" for contributing info. You could have an all-time leaderboard and a weekly/monthly leaderboard.

We should also add a date to each entry.

A date for what?