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Well, while I actually agree somewhat with both @Glovesand @FenrirZero here, I'm going to highlight the problem in it all. You guys are right, perhaps I should take a step back, similarly, @jonebone I'm sorry if you felt my attitude towards you was shitty; however, if something with this game doesn't change within the next year, I'm going to shred the shrink-wrap off, beat it with a hammer, and then bin it. It's got nothing to do with anger issues, rather it's to prove a point, just like I did with the Top Gun carts years ago. A. If you guys follow the thread, the whole "shitty attitude" began on my part right after the half million dollar sale. It was at that point that @jonebonepopped in and stated something along the lines of "I thought everyone knew it was a reseal", not offering any other comments initially. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but his answer definitely was made "without doubt", and to me that's a lousy thing to do to someone, especially when potentially tens of thousands of dollars are at stake here. B. When I talked to Heritage Auctions, they initially were eager to send the game over to Wata for grading, and to sell on consignment if it indeed came back as legit unused (not even necessarily original seal). Oddly enough, after Jone's statement and HA asking some "experts" (possibly even Jone himself), they now won't even look at the game. C. I don't have the money to send it in to Wata myself, IIRC they work on a tiered system for their fees. And that's where we're at. The magazine images I posted last night add credence to this being real, but in the popular opinion it's fake and always will be fake, due in part to a hasty statement made by a forum member that hadn't even seen the game in person, and likely didn't even know the whole story behind the game. So I'd love to have @jonebone come in here and have a more civil discussion about the whole thing, but until that time, it's hard not to view it as a case of "the expert making a 'bad call' to protect his own interests" D. As far as solving mysteries, honestly I don't care about that at all - it's like the Sachen games or the blue Chiller by this point. Even if the truth did come out, if it's not the version of the truth that HA, investors, etc want, then it means little. I just want to buy a house, that's it. Don't care about being a millionaire or investor or anything like that.

Tonight was a big scan sess

Right, so I want to call @jonebone back into this discussion, and I will state the following to go with: if @jonebone refuses to comment or add input, I will take it as admission that what I say is true. I was going through the TV Game Foundation Formosa reference library tonight when working on Family Bits, saw numerous advertisements such as the following, advertising Electronics Arts games. Unfortunately the advert is from 1991, though it proves that EA was marketing their games here in Taiwan. Then I also found other advertisements, such as this double spread advertising EA games clearly as "American versions" (美國版). In the 1992 issue we can even see both the 92 and 91 John Madden games being advertised, sadly the advert only features "new" games. My point though is that the evidence is clearly pointing towards Madden 90 being released here for Taiwan market, hence me finding it sealed in the dust shop. Given the evidence, it's more likely than not that my game has an original seal. i provided the evidence, I also put forth a different sealed EA game in another thread. It it's all fake or not legit, I ask @jonebone to weigh in on it...let's hear from the expert

I'm not particularly interested in sports games, though I've always felt this was a kick ass project!

Today was cold and rainy. I decided to work on Bits some more. Added Chinese names to most games, also wrote about some game studios.

33 views, no thoughts?

Nice! Love to see unique collections. Any plans to collect other cheat devices or even codebooks?

I can relate

People generally feel bad for me when they see my crt tv, they figure it's because I can't afford anything else.

Very little. I identify first and foremost as a musician / artist, secondly as a cyclist. I generally don't mention games to people aside from a few close friends. It makes for some awkward moments though, when someone does come by my home, I mean the amount of games I own versus the time I actually play... people would think all I do is game, when it's not the case at all.

I got these. The Famicom stuff I got from a friend.

I got a sealed Sega blockout. Anyone know the value on this? Thanks.

I'd live stream myself and @OptOuttogether somewhere in a local rice field, chewing betel nuts and burning the fucker. The horseshit that passes as grails these days, lmfao, that's common crap and the only folks that want it are ignorant investors from an inorganic market. give me stuff that's actually a grail

Even if they're real, they're not real unless it's something Jonebone doesn't want / doesn't have an interest in. Wouldn't want to ruin the investment or ruin the chance of low balling for major bucks.

@OptOut This one is part of the Changhua Storehouse pedigree. I'm willing to trade it for a scooter and a guitar. Put your connections to use

I have some.

If they do a physical version, I waaaaant

Did more work tonight adding in release dates and genres for games. Tomorrow I'll hopefully have time to take screenshots from the final games, sans the few I don't actually own. Hopefully I can do one final scanner push too.

Currently due to covid 19 restrictions, Taiwan cannot ship to Alaska or Hawaii

Spent the better part of the weekend scanning pictures of some rare game boxes and cartridges. Added some content yesterday, in addition to classifying the different Sachen games.

Boiled, eh? Sounds Taiwanense

@FireHazard51 had sent me an awesome book about dialectal stuff in the states, this wasn't in it. Very interesting! People should also post where they grew up when responding

@G-type: Put @Rhapsody98in, I'll sit out this round. A forum member screwed me over and I'm just not feeling these forums, at all, at the moment.

These are mine, easily, and it's the type of stuff I'll likely never sell, even if I cash out: 90s Taiwan lotto scratch off cards with Mario World. I got two boxes, occasionally I'll toss one in when sending off a parcel to one of my friends. Diddy Kong lighter. This is made of metal, quite old too... Mario paper dolls... Alright so I bought the Pac-Man lotto card a few months back, it's modern and I think it'd licensed. I actually don't care about it too much, but I think it fits in well with the rest so...

Hi everyone, we're selling and trading our extras here. New items added weekly. Official games, Asian region official stuff, unlicensed originals, bootlegs, etc. https://www.instagram.com/tvgamefoundationformosa/ Will trade for other things or can accept checks / postal money orders from USA buyers of good standing here. Please message me if you fancy something. Thanks!