ThePhleo

I pronounce it Xexyz.

15 hours ago, DarkTone said:

You are the heart of this site. 

STOP LEAVING 

18 hours ago, T-Pac said:

Shoot - even when I thought I was right I didn't quite get it haha.

[T-Pac]

I'm still shocked at how you manage to get so much emotion in a character without eyes and a mouth...

Also, what did T-Pac do with Casual Carts body? CLEARLY we seen them in a room together a few posts ago, but I'm assuming we'll never see CasualCart ever again.

:[

Great artwork, but nope. kill it with lots of fire.

...And take Cat Mario with you.

40 minutes ago, T-Pac said:

Haha there's no Tupac association. I'm nowhere near cool enough for that - but now that I've got this sick album-cover from @Gloves ... nah just kidding.

I say "tee-pack" since it's short for Tyler Pacana. Here's a rebus for pronouncing it:

You can say it however you want, though. I know I mispronounce @Scrobins as "skrow-bins" instead of "scrubbins", among others...

[T-Pac]

So your name is...Chai + (Ornamentation - Men) =

T-Pac
Noun
Pronounced: Chai-Ornation (tʃaɪ - oʊr - neɪ - ʃʌn)
Definition: An non-consumable object used for decorating a glass of tea.

Woo! New look

Welcome back

Anyone headed to TooManyGames this year?

https://toomanygames.com/show/toomanygames-2023/

I'll likely be there this year on Saturday I think. Wondering what the scene will look like now that the game collecting speculation market has simmered down a bit!

Guy Den.

Wow! I had no idea you were working on a game Dave.

Very cool and I wish I could go. You're living the dream it seems, hopefully I can get some downtime myself and wrap up my stuff.

12 minutes ago, Link said:

But is it a REAL Mario game?

Check out the screenshot.

It's Mario, no "Ossan" from NES Golf.

WAIT A MINUTE.

This is a Mario Game...

This is officially the rarest Mario game...

54 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

The next thing on the list is a gold Rockman 4 cart, but kind of doubt I'm ever going to get that since there were only 8 of them and I'm not a big enough Rockman 4 fan for what it would take to get one.

On 5/23/2023 at 2:17 AM, acromite53 said:

It has to be a PAL game, right? I want to know if anyone's discovered which NES title was the very last to roll off of Nintendo's assembly line.

I was going through a bunch of PAL NES CIBs and checking box/manual date codes, I saw a German or French "The Smurfs" with a '96 date code. 

Also, kinda interesting, but I ran across a German "Donkey Kong Classics" with a '94 code which exhibited the same sticker lifting as the US "Wario's Woods" is known for. Was it produced using the same batch of labels with weak glue in '94? 

I saw @ThePhleo posted his Super Jeopardy with a '95 date code which is insane to me. That's probably the latest "US" region NES print, right?

 

Super Jeopardy, and Tecmo Bowl are confirmed 1995 prints in the USA. Ninja Gaiden III, and Tecmo Super Bowl may be another.

Also, @acromite53 just posted one of the final NES prints, but also, Asterix is another and I think it has a November/December 1996 print run too? I can't remember off the top of my head at the moment, but I think it would be reprinted along side Smurfs as well.

Finally, I think "The Lion King" is the final officially licensed title to be made for the NES anywhere around the globe. May 25, 1995 was its first print run, making the Nintendo 8-Bit Family game launch window officially 4332 days long, almost 12 years. (July 15, 1983 the Famicom launched in Japan with Donkey Kong, DK Jr., and Popeye, And then the launch of Lion King being the final game launched)

If you count just the final confirmed print date of Asterix at 1996 August 9th, and the FC Launch of July 15, 1983 then you have a ~4774 day lifespan of the entire Nintendo 8-Bit console family...roughly a bit over 13 years.

Hey I’m moving in the next week or so. Can I update my shipping address for when these are ready?

THE FINAL 25!

LET'S GO

1 hour ago, qixmaster said:

Hi gang. Long time listener, first or second time caller.

 

i think it’s important to note the source of a lot these three sided seam ROTJ games. They were originally being sold on ChaseTheChuckWagon / GameGavel by an individual in Texas (circa 2010-ish?) who, if I recall the story correctly, got them from a distributor in Mexico (along with case packs of other sealed nes games that included the likes of firehouse rescue, RBI baseball, power punch II, monster truck rally and some others) 

I wanna say they were selling on eBay at first, got kicked off eBay and then started selling on the other platform.

Since we are all going on straight assumptions, let me add mine. It was a unique pack job, factory sealed, late release by acclaim and they used twilight nes sleeves). Purdy sure that’s it.  

These games with this seal type came straight outta case packs, which is 100% the only fact we have.

Hi.

Woo. Real OG info there.

All of that stuff was just a little before my time. I was only witness to the last of the "Dov" sale sometime in 2011/2012. This is the stuff NA would have been still useful for

I'm getting weird Balenciaga vibes from this, but I love these videos.

I want to see some fancy model walking down a runway in a fancy outfit with this music and this video in the background.

7 minutes ago, RH said:

It is out in Japan.  Surprisingly did not do as well as I expected but again, I really don't know the Japanese market in scope or rabid fandomness of things like this.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1077838593/weekend/

(There's a drop-down that says  "Domestic".  Select Japan from there, and you'll see how it did on opening weekend for them.)

oh! I thought they weren't getting it until June.

Also, WTF Bangladesh. You just have like what, one theater showing?

7 hours ago, OptOut said:

Well, it hit the Billion pretty comfortably, and still going strong!!!

Let's goooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

It's not even out in Japan yet, and just premiered in Korea yesterday.

If it hits $1.521B then it'll knock off "The Avengers" of the Top 10 highest grossing films of all time list.

On 4/19/2023 at 1:18 AM, OptOut said:

Bowser marrying Princess Peach is basically the entire plot of Super Mario Odyssey. They even released Amiibo of the characters in their wedding outfits:

 

Also, I think one of the Paper Mario or Mario RPG games also had some sort of plot for Bowser to marry Peach, but I am not so sure on that, perhaps someone else here knows!

Also, sort of related...but Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser Jr. steals Peach because that's "his mama"

Thanks that's all I needed.

So let's step back now. What do we have and what are we missing?

Have

1. High confidence the game is factory original
2. Game uses a non-standard seal for the era (caveat: it is the standard seal for the game itself)
3. Contents are in fact new and unused
4. It has a foil Nintendo® dust sleeve which is circa 1993 and beyond.
5. (Possibly related) Around February 1995, Acclaim bought out and shut down Sunsoft and kept a "skeleton crew of 4 or 5 people to facilitate the transfer of IP to Acclaim"
6. (Possibly related) Batman: Forever movie launched nationwide June 16, 1995, and its movie tie-in game was released by Acclaim in August 1995 for SNES & Game Boy, and September 1995 for Genesis & Game Gear.

So if it's all new, with a high confidence of it all being original, and the fact that it has a foil dust sleeve implies it was packaged at the very earliest some time in 1993.

Missing

1. Chip codes (if relevant, I don't think this game comes with date codes except for the NES-48-USA box variant)
2. Retail Photos (has this game been seen on sheleves in 1993+)
3. Retail Receipts (has this game ever been sold 1993+)
4. Marketing (has this game ever been marketed 1993+)
5. Factory sealed copy of NES-48-USA box variant to be opened...
6. Case pack info. Does the case pack look like a normal one?

These third party seal copies seem relatively common...whereas I've only seen mint CIB cellophane copies with H-Seam's once or twice, and I've never seen a sealed copy yet.

More info needs to be dug up. I'm absolutely going to try to buy a sealed copy and pray for a -48- box.

All just a theory really.

I'm willing to bet IF this isn't a reseal, then these were fully assembled off the shelf parts and the date codes have zero relevance.

...actually, I'm asking the wrong question. Is there ANY doubt that the original game was unopened? Before we come up with wild theories we need some more info.

5 hours ago, austin532 said:

RotJ is definitely an oddball one. No H seam and it has a slightly different back label on the cart. The box seems a little different as well. The foil sleeve does seem odd but if it was a very late print ('93-'95), then it's possible the sleeve is correct. Maybe Nintendo had an overstock of them and let Sunsoft use them? I dunno. Just throwing some thoughts out there. We still aren't 100% sure if some third party games did actually come with Nintendo sleeves.

I am curious if the dates on the chips are a later manufacture date.

One more theory:

It could be like the Majesco "White Label" SNES games.

If they shipped these out in 1995 for the movie release of "Batman Forever" then it would explain why there's no Nintendo Power insert, legal document, registration card, poster, AND the late Nintendo foil sleeve.

Now here's the interesting part.

In February 1995 Sunsoft was going through bankruptcy, and sold out to ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT...WHO MADE THE SNES/GENESIS Batman Forever games? ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT.

So if this just a super late release, then it was Acclaim packaging left over stock in boxes from liquidating Sunsoft's office.

SIDENOTE: SUNSOFT MANUFACTURED THEIR OWN SHELLS They absolutely could have made their own sleeves. This is a real oddball of oddballs.

Look at my currently understood insert pattern for Sunsoft.

The final 3 registration cards are essentially unique and printed only for their one game (and maybe any oddball currently known reprints at the time...like Xenophobe)

P.S. some of the posters have Oval and Circle seal print variants....I left out some details to prevent confusion

42 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

This one has to be a reseal, there's no way it would come with a Nintendo sleeve.

Also the box initially had a NES-P48-USA code but was later corrected to NES-48-USA like this one here. I find it hard to believe they corrected the box but not the cartridge in the same run. Although I haven't actually confirmed a NES-48-USA cartridge even exists, I'm just assuming it does.

I think Sunsoft would also put some other inserts in the box with it but the sleeve is enough to know it's a reseal.

THANK YOU for saying it.

I didn't want to open my mouth and start that thread, but I wholeheartedly feel the same way.

3 hours ago, mdiablo said:

 

WHOA! CIB!?

I haven't seen one in YEARS. I think I know of only one other person with a CIB, and one person with a CB (Cart + Box) copy.

@fcgamer WOO!!! Ordered