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KingMike
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Airball |
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Found this on NESWorld.
Looks like somebody is selling repro carts.
Interesting because this is an unreleased game. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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There were also repro carts on ebay months ago and, yet, no ROM. |
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handofg0d
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: |
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I guess whoever runs retrozone (bunnyboy or something?) worked out a deal with one of the cart owners to make some cash before the ROM gets eventually released. I must admit, it's a pretty smart way to recoup some of the cash spent obtaining the cart before decreasing it's value with a dump (for those people who worry about such things). And $35 for a custom cart + box + instructions, actually seems pretty fair priced. |
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Skrybe Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 1610
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | There were also repro carts on ebay months ago and, yet, no ROM. |
I'm very confident the ROM situation will change once bunnyboy's repros get out. |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: |
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handofg0d wrote: | I must admit, it's a pretty smart way to recoup some of the cash spent obtaining the cart before decreasing it's value with a dump (for those people who worry about such things). |
Smart until someone decides to sue (though I guess the chances of that happening in this case are pretty slim). |
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ArnoldRimmer83 Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:06 am Post subject: |
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I'd like to know if the game is actually beatable or not. Weren't there a few protos of Airball surfacing around over the years that weren't completed? (Or near completion I should say?) |
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I am Christina Aguilera
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 159
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:12 am Post subject: |
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I have nothing to add except damn, Tengen really took an interesting approach to the NES pallette, didn't they? |
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linlhutz Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 120 Location: Williamsport, PA
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Skrybe wrote: | TheRedEye wrote: | There were also repro carts on ebay months ago and, yet, no ROM. |
I'm very confident the ROM situation will change once bunnyboy's repros get out. |
I ordered one. What the fuck. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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I dunno Christina, but it looks better than SO many NES games, let alone, Tengen, because Tengen games usually sucked in the graphics department. That title screen is surprising for sure.
The game looks like Solstice in that level one screenshot.
I bought one. Why not.
-Rob |
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Sardius Staff
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 508 Location: Austin, TX
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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I would totally buy this if it didn't look like the kind of game that I would completely hate. I'd pretty much be spending $35 for the honor of having a box on my shelf that would make me mad every time I looked at it.
Still though, Airball! |
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yemtrader
Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 6
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I bought one too, I think $35 bucks is worth it to get a copy of an unreleased game that I can play on my console that was previously being kept private. Especially since it will probably soon be liberated to the masses by you fine gentlemen. If this effort is successful hopefully retrogames will be successful in freeing more unseen prototypes from private collections. Have you guys ever started a donation drive to free more privately held prototypes? or is that giving in to their greed...
As an aside, I thought Tengen cancelled this game because the board required for it was unique and costly back then? It probably is cheap to build now though? I guess you probably won't see any copies made with donor cars for this one, but I might be wrong?
Hi, I'm Nick by the way. Hope you don't kick me off the board for this rambling post. |
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Ethane
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 22
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: |
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This is one game I really want to hear about, and maybe a full Lost Levels article. I actually enjoyed playing Airball at the arcade in my youth, and even mowed a ton of lawns after I saw Tengen's advertisments for it's release in a few gaming magazines. I saved up fifty bucks and scoured the adverts in EGM and the like for game stores that had it (I had the disfortune of growing up in a little town with a Wal Mart as the only gaming outlet.) |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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Man, not even a Toys R Us? That's rough. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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yemtrader wrote: | Hope you don't kick me off the board for this rambling post. |
We don't take kindly to folks with names that begin with a Y around here. Git im, boys!
We like rambling posts. Rambling posts are awesome.
-Rob |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: |
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Here's a video of the game in action. |
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Ethane
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 22
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:48 am Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | Man, not even a Toys R Us? That's rough. |
No, not even that. The Turbografx and the Neo Geo were completely unknown where I grew up, except for the Sears catalog (in the Turbo's case, they never carried the Neo Geo as far as I know.) The first time I saw a Neo Geo was when I went to a metropolitan area and in an little game store they had them for sale, and I just couldn't believe they wanted $650 for the machine and up to $200 for each game. Long story short, I eventually got my license to drive and went great distances to nab Tengen carts like Gauntlet, Shinobi, and even Swords and Crossbones. My friends didn't care for the games, they just thought how cool the the Tengen carts were.
A few months later after driving a couple of hundred miles to search for more Tengen games, the retailer there told me that Tengen is out of business and gone. It took a lot of years and the internet to get the full story on that one. |
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Wonderbutt
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Sardius wrote: | I would totally buy this if it didn't look like the kind of game that I would completely hate. I'd pretty much be spending $35 for the honor of having a box on my shelf that would make me mad every time I looked at it.
Still though, Airball! |
It kind of reminds me of Solstice. I don't know if you liked that game. |
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I am Christina Aguilera
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 159
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:34 am Post subject: |
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GDRI wrote: | Here's a video of the game in action. |
Yeah, y'know, this doesn't look too shabby. I'm sure with all of those spikes everywhere, there's gotta be a few levels in there that are sheer torture, but it looks like someone definitely put their full ass into this one. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Airball is the same game as like half of the ZX Spectrum's catalog. My favorite is Batman, because there's something awesome about the dark knight having to stack up severed elephant feet and climb them like stairs. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | Airball is the same game as like half of the ZX Spectrum's catalog. My favorite is Batman, because there's something awesome about the dark knight having to stack up severed elephant feet and climb them like stairs. |
Must be Adam West batman, then.
-Rob |
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