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ChelseaFC-1 t1_is58zjc wrote

This is going to be super duper expensive ….

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Tronguy93 t1_is5cqin wrote

Can’t wait for a private collector to buy it and they will stay unreleased

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evansbott t1_is5ctpg wrote

Never digitized? Are they on vinyl records?

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kplong02 t1_is5i1r2 wrote

I’m happy for whoever overpays for these crap games.

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cutelyaware t1_is5ile2 wrote

Are they your auctions?

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breakfastmeat23 t1_is5ou8t wrote

Unfortunately, they were probably never released because they weren't any good.

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saltineofmydream t1_is5p9pg wrote

from the article: one is a game only released in japan and the other is an unreleased version of a game developed for the Power Glove. found in trash following the acquisition of the company who had the assets by The Learning Company in 1998.

power glove one might be a neat little find for a nintendo hardware enthusiast

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MECLokie t1_is5povk wrote

Polybius confirmed! /s

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Development-Feisty t1_is5r6pa wrote

I hope the non profit wins the auction, these are pieces of history and belong in a museum or historical archive

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jcagara08 t1_is5va46 wrote

Get WATA here with that WATA games certified ish f em!

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OcculusSniffed t1_is5xrmx wrote

Replying to breakfastmeat23 (#93,816)

They are almost certainly developent stages of otherwise existing games, and not completely new and never-before-seen games.

That said, of the nearly 800 US region NES games that exist, I've played less than 10% so this one can just go on the pile with the other 90%

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Key_Worth t1_is602tm wrote

Cheetahmen 3.

Also..fuck that.

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Taolan13 t1_is628pm wrote

Replying to cutelyaware (#93,428)

The Internet Archive and its library of antiquated games is far from priacy. It is a wondow into an earlier time, and a vessel through which many of us who grew up in the heyday of PC gaming can satisfy our Nostalgia.

While also rediscovering how brutally difficult some of these games were and how our skills have deteriorated with age.

Fuck me I forgot how hard some of these games were. Did I actually complete them myself or am I just remembering watching my dad beat them?

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Blues-Light t1_is64p2n wrote

Anyone else here to say that The Game Grumps kinda ruined this sorta post or news for them? Cause they certainly did for me, the first teaser for Soviet Jump Game really tricked me pretty hard and I'm still kinda salty about it.

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Lost_Switch65 t1_is66kwr wrote

Watch some dumbass collector is going to buy it

never going to dump it , make 2-3 videos on it and lose it to a house fire

i never understood the collector mindset when it comes to this shit since most people are going to remember you as the asshole who lost a game forever

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Floodhunter345 t1_is67qj6 wrote

Replying to SENSHU_dp (#94,651)

Technically, uploading the files for distribution would be illegal, yes. But if the company that owned the rights is defunct or doesn't care, there would be probably no consequences.

Archivists have a private (not available for public download) archive of game data backed up, which is perfectly legal, as long as you purchased or was given the game. I personally have a backup library of legitimately copied files of my cartridge games; useful for playing the games via emulation and keeping their physical condition good.

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LoR_RalphRoberts t1_is67xcv wrote

Replying to Lost_Switch65 (#94,715)

It's a pride/narcisissim thing. Having unique things (to their minds) makes you inherently better than those who do not have it. They genuinely just could not give less of a shit about anything else other than ego stroking themselves.

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STND_Reality t1_is6axq0 wrote

i am praying for someone who isn’t just gonna let these sit and collect dust to grab them

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Biscuits4u2 t1_is6fac3 wrote

Pretty sure all nes games are digitized.

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Kbdiggity t1_is6g0em wrote

I still have my Power Glove. Can I demo the Power Glove game real quick?

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SharpClaw007 t1_is6j1gm wrote

If we got 650 people to chip in 10$ for it, we could get it to a game museum or something

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pfroo40 t1_is6m4wj wrote

Replying to saltineofmydream (#93,847)

The power glove one, according to a comment on a YouTube video claiming to be from the wife of the man who was the developer of the cart, is basically just a tech demo and is not a playable game in any real sense.

Still, both would be neat collectables, I wouldn't pay that much for them, though...

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TristanDuboisOLG t1_is6nh5p wrote

$6,600 at 2:06pm 10/13/22 for those that don’t want to click.

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Caelinus t1_is6r7fu wrote

Replying to LoR_RalphRoberts (#94,788)

A lot of the buyers in any collectable market are just people who think scarcity and value are the same thing. They tend to buy scarce stuff to hopefully have it accrue value over time.

The problem in this case is that two unreleased games are only scarce specifically, not generally. It would be one thing if one of these was a 90% finished prototype of a Metroid sequel that never existed, but there are a lot of unreleased games out there that were never released because people do not want them.

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CrazzluzSenpai t1_is6rl1d wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#95,492)

Do you consider it theft to play a game they stopped selling 30 years ago?

Clearly the game companies themselves don't, or they would do something about it. Emulation sites pretty much instantly get shut down when they start hosting modern games, but some of them have been running for decades and are not secret in the slightest.

You'll also notice even sites that are for the purposes of "preserving the classics," as it were, don't host anything that's not at least 2 console generations old.

Preservationists also don't need to worry about emulating Xbox really at all, because Microsoft themselves are doing a great job of cross releasing everything onto PC, where they're playable forever, or just making sure every new gen is fully backwards compatible.

If companies like Nintendo preserved their own fucking games like Microsoft does, we wouldn't have to.

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souttous t1_is6rvmw wrote

I bet these are fire

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[deleted] t1_is6u5m0 wrote

They should boot it up on a live stream.

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Fredasa t1_is6xklg wrote

This reminds me that we still don't have both versions of Marble Madness 2, even though both versions not only exist but are playable in somebody's collection.

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Bastuhingst t1_is70nvs wrote

Pat Contri talked about these on his podcast. Whole situation is scummy.

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professorDissociate t1_is70wai wrote

Replying to Tronguy93 (#93,105)

Yeah… I’m just thinking about how awesome it would be to open-source something like this. Create a rom for everyone to enjoy. The collector can still have the only existing non-digitized copy.

But that is unlikely, isn’t it?

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dolces_daddy t1_is711oa wrote

Replying to pfroo40 (#95,512)

Not doubting you, since your source is different, but the article specifically says it is playable by the husband:

“The listing goes on to say that the seller's husband was the game designer, adding that it was tested in a retail environment and is playable”

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dapala1 t1_is733qw wrote

Replying to breakfastmeat23 (#93,816)

There's an article. One is a finished game only released in Japan called Battlefields of Napoleon. The other is a demo, not finished, for the Power Glove.

This would be super cool for a hardcore collector but useless as any sort of an investment.

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cali1013 t1_is79y0p wrote

This is “Greed Island” im sure of it.

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CrazzluzSenpai t1_is7cqe3 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#96,189)

But I'm not talking about people that are pirating brand new games, or even games that are older but still for sale.

I am talking about people that are downloading forgotten titles that might have been released on the SNES 30 years ago and never since.

I download old games, and I (and many) have very strict rules that are mostly the same:

  • Nothing that's not at least 2 generations old (so with Switch and PS5, that would put everything from PS2/GCN backwards)

  • Nothing that is still for sale on current platforms. If the game has a rerelease on modern platforms/PC I will buy that.

Again, if the companies themselves don't care about this supposed "theft," why do you? There are huge players in the preservation scene, the sites are very public, and they have worked with employees from these companies that hate emulation, like Nintendo/Sega?

Oh right, they don't care because downloading a SNES game doesn't hurt them in the slightest. And you care because you're a corporate shill.

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Ring_that_talks t1_is7fn3y wrote

Can’t wait for the next Arg created because of a unreleased videogame for the Nintendo

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stridergundam t1_is7hh5a wrote

Frank from Video Game History Foundation is gathering funds for the purpose of preservation. Legit non profit that will digitize and archive this kind of stuff for the future.

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Gritts911 t1_is7nqi6 wrote

“Rescued historical assets from dumpster” during a company acquisition. Yea, I’m sure those weren’t just straight up stolen…

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thomaswde t1_is7pwih wrote

Watch someone buy them, turn them into an NFT, and burn them

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iggyfenton t1_is7qb5i wrote

ET2 “the revenge” and the even harder levels for Battletoads.

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qcon99 t1_is7vhr5 wrote

Replying to adv0catus (#97,761)

Interesting, I did a google search and found this:

> In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,455% (from US$13.50 to $750 per pill).

Turing is a pharmaceutical company he founded and was ceo of.

> In 2017, Shkreli was charged and convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud, unrelated to the Daraprim controversy.[7] He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and up to $7.4 million in fines.

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Yld2princesa t1_is7xy38 wrote

Will still have to blow into it furiously to make it work though

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Quantum018 t1_is7xyl0 wrote

Someone get Nick Robinson on this

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neighbornickog t1_is7y07h wrote

Quick, inform the fuckin’ Angry video game Nerd so he can review them!!!

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khyrian t1_is7zutc wrote

Replying to Joker-Smurf (#97,835)

Had one. The most used component was the embedded gamepad because when my parents would take away the controllers to enforce no NES punishments, they would never take away the PowerGlove collecting dust in the drawer.

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cutelyaware t1_is81k8y wrote

Replying to Taolan13 (#94,494)

I'm not talking about the Internet Archive. I give them a monthly donation because I appreciate their work so much. I'm talking to the point of what to call these virgin games since people object to "never digitized".

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uppernut t1_is82lv7 wrote

Frank Cifaldi of the Video Game History Foundation is currently raising funds over on Twitter to try and nab these instead of a private collector. Go check that out if you want to help these games from being lost even longer

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Frank_chevelle t1_is86rzw wrote

Some rich anonymous person will buy these and we will never see them again.

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CatBugDickBug t1_is8c57v wrote

eBay is a shit website and a garbage platform

Fuck ebay

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abalrogsbutthole t1_is8fkgc wrote

even with the auction, i doubt we will ever get to see gameplay content. with a lot of the older games from that era, they were made and developed on a different platform that what the consumers would play on, and these dev-kits are even more rare than these games, let alone to get one that turns on, was of the right year/region, supports the game type/file structure… these things still exist today with consoles and such, it’s just easier to remake those dev-kits or get them from auctions. when game studios go up for auction due to money issues, usually that’s the most legit way to get these kits.

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ijustreadthecomments t1_is8hq4d wrote

What does "never digitized" mean in regards to a digital asset? I mean... it is already digitized.
And how is it "unreleased" yet "only released in Japan"
Do journalist bother to read what they write?

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Lazy_Vetra t1_is8lriz wrote

Guys let’s crowd source the money and turn every frame of these games into nfts. Hahaha

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RWDPhotos t1_is8o2vc wrote

Never digitized? Is it run by a bunch of gears and springs?

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Birdsareallaroundus t1_is8q0r6 wrote

Why on Earth would you want to play anything with a power glove. Source: I was a very ecstatic, then equally disappointed 7 year old after receiving a power glove for my birthday.

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codenamepeabrain t1_is8uqvc wrote

Replying to ijustreadthecomments (#98,957)

I believe the never digitized means the ROM hasn’t been dumped. As for the Japan release I would assume that the Famicom (Nintendo in Japan) version was released, but the localized NES version was never released in the US.

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toosteampunktofuck t1_is90j2v wrote

Yeah so if your previous game was Deadly Towers I’m thinking this one can safely stay undigitized.

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ratsmdj t1_is99ref wrote

Replying to iampuh (#95,977)

He’s not a bad guy though. Imo; big pharma charges us insane prices on drugs. He copped a drug comp; resold the drugs to the insurance company for insane Markup; those with no ins or couldn’t afford it he gave it to them for free. Just because he spun around and played the At their own game; they got mad. Tbh I wasn’t even mad at him I applauded him.

In the end it doesn’t cost you anything if the drug = 800 bucks; your insurance covers it. No I s? No worries it’s totes free, if you’re from an ins company he billed you the max rate. Looks like a hero to me

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WhoRoger t1_is99uwm wrote

Unreleased Rare game.

That baby is gonna fetch millions.

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astaristorn t1_is9bie5 wrote

This seems like something zero people would want. What am I missing?

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Dagakki t1_is9ewih wrote

It sounds like the power glove one probably isn't a working game, but I hope a preservationist wins the other game at least

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ashbyashbyashby t1_is9jehg wrote

Replying to mcnichoj (#100,571)

No, not a correction at all as you're incorrect. Nobody is allowed to sell versions of it for 88 years. They can sell the single copy, but otherwise they can only give it away or play it at listening parties.

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Lord_Matt_Berry t1_is9l9q0 wrote

Replying to ratsmdj (#100,197)

What do you think happens when insurance companies have to pay excessive amounts? Maybe they will lower the premiums to make everyone happy and save money? Or maybe, just maybe it will lead towards more outrageous insurance prices…

Having Insurance isn’t a magic bullet. It’s a shit sandwich that gets covered in more shit. Pharma/The medical industry is taking the nation through the ringer with outrageous costs, rampant greed, and disgusting bloat. Jacking up the price for insurance is an absolutely a terrible move motivated solely by greed and done knowingly of the fact it will screw everyone over more in the long run.

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[deleted] t1_is9r8l2 wrote

Betcha they suck and will be underwhelming

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guiltycitizen t1_is9xda0 wrote

LooK wHaT I fOUnd While cLEaNinG ouT my moM’s aTTic!!!!

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Ratbello t1_isa9dlm wrote

Is it called Bonerland?

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Loftoman t1_isab2f0 wrote

Never digitized? Gotta love those analog NES cartridges!

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professorDissociate t1_isadufe wrote

Replying to TNoStone (#100,430)

The only copy which is not digitized. It’s still a cartridge, which is distinctive from a digital rom. I think we are using the word “digitized” differently here, or we’re applying a different scope to the word.

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ashbyashbyashby t1_isdtxqh wrote

Replying to mcnichoj (#108,042)

Both. The owner owns the single physical copy and the copyright/publishing rights. They can sell all of these, as a bundle, at anytime, obviously for millions of dollars. But the conditions for any future purchaser of the item and publishing rights are that they can't duplicate it for profit until next century. There are exemptions for private listening parties, and evidently free streaming. Its really not that hard to grasp.

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ILikeMyGrassBlue t1_iseebbr wrote

Replying to JaceTheWoodSculptor (#108,460)

He doesn’t it have it anymore lol. He promised to release it if Trump won in 2016, didn’t, then tried to sell it. The DOJ took it before the sale went through when he got arrested and auctioned it off. It got purchased by some NFT company that says they want to release it but still haven’t like a year later.

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ashbyashbyashby t1_isenvwv wrote

Replying to JaceTheWoodSculptor (#109,234)

I literally called him human garbage. Regardless of what he would've liked to do with the Wu Tang album he was legally bound. I wish I was as worldly and enlightened as you though.

If you think you know somebody I dont then say it. Don't be obtuse and pretend it was a mic drop moment.

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JaceTheWoodSculptor t1_iseos2z wrote

Replying to ashbyashbyashby (#109,262)

Why would I waste my time lecturing you when you clearly have a final opinion and you are passive-agressively insulting me on the opinion you just asked about ?

You called him human garbage. I’m calling you ill informed.

If you are passionate about him to the extent of calling him human garbage and insulting people who don’t share your opinion, why don’t you scratch that itch and go read up on him ? I’m sure you can read faster than I can type on my phone.

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TNoStone t1_ismnfzx wrote

Replying to professorDissociate (#102,029)

Yeah I think you’re mistaken. If they uploaded the rom then the game would be digitized. Then they wouldn’t own a non digitized game. Their game would be available for download therefore digitized therefore worth much less

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Raincoats_George t1_it5bphi wrote

Replying to JaceTheWoodSculptor (#109,234)

I've actually followed him pretty closely. I've listened to all of his bullshit excuses. Watched him talk for 40 minutes about it once. He's a fast talker. He has an answer for everything. But at the end of the day he did what he did and then followed it up with just some light felonies.

He's trash. Anyone simping for him might as well just stick with their musk fetish.

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