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The most important start that ever got kicked. - Dark Jaguar - 20th August 2012
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343248998/cheetahmen-ii-the-lost-levels
The most important start that ever got kicked. - etoven - 21st August 2012
Dark Jaguar Wrote:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343248998/cheetahmen-ii-the-lost-levels
Wow, that story had everything, I hadn't heard about this.
I can only image the pure rage that people must have felt playing a game all half way through only to discover the programmers didn't care enough to fix a glitch that keeps you from beating it. The original buyers of this game should get this new version for free plus a $32,000 copy of the original from Ebay.. Each... :) And then and only then when that programmer bastard has nothing left, he should be eaten alive.. By real life cheetah men.
The most important start that ever got kicked. - A Black Falcon - 21st August 2012
The original versions weren't sold, initially, the company shut down before it was released... but the copies were eventually found and sold. There were just a few thousand copies. I don't know if people knew the game was unbeatable when they bought it... possibly?
Anyway, there's been a big, and ridiculous, internet reaction against this kickstarter, but I hope it succeeds. I know the game is legendarially terrible, but it'd be nice to see some copies of it out there that work, I think... I'm sure that there are plenty of interested collectors, even for $60. I mean, $60's not unreasonable for a repro cart. And this is actually licensed, the guy actually owns the Cheetahmen license. That adds some value too for sure.
The most important start that ever got kicked. - Dark Jaguar - 21st August 2012
Pushback against it? Well, I can sort of understand the idea of giving the creator any money considering how the original was clearly a scam and it's sort of rewarding that original scam. I don't think this, by itself, is a scam when they go out of their way to say "you're supporting a terrible game" right up front... Though I could be persuaded that even an "honest" scam can still be a scam.