27th January 2012, 4:23 PM
Still not sure why you bother splitting the thread. So what if the other one was "old"?
Anyway, here's my latest catch:
Game & Watch: Ball (Brand new, not just "unopened" but actually manufactured in the past few months) Yep, they actually re-released the very first handheld game, predating Tiger Electronics. Actually, I had a few of those Tiger games as a kid (as gifts usually, I don't recall actually requesting one). I was aware of the Game & Watch systems but never had one myself, wanting NES games instead (and later the Gameboy).
It's a nearly perfect replica. The screen even has old style LCD "delay". The front is identical, but the branding etched into the back reveals that it is a re-release. It still functions as a "watch" too. It uses a newer sort of watch batter (the CR2032), but otherwise is the same internally as well.
It's probably the most "mint" retro thing I've yet received, and one of the better Nintendo Fun Club rewards I've seen over the years. I hope Nintendo does more of this style of reproduction. They could make limited quantities for the smaller base of people that would be after something like this, only selling it on their online store to take distribution costs out of the picture. I'd love to get a newly minted NES, for example. It could either be based on the Famicom with a "universal" cart plug or based on the original NES but altering the cartridge slot to be "true" ZIF, where pressing it down actually presses two sides of the contacts around the cartridge pins, instead of just shoving it into a spring slot. Imagine a reproduction SNES and Earthbound for sale. Not only would lawsuits not be a problem at that point (no way they could claim a format shift and thus a "new" work), but prices on eBay would be murdered in their sleep, so no more $4000 Earthbounds being sold (the prices on those things are getting ridiculous).
Anyway, here's my latest catch:
Game & Watch: Ball (Brand new, not just "unopened" but actually manufactured in the past few months) Yep, they actually re-released the very first handheld game, predating Tiger Electronics. Actually, I had a few of those Tiger games as a kid (as gifts usually, I don't recall actually requesting one). I was aware of the Game & Watch systems but never had one myself, wanting NES games instead (and later the Gameboy).
It's a nearly perfect replica. The screen even has old style LCD "delay". The front is identical, but the branding etched into the back reveals that it is a re-release. It still functions as a "watch" too. It uses a newer sort of watch batter (the CR2032), but otherwise is the same internally as well.
It's probably the most "mint" retro thing I've yet received, and one of the better Nintendo Fun Club rewards I've seen over the years. I hope Nintendo does more of this style of reproduction. They could make limited quantities for the smaller base of people that would be after something like this, only selling it on their online store to take distribution costs out of the picture. I'd love to get a newly minted NES, for example. It could either be based on the Famicom with a "universal" cart plug or based on the original NES but altering the cartridge slot to be "true" ZIF, where pressing it down actually presses two sides of the contacts around the cartridge pins, instead of just shoving it into a spring slot. Imagine a reproduction SNES and Earthbound for sale. Not only would lawsuits not be a problem at that point (no way they could claim a format shift and thus a "new" work), but prices on eBay would be murdered in their sleep, so no more $4000 Earthbounds being sold (the prices on those things are getting ridiculous).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)