"Why have I been betrayed!?"

[andrew]

Words can not describe the horrid rage that fills your blood stream when something stupid like this happens once you are two-thirds of the way through a game.



WHAT SHALL I DO!!!? OH I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO!!!

I really like this game, but then this happened. How infuriating! My word. Good thing I was emulating the game; who knows what pure blind RAGE might have driven me to do to my beloved Master System or controller. That could have been the first time I broke a controller, snapping just like a twig within my hands.


Anyone else have any similar stories where a game has committed such a heinous crime against thee?

[andrew]

Click on the wall? I suppose I should use the action button to do that then. I hadn't a clue. And this is why I need the game with the case and manual. I'm gonna get myself a copy shortly.

Anyways, I will definitely try clicking on those walls. Thank goodness for savestates.

EDIT: 'Clicking' on the walls didn't work.

[gallos_11]

It seems you're not the only one... ;D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8cb4z9rvLw

[Transatlantic Foe]

When I was a kid, I remember watching someone playing the vector graphics Star Wars arcade game. They were clearly too good, because during one of the trench run loops the game just put up a wall in front of him. No warning or reason, just an obstacle which couldn't be passed. Bam! GAME OVER.

[andrew]

Too bad they couldn't haven't given him a 'You Win!" screen or something similar, instead of a solid wall to smack into.

[Melanogaster]

Concerning the "clicking on the wall" mentioned, here goes an excerpt from the manual (my copy is Tec Toy so this is the only scan I have):



Translation:

Are you lost?
You are walking in circles and cannot find a way in or out. What should you do? Stay in front of an obstacle or an area that looks suspicious and then press Button 2 several times to find a hidden passage.

[andrew]

Hmm, alright, I'll try that, as I have no other choice (other than dying and hoping I have enough gold..).

A-ha! So a way out has been found, thank you very much Melanogaster!

[Kenneth]

Talking about the tec toy version: melanogaster, I had never ever seen a copy of this game in its tec toy version until recently when an ebay seller put one for a ridiculous BIN price, claiming the game was a 200 copies-only release.
Can you confirm it is THAT rare ?

[Melanogaster]

Dec 19, 2012 3:29:46 GMT andrew said:

A-ha! So a way out has been found, thank you very much Melanogaster!

Not a problem; it's really not that easy to guess that without the manual, indeed.

Dec 19, 2012 12:11:37 GMT Kenneth said:

Talking about the tec toy version: melanogaster, I had never ever seen a copy of this game in its tec toy version until recently when an ebay seller put one for a ridiculous BIN price, claiming the game was a 200 copies-only release.
Can you confirm it is THAT rare ?

Short version: certainly not.

Long version: the thing is, throughout the past few years of retrocollecting and researching, we came to learn here that Tec Toy did not distribute their games in a coherent, uniform-ish way at all. Talking with other people over at different brazilian SMS related forums, I now know that, while I was the only one I knew in my state that had a Psycho Fox, apparently in Rio and Porto Alegre it was just not that common and in São Paulo it was very common. For some time I didn't even knew about the existence of a blue re-release of Ghouls'n Ghosts, while in Rio and São Paulo they were very used to it. On the other hand, while I myself had sold a few copies of the white/blue Shinobi release over the years, many people from Rio, São Paulo and Porto Alegre had never seen it before I scanned the cover of my copy a couple of years ago.

As for Dragon Crystal specifically (which I know because it's one of my favorite games), I have a complete copy and sold another complete one I had some time ago. Back in the day, just in my city, four other kids had it, two rental stores had it (one had two copies) and the two main retail stores had them for sale for a long time. A cousin and a friend, which did not live in my city, had a copy each. As for cities on other states, I now know that in Porto Alegre it apparently was relatively common while people had lots of trouble to find it in Rio or São Paulo. But if you want to forget all that and look only at recent (2006~2012) auctions, then I guess it's safe to say the game is very difficult to find in its complete form, since I've seen perhaps only half a dozen copies in the meantime.

[Kenneth]

Thanks for the info !
So it's a bit like Europe finally with some games only released in certain countries, being rar.e in some countries and common in others