Epic! 8-bitguy uses 1 weird trick to detroy rare prototypes!

Never Scored said:
Didn't 8-bit guy get death threats for printing new labels for old Atari games? Apparently an original Atari 2600 game with a new label is not worth the same as an Atari 2600 game with the original label in good condition for reasons I can't even begin to fathom.
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Yeah, though it was an NES copy of Wrestlemania, and Pat the NES Punk & Ian Ferguson on their podcast blew their lid about it. Wrestlemania's one of the cheapest NES carts, too.

Like NoonmanR said, it's just comic book collector logic. They'd rather have the authentic label from the 80s, even if it's damaged and has coffee stains on it, than a fresh new glossy high-resolution aftermarket label, because muh authenticity. That logic made sense long ago when getting the original comic in good shape was the only way you could actually read it at all, but video game labels just exist to let you know what cartridge they are. You could make a case for back in the day when bootlegs started to be a thing, but if you're really concerned about that, you should get a set of gamebit screwdrivers and compare the boards to those on NESCartDB.

I'm surprised David doesn't have an Everdrive yet, tbh
 
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ditto said:
Clint must be lurking here because after 13 years (!) he's made a followup to the Depth Dwellers video. Turns out he's been collecting.
(R.I.P reasonably priced eBay listings)
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A /vr/-themed youtuber I follow has played it fairly recently, you can see the playlist here for all the levels. What a pain in the ass, I remember playing it back in the day and finding it extremely cumbersome compared to good ol' Doom, can't imagine any sane person being sadistic enough to play this the whole way.


Hell, I'd be down for a remastered version of it.
 
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Never Scored said:
Didn't 8-bit guy get death threats for printing new labels for old Atari games? Apparently an original Atari 2600 game with a new label is not worth the same as an Atari 2600 game with the original label in good condition for reasons I
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Pissmaster said:
Yeah, though it was an NES copy of Wrestlemania, and Pat the NES Punk & Ian Ferguson on their podcast blew their lid about it. Wrestlemania's one of the cheapest NES carts, too.
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That explains a lot. Nintendo fanboys are so unhinged that they make Amiga fanboys look normal.
Pissmaster said:
I'm surprised David doesn't have an Everdrive yet, tbh
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A MiSTer Multisystem would make more sense, but David seems to be anti-FPGA. Although maybe he's softened his stance a bit since running into roadblocks with the Commander X16 that needed FPGAs to resolve.
 
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Never Scored said:
I can't hate on 8-Bit Guy too much. He doesn't shoehorn woke shit into his videos and I like the shit where he talks about the history of Commodore and tries out hobby kits like the Color Maximite. I don't really watch him for his technical prowess. I just like to watch someone fuck around with all the shit I can't afford and don't have the room for. Not someone I would simp for or send stuff to or anything like that. I was very surprised to learn he wasn't a 40-year-old virgin because he certainly comes off as one.




LGR is full of shit. He's nearly two years younger than me and pretended he grew up with the C64 when he appeared in one of 8-Bit Guy's retrospective videos. No fucking way dude.
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Well, Pavel from Kinamania was born in 1988, and yet he grew up with 8 bit Dendy games from the 80s. Even I grew up with NES, SNES and N64 Mario games, despite being a 2000s kid. Though, it was via emulation mind you. As for LGR, the C64 was more than likely a hand me down.
 
The amiga-furry connection comes from one Eric Schwartz. (A quick google and I found this: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/ews - should be him) If anyone feels like it he can dig there to go down a rabbit hole of ancient internet lore. He used to make animation shorts for the Amiga. And yes, that all was past-ish Commodore. Even though Commodore officially folded later, the Amiga basically was finished with the beginning of the 90s for the mainstream computer people, especially since software development basically fell off a cliff in '90-'91. There were hold-outs, especially in Germany with some hardware expansion engineering still going on way into the 90s up towards the end of the decade from companies like Phase 5 etc. that also had a lot of drama going on. Everyone sane moved on to the PC though.

E: I think all this guys artwork is so blurry because he still uses an Amiga to draw it. Sheesh.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Yeah, though it was an NES copy of Wrestlemania, and Pat the NES Punk & Ian Ferguson on their podcast blew their lid about it. Wrestlemania's one of the cheapest NES carts, too.

Like NoonmanR said, it's just comic book collector logic. They'd rather have the authentic label from the 80s, even if it's damaged and has coffee stains on it, than a fresh new glossy high-resolution aftermarket label, because muh authenticity. That logic made sense long ago when getting the original comic in good shape was the only way you could actually read it at all, but video game labels just exist to let you know what cartridge they are. You could make a case for back in the day when bootlegs started to be a thing, but if you're really concerned about that, you should get a set of gamebit screwdrivers and compare the boards to those on NESCartDB.

I'm surprised David doesn't have an Everdrive yet, tbh
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We have museums to store and preserve old objects in their original condition. If you are a private individual then you have no obligation to anyone to preserve some innate "authentic" nature of an item. A few years ago I made a point of buying Star Wars figures in their original packaging from auctions and taking them out of the box. purely for the principle behind it. There is nothing in the world sadder than a toy that will never be played with.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
From my time moving around in the retro computer community (which I don't anymore) the "mint-condition" collectors are some of the saddest, joyless manchildren I've ever encountered. I can only assume the mint condition toy figurine/comic book/whatever nerds are the same.
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That's why I don't mind a bit of yellowing and have no intention of retrobriting anything anytime soon. If something is too nice, you don't want to use it. Screw that. I want to use my whole collection. That said, there's nothing in my collection that's especially rare.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
We have museums to store and preserve old objects in their original condition. If you are a private individual then you have no obligation to anyone to preserve some innate "authentic" nature of an item. A few years ago I made a point of buying Star Wars figures in their original packaging from auctions and taking them out of the box. purely for the principle behind it. There is nothing in the world sadder than a toy that will never be played with.
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That's sort of the Scrooge McDuck view of things and I agree.
 
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Pee Cola said:
That's why I don't mind a bit of yellowing and have no intention of retrobriting anything anytime soon. If something is too nice, you don't want to use it. Screw that. I want to use my whole collection. That said, there's nothing in my collection that's especially rare.
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What personally grinds my gears is when people own all this weird and rare hardware and can't appreciate it because they know absolutely nothing about it, not the history, not how it works, sometimes not even what it really does. In my time around the Amiga community, the amount of people who had an entire warehouse of different Amiga hardware while not even knowing the most basic "user manual" stuff (click here to open that) was absolutely staggering. They didn't know how to do the most basic things, neither did they really care. They just wanted to show off what they owned, all running on fumes from these two years when they were 8-10 and the family had an Amiga 500.

They just own it to take pictures for some dumb <insert social media here> and get all those updoots and to belong to some weird community and to get excited for the next 400 Euro omgwtfbbq FPGA accelerator they're never going to use for anything except run some benchmark software from 1991 to, you guessed it, take a picture for social media for it. I think young people call these "Bug-men".
 
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AmpleApricots said:
What personally grinds my gears is when people own all this weird and rare hardware and can't appreciate it because they know absolutely nothing about it, not the history, not how it works, sometimes not even what it really does. In my time around the Amiga community, the amount of people who had an entire warehouse of different Amiga hardware while not even knowing the most basic "user manual" stuff (click here to open that) was absolutely staggering. They didn't know how to do the most basic things, neither did they really care. They just wanted to show off what they owned, all running on fumes from these two years when they were 8-10 and the family had an Amiga 500.

They just own it to take pictures for some dumb <insert social media here> and get all those updoots and to belong to some weird community and to get excited for the next 400 Euro omgwtfbbq FPGA accelerator they're never going to use for anything except run some benchmark software from 1991 to, you guessed it, take a picture for social media for it. I think young people call these "Bug-men".
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I bet I could steal a decent amount from LGR's hoard without him noticing. He has a storage vault and another house dedicated to that shit.
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