/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm guessing its a photo of a backwards turbo-duo with a saturn logo stuck on top, and a weird cartoon head placed in the corner.

A piece of junk?

>>802190
>>802194
Sega Pluto, the Saturn prototype, two of them are known to exist, and this is one of them. This one happens to have a broken lid, as well.

that guy wanted $100k for that shitty proto he bought for $2, no thanks

>>802190
>he's too young to remember Kid Vid from Burger King happy meals

>>802198
My thoughts exactly. He has a starting bid of 20k, at the moment. I'd honestly not mind if it was a good proto.
>>802202
Mah nigga

You can't even use the Saturn netlink nowadays.
The thing's fucking useless.

>>802223
Precisely, hence why it's basically just a big beefy fucking Saturn with a modem inside of it. I am pretty interested in the inner workings of it, but for the price he's asking, he can blow it out of his asshole, for all I care.

>>802234
b-but muh sega history

It's a ridiculous price in all honesty. I'd like to have one.

>>802237
There is that history aspect about it, but to be honest, there is a lot of other affordable prototypes out there. Hell, I had a few proto carts myself, back in 2008ish. Those things sell for a pretty penny, if you can get your hands on them.

>>802223
I've used the net link this year. You sit are wrong. I have net link matches from last year on my yt page. It will work as long as analog phone lines exist. Or you can use a phone line simulator to make a LAN match of sorts.

>>802262
That so? I'll have to hook my Saturn up tomorrow, and check it out. I have mine in storage, at the moment.

Are there any video game museums?

Because it'd be nice if it ended up in their hands.

>>802173
Dude this is not the place to drum up viral marketing for your auctions.

>>802265
You more than likely don't have an analog phone line. Do you have a land line? Is it through your cable provider? If it's digital it will not work...the match will lag out if it even connects.

The Netlink is P2P. One Saturn dials the second Saturn. Long distance rates apply but is other wise free. So as long as you have a compatible phone line it will work forever. There's a site dedicated to Netlink. There's about 5 somewhat active users. I'm one of the more active users and have two or three people I play with from time to time.

Saturn Bomberman Netlink match recorded about a year ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P26l3XMQcQ

>>802286
I don't, but I know someone who does, cheers for letting me know, Anon.
>>802280
I /think/ Sega Pluto 002 ended up in a museum, someone from ASSEMbler has it, I think.

>>802289
Not my auction, I'd rather that this piece of shit didn't sell, kidvid666 really doesn't deserve the money he is trying to gross from this.

>>802289

Yeah like anyone on /vr/ is gonna shell out $100k for this shit. The far more valuable Simon Wai Sonic 2 beta, Sonic Xtreme alpha and other very valuable betas never commanded this much money

>>802292

One of the Plutos is in Japan and belongs to a former Sega employee, if I recall correctly. He brought the prototype into the spotlight when he finally revealed it after having it for so many years

>>802292
Well if you want to set up a Netlink match get ahold of me through youtube. I can't dial out because I don't have unlimited long distance so if you're willing to dial me I'll play any of the Netlink games. My preference is Saturn Bomberman and Virtual On.

>>802303
That's the one! Knew that someone had it, he said it wound up on his desk, so he boxed it up, and took it home with him. I heard a few rumors about museums getting their hands on it, though, so the current whereabouts isn't known, to myself, at least.

Would be a more interesting bid if he didnt have a starting price

>>802323
True, but he's a greedy cunt.

>>802198
>$100k
Does he want to buy a new house or something?

>>802323
he already did that once and it only reached $15k

>>802368
I would have taken the 15k, personally.

>>802372
Exactly, how could you not want 15k? Plus his pluto is far below mint condition.

>>802202
Its not hard to not recognize him, seeing as they look nothing alike.
>horns
>half bald
>fangs

>whining about insane prices when it's 1 of 2 things that exist

The guy can ask for whatever the hell he wants. He has one of the rarest things out there.

>>802495

Actually he can't since there's been two occasions where he's tried to sell it and no one wanted to pay when he was asking. Ergo, he can't ask for whatever the hell he wants since no one will pay for it.

It's like saying that since I own this computer I'm typing on, I can ask a million dollars for it. I -can- ask $1 mil for it, but I'll never get it. That means I can't sell it for what I want. Get it?

>>802501
How do you know no one will be willing to pay for it?

You don't.

He has something rare, and there's zero competition for him, he can reasonably ask for whatever the hell he wants for it and wait for someone to bite.

>>802196
but this thing goes on sale like once a month for the past three months and then he pulls it right before the auction ends, I doubt it's real

>>802358
probably drugs actually

>>802506

...Because he's tried twice to get an amount no one was willing to pay. Have you bothered to read my post in full?

>>802506
That's just it, it's very likely that the fish he is looking for will never come.

>>802173
>Sup, /vr/, guess what's on eBay, again..
A console with less games than the PS3?

>>802518
Oh no, he tried a total of TWO times on one website!

I have trouble selling things in the hundreds on Ebay sometimes, so I can imagine how something with twice the digits would do.

The only thing required for getting what you want is time and patience.


Plus, the guy could very easily be testing the waters. Seeing where the bids go, likely putting it elsewhere to see the kind of numbers people are offering.
Hell, if it were me I'd do the same for 2-3 months, get what I feel is a good compromise between what people are offering and what I want closer to what I want at first and keep pushing it for a few months, only lowering the price after the 5 or 6 month mark.

It would also depend on his financial situation. If he desperately needed dosh, he would have sold it by now. He hasn't, so I can only assume he doesn't REALLY need the money, so he's free to get as much as possible for it.

>>802534
The Saturn had more than zero games, jackass.

>>802518
>>802536
not to mention that he's also tried to sell it a few other times on GameGavel before switching to ebay

>>802536
you are the Sega Pluto seller, aren't you?

>>802558
If you need a reason for someone to have a conflicting opinion from yours, think what you want.

But that's silly.

>>802487
>half bald
It's not half bald its a white hat, regardless it's easy to recognize, I recognized it on the thumbnail alone, the hair the head, the glasses and hat are the same basic shape.

Polite sage because off topic and you're a moron.

>>802580
I changed my mind.
Fuck him.
He looks like a giant asshole.

>>802202

excuse me for living in a third world country in my youth.

>>802574
Yes I actually went through the trouble of doing this.

Polite sage because off topic and you're a moron.

>>802536
He's still a douche. He should give it to a museum. I'm sure they'd still pay him something for it.

>>802698
Yeah, I've changed my opinion.
I didn't even consider the museum possibility, that would be a much better use of it.

He also looks like a douchebag.

>>802597
sollux/mituna's horns are nothing like that though, some other weird shit is up here

>>802173
what fug?

>>802597
You're a fucking idiot. The Burger King guy is literally named Kid Vid, same as the Saturn owner's ebay name.

>>802202
I'm honestly surprised that he hasn't become an unofficial mascot of the board yet

>>802202

I was going to say it's not really Kid Vid but some kind of rip-off until I actually saw "Kid Vid 666" written on the cap

>hometown is a weird Southern city that's big enough to be a decent little city, but it's still many years behind the times in every way
>mfw the local Burger King near here used early-90s Kid Vid decorations on the walls and tray placemats until fucking 2008

Local Dominos also had pictures of the Noid up until something like '05. Every time I go back there, it's like going back in time. People there still marvel over my smartphone like it's a piece of futuristic alien tech.

>>803842
Now you've got me curious what city this is.

>>803912
The Twilight Zone.

>>803912
Brunswick, GA.

People there have finally come in to the 2000s since then so there's not Kid Vid or Noid stuff still around anymore, but damn things there are just.. outdated by years. They're probably where modern cities were in 2006. I mean, people there still commonly use MySpace instead of Facebook, and smartphones are JUST starting to make an appearance on a very infrequent basis. We still even had WCW merchandise in stock as late as 2010, almost a full decade after WCW folded.

Whenever I was growing up, people rarely had beyond NES when N64 was still huge. People looked at me like I was alien whenever I talked about vidya. Most of my peers had never even played a Mario game. The period in the early-90s where things were still like the 80s? That lasted there until about 2002.

>>802202
[clapping intensifies]

>americlap insults people for not knowing americunt trash food mascots from the 80's
[clapping intensifies]

>someone calls out americlap
I DELETE U LOL EPIC MOD SWAG YOLO #REKT

>>802580
I would put my sharpie in his pooper. He's cute.

>>803971
>the pure amount of shit in your butthurt shitpost

More of /v/'s shit is seeping in to our awesome board and I hate it.

>>803981
don't even try to delete this
MODS=GODS

>>802280
There's one in Helsinki.

Is this the Sega prototype that some clown wanted thousands and thousands of bucks for?

>>804009
That's like saying there aren't any anywhere. No one visits Helsinki except for time-travelers.
Finns and Estonians with their 22 tenses and moods only have so many because they travel through time and merely needed the grammar to describe something that was about to happen in the past before time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it.
I tried to learn Finnish, but I only got as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up and moving on to a more useful language.

>>804023
What the fuck was that post?
An anon asked if there were video game museums, I answered him there was at least one in Helsinki.

I never implied it was the only one in the world.
And what the fuck are you talking about?

Who would learn finnish anyway except finns

>>802536

No amount of patience in the world will ever get him the amount he wants. Stop being stupid.

>>804038
Sure, it exists in Helsinki, but we're not all pantemporal beings like the Finns and Estonians. The rest of us only exist at one point in time. The question isn't that the museum is in Helsinki or not but /when/ it exists.
Why does your language have so many tenses and moods? Either something happened in the past, is happening now or will happen in the future. You don't need more than three tenses, for fuck's sake! I mean... unless you're pantemporal beings who time jump from one point in the temporal cloth to another. Which you are. Cuz you're a Finn. Bunch of weirdos, the lot of you.

I'm a linguist by trade and training, so I like learning languages and Finnish sounds nice but is an absolute sod to learn.

Fuck you moot. You said you'd make DC retro
Now to actually talk about the topic at hand.
He should just fucking sell it already.

>>802506
Because he has tried selling it about two times on eBay, and five times elsewhere, he will not get what he is asking for it.
>>802501
>It's like saying that since I own this computer I'm typing on, I can ask a million dollars for it. I -can- ask $1 mil for it, but I'll never get it. That means I can't sell it for what I want. Get it?
This. It is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
>>802507
It's real, he doesn't pull it, people just bid it up, to see what the reserve is on it.
>>802534
The Saturn had a few nice games.
>>802536
He has tried twice on eBay, ASSEMbler, Gave Gavel, Twitter, Facebook, even a few Youtube people were asked to buy it from him, he will not be able to sell the fucking thing. I don't have anything against him wanting to get as much as he can for it, but he's pissing into the wind, it isn't in good enough condition for him to get as much as he is asking for it.
>>802585
He is.
>>803842
I had a Burger King near me like that, a McDonalds as well.
>>804098
I'd give him a grand for it, tops, it is in awful condition, and I'm willing to bet the inside if it is pretty manky as well.

>>803842
Apparently there are still some McDonald's that still have the "Mac Tonight" mascot in place

If it wants to be realistic, he should ask for $10,000 settle for $5,000 or something in the middle.

I just want that asshole to disassemble the machine and post pictures of the PCBs inside.

>>804213
I want him to give it to someone so they can make replica cases for pre-existing Saturns.
That'd be cool

>>804205
People have already said he got bids up to $15,000

>>804154
I doubt people risk making $15,000 bids just out of curiosity. What if the reserve had been $14,000? Backing out of that high priced an auction is pretty tough and shill accounts aren't as easy to cooker by as they used to be.

>>802509
Nah drugies get desperate and just take the first best offer

>>804205
People have already said he got bids up to $15,000

>>804154
I doubt people risk making $15,000 bids just out of curiosity. What if the reserve had been $14,000? Backing out of that high priced an auction is pretty tough and shill accounts aren't as easy to come by as they used to be.

>>804205
15k wasn't enough for him.

>>802585
>I can tell everything about a person from a single picture on the internet
though from what I've heard, he is, not wise to judge a book by it's cover though

>>803974
something about him rubs me the wrong way... wouldn't let him put his sharpie in my pooper... and I pride myself in being a slut

>>804350
One person reported that they had bid around $40,000 and STILL had not hit the reserve, so they retracted the bid.

>>804347
They did, he actually said this in an interview with some Sega fansite. Everyone backed out. The reserve was set at 100k
>>804213
>>804246
That's why I'm interested in owning it, so I can take it apart, and show its inner workings to everyone.
>>804375
He is an asshole, he's incredibly smug about what he has, which I suppose is fair enough, but he thinks he's famous/godlike for owning this thing.
>>804397
Read above

>>804380
>2013
>being a faget

>>803935
Damn, that makes where I live sound like slightly less of a shithole. I'll bet the internet's terrible down there.

>>802580
>that fuckhuge Morrissey poster
10/10 would punch forever

>>804204
That's fucking wonderful.

>>804820
We didn't get DSL until 2008. It was 56k all the way before that.

>>804375
the fact he put his autism cap on for that one photo and hes got a cock tickling lip ring. We can clearly see he is a retarded fagget.

>>805787
Personally, I didn't pick up an "asshole" vibe as much as I did an "autistic Sanic-loving furfag who is probably in to shit like vore and inflation" vibe, but it's all good.

>>804874
>Morrissey
You know what, I like some Smiths songs- but for fuck's sake that guy is a right cunt. Ergo, this gentleman is fucking awful.

I feel like saging myself. Sorry for off-topic.

>>804463
>100000k

What the flying fuck.

This guy is some magical kind of jackass.

>Thought it was some kind of cool modded 360
>Read thread

This shitstick doesn't even want to sell it. He wants to post ads on eBay calling for ridiculous sums of money so people can "ooh" and "aah".

>>803791
He IS. And it's official.