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Weird Games Anonymous Sat Jun 14 18:47:14 2014 No.1690864 [DELETED]

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What are the weirdest physical games you own? Weird cartridge? Weird-looking disc? Maybe it came with an unusual manual or a strange case? Maybe it had some odd something extra that most games didn't have like a complimentary fruit rollup?

Pic semi-related. I own a copy of Cosmic Spacehead on the Genesis, not this PAL multicart. I think Codemasters games were the only ones like this.

Anonymous Sat Jun 14 18:54:05 2014 No.1690884
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I got this. EA carts on the Genesis were usually very unique, but I have two versions of Jungle Strike that are entirely different.

I can only assume EA got tired of making their own carts and cut some kind of licensing deal at some point. As far as I know, one isn't any rarer than the other, though I almost never see that standard Genesis cart version.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 20:59:18 2014 No.1691065 >>1690884 They didn't want to pay the licensing fee to use segas carts so they made their own

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 21:47:20 2014 No.1691127 File: 278 KB, 1200x832, doubleEnder[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I own this. I also own the Spike's Peak/Ghost Manor double ender.

Anonymous Sat Jun 14 21:52:53 2014 No.1691138
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Diddy Kong Racing and Yoshi's Story both had OST CDs released. They were shaped like Diddy's and Yoshi's heads, respectively. As in, the CDs weren't perfect circles.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:01:39 2014 No.1691152 File: 75 KB, 599x353, 1388992023312.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1691138 How do you even play that?

Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:06:06 2014 No.1691157
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>>1691152
If your CD player flips open like the PS1, you're fine. If you have to slide in the CD like most car stereos, you're fucked.

Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:12:04 2014 No.1691164
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>>1691138
>>1691157

I have some CDs with weird shapes like that. Only way I could rip them on the PC was by using a male-male cable to connect a discman to the PC. Thing is, most CD/DVD players for PC spin too fast, and these discs become unplayable due to balancing issues. Old players had slower drives, making it possible to read those discs. Basically, these shaped discs were a horrible ide, but dam they look cool and unique.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:15:25 2014 No.1691171 >>1691138 >>1691157 Okay, these are fucking crazy. Any other instances of irregular shaped CDs? Because I would totally buy those two.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:19:09 2014 No.1691178 File: 154 KB, 800x940, shapedpicture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >18 year olds just learning there were misshapen cds It's by no means a new thing

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:32:27 2014 No.1691194 >>1691178 >If you have to slide in the CD like most car stereos, you're fucked. nah mate 30 year old britfag, but thanks for playing. Google the original shape cd company that made the yoshi one and found nothing.

Anonymous Sat Jun 14 22:36:11 2014 No.1691202

>>1690864
There were minidiscs. They were CDs that were half the capacity of normal cds, but fit in a normal CD player. So they the inner half was information, and the outer half was just plastic, and some people cut it to make different shapes (mini-disc players are the ones with the 3 ball-bearings that pop out to hold the cd in place as it plays).

There was some game that I can't remember that was on a mini-disc that was carved in the shape of a human head.

And now I'm looking through the thread and see >>1691138. Exactly like that, but the one I can't remember was a point-and-click adventure in a comic/creepy head.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 00:50:53 2014 No.1691334 >>1691178 None of those look balanced. Seems like a great way to shorten the life of your CD drives.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 23:35:43 2014 No.1693341 >>1691178 Those are vinyls.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 23:48:17 2014 No.1693368 >>1693341 >vinyls The plural is vinyl. And yeah, that's why I said "It's by no means a new thing".

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 23:51:24 2014 No.1693373 Weirdest thing I have is a factory damaged copy of Thief. It works, but it takes around 60 minutes to install, and you can see a large blotch on the face of the disk.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 01:45:51 2014 No.1693612 File: 62 KB, 650x345, j-carts_zpse225caac.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1690864 I have some of the Codemasters J-Carts for the Mega Drive. Cool, and practical.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 02:02:16 2014 No.1693642 >>1691127 >double ender. ASS TO ASS

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:45:21 2014 No.1694238 >>1693368 >>>/mu/ Record collectors are pretentious assholes

Anonymous Mon Jun 16 12:15:07 2014 No.1694289
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>>1690864
>>1690884

As for non-sega cart shells, Accolade also had carts similar to EA. Early games were unlicensed and only boot on early pre-bios machines - This is the origin of the MD boot message.

I seem to recall Konami had their name branded into the back of their games and cases, but someone else can go look.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 12:16:25 2014 No.1694291 >>1694289 >I seem to recall Konami had their name branded into the back of their games and cases, but someone else can go look. They did. So did Namco.

Anonymous Mon Jun 16 12:53:59 2014 No.1694342

What I find weird was the huge amount of Amiga era video games that had a single food/drink sponsor, I don't recall it ever being a part of the wider advertising campaigns of the time, just seemed roughly stapled in.

> Superfrog and Lucozade
> James Pond 2: Robocod and McVities Penguins
> Pushover and Walkers Quavers
> Coolspot and 7-Up
> Global Gladiators and McDonalds

Idk if this was a British thing or what.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 12:56:21 2014 No.1694347 >>1694238 Don't even post there, the only pretentious asshole here is you. I get that you're upset that you got outed as an underage on /vr/ but it's not alright to take it out on others, come back when you have some hair on your nuts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 13:45:52 2014 No.1694395 File: 4 KB, 320x256, 73293-zool-2-amiga-screenshot-chupa-chups-adverts.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1694342 Don't forget that Chupa Chups sponsored Zool An argument could also be made for the Gravis Gamepad in Jazz Jackrabbit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 13:53:28 2014 No.1694415 File: 135 KB, 711x700, 1000x1000.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1694347 >>>/wizardchan/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 14:15:54 2014 No.1694441 >>1694415 There are some very, very expensive records there...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 14:19:36 2014 No.1694448 >>1694441 To think the records pictured on the album were even sought after in 1984 when this album was put out!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 14:24:48 2014 No.1694457 >>1694395 At least the Gravis gamepads in Jazz were relevant to the game itself. Chupa Chups signs in Zool were just off-putting, even when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 14:53:42 2014 No.1694505 >>1694415 Nope, don't browse there either. Try again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 20:02:11 2014 No.1695108 >>1694238 Retro video game collectors are pretentious assholes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 20:16:41 2014 No.1695147 >>1695108 Someone should make OC with This >>1694415 >poorfag no games ;_;

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 21:17:42 2014 No.1695273 >>1694291 The original run for Pac-Man on the Game Gear is branded with Namco and not Sega. It's the only official game I've ever seen for the system that's not branded Sega. And even then, the later versions of the game are all branded Sega.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 08:04:24 2014 No.1696224 Not /vr/-related, but CDs sized like credit cards also exist.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 17 08:07:39 2014 No.1696230 >>1691157 >>1691178 http://www.shape-cd.de/homepage_en.html

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