Sorry to hear about your situation Coleson. Lots of tough times myself with my mother’s medical probs, but right now I’m happy to report that all is good for the time being. I’m still in quite the financial pickle, but my mother seems in good health.

I wish you and your brother the absolute best.

Before I throw it up on eBay, I was wondering if any of you guys are interested in a Platform display unit. It has the original keys, original low serial# console, and even has that little white controller cable clip still attached. I only list on eBay to US buyers because I have been scammed more than once from chargeback scams (USPS delivery confirmation often ends at the country of origin’s customs facility), but I trust all my international friends here. 😉

If any of you non-USA guys/gals that I know want it, please advise me of the best way to ship such a large heavy item overseas economically to you.

beautiful.
This is not a joke?
(mine was a joke)
It’s not April fools anymore, jokes are no longer permitted.

The only info that you need to know… is that I want it. 🙂

It was probably a gift to Nintendo reps in 1995. My employee vest has the same style of logo and stitching.

As a blanket statement, I’d value it as around $80-$120 US if it were to be sold on ebay, give or take the current market at hand. Who knows, Vb pricing is through the roof these days.

VirtualChris wrote:
What’s that say? “April Fools” in Japanese?

Yep. 😀

colesonwilson wrote:
Lol…. busted!

Heh, well I’m glad that at least *someone else* partook in the fun today. 🙂

btw, did your TravelMaster arrive safe and sound? Thanks again.

Here’s a nice shot of the title screen. 🙂

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Why are all the screenshots different sizes and not the usual resolution?

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All the photos above were taken with a camera, not a screen capture function. I resized and cropped the photos to show the details best, but I’m not exactly a pro.

*runs to store to buy a can of red spray paint* 😛

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Awesome scans! Thanks so much for sharing.
Love the Prototype console shown on the “year 6 #6” & “year 7 #12” ads. 🙂

Glad to see the recent activity in this thread. 🙂

This past year I have most enjoyed Harvest Moon a Tale of Two Towns, Williams pinball hall of Fame, and Resident Evil Revelations.

The harvest moon game is a typical good harvest moon entry to the series. I enjoy that it is 2D like the SNES/GBA versions. I’m not sure if it’s even out yet, but I doubt I’ll pick up the newer 3D polygon version.

Pinball Hall of Fame is a cheap budget title, but if you like pinball it may be worth a shot. The 3D effect is really what makes this game worthwhile. Downsides are that it lacks tables from prior console releases and for some reason the brightness is very low. The game is only tolerable at max brightness with the AC adaptor plugged in.

RE: Revelations is the best title I’ve played so far. It’s a complete RE game with wonderful graphics and solid gameplay. I’d rate this as better than RE 4 but worse than RE 5.

I plan on picking up Kid Icarus sooner or later. The NES title is fairly nostalgic to me.

GEZ wrote:
Just to throw this in the mix – I have a Japanese tap with a molding code of 2. It does not have a box, and has the wider squares. Not sure what that number means, if anything.

Nice to know, I guess the only difference is the rectangles vs squares. On the bright side, any difference is better than no difference at all. 🙂

Yep, the differences you noted were the same differences I observed. Those skinny little rectangles on the demo and fat squares on the retail. My demo injection molding code is also 3, and my retail is 4. 🙂

Hedgetrimmer wrote:

Dude, big love out to you and yours at time like this, been through this kind of crap myself, it sucks, hope it all works out.

trippstatic wrote:
Hope she ll get better soon.

Thanks guys.

colesonwilson wrote:
In lighter news, I snagged a Travelmaster VB Case for a mere $150.

From the description it is all original and has not had the foam swapped or fixed or anything. I’m all kinds of excited. It looks pristine from the pictures. It should be here next Monday.

I’m the seller, from my personal collection. 🙂
I hope you enjoy it, please do let me know if there are any problems as I stand by my auctions 110%. I printed the shipping label and dropped it off at the shipping center on the 17th, but UPS only picks up packages M-F @ 3PM in my small town so it went out on Monday the 19th. This delay was out of my hands, but I apologize anyway. Thanks again.

bigmak wrote:
It’s pretty rare..I’d pay about 75 for it….but everyone will have there own opinion.

-Eric

I agree, it’s a fairly rare bird. Even I don’t have a boxed one. There was a big Japanese seller on eBay that was selling a whole bunch of normal taps using a stock photo of a mosaic tap, and I think that skewed people’s view on the rarity. I unfortunately bought one of those auctions and got a normal tap, but another member here bought one too and got a mosaic from him.

Awhile back one was listed on eBay for $75 and I was very tempted to buy it, but I figured that I’d hold off until I could score one for a great price.

For the record, I’m pretty confident that there are slightly different mold marks on the demo tap from the retail. My tap that came with my Japanese demo console has slightly different marks than all my other taps (I have like 5 or 6 lying around). I’d almost bet money that if I bought a boxed Mosaic tap that it would match the marks on the tap that came with my demo console.

[VirtualJockey]

My mother is getting swarmed with medical bills, I unfortunately may be listing some items shortly.

Nothing comes before VB for me, except the health of my loved ones (that includes you guys).

My mom came out of surgery this afternoon and gave me a call. The problems weren’t resolved at all, but I trust you can still understand what a relief that was for me.

One day at a time, eh?

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I’m not a dev nor do I have the knowledge or authority to speak as one.

I thought Faceball 2000 was great in it’s time, and it made it’s way to VB. Was this only because of the corridor-like limitation like in “Shadow over Innsmouth” for VB?

KR155E wrote:
Some details about this proto: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=5126#forumpost5126

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Shiggsy wrote:
Congrats. You got a really good deal too. $300 is very very cheap.

The 2nd Panic Bomber proto also went cheap….but not as cheap…$550. Its still a very good deal.

It will be interesting to see if there are any differences between the protos. For anyone who wanted to buy one of the protos….maybe you should contact the seller and ask if he has more… 😉

Shiggsy

Hmm…

Not trying to stir up trouble, just trying to get the facts straight. My memory of around $400 each was close to my old records. My records show that the two Panic Bomber auctions ended for around $300US and $550US respectively. Since these auctions were from around 1998, I’ll lay out the math for the given prices from that year. On average in 1998 $300US bought 238£, and $550US bought 436£. That’s $850US / 674£ for both Panic bomber auctions combined, or averaged as $425US / 337£ each.

Now, an e-mail from realwws sent in 2010 claims that 300 and 550 were the actual prices of the Panic Bomber protos, but in Euros. That still makes them 850 Euro for both averaging at 425 Euro each. But, he said that taxes were almost 30% and that he had to pay a fee of 10%. Current customs duties in the Netherlands is 5-8% and VAT is 19%, so we’ll go on the high end of 27% (almost 30% as realwws accurately stated)

Okie dokey, so given that if my records were wrong (which they very well may have been) these would have been the prices using his numbers and his fees stated:

Auction #1: 300Euros + 10% deputy fees + 27% VAT/Customs = 419.10Euros total

Auction #2: 550Euros + 10% deputy fees + 27% VAT/Customs = 768.50Euros total

(I can’t be certain if the deputy fees were included or not on the customs form, so I included them to keep prices at the higher range)

While 768.50Euro for the more expensive one of his auctions is close to his 800Euro claim, the average price for each of the Panic Bomber carts would come out to 593.80 Euro each.

He said the Jack bros was 800Euro, but I’m not certain if he meant before or after the Deputy/VAT fees. I never saw that auction.

So that’s that. I apologize for any previous posts that were inaccurate on pricing. Since the above pricing would have been in 1998, we’ll just have to wait and see how the market is now given the variations in VB demand and lackluster 2012 economy. I wish good luck to realwws on his auctions and good luck to prospective buyers.