A video game collector in Oakland recently found their holy grail - an Atari 2600 game that was never finished, and never released. Unfortunately the game in question, Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park, isn’t likely to entertain anyone when the collector inevitably connects with someone who can dump Atari 2600 ROMs.
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Got huge wads of cash burning a hole in your pocket? Check out this eBay auction for 741 NES cartridges, including all 670 Nintendo-licensed games released in North America.
The bidding is now at $3,600 however the reserve is not yet met. The shipping alone will set you back $400, but this is unlikely to bother anyone who spends this kind of money on piles of shitty old games.
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Starting out with a cheap NES clone and a Super Mario Bros. cartridge, French modder Kotomi has created perhaps the coolest NES mod yet by squeezing the console into one of it’s own cartridges. It’s fully functional, with a cartridge slot, power and reset buttons, two controller ports and a composite AV out.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed their plans for the Guitar Hero franchise to Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine. In short, they’re making it more like Rock Band. Kotick told Portfolio:
It’s not just about guitars […] We’ll include a lot of other instruments, vocals.
Amazon’s deal of the day
Epic Games president Mike Capps cares not for the massive audience of Wii owners salivating for a decent game not based on Nintendo IP, he cares only about technology. “We go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech,” he said in a recent IGN interview.
Thanks to “extraordinary levels of traffic from all around the globe,” gamers in North America won’t be getting their hands on the Metal Gear Online beta as soon as they’d been promised.
This morning saw two new games added to the Wii Virtual Console library - River City Ransom (NES) and Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom (Genesis).
PAL owners who want their River City fix don’t need to wait until Friday. Just check the Virtual Console for Street Gangs (the name of the PAL release) - it’s been available since February!
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According to Amazon UK, Sony’s Play TV add-on for the PlayStation 3 has an expected release date of July 31, and will be available for £59.99. Pre-orders are now open
The video game adaptation of the Japanese anime series Afro Samurai, featuring cult hero Samuel L. Jackson, looks to be off to a great start. I love the stylized gore, and the Shinobi-esque death sequences for chopped up enemies - I just hope it doesn’t get cut from the Australian release.
