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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: PC Engine Duo R/RX CIB]

What if the manuals are missing the baggie that they came in?

What if the inserts ARE FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM ENTIRELY??????????

YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

Yeah? Well you should see the bruises he left on me when I got home later that day. I should know never to mention...collecting...

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What PC-Engine Stuff did you get today?]

latest bunch of pce stuff

What do you think of Snatcher?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What PC-Engine Stuff did you get today?]

I just got these, fresh from Japan. Tasty.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Production qty's]

I've googled this a lot in Japanese, but with very few results to show for it.

In PCE magazines, they released sales rankings with "scores" that were based on the actual sales number divided by some mystery variable. To make matters worse, every now and then, they even changed the variable. If we could find out some hard numbers for particular games and make up a database of all the "scores", we might start to get somewhere, but there just isn't a reliable enough source out there.

A lot of people do say that Tengai Makyo II was the best selling game, but even then, the numbers are all over the place. There was a magazine that said 500k. Hudson said 300k. The writer/director said 200k. And there's a sales records website that says 130k.

I personally think there is room to doubt whether TMII really was the top selling game. We know from multiple reliable sources there were about 1 million Japanese Duo owners, about 3.8 million base PCE owners, and that about 1 million of those base PCE owners had the CD expansion. That's twice as many people who can play Hucards as can play CDs. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if the best selling game is one of the Hucards from late 1989/early 1990, just because that was the peak time for the system.

This chart came from a PCE magazine from 1993 (I think). The bars are base PCE systems (white) and CD-ROM systems (black) and the lines are total Hucard sales (red) and CD game sales (green). The left y-axis corresponds to the systems, and goes up to 4 million, while the right y-axis corresponds to game sales and goes to 6 million.

Fantastic info. Thanks for this.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: **SOLD** PC Engine Beginner Superfan Package]

And you shall have them. Oh you shall.

EDIT: THIS IS NOW SOLD TO A FELLOW GOODWILL-HATER!  I EXPECT HAT PICS!

Want to become a PC Engine Fanatic but don't know where to start?  This package will get you well on your way to being a TRUE PC ENGINE AFICIONADO.  $40 shipped (just $28 plus $12 for postage) nets you the following, shipped in an OFFICIAL USPS PRIORITY MAIL BOX:

Hyper Dyne Side Arms (CIC) - AMAZING CAPCOM HORI PEW-PEW ACTION!  Manual is a bit wrinkly.  Includes HuCard sleeve.

Valis II (disc and manual - no rear insert) - SIDE-SCROLLING ACTION PLATFORMING WITH SUPER-SWEET ANIME CUTSCENES, AND IT'S NOT EVEN A SUPER CD GAME!!  Our very own sunteam_paul has SHOWERED THIS GAME WITH PRAISE using phrases like "slightly crummy gameplay, but strangely hard to actually dislike."  CALM DOWN PAUL, YOU SOUND LIKE A VALIS FANBOY!!!

The Pro Yakyuu Super - REALISTIC BASEBALL ACTION FEATURING ACTUAL JAPANESE PLAYERS AND TEAMS!  There might be a spine card in there I guess, but I am too lazy to look.  But if you even care, you need to listen to Ron Jeremy and STOP BEING A COLLECTARD.

But that's not all!  Complete the look with an amazing NEW ERA 5950 "OBEY" FITTED CAP!  Let everyone know that YOU OBEY AND THEY DON'T!  CUT AHEAD IN LINES, EAT FRENCH FRIES WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT, AND STEAL YOUR NO-GOOD BROTHER'S H-A-W-T GIRLFRIEND!  Size 7 3/4 to accommodate your over-sized brain!  Even still has the sweet BLING BLING gold NEW ERA sticked under the bill.  NEVER WORN!

All this would easily run you INCALCULABLE SUMS at your local USED VIDEO GAME SHOP run by some guy who has to flip-gouge video games for a living because he FLUNKED OUT OF TRADE SCHOOL, but JIBBAJABA'S PC ENGINE PARTY BUS doesn't stop there! 

You'll also get a Monoprice PC ENGINE CONTROLLER EXTENSION CABLE.  This is the exact same cable being flipped on eBay for 1000% OF IT'S ACTUAL VALUE!!!  SIT BACK FARTHER FROM THE TV thus protecting your gonads so that you can REPRODUCE EVEN THOUGH IT'S PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA. 6 big feet of EXTENSION ACTION.  That's 72 inches, almost 183 centimeters, or the length of over 18,000 GRAINS OF SAND!!!

Act fast because this package WON'T LAST LONG!!  N00blet market leeches need not apply!!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What kinda TV do you play TG16 on?]

a couple other TV/monitors i use from time to time ...

Commodore 64 monitors which still look so damn good no matter what you hook them up to!!!
and a 9" or 12" (i forget) Sony Trinitron which i wish i had more of... great for colour and fits on my game shelves perfectly!!!

 

Good idea. I use one of two myself, either a 36 inch Sony Wega circa 1999 or a Samsung 32 inch CRT/HDTV that displays up to 720p/1080i. The old Commodore monitors are a really good idea. I have a couple of spares myself...hmmmm....