masterhand

On 13 April 2016 at 05:04, Grey Fox said:

The halcyon days of Britmeet

Yes, those were the days, the first professionally organised Retro con in the UK, although some that held their own cons years later somehow claimed to be the first. 

 The years before all the resellers jumped on the car boots and you could get decent stuff AND leave stuff behind for someone else. Those big collections of boxed SNES games for £10.

RVGC that small group of us school spanner bobble hat wearing old(ish) guys meeting up in someone's house in Essex or Enfield to have swap meets arriving with cars full of plastic storage boxes brought from Do it All.  I'd trade them all the British computer shite I could not care less for and in return I'd get stacks of Japanese Megadrive games that they had no interest in and were "not really retro anyway".  All of it now worth truly insane prices due to the commercialisation of the reto market. 

Keith Ainsworths fanzines! 

Good, good times.

I remember getting Sonic 2 on Master System from Boots in Hastings when I was a wee nipper, but always thought this was a dream because nobody else has ever mentioned them selling games. Glad to hear it was reality.

Brought my snes at launch from boots.

Is it related to D and D2?

No because there isnt a D3.

I'm moving to the other team!

So, this will be probably be all the games off Remixed and Reloaded on the Ps2/PSP?

I'll bet on it Capcom only give you the same retro games each time, not quite as bad as Namco tho.

It's David Fincher, not Paul. Who's editing this mag??

This is a great photo. I love the contrast between the decor and the technology, and the cat picture. What's on the bottom shelf of the tv unit?

It was my mums house I was living in when she got divorced, she decorated and I brought consoles. ON the bottom shelf is a Megadrive 3 button arcade stick and a cheap faux wood stereo amplifier I brought from Tandy hooked up to a pair of boombox speakers I got off the local junk market.

That's a pretty decent setup for back then!

(Can i see the SNES mouse too?)

Is that a Cool World standee I spy?

Yes and yes.

What's the Achievement going to be titled?

1G - Corporate whore

1G - Bricks and Mortar retail is dead

1G - Plastic discs? Time to go digital

1G - I queued all night and all I got was this stupid achivement

1G - Only because M$ need someone to sell Xbox Next on the High Street

I'm behind the camera but this was my setup in 1994. Good times.

I've played 14 of those Sega games, I own most of them and the arcade ones were real plays not emulation.

Just picked up an original Xbox with 2 fat controllers and cables from the local charity shop priced at £5 but they were having a 50% off sale so it only cost £2.50.

Needs confirming then. No pics and just the odd memory (maybe you happened to have an import etc) means nothing without proof, had a couple of games myself for my own sites master list that I won't put on without confirmation. Usually that involves pictures or me getting my grubby mitts on it.

Necrobump.

I remember now why I traded the boxed version was because I had 2 silverdiscs of the game already. Silver discs are the presed retail version of the game without any artwork printed on them for promo purposes and will run on a regular retail Saturn. (not a cdr)

I found my discs of this game and I tried to take a picture of the serial number of the game, but it's not so clear.

Ok, think about this: Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure. Sega WILL fuck this up, so stop getting your hopes up. If by some utter miracle against all probability they don't manage to make a complete pig's ear of it then we're all good, but the possibility of that happening is the square root of fuck all.

I must say DCM, I'm not 100% sure what you're feelings on this issue are from your posts, however if you know about this type of thing could you share your insights? The whole thing sounds incredibly unpleasant, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to hear about it from someone with more direct experience than the western news outlets.

There are two books you should read, that I have. Both of them are accurate and written by people that have had the same experiences I've had.

Poorly Made in China

factory Girls

Both of them will tell you everything you need to know about manufacture in China without the "what a bad life" angle every China news story posted on a forum has. They go in to much more detail than I'd have time to on this forum without certain people trolling as I've got a bit more experiance on the ground than a lot of people.

I don't have any experience of Chinese factories. I'm absolutely ignorant for the most part, but I don't see what that had to do with anything.

What's your point about Starbucks?

So suicide is the barometer with which we now measure corporate abuse, cool. No suicide = everything is hunky dory. Let's all go and have a cup if tea and pretend this silly debate ever happened.

Your experience of Chinese factories really is outstanding. Let's hook up in Starbucks to discuss this further.

Right, so conditions in the Foxconn plant are still so shit that people are willing to kill themselves, it’s just that they now have a new remuneration package that actually proactively incentivises people to kill themselves. Carrot and stick, simultaneously – why has nobody thought of this before? The factory’s productivity will go through the roof! assuming the purpose of the factory is to produce dead people, rather than iPhones.

The suicides were last year, so they've changed something. I've not seen newer reports of Foxconn deaths this year, if so link me up.

What the fuck are you talking about?

"Foxconn having given the families of suicide victims 400,000 [RMB] plus a 30,000 [RMB] yearly pension to the parents have led to these poverty-stricken workers to copy each other willing to use their deaths to exchange financial security for their families."

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/stories/more-foxconn-suicide-news-reports.html

Don't let the facts get in the way of the story, as you post on your "made in China" devices.

You didn't hear about the employee suicides led by extreme pressure to meet deadlines from western demand for devices (mostly iPhones and iPads), and then the factory owners installing 'suicide nets' to stop such practices?

You didn't hear that under Chinese law staff that died "on the job" had a compensation policy that paid a lifetimes wages to their family?

Of the 17 alleged suicides just a few of them were successful and some were not even considered suicide attempts.

Stunning conversion, insta purchase triple dip.

MILF town now then?

How about kids just lying about games that didn't exist, but they'd "Got from America". America being this far-off mysterious land about which nothing could be proven or disproven.

OK Bring it to school tomorrow so we can see.

I can't I left it at my nans house.

EDIT: stupid phone.

What I was going to say is that you do find some oddities every now and then. I have found both Suikoden III US import and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 NTSC JAP on PS2 at my local car boot for £1 each (on different occasions of course).

I've been booting since the late 90's and as long as you stick it out eventually you'll find the impossible many times.