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Calling all Nintendo 64 fans with more money than sense: a prototype cartridge for never-released game Echo Delta has appeared on eBay.
As you can see on the auction page, Echo Delta sees you taking to the ocean floor, collecting resources and raising sunken vessels.
According to the seller, "It is addicting and has really great sound, awesome animation and control.
"Starcraft 64 and maybe Ogre Battle can sort of be compared since that's all we got but... The underwater element is really unique and unexpectedly surprising, giving way to its own whole world and genre."
The game has a Buy-It-Now price of $1520 (just under £825), but the seller will accept offers. And, er, postage is free.
"The game plays flawless, free of bugs," apparently; "It is amazing that it is finished but never came out."
Echo Delta was in co-development at Clever Trick, who don't appear to have done anything else, and Marigul Management, who developed Custom Robo, Doubutsu Banchou and Hey You, Pikachu! "If all goes well," the seller reckons, "We'll see another unreleased game by the same group or parent company that produced Echo Delta." Hmm...
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Artemis_Matsas
10/07/06 @ 10:57
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Is ANYONE going to buy this?????
Well... i guess that there is one born every minute! |
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chupachups
10/07/06 @ 11:06
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-"addicting" is not a bloody word .
I wish people would stop using it - The one that gets me is "burlgarise". What's wrong with "burgle"? Does anyone "driverise" their car? |
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the_dudefather
10/07/06 @ 11:53
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i would hope the buyer would release the rom of it, but that might lower the value of it a bit (it would still be a 'real' cart tho)
remember a thing like this happened with sonic xtreme a few years back, but it was all a hoax (a bunch of sega fans bunched togather to buy it and release it freely but it was an ex-forum guy getting revenge or something) |
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chupachups
10/07/06 @ 13:38
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""Anyone know why this wasn't released? ""
"maybe it was not that good afterall..." If it was finished you'd think they'd want to recoup some of their development costs though? |
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If it was finished you'd think they'd want to recoup some of their development costs though?
It costs LOADS to get a game (Especially on the n64 - which involves making lots of circuit boards, etc) duplicated, distributed, put into shops, advertised, etc.
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As a collector item, this would be an holy grail to get. I'm not into N64 collecting, but if I'd find a thing like that for my Intellivision collection it would be ACE to get it. When you have all the "standard" things, all the game that have come out, all the rare games that are hard to find... it's a thing like that that makes your collection the best in the world, and it really makes it stand among the other.
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Well, I'm not a Ninty collector (or well, I collect their stuff but it is not the main collection), but I have spend quite some money on some items in my atari collection. :\
Prototypes can be very expensive and this is rather cheap. But then again, it is rather new (unlike some other things that I have seen). And history is full of games that reach 90%+ development stage and never get released. No money = no game. Simple as that. |
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Royal Fool
10/07/06 @ 17:22
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This reminds me of that forgotten PC classic, Sub Culture.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/su... |
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chupachups
10/07/06 @ 21:42
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-While this one-off N64 is indeed rare, it wouldn't be the holy grail of collectors' items - that would go to European Neo-Geo games (some of which exceed estimated values of $5000)...
Meh. I'm happy with my copy of PAL Rez (which I play to death, screw the "collectors' value")- If you venture into things where people aren't sure whether they even exist, maybe one of the most sought after items would be "Mire Mare" by Ultimate/Rare. They advertised the game at the end of Underwurlde for the Spectrum, and released all the other games they advertised, but Mire Mare never appeared. |
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While this one-off N64 is indeed rare, it wouldn't be the holy grail of collectors' items - that would go to European Neo-Geo games (some of which exceed estimated values of $5000)...
... is it just me, or are Neo-Geo collectors completely mental? Even one-off, highly sought-after prototypes on other systems (like, say, the NES Earthbound US version) don't go for that much. |
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