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GX4000 black market

Published at 11 July 2008 in gaming and retro. 0 Comments

Following the post on ridiculous Amstrad cartridge prices being fetched on Ebay, a bandwagonjumper has tried to cash in by selling off an obviously illegit copy of Street Fighter II for 40 quid. Wouldn’t mind but for some reason it won’t run on the console, just the home computers – think that might be something to do with the type of EPROM chip used to house the game logic. Maybe.

The black market in GX4000 is not new, supposedly beginning in Poland where games that never made an official release to cart eventually found their way onto the platform by unofficial means.  But hopefully all this will stir up the availability of a few more (legit) Pang carts in the coming weeks…

GX4000 cart sells for £92!

Published at 10 July 2008 in gaming and retro. 2 Comments

Something’s very wrong when a game almost 20 years old goes for the above on ebay.co.uk – where did all the collectors come from all of a sudden? And why did this renaissance have to coincide with me buying the failed console with a view to playing Pang on it? (Pang also went for a not so ridiculous £70 but still well out of the budget I’m prepared to pay for such retro goodness)

I’ve started a thread over on cpczone’s forum about it, although I’m sure they’ll be as bewildered at the build up in action as I am.