Will there ever be a TG16 price crash?

[Gypsy]

For me the CD longbox was unknown aswell.  I would imagine we had them in Europe aswell but not sure, I'm really not that familiar with record formats.
In defence of the PAL DC cases - as bad as they are - atleast they served a purpose (like the CD longboxes I suppose), their thickness allowed them to house a large instruction manual in several European languages. I think the original PAL DS cases were made thick for the same reason.

In some cases two really thick manuals. I know the copies of Shenmue I/II I have are dual manual.

[Winniez]

Ah, really. I don't have any SEGA PAL games anymore.
Isn't there anything good about PAL games (besides nostalgia for some) often most expensive, crippled with 50hz/bars and crappy cases.

[Gypsy]

I have the Shenmues so I didn't have to play Shenmue II with the horrible English dub. The first Shenmue I grabbed for $8 so I figured what the hell, it's easier than screwing with my VMU to use clear data for the second game.

I think all my other EU DC games were $10 or less each. Some hilarious appreciated in value like Evil Twin of which my old copy resides now with xelementx.

DC is the only system I have EU games for oddly enough, though Sega Ages tempts me due to the much cheaper price than the US release.

[Winniez]

I have the Shenmues so I didn't have to play Shenmue II with the horrible English dub. The first Shenmue I grabbed for $8 so I figured what the hell, it's easier than screwing with my VMU to use clear data for the second game.

I think all my other EU DC games were $10 or less each. Some hilarious appreciated in value like Evil Twin of which my old copy resides now with xelementx.

DC is the only system I have EU games for oddly enough, though Sega Ages tempts me due to the much cheaper price than the US release.

I think DC was ahead of its time in a sense that it offered many games in PAL60, makes it way better for you guys in the US aswell.

[Arkhan]

That's not what a longbox is. A longbox is when you have a perfectly suitable jewel case, done and dusted, and then you go and put all that into another box, just because.

The dumb tall cases that originated with Sega CD and lasted all the way through US Saturn and a large part of US PS weren't long boxes. They aren't boxes of any kind, they are shitty jewel cases. The Sony ones, honeslty, being way nicer than the Sega ones, which basically shatter on sight. My favorite is Panzer Dragoon Saga, which has three of its four CDs in paper envelopes banging around in the box because that giant ass case can't hold more than 1CD, despite being twice as big as a standard 4xCD audio CD case (which is what the JP version came in).

American audio CDs from major labels from the beginning up until about 1990 had long boxes (mostly hollow) to make the CD packaging 12" high. It's mostly hollow since CD cases are less than 6".

Turbo games have a "longbox" that isn't even long. Doesn't help it fit into special shelving. Doesn't increase visibility (which is why Sega and Sony did what they did). Doesn't even have extra info on it or anything TOTALLY POINTLESS.

OH you mean THOSE things.   Now I remember those.  Yeah those were dumb.   

I associate anything that's bigger than a jewel case with "dumb idea", unless the box has extra stuff in it and is clearly a special version.

Even those CDs that came in a cardboard sleeve and had NOTHING EXTRA were stupid.  A few of those amounts to one whole jewel case, and that mattered to me when I was shoving stuff on a CD rack.

... and those didn't even fit on the CD racks with the divider grooves.

[SignOfZeta]

I have the Shenmues so I didn't have to play Shenmue II with the horrible English dub. The first Shenmue I grabbed for $8 so I figured what the hell, it's easier than screwing with my VMU to use clear data for the second game.

I think all my other EU DC games were $10 or less each. Some hilarious appreciated in value like Evil Twin of which my old copy resides now with xelementx.

DC is the only system I have EU games for oddly enough, though Sega Ages tempts me due to the much cheaper price than the US release.

I think DC was ahead of its time in a sense that it offered many games in PAL60, makes it way better for you guys in the US aswell.

Who needs PAL60 when you have 640x480 RGB?

[Medic_wheat]

Didn't feel like thinking more then two seconds.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/201918923992

Never knew of this it just piped up in my eBay feed. Apart from the price it honestly interests me. But then there the price.

[Mathius]

Didn't feel like thinking more then two seconds.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/201918923992

Never knew of this it just piped up in my eBay feed. Apart from the price it honestly interests me. But then there the price.

The ultimate unobtainable. Though not worth the money IMO.

[Gypsy]

Didn't feel like thinking more then two seconds.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/201918923992

Never knew of this it just piped up in my eBay feed. Apart from the price it honestly interests me. But then there the price.

The ultimate unobtainable. Though not worth the money IMO.

Very much agree. I could easily purchase that listing, but why? Many other things are a much better use of those funds.

[Medic_wheat]

Didn't feel like thinking more then two seconds.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/201918923992

Never knew of this it just piped up in my eBay feed. Apart from the price it honestly interests me. But then there the price.

The ultimate unobtainable. Though not worth the money IMO.

Very much agree. I could easily purchase that listing, but why? Many other things are a much better use of those funds.

Like a new water heater?  lol that's what I did. That and paying the IRS $1,500 because they didn't take enough taxes last year from me.

[TheClash603]

If your record store never had anything more than two years old in it, sure. That's a pretty shitty store though.

When I got my first CD player I lived in a rural area, my record store was Ames and they had about 100 cds and they were all top 40 + country.  I actually recall buying a lot of CDs from catalogs.

Rural life sucked, I did it for a few years of my childhood.  Related to that is my love of video games, cause what the f*ck else was there to do?

[Arkhan]

If your record store never had anything more than two years old in it, sure. That's a pretty shitty store though.

When I got my first CD player I lived in a rural area, my record store was Ames and they had about 100 cds and they were all top 40 + country.  I actually recall buying a lot of CDs from catalogs.

Rural life sucked, I did it for a few years of my childhood.  Related to that is my love of video games, cause what the f*ck else was there to do?

ColumbiaHouse!
YEAHHAAAAAA

[Mas]

It's been a long time since I have posted anything but man looking at eBay prices today man am I glad I have an everdrive.

[Mathius]

If your record store never had anything more than two years old in it, sure. That's a pretty shitty store though.

When I got my first CD player I lived in a rural area, my record store was Ames and they had about 100 cds and they were all top 40 + country.  I actually recall buying a lot of CDs from catalogs.

Rural life sucked, I did it for a few years of my childhood.  Related to that is my love of video games, cause what the f*ck else was there to do?

ColumbiaHouse!
YEAHHAAAAAA

I was a rural kid too and I got into a lot of trouble with Columbia House. My parents were so angry at me when the first collections bill came lol.

[seieienbu]

So, are CD longboxes and 3DO boxes the same?  I had a few 3DO boxes and eventually put them somewhere and now they're in a box in my parents' attic if they still exist at all.  Man, those things were terrible.