Selling Lots of SEGA stuff

[Emmett The Crab]

Check out my ebay auctions.  Selling tons of SEGA stuff, if anyone is interested.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/cb_podcast/m.html?item=161153327341&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

[cube_b3]

I need to sell all my Saturn Collection as well... So i'll be making notes and seeing how your auctions go.

Best of Luck.

Personally I would've liked to have sold my entire collection to a trusty physical retro store. But those ******** always sell double the price of ebay and buy for 50% off ebay.

[pirovash88]

I bid on your Dungeon Master II for Sega CD =)

[Barry the Nomad]

That SEGA CD rocks disc is so strange. So it's music and images appear on screen? Is it a normal music CD as well?

[CrazyT]

so tempting..

[mylifewithsega]

That SEGA CD rocks disc is so strange. So it's music and images appear on screen? Is it a normal music CD as well?

I have that. Yes, they do work as audio discs. When played on a SEGA CD, you get various images either of the artist/artists, or album artwork, along with trivia/liner notes that appear on screen. When SEGA CD failed to meet Sega's expectations, they started including a ton of software. My brother bought one of these packages. We got SEGA Classics (Golden Axe, Shinobi III, Columns and Streets of Rage), Sherlock Holmes, Sol Feace and the Rock Paintings 2-Disc set. Most gamers pawned these for games. Great novelty though.

I like it for The Information Society's "What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy)". The liner notes are almost pure nonsense and the drawings are goofy. Reminds me very much of Maniac Mansion, but brighter and more cheerful.

[Barry the Nomad]

Do these types of CDs exist outside of SEGA, like was it something that CDs at the time featured as a bonus and it played on systems other than SEGA CD, like the Phillips CD-i?

I ask because I'm interested in picking up a few off ebay, non SEGA ones, just to experience the wacky tech of the 90's.

[mylifewithsega]

Yes. CD+G discs, if I remember correctly, are still used today for karaoke. As far as I know, the VCD enabled Saturns, CD-i and TurboGrafx-16 CD were capale of playing CD+G discs. Beyond that, I don't much else. I used to come across 'em all the time in second-hand shops in California, but none for artists I cared about.

P.S. The 3DO plays 'em too.

[Barry the Nomad]

Thanks! I came across this online: http://www.cdplusg.com/cdplusg/Main.html

Might hunt down the classical music ones and a few compilation discs. Gotta love that old technology...

Remember photo CD players?

[mylifewithsega]

Oh my God, talk about nostalgia. I used to see Photo CD players at Circuit City way back when....

We're old, Barry.

[Emmett The Crab]

Somebody threw it in when I bought my SEGA CD, so I haven't put Rock Painting in yet to try it.  I suppose I should do it once before I sell it.  Joey might like it. 

[Barry the Nomad]

Oh my God, talk about nostalgia. I used to see Photo CD players at Circuit City way back when....

We're old, Barry.

True dat... Photo CD, Betamax, Phillips CD-i, Laserdisc... our house had all the failed tech. Which is funny because when blu-ray came about my dad didn't get it because he has been burned too many times by buying new tech early and it ends up being the wrong choice. He finally did get a blu-ray player last year and loves it. Still has the CD-i... I might ask him to bring it along for Thanksgiving so we can try and play some Mad Dog McCree, Mystic Midway Phantom Express, The Apprentice, and The 7th Guest.

CD-i actually had a pretty sweet gun. The "Peace Keeper Revolver":

Somebody threw it in when I bought my SEGA CD, so I haven't put Rock Painting in yet to try it.  I suppose I should do it once before I sell it.  Joey might like it. 

Yeah! Check it out! Would be interesting to hear what its like.

Hope I'm not hijacking your thread. It's just that seeing your auctions brought back a lot of memories.

[mylifewithsega]

I miss Betamax. My aunt had one way back when. She would record movies off of cable since you could still buy blank tapes at retailers. Whenever my folks and I would visit, I'd watch Alien, Big Trouble in Little China and Lethal Weapon all the time. Some of those tapes were old as shit, but the quality was fantastic. Betamax was a much better format than VHS. It's a real shame.

We never had enough money to be early adopters, though I did screw up with HD-DVD. However, I felt the quality was better. Serenity, The Thing and Batman Begins looked so much better on HD-DVD. Movies were cheaper and many discs would carry over extra features from the DVD releases....

I miss HD-DVD.

[Barry the Nomad]

I preferred the name HD-DVD, as it was exactly what it was: an HD DVD. I've gotten used to blu-ray, but the name still isn't great for what it actually is. Plus, having "blu" in the name lead to blue packaging, which made total sense when going against HD-DVD (blue=blu-ray, red=HD-DVD), but now here we are years later and companies are STILL using the blue cases and in turn artwork for covers tend to include blue in some way to tie in with the package color: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZvIpcAwQS._AA1500_.jpg

And when they don't go with blue, it typically works against the design: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81gAezoDU8L._AA1500_.jpg

On black, that could be an effective cover for a horror movie. But as is, red and black on blue reminds me of Papa Smurf or Santa.

That's why I prefer boxed sets that don't use any cases, or releases that use black (Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit) or clear (Criterion) cases for the blu-rays.

[mylifewithsega]

I agree. Totally. I know Sony went with "blue" because they used blue laser diodes and all, but I would've preferred something a bit more streamlined and to-the-point.

The one company I love is Criterion. It seems that, no matter what format, they go with clear cases now. Admittedly, you really need to pay close attention to the box and make sure that you're getting the desired format. I almost bought Kubrick's The Killing on DVD when I wanted the Blu-Ray. Thankfully, I caught it before reaching checkout. Same thing happened with Fincher's The Game. In any case, I'm glad they go against the grain.