Bought some old games

str0m · 19 June 2023, 15:55

Picked up a few boxed games on Saturday to add to my small collection. Great retro shop just SE of Newcastle UK if anyone's in the area, Games Galaxy in Consett. They had 30+ big box Amiga games and a load of C64, Spectrum tapes etc. Main market is console and especially JP imports. Had a whole cabinet of 15 or so mint boxed Sharp X68000 games!

Love the box art on Beast Busters. I had a look on HOL and they don't have a scan of my 2nd disc or the Edd the Duck box cover I have, should I take better photos and post in that part of the forum?

Also on a related note just had Silkworm arrive, the smaller 16 Blitz box version which is on HOL. The screengrabs on the back are clearly terrible, possibly taken with a camera and maybe even 8 bit versions hah

TCD · 19 June 2023, 16:05

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Originally Posted by str0m

Love the box art on Beast Busters. I had a look on HOL and they don't have a scan of my 2nd disc or the Edd the Duck box cover I have, should I take better photos and post in that part of the forum?

Yes please

If you could get hold of a scanner that would be even better

(also the Beast Busters poster and instructions would be great to have)

str0m · 19 June 2023, 16:10

Got a scanner at work I could use for the scanning, photo might be better for the box. There was a warranty card and some other poster thing in with Beast Busters as well

TCD · 19 June 2023, 16:17

We are interested in everything that was in the box

Photos are fine as long as there's no reflection on the box.

gimbal · 19 June 2023, 16:21

The system requirements bubble on Edd the Duck is weird. Amiga + / A600? Yes those were the two machines available. "Amiga" and A600.

That Beast Busters poster is very scrumptious indeed.

TCD · 19 June 2023, 16:25

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Originally Posted by gimbal

The system requirements bubble on Edd the Duck is weird. Amiga + / A600? Yes those were the two machines available. "Amiga" and A600.

My guess would be that they left out '500'. So that would be 'Amiga 500+ / A600'.

gimbal · 19 June 2023, 17:07

Yeah or "A500/A500+/A600". Because it did run on my standard A500.

Megalomaniac · 19 June 2023, 20:31

Zeppelin often wrote their system requirements like that, must've been confusing to their primarily very young audience. Gremlin's were sometimes written as if the games needed the Plus too.

Great finds, I doubt Beast Busters sold much because of the delays when Activision UK went under. Even the well-reviewed games that were delayed by it such as Deuteros and Hunter seem rarer than you'd expect, so a second-rate conversion of a second-rate clone of a by-then-dated arcade game probably didn't fly off the shelves.

fryguy · 19 June 2023, 22:44

Noticed that the sticker on Beast busters says you need a 720kb floppydrive (not 880kb)

Megalomaniac · 19 June 2023, 23:16

That's one way of telling us it's an ST port...

str0m · 20 June 2023, 09:56

I don't know why that box sticker is in German. The manual sheet (which is on the back of the poster) has all the languages and the disks are English only

As for it being an ST port, the ST one has now also been ported to the Jaguar by the Atariage crew as I have it on my SD cart

gimbal · 20 June 2023, 11:07

In the 90's an approximation of sensibility was good enough

19 June 2023, 15:55	#1
str0m Registered User Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Newcastle, UK Posts: 278	Bought some old games Picked up a few boxed games on Saturday to add to my small collection. Great retro shop just SE of Newcastle UK if anyone's in the area, Games Galaxy in Consett. They had 30+ big box Amiga games and a load of C64, Spectrum tapes etc. Main market is console and especially JP imports. Had a whole cabinet of 15 or so mint boxed Sharp X68000 games! Love the box art on Beast Busters. I had a look on HOL and they don't have a scan of my 2nd disc or the Edd the Duck box cover I have, should I take better photos and post in that part of the forum? Also on a related note just had Silkworm arrive, the smaller 16 Blitz box version which is on HOL. The screengrabs on the back are clearly terrible, possibly taken with a camera and maybe even 8 bit versions hah Attached Thumbnails

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19 June 2023, 16:10	#3
str0m Registered User Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Newcastle, UK Posts: 278	Got a scanner at work I could use for the scanning, photo might be better for the box. There was a warranty card and some other poster thing in with Beast Busters as well

19 June 2023, 16:17	#4
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 32,443	We are interested in everything that was in the box Photos are fine as long as there's no reflection on the box.

19 June 2023, 16:21	#5
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 7,065	The system requirements bubble on Edd the Duck is weird. Amiga + / A600? Yes those were the two machines available. "Amiga" and A600. That Beast Busters poster is very scrumptious indeed.

19 June 2023, 17:07	#7
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 7,065	Yeah or "A500/A500+/A600". Because it did run on my standard A500.

19 June 2023, 20:31	#8
Megalomaniac Registered User Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Eastbourne Posts: 1,184	Zeppelin often wrote their system requirements like that, must've been confusing to their primarily very young audience. Gremlin's were sometimes written as if the games needed the Plus too. Great finds, I doubt Beast Busters sold much because of the delays when Activision UK went under. Even the well-reviewed games that were delayed by it such as Deuteros and Hunter seem rarer than you'd expect, so a second-rate conversion of a second-rate clone of a by-then-dated arcade game probably didn't fly off the shelves.

19 June 2023, 22:44	#9
fryguy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Skarabörg, Sweden Age: 45 Posts: 1,037	Noticed that the sticker on Beast busters says you need a 720kb floppydrive (not 880kb)

19 June 2023, 23:16	#10
Megalomaniac Registered User Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Eastbourne Posts: 1,184	That's one way of telling us it's an ST port...

20 June 2023, 09:56	#11
str0m Registered User Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Newcastle, UK Posts: 278	I don't know why that box sticker is in German. The manual sheet (which is on the back of the poster) has all the languages and the disks are English only As for it being an ST port, the ST one has now also been ported to the Jaguar by the Atariage crew as I have it on my SD cart

20 June 2023, 11:07	#12
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 7,065	In the 90's an approximation of sensibility was good enough

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