Note that Automobili Lamborghini itself was not cancelled. The listing just refers to its 64DD add-on.
I would advise you that you widen your scope a bit beyond 1998 as games can be delayed even after advertisements are posted.
Some of the games on the list have pages with cover art. You may be able to google up some images of of the games that don't. A few like Diablo and DethKarz were released on other platforms. So your game may still exist on PC or another console.
Hyperscan. Nobody I talk to seems to remember this but I remember it being shilled on cartoon Network. Instead of disks it would take cards. Not like memory cards but like yu gi oh type cards. Even as a kid I thought this idea was ass because I've had my dog eat my Pokemon cards, I can't imagine my dog eating my video games. Additionally I remember they wanted you to buy "boosters" to unlock characters in games that you literally paid full price for. I don't know if it is obscure but it was a massive flop and a forgettable console
AVGN covered that in one of his Christmas specials actually. Rerez also covered it, so it ain't that obscure. It's not like some weird urban legend of sorts.
I remember that. It looked like a hot plate! XD
People that reviewed it found the scanning to be glitchy and slow. It might have been built off the idea of monster battle games in Japan where you scanned barcodes of various products to unlock monsters. I think it led to a shortage of a certain variety of ramen.
Only think I can think of off the top of my head is the Panasonic M2. I saw it all over magazines around the mid 90s. It was supposed to be a successor to the 3DO. The tech was sold to Mastushita but they eventually cancelled it. I don't think many people remember it despite the lengthy magazine articles it got back then. Masushita felt they couldn't compete against Sony and Nintendo. The M2 was cancelled shortly before intended release. IMSA racing is the only completed game released to the public. That was in 2010. There were supposidly 80 games in development for M2 before release. But the only known completed one is IMSA Racing. There is a demo disc as well containing various tech demos.
I remember hearing that the M2 hardware was later used in vending machines.
“We want to find things for cultural value, for what it tells us about the past,” he says. “The more witnesses you’ve got, the more accurate you can be.” Fiddy’s holy grail of sorts remains Madhouse on Castle Street, a 1963 film starring Bob Dylan.
As was the usual method of BBC television drama production at the time, the play was produced in a multi-camera electronic studio on video cameras, although it was recorded as a 35 mm film telerecording rather than on videotape. This 35mm master was released for junking in 1968, and no copy of the play is known to exist.
Still photographs and scripts for the production survive, as do some amateur off-air reel-to-reel audio tape recordings of four of Dylan's songs.[7] In 2005 the BBC launched a search for a video recording of the play, uncovering some audio recordings of the songs, but it seems that a full off-air audio copy does not exist.[4][8] In April 2007, BBC Four broadcast a documentary about the making of the play in the Arena strand, featuring interviews with Saville, Jones, Martin Carthy, Peggy Seeger, Dylan collector Ian Woodward, and the first re-broadcast of the songs from the play.[1] In November 2008, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a documentary, narrated by Bob Harris, about Dylan's visit to London and the making of the play.
Given the junking policies of the time I'm surprised it survived that long. No mention of an overseas broadcast that could have saved a copy. From the article I linked it seems that the burn or return policy wasn't widely enforced and many foreign networks just forgot they had the material they borrowed.
I sadly doubt any copies of this teleplay exist. But it's a shame that a film featuring Bon Dylan is pretty much lost to all time. It was broadcast one time. January 1963. It seems odd that they would junk it in 1968 given Dylan's popularity. But such were the policies of the BBC.
That said, many lost Doctor Who episodes have been found. Some of which were sitting around in Nigerian stations, forgotten for decades. So anything is possible. But I think if a fan saved this or it was accidentally not destroyed we'd probably know by now.
Sale of the Century currently runs on Buzzer. At least I think it is Buzzer and not the other similar channel we get. There are several retro game show channels now it seems. It's fun to see the clothes and hairstyles and young Betty White. XD
I don't know if she would be shown on reruns of other game shows she was a contenstant on being that there was an aspect of fraud. In comparission, does Press Your Luck ever show the contenstant that figured out the pattern by watching tapes at home? These shows might not want any legal issues. Of course that is much less of an issue than say, the Dating Game episode with a serial killer (Rodney Alcala) as a contenstant.
I would really love to see Barbara on Jeopardy. It is always possible that even though VCRs were a luxury in 1985 someone may have been so into the show that they taped and cataloged every episode. But I clearly remember back then that if someone had a VCR or even cable you were impressed and a little envious.
I don't know if Beta Max was still viable then.
Someone could have a recording or two. But stuff from back then then tends to be harder to come by because many people borrowed or rented VCRs to use temporarily. Like PCs I only knew a couple of people who had them.
I recognised the Holiday Fair tag. I know I had some toys like that in the 80s. Stuff that either belonged to my mom and her brothers that my grandparents held onto or came from the Salvation Army. We got a lot of toys there because we were poor.
Holiday Fair was a huge toy company in the 60s. They were based in Japan but also had toys marketed in the US. Not sure about other countries. They are most famous for Bradley Dolls.
It's just that when you look up Holiday Fair toys it's hard to get info on anything other than the Bradley Dolls because that's what people like to collect. When you google Holiday Fair mouse you get the chalkware coin banks and a few other stuffed mice that are a lot different from yours. I guess there really aren't many collectors of Holiday Fair stuffed toys. You might be the first person to photograph this toy for the internet. But these toys were common at one point. Although you aren't as likely to see them floating around secondhand in actual shops anymore because so much time has passed. I don't think that the company is still around either. But when I was a kid these were the musty things you picked up at thrift shops for a few cents. I've never seen this one though.
That address in Philly is some super hipstery Apple store now. Just found that amusing. XD
It's sad that all of the single screen theatres are gone in Philly. The last one was the Art Holiday on Kensington ave. And that was a porno theatre. Actually, I'm not sure of the name because I always remember people calling it the Art Holiday. But it's listed at the Holiday Art. Dunno which is correct. It was rather infamous too. I can't find any good pics of the marquee though. I am curious if they showed gay as well as straight films. I used to live around there in the 80s. But I was too young to understand that sort of thing and was told to stay away from the place for obvious reasons. I'd think that downtown would be a better choice for weird porno films like Him though.
Were scenes of Him ever shown online? Because I kind of recall the "Jesus naked in the street" thing. But maybe I imagined it because I went to Catholic school. So the whole concept of this film would set my mind running in weird places. Or maybe it was some other film. Does anyone remember a scene actually being available or am I totally mixed up? I swear I have seen something like this. But again, I could be mistaken.
I'm intrigued by this bizarre piece of cinema. Not sure if I actually want to watch it. I mean, it's 70s porn you know? But I'd like to see it found. Hope it does turn up.
It's the standard "we reserve the right to delete this because it's on our servers" type deal. The chances of Proboards actually deleting this forum is unlikely. There would have to be serious violations. I'm guessing many of them would be related to adult content and illegal activity. If Proboards went under without anyone to take over then this forum would be history along with all of the others.
The legalese makes it hard for people to understand. It's not really fair to confuse people with words like that but I think it has to be like that for legal purposes. There's probably a simpler version of rules & guidelines somewhere for people that didn't pass the bar exam.
There was a dollar store in my old neighborhood that sold bootleg anime merchandise. It wasn't a Dollar Tree but a mom & pop. There was another, smaller store that sold stationary with various visual novel girls and stuff like that. I am not sure if I still have it. But one of them was a notebook with the girl that's used as the Visual Novel Database mascot.
The bigger dollar store had bootleg Beyblades. They were really popular in my neighborhood and the wrappers were all over the ground.
I had some Sailor Moon and Lovely White stationary. The Sailor Moon stuff was really really bootleg with the wrong colors and everything. I thought I uploaded the pics to Tumblr. But if I did I must have used weird tags or something. Oh well.
"I have some insight. In the late eighties and into the nineties, I ran a small video store. Nintendo was the hottest game in town, and we would have to compete with stores like Blockbuster by relying on games that "weren't out yet". For example, we rented tapes of Super Mario 3 long before it's release in the states. We'd loan out these dongles called Honeybees for the customers to make the games work. We had several companies across the states who would get us new games from Japan. Here is the honest reality about how it was back then - we didn't know that some games would come out in other countries and not here. When we got a new game from Japan - we just assumed we got a game that just wasn't out yet. We had a game we called "Mr. Head" that was a popular title that turned out to really be called Moai Man. If we needed a game translated, we relied on the neighborhood Asian restaurants. We shared some of these names back and forth with each other when we were ordering and creating lists. It's really that simple. If someone wanted a game from our list, we made sure to sell them a Honeybee. Again, not having any idea that it would never get a release in the USA. Do I remember Yeah Yeah Beebis? Of course I do, that was one of the titles that we'd rent. It was a game that required the running pad. I remember because it became a little bit of catch phrase in the store. "Watch the desk, I'm going to the restroom" - "Yeah, yeah beebis, whatever" - Richard"
The Honey Bee does indeed exist. i was tripped up by the term "dongle" because it's something I usually only associate with PCs. But after googling a bit more I found what I remembered from the 80s: famicomworld.com/system/converters/honeybee-family-adaptor/
It looks like there were a couple of other models. Not sure what the difference was other than cosmetic. I did not have one because damn if I'd know where to get Japanese games back then.
It's not impossible that even as far back as the NES days some shops were selling Japanese games. Although it's not something I saw myself until the very early days of Saturn where Game Gallery started selling Japanese Saturn games and later Japanese Playstation games. So I am not sure how common Japanese NES games were in shops. I am from a major city and I didn't really see anything of the sort back then. But I'm sure you could get them if you looked in the right places.
I'm not saying this person is lying. Because the Honey Bee is a real device. Alternatively, some games like Gyromite had an adapter built in that could be taken out. If your game has three screws in the back, there's a Famicom adapter in there and you might be able to get something nice for it on Ebay.
What bugs me here is that this person deleted the post instead of explaining himself further if asked. It's not as if what he did was criminal. Even if Nintendo somehow considered renting out the Japanese version of Mario 3 as breaking street date for the NA release, it's ludicrous to think they'd even give a damn now. And the converters were not illegal either as far as I know. So I have no idea why this person would delete the post if what they were saying is true. Perhaps a "They don't believe me and I can't deal with the negative replies" situation.
Also, he's calling it "Yeah Yeah Beebis" so we have to assume someone translated for him. Possibly a Japanese person as the poster said that they asked for help from Asian restaurant workers. If that Japanese person was not well versed in English then the translation may not look right in English. However, the deleted post really bugs me. As does the fact that it's just too close to the actual legend itself and doesn't really provide any new info. It's a power pad game that wasn't released outside of Japan. That's the path we're already on. I'd love to ask if he ever played it or can verify that the cartridges are the same.
There was that person on the wiki page that claimed they had the game. But conveniently it broke. Because stuff like this always gets broken, lost or stolen so proof can't be posted. I believe that was the person who said it was Ufouria. I don't buy that either. It's too convenient that it broke and was thrown away. I'd buy that if other people had come forward saying they had the game as well. You'd think with Youtube and everything someone would see info about this mystery and provide proof that the cartridge existed. That's why I don't believe the title "Yeah Yeah Beebiss 1" actually appeared on any carts and was some kind of mistranslation regarding another game. Likely Rai Rai! Baby Kyonshi no Amida Daibōken.
I'm putting this here because I am specifically referring to the physical commercially released carts that are not reproductions made later down the line. I hope that's ok. I know that technically since the ROM was dumped it is actually found in some form.
This game is still under debate whether it was released or not. The game was competed, there is no doubt about it, and the rom image was dumped. The game was being released by a company called Hi Tech. It was being planned for release in early 1995.
Hi-Tech Expressions ended up cancelling a bunch of games for the SNES, Game Gear and Genesis and I'm assuming they just went under. The developer, RSP is no longer around either. Their last game is listed as coming out in December of 1993. That game was Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper. Meaning that Bobby's World and another cancelled game set for a 1994 release, Steven Seagal is The Final Option, may have been the last hurrah for RSP. So the reason that Bobby's World was cancelled may have simply been that both the developer and publisher went out of business and there was no money to get the game out there.
If you look at the game lists for RSP and Hi Tech Expressions they are pretty much the same. So either they were affiliated or worked with each other a lot.
However, I swear that I had seen this game for sale/rent. Others have too. And it would have been in the 90s. It's possible some rental copies existed or maybe there was indeed a very small release. But given that I could be dead wrong about the existence of such copies in retail stores that wouldn't be selling bootlegs, I have no idea if I am right or not. My main issue, as always, is that if commercially produced copies existed collectors would have them.
The Bobby's World wiki claims that the SNES version exists and the Playstation version was cancelled.
bobbys-world.wikia.com/wiki/Bobby's_World_(1994_Video_Game) *copy the link. it seems that the link function doesn't like parenthesis*
Bobby's World is a 1994 platformer video game developed by Siedel Software Productions and published by Hi Tech Entertainment for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SEGA Game Gear based on the popular television show of the time, Bobby's World. A version of the game was scheduled to be released on Sony's Playstation in 1995 but was cancelled during its early stages of production.
This says Siedel Software Production. But it could be a typo for Riedel if they mean RSP.
I just don't find it plausible that the serious collectors who love posting their collections on Youtube and other places wouldn't have already managed to track down a legit commercially released copy. I have bought carts in the past from places like Game Gallery that still had rental stickers from places like West Coast Video and Blockbuster. So it is possible for rental copies to end up in second hand game store shelves. If rentals existed or some prototype cart was somehow sold secondhand then maybe that's what people saw. But I'm starting to doubt my own memory since no one seems to have an actual legit copy and you'd think that it would have turned up by now. I'm thinking I saw it at places that would not sell bootlegs even by accident like Toys R Us. But if I saw it in a rental place that means it's the possibility that it was not legit.
Does anyone remember seeing it? Especially for sale at a reputable commercial retailer? People keep claiming they did. Yet just like me they can't prove it. And i'm not the kind of person that will say "I'm 100% right!" without some kind of proof that I can present.
i cant answer all your question but i can answer a few
i say its not a power pad game because it was in a section of only NES games super mario 1 & 2 terminator tetris superman pitfall
also i remember hearing from a comment that there's other unknown games on the list i found that there was nightmare on elm street (existence confirmed and lost) and password( i couldn't find anything)
i'd say dweebers is unlikely because there's no a's y's or h's and also the game ends with an I and starts with yeah yeah and dweebers is well just dweebers so i'd say dweebers is off the table
i'd say there are not words missing because in its last appearance a word was removed nothing was added since the last add was quite awhile later they should have noticed there mistake and added instead of removed
Which Nightmare on Elm Street are you talking about? I remember renting it. But the original version of the game never came out because you played as Freddy and killed the kids. I don't think anyone has ever found any form of that version.
I honestly wouldn't put it past them to misprint a Power Pad game in a section just for regular NES games. I guess Dweebers really isn't a good guess though. I believe it's the same game as Gathers. The screenshot for Gathers could very well be an early build of Dweebers and that doesn't fit at all either. It was also a Game Boy title. But maybe allowing for misprints right out of the gate makes it harder to track down anyway. While it's not 100% impossible for a game to be put in the wrong section, it's just confusing to think that's the answer until other avenues are exhausted. So I'll take that theory back. ^^;;
I'd like to know how these lists were compiled. Were they done by hand then typed and printed up or were they just fed outright into a computer? They'd have to be updated regularly to adjust prices and to include new titles. How were they distributed to other vendors? Via fax? Were multiple people compiling and editing these lists as needed? I imagine having it up on a computer where they can just edit in new entries and price adjusts then printing out new copies would be the easiest. If someone made a small typo and already printed out hundreds of copies they might not want to waste more paper and ink by trashing those copies and reprinting them.
Yeah Yeah Beebiss 1 sounds like a very bizarre title and is probably chalked up to really bad translation. Which is why I don't believe it is Ufouria and I don't believe that guy got a copy with Yeah Yeah Beebiss printed on it. It wouldn't be a commercial copy at all since the game wasn't released in NA until the VC version in 2010. He'd either have some sort of rare prototype copy or an unlicensed version. Seems a bit odd that it would pop up on a list for order like that and he'd actually get it instead of his money refunded.
Why have we never heard of this game turning up in people's collections then? Even the hardcore collectors who track down everything? If this was the case someone else would have it. Usually when this sort of info pops up the convenient excuses of "it broke", "I lost it", or "it was thrown away" are included so existence cannot be confirmed or denied. So I'd consider Ufouria to be a red herring. I won't even take into account the years of release not matching up due to the unfortunate development process of the game. I just don't see why such a bizarro title change would have occurred between the NA and PAL versions. Unless they wanted to avoid comparison with a certain episode of Beverly Hills 90210 that was about a dangerous drug called Uf4ia (pretty sure it was spelled that way). I don't know. I feel like I'm needlessly splitting hairs on that last part. But I think it was a first or second season episode.
DO NOT click on the link to the DVD or go to the dashcon site. It's no longer dashcon. I got one of those scam popups where they say Comcast has picked me for a special offer.
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DASHCON 2014-- ON FILM!
DashCon will be filming during the convention, and we would love to share what we capture with you! We'll be filming three different panels, and including the highlights, as well as providing exclusive content like guest interviews, attendee stories, and behind the scenes diaries! You'll be able to vote on two of the panels filmed for the DVD, making this DVD exactly what you want it to be!
These DVDs will be available for pre order only and will ship mid to late August! The pre order cut off date is July 31st! You will receive an email when your items have shipped, please allow two to three weeks for shipping.
What you need to know:
Ordering Price-- $20
2 hours of content
Highlights of a select 3 panels-- 1 hour – The Night Vale Q and A, and two fan selected panels
Extras-- 1 hour – interviews, behind the scenes, attendee stories, etc.
This DVD is the perfect way to remember DashCon by, and it's a great way for those who can't make it to be part of the action!
Let us know below which other two panels you'd like included in the DVD!
I am thinking that it did not come out. Here you can see the features that were to be included. i think the Night Vale panel would have been a big sell. But as we all know, Night Vale was not paid and their rooms were never pre-paid by the con. They were told they had to pay themselves and their events were cancelled. So was the raffle for autographed items. Fans were reimbursed, surprisingly. There would not have been many interviews and panels to put on the DVD. That's not to say that it does not exist. But I'm thinking that due to the colossal fail and the fact that all they really had going for them was that sad little ball pit I can't really imagine anyone who wasn't a troll buying the DVD. And maybe they knew that. Maybe they knew putting it out would make them look even worse. That is if it ever existed to begin with.
I have a feeling that if the DVD existed it would be all over Youtube by now. And if it was taken down it would be a known torrent. There's just no way that someone wouldn't have gotten their hands on this by now. The cutoff for orders was July 31st. That was long after the disastrous con occurred. I guarantee that they received a large spike in orders once the drama began on the 11th. So there's no way it wouldn't have been dumped already if it existed. Or should I say if it was released publicly. The DVD could have been made but never shipped. Methinks that orders were not refunded willingly if that was the case and people had to do chargebacks. It just sounds like something this scam of a con would pull.
Also look at the time frame for the DVD's production itself. Dashcon was the weekend on July 11th 2014. The DVDs were supposed to ship in mid to late August. That's not a lot of time to compile and edit footage then burn the discs and package them. I'm not saying its impossible. It's not like it's a professional concert or anything. But you're talking about very inexperienced people who probably aren't tech wizards trying to cobble together a DVD that is going to be missing a huge amount of features because guests were not paid or accommodated and the general mood seems to have been abysmal. I hear a woman was given more than she could handle due to staff issues and had a nervous breakdown. Wouldn't the con staff have to have permission from the guests to sell their likenesses on film? I'm not sure how it works. But I've seen celebrities sue over unauthorized videos before. So it's not out of the question that copyright came into play and agents and lawyers may have been involved. If they didn't want to be a part of a disaster that might make them look bad or cheap they may have refused to allow footage of themselves to be used or demanded some sort of compensation since it looks like that never happened for the con itself.
A good place to start might be trying to track down guests who did do their panels and see if they were filmed or asked to sign a release. It looks like Noelle Stevenson was forced to moderate her own panel because the moderator from the con staff never showed up. She also ended up sharing an Airbnb with other guests because it looks like no one's rooms were paid for as promised.
That might be the best bet if it's possible to speak with these people. I'm sure cameras had to be around. I'm actually curious because I don't remember hearing anyone talking about interviews going on. Just the awful ball pit, general misery and minors being led into 18+ panels. And that's on top of all of the scam stuff. If it exists I think it was either eventually deleted unfinished or is sitting on someone's hard drive for all of eternity.
Another possibility is finding someone who went to the con and seeing if they ordered a DVD or knows anyone who did. No one in my online circle attended so I don't know. But there has to be someone out there still pissed that their DVD never arrived. Because I'm pretty sure those discs don't exist.
i wanted to say i dug into the ads themselves and made a few finds then compiled my finds in a reddit post ill post them here
in the nintendo ad it is shortened to yeah beebiss I this has already been discussed but what this could mean is that since the funco ad was its later appearance that this could be a correction meaning its real name is yeah beebiss I and not yeah yeah beebis I
in both ads the game was on of the most costly games there meaning the game probably had a lot to offer in terms of gameplay or suffered low production
in the play it again ad the bottoms says "all items subject to availability" this could mean that it was removed later due to lack of availability giving the possibility it was from a dying company or shortly abandoned in terms of production
I have played Family Trainer: Rai Rai Kyonshis: Baby Kyonshi no Amida Daibouken. I'm not familiar with the other Power Pad games. An di had to use a controller for this one, which was galringly difficult to set up making the game impossible to play correctly. Although maybe I just had a bad configuration or should have fiddled with the number keys better instead. I'm not even sure if it's side A or B. I think it uses side B. Anyway, you are a jiang shi child who has been separated from his parents. So it's a zombie family more or less. Essentially he falls off a bridge and ends up on some island and is now searching for his parents. You can choose the color of your sprite and it appears that four players can play, hence there being four palette swaps to choose from. It's a very cute game. But not something likely to come out in the west. My theory was that because several other Family Trainer games came out in the west under various titles it was just assumed that this one might too. Incidentally, this is the last game in the series. I can't say how extensive it is. Because I haven't played enough. But were Power Pad games more expensive or generally more rare? Did they often come bundled with the accessory?
This is assuming of course this is the game in question. Could someone have misheard Dweebers and typed the name in wrong?
I didn't see too many of these lists growing up. Game Gallery didn't use them and Funcoland was further away so I went there a lot less. I held on to a Funcoland list for a long time. But I moved so much that it is now long gone. It did have quite a few abbreviations though. For instance Mermaids of Atlantis: The Riddle of the Magic Bubble was titled Mermaid Atlantis. Yeah Yeah Beebiss I might not even be the whole title and words could be missing not just at the end of the flyer title, but in the middle of what is already there.
Do you think you saw clips from an unreleased pilot of Class of 3000? Maybe you saw promo material that was different than the final product. I thought I heard rumors at one point of a remake of the 80s cartoon series Galaxy High. But looking that up, it's actually a movie version that has never come into fruition. So it can't be that.