View Full Version : Your chance to own a Famicom prototype!
GaijinPunch
10-21-2004, 08:47 PM
A Japanese Gaming reader found this.
LINK! (http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h20481247)
Too bad the currency is yen, an not Turkish Lira.
Ed Oscuro
10-21-2004, 08:51 PM
THIS IS THE HOT STEAMING STUFF! *gets out super secret saving vault and digs up $37,200*
* * * Family computer love QUEST SAMPLE? ROM cassette & * *
What the hell game is that? Title looks familiar in kanji but the translation is apparently bad...
But yeah, first thing when I saw the price I went OMG A PROTOTYPE OF THE FC!!1111`TILD, but then my hopes were, uh, dashed. Teh sad.
Now hopefully I'll have a steady paying job when a prototype of THE Famicom shows up ;D
Querjek
10-21-2004, 09:02 PM
But yeah, first thing when I saw the price I went OMG A PROTOTYPE OF THE FC!!1111`TILD, but then my hopes were, uh, dashed. Teh sad.
Ha, the same thing passed through my mind. Hey, Gaijin, maybe you could shed some light on this game?
gamergary
10-21-2004, 09:14 PM
Gaijin why is your site down? Cool auction but I would only pay 3 million yen for that.
Daria
10-21-2004, 09:17 PM
I know there's an SFC game called "Love Quest".
It's an RPG (I think never got real far) in a modern setting, starts off with your girlfriend getting kidnapped or something during your wedding.
I would guess that this is a prequal.
anagrama
10-21-2004, 09:18 PM
Four million Yen.
Thirty-seven thousand Dollars.
Thirty thousand Euros.
Twenty-thousand Pounds.
@_@
um...?
ventrra
10-21-2004, 09:19 PM
THIS IS THE HOT STEAMING STUFF! *gets out super secret saving vault and digs up $37,200*
* * * Family computer love QUEST SAMPLE? ROM cassette & * *
What the hell game is that? Title looks familiar in kanji but the translation is apparently bad...
But yeah, first thing when I saw the price I went OMG A PROTOTYPE OF THE FC!!1111`TILD, but then my hopes were, uh, dashed. Teh sad.
Now hopefully I'll have a steady paying job when a prototype of THE Famicom shows up ;D
The title is in Katakana, I think, where it would read something like "Rabukuesuto". "Love Quest" is what bablefish insists that the name means...
It's listed as an unreleased game for the famicom by Tokuma which was reworked into a Super Famicom game. see: http://64.53.95.207/ujap/ujap.html for example.
GaijinPunch
10-21-2004, 09:28 PM
-Family Computer: Love Quest - Developed for the Famicom, but was eventually haulted.
-Was eventually released on the Super Famicom.
-Sample Rom Casette
-200% Hard To Find Soft! (Hard to translate, but you get the idea)
Why's my site down? The Dynamic servers were attacked recently, and they're just getting them back up. The forum is up, but the main site is still down.
Daria
10-21-2004, 09:42 PM
Because I have nothing better to do...
screenies of the SFC version:
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/7708/lq1.gif
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/2226/lq3.gif
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/3548/lq4.gif
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/5451/lq5.gif
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/5364/lq6.gif
http://img88.exs.cx/img88/3050/lq8.gif
Edit: And that's as far as I can get. The big guy promptly beats the shit out of me when I talk to him and I wake up back in my apartment.
GaijinPunch
10-21-2004, 11:51 PM
Clearly worth the entire 4 mil.
LOL
SoulBlazer
10-22-2004, 12:48 AM
Those are pretty good graphics for a SNES game, especily the title screen (yes, I know, it's really Japanese, but let me call it a SNES game anyway, okay? ;) )
Daria
10-22-2004, 12:59 AM
Those are pretty good graphics for a SNES game, especily the title screen (yes, I know, it's really Japanese, but let me call it a SNES game anyway, okay? ;) )
They're nice and colorful anyway. Reminds me a a lot of Harvest Moon.
Cauterize
10-22-2004, 04:11 AM
Twenty-thousand Pounds.
@_@ @_@ @_@ @_@ @_@ @_@ @_@
delafro
10-22-2004, 04:22 PM
How often do FC protos show up anyway? I'm guessing less often than US ones, but I don't know anything about the JP proto scene at all.
Ed Oscuro
10-22-2004, 06:54 PM
I've been wondering about this as well. You know that there's gotta be some FDS disks floating around, since companies often went and made up their own instead of paying Nintendo's rates for extras :roll:
Famicom prototypes (more like demos or samples) show up quite frequently on Yahoo of Japan, and they sell for really low prices...
This was back in 2 years ago though...I doubt that this changed much though.
Ed Oscuro
10-22-2004, 08:44 PM
Sweet. I've seen some SFC protos going really ridiculously low, so...
I have pics of 3 FDS protos on my site...one is an unreleased game in fact.
Ed Oscuro
10-22-2004, 09:33 PM
> [S]tay put.
> [R]un real fast to TSR's site and never rest until you get there.
> [H]it self in face.
> You chose: [R]un