What would you do with 960 sealed copies of NHL 96?

[Cmosfm]

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I didn't put this in eBay insanity because I don't want to discuss the auction, we're not talking about the auction at all, but I want to know what YOU would do with 960 sealed copies of NHL 96 for Genesis?

You can't sell em for profit.

You can't really get rid of em at all basically unless you give them away.

Personally, I believe I'd use em for skeet shooting! I'd get me a shotgun and blow the hell out of em. ;)

Tynstar said he'd wallpaper a room, which would be awesome!

Now...what would YOU do with 960 sealed copies of NHL 96?

[dethink]

send them to the mid-east as a gesture of goodwill, and to highlight our gross over-dependence on petroleum to produce such wonderful things as a glut of useless NHL '96 carts?

[morphx]

Float them down the Potomac River.

[VACRMH]

O_O

And to think that the stores are already flooded with old sports titles... and this is out there :(

I think i'd make a boat, or a kickass fort myself.

[Oobgarm]

Either

A) Build a small home out of them

B) Trade them all in to Game Rush

c) Not go hungry for the next 3 years or so

[dethink]

too bad it's an EA game and has that funny shaped cart - if it were a worthless sega-shaped title, like say, sub-terrania, i'd just yank the carts and inserts. i'd bet there's a market out there for 960 new empty genesis clamshells, unlike 960 NHL '96 carts. :P

[morphx]

Home-brewers dream.

[sniperCCJVQ]

Recycle

[tritium]

Use 'em for homebrew game. Take 'em apart and replace the circuitboard or ROM. Relabel, replace insert, rewrap, and ship. === PROFIT!!!


-Trititum

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Build a giant NHL 96 mural of a hocky player. :)

[cheesystick]

I would make sure that each and every NHL 96' cart found true love with a E.T. Atari 2600 cart, and they would all make sweet beautiful love in a huge orgy down in that infamous landfill in New Mexico.
-crispy

[The Manimal]

I have to say that it's pretty cool. A good game, too :)

[Anexanhume]

Wait 50 years and finally sell them for a profit :D

[SegaAges]

I remember playing nhl 96 back in the day. it was super fun. if i remember right, they brought fighting back in 96.

1st anf formost, i would open 1 up and play it. i would then give some out to friends, family, and whoever else wanted 1.

even if i got .50 a piece for them, i would then sell them to somewhere big like gamestop. even if i found a way to keep some, give some away, if i had 900, for .50 a piece, that is $450.

i could do something really cool with them, or i could get more games with them. i would go for more games, but i would defitantely have to play through a season or 2 first. i mean, come on, i have 960 of them, i might as well play the game.

(hmm, so far, i don't think anybody has said play the game.)

[Push Upstairs]

Build me a small, impenetrable fortress.

Or build a time machine and take them back to late 1995 to sell them for a massive profit.

[Ninja Blacksox]

I would play one game on each cartridge.

Each game's victor? The Hartford Whalers.

That's right. 960 "NHL '96" cartridges on which the Hartford Whalers have a 100% win percentage.

I would then bronze all 960 cartridges as a tribute to the greatest NHL organization that has ever been.














Or I 'd sell 'em. I dunno.

-A Boy

[Vigilante]

I would build a custom bazooka/air gun and put on a top loader magazine and whale on the neighbors kids.... GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!!!

[Ed Oscuro]

I would build Atlantis out of that many Genesis games.

[Querjek]

Build a fort.


Bridge the English Channel.


Bridge the United States, China, and Spain.

[Qixmaster]

i would open them all just to get the feelng of opening a new game. it's a damn good feeling :)

also... isn't it amzing that these games once sold for $50+ a pop?!?!?! now look at them. talk about depreciation.

[rbudrick]

I would make a gaming throne out of them.....

I suppose you could sell them on ebay with a buy it now of 1 cent and then charge 3 or 4 dollars for shipping...

-Rob

[Kilik Kurosawa]

I would give them out to trick or treaters and laugh

[Time]

I would donate them to GoodWill and take a $10 a game tax deduction. :D

[Cauterize]

the homebrew cart idea is great! *goes to bid now* (j/k)

but does this guy seriously think he will sell these?
its like what happened a while back, my dad, as great as he is, picked up a megadrive game for me while he was out.. i didnt know what it was till he got home... and just my luck.. Fifa 96... i appreciate the gesture he did, but when i already have it, there is NO way im gonna get rid of it!

the only thing i can see people being able to do with these is using these to make a gaming house/room or something! that wallpaper idea would be a laugh!

[mrsuit]

Haha I would probably try and find another 960.

[Nez]

Make shelfs out of em.

Fill in a hole in my grandmas' back yard. (Long Story)

[spoon]

Build the HCC robot and fly away.

[Gapporin]

Open 'em. One at a time. Very slowly.

Give 'em as Christmas presents! Family, friends and the hobo down the street will always apprieciate the gift of NHL '96!

Find 29 more copies and build a tribute to 989 Studios.

Bring 'em all outside when it snows. Make a fort out of them, and then pack snow around the carts. Now see if the neighborhood kids will ever pick on you again.

Find a Gunstar Heroes label and peel it off. Stick it on the NHL '96 cart, and sell them as "OMG! RARE!!!"

Use 'em as a doorstop. Use 'em as a doorstop's doorstop.

Two words: Target practice.

And I forgot to add the ultimate irony: Use the carts for hockey pucks!

[charitycasegreg]

Wait 50 years and finally sell them for a profit :D

I think he meant, wait 400 years, and sell them for profit. :D ... but still no. I would print labels for all the sega games and tape them to the sides and then take new pics of my collection and show them on digitpress to make people jealous of my complete genny collection.

[suppafly]

I´d buy the games. Sell every new black box for 50 cents...you´d make 480 dlls! :D

[Dobie]

I wonder what the shipping cost would be to mail that brick of games across the Atlantic? There goes the profit margin.

Maybe you could get the player on the cover to autograph them or something and start in on the lucrative sports memorabilia market... oh wait...this is hockey. I forgot they don't play that sport anymore. Sorry. ;) Perhaps a famous football player can sign them?

[whoisKeel]

I'd sell the lot on ebay, just like the seller did.

[drdrew1469]

i would turn them all upside down and play 'memory'. hey a match, and there's another, damn i'm good at this game. :D

[Jorpho]

Float them down the Potomac River.

Hey, that could work. It could be like one of those charity "rubber duck races", only with NHL 96 carts! Or not.

[soniko_karuto]

I´d buy the games. Sell every new black box for 50 cents...you´d make 480 dlls! :D

son of a gun! LOL

why 50 cents? they're perfectly good boxes!!!

a dollar damn it!

[Cmosfm]

I´d buy the games. Sell every new black box for 50 cents...you´d make 480 dlls! :D

son of a gun! LOL

why 50 cents? they're perfectly good boxes!!!

a dollar damn it!

I once had perfectly good cardboard boxes, sold em for 1.00 each! It was a good buisness.

Then I ate a lot of Mexican food, I got the runs like a mofo

I shit in every box I had!

Then after that, I could only sell my boxes for .50 each because they were filled with shit.

[slip81]

I could do two things with that many NHL 96's

1. Solve world hunger

2. Take them all to EB games and tell the clerk I wanted to trade them in. I can just imagine the look on his/her face LOL

[vintagegamecrazy]

Find all 960 of them a nice snuggly place in the landfill next to the ETs.

[qbertandernie]

i once did an inspection for a fellow that managed a hockey team. his basement was full of furniture made of hockey sticks that had broken during practice. he had end tables, a coffee table and even a couch! that was pretty cool. i bet by having that many carts you could make some damn fine furniture! then i would call that guy and ask if he wanted some other hockey related furniture, cuz i have no space left in my game room anyway...

although i liked the memory game idea...thatd be good for the ol' self esteem!

[Richter Belmount]

Build a small fort in my room and crawl in , have small snacks and punch .

[rbudrick]

I would donate them to GoodWill and take a $10 a game tax deduction.

That's the best idea I've heard yet. I'm pretty sure that could legititmately work. Anyone think otherwise?

-Rob

[Push Upstairs]

Other than my previous answers:


I suppose I could be generous and give 960 lucky members of DP a free game for Xmas...



but then i would have 960 new enemies :eek 2:

[EnemyZero]

Id build a raft and sail across the pacific, and if sharks even think about attackin they will feel the wraith of my genny cart bazooka

[Fuyukaze]

Shoot myself for owning this many copies of a game I wouldnt be able to store much less want to own.

Actualy, I'd get a booth at a local fea market and pimp em out for 10$ a peice to people stupid enough to think its a colectable.

[Garry Silljo]

Probably make things out of them. Just like peopple do with Combat and ET carts You can make cool lamps and things out of EA sports titles. Either that, or build a ladder to heaven.

I love that Hartford idea btw. It was tough being a fan in of the whale here in Penguin Territory.

[izret101]

Actually the guy who won thats is a member on RFGeneration.
This was the little thread we had about it. If you want to know what really happened with them check it out. There is one picture on RFGen of them and a few more on his site.
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=classic;action=display;num=109220962 0;start=26#26

[THXII38]

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I didn't put this in eBay insanity because I don't want to discuss the auction, we're not talking about the auction at all, but I want to know what YOU would do with 960 sealed copies of NHL 96 for Genesis?

You can't sell em for profit.

You can't really get rid of em at all basically unless you give them away.




Oh yes you can!

It was me that bought them LOL I bought them to make money, to spend on video games.


Every time I take stuff to Game Station to trade in, I take three of these carts with me. They give me £1 instore credit for each loose game, it's their set price for loose games. I re-used about 20 boxes, on my own personal EA games. If I took it in boxed, they'd offer me nothing, cos thei barcode is not in their database. I spend the credit notes on stuff to sell on eBay,, or add to my collection, depending what they have instore.

I sold a few individually , for some odd, odd, reason I once got £5.60 for them, and then I re-used the cardboard boxes for packing materials. Each batch of 6 was boxed seperately in a larger outerbox.

In the end, the most succesfull strategy was to simply sell them by the case load. 24 games a time. Pre-packed all I need to do is stick a lable on the box. I figure after all my costs, and failed eBay attempts, I make a about £5 per case. There were 80 cases to start with.


I have not actually played this game myself, I hate sports games.mostly.

In fact I bought twice what the original seller had. This is what 2,000 Genesis sports games look like in an avaerage sized Bedford house;



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thx1138/1atrading/DSCF0002.JPG

[izret101]

Needless to say i was later informed he was also a member here at DP.
Pretty funny stuff though. Worked out good for you THX.

[Iron Draggon]

Dang, if I had known that actually works, I would've bought them! But the shipping would've killed me, since I live in the states. I don't even wanna know what the shipping on those would be. How much did they all weigh?

[Dahne]

c) Not go hungry for the next 3 years or so

"Hey! I'll give you this old Genesis game for a sammich!"

[tholly]

i would have kept one, burnt the rest and made my game rarer....now, instead of being worth $0.50....with 959 less, my game would be worth $0.52

[Nesmaster]

i would..... i dunno. i'd think of something :P

[Porkchop]

Put them in a landfill in New Mexico and start another legend. People are still looking for the Atari carts out there.