What do you think about southamerican collectors?

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Hi, i recently appeared in "Tips & tricks" in the interview with Joe Santulli (I´m Matías Bianco), and i want to know what everybody thinks about southamerican collectors...thanks to everybody, and, if you want to make questions...they´re welcome...

[Charlesaway]

You guys (or girls?) seem cool enough to me. Except that I keep getting unsolicited emails from some guys from argentina who say they found me on the digital press board and want to sell me some atari 2600 games from south america. Weird huh? :)

[Raccoon Lad]

I don't know, I mean we really don't know much about the Brazil/Argentina/ect. areas, due to the language barrier. Though I must say, I do like pirate cartridges for some reason, and there seems to be plenty of those down there.

[CrazyImpmon]

It's cool with me. They do get a number of games not found anywhere else in the world (such as many of Tec Toy games).

[Ascending Wordsmith]

They're fine. Hell, any good collector is okay with me, South American or otherwise. My question is how good are the Brazilian women looking today? You can answer this with regular post... or with many pictures. It's your call. :-D

[Britboy]

I don't know about the gamers, but I love a good churrascaria. One near me does an unbelievable rodizio.

[christianscott27]

i really like the fact that you can play south american games on US TVs and consoles, this gives you a big trading advantage over the PAL regions.

if both parties can work out the shipping costs i'd love to make some trades with south americans. i just ebayed for my first two SA games and ended up paying far too much for shipping, i'm still happy to get some games not sold in the US though. i'm especially interested in the 2600 multicarts i've seen coming out of SA. i'd also like to pick up some SA sega master system games.

the lanuage barrier is not too big of a problem for me, i speak conversational spanish and can translate most emails. brazil is another matter since i do not understand portugese.

i hope you guys can develop your game scene, start some trademeets and look into having a SA philly classic style meeting. as you can see from this site having a community is big part of game collecting.
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[Atari7800]

Interesting topic... I don't know if one can "rate" an entire continent's people based on trading experiences, or if one would even want to. I'd say that people from South America are basically the same as peoples from every other country... basically good and honest folk, with a few rotton eggs. My three trading experiences run the gamet between excellent and shit.

1. My first experience with a Brazillian "collector" was shit... he contacted me out of the blue offering the "super rare" SMS game Street Fighter 2 for a goodly portion of my Saturn games (I was listed on UGTZ/GAMETZ.) I didn't even know that SF2 had come out for the SMS, so I almost fell for it and traded him hundreds of dollars worth of games for what was actually a fairly common SMS game that was in many Brazillian stores at the time. I found out in the nick of time and told the asshole to bugger off. True, it would have been my stupidity for falling for it, but he was a prick to try and take advantage of me.

2. My second experience was awesome... me and this guy (who now sells on Ebay and has a great reputation) traded a lot of cool things. He got the better end of the bargain (SMS games from Brazil have fallen in value now that the word is out) but it was still a great experience that we repeated several times.

3. My third experience from yet another Brazillian collector was mediocre... he seemed nice enough and proposed a trade, then told me that the store where he was going to get the games "had closed unexpectedly" and that they were unavailable now. It was a bullshit story, and I did not appreciate him lying to me and I told him so and ended our contact. I think he was basically a good person, though... just a bit deceptive. He's on this board sometimes... you know who you are.

So there you have it.

[Eternal Champion]

I just read recently that the Sega Master System had a long life in Brazil--were games produced only for the market there? For how long? I think it's great the SMS had some appreciation somewhere, it had potential to blow away the NES...

[Atari7800]

I just read recently that the Sega Master System had a long life in Brazil--were games produced only for the market there? For how long? I think it's great the SMS had some appreciation somewhere, it had potential to blow away the NES...

Sure... the SMS had a long, long life in Brazil... I think the last game made was in 1999 or even 2000 (may be Virtua Fighter Animation.) Brazil was home to quite a few unique SMS items, including boy (blue) and girl (pink) consoles, a semi-portable, and a system with 100+ games built in.

South America saw numerous releases that never saw a release anywhere else. Many were based on Game Gear games (the coding is almost identical) but a few games were actually made for the SMS... like Street Fighter 2 or MK3.

Cool, huh?

[gamergary]

Since i like pirated games you guys are cool. :-D .

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine (the eBay roomate for those of you keeping score) just got back from spending a month in Costa Rica, Columbia, and Peru. He had a great time, and is now spending all his free time sending PSone stuff to South and Latin America. He also managed to get a 3.06 intel cpu for 150 dollars :o

[ManekiNeko]

I'd just like to know more about the South American gaming scene. Opcode filled me in on a little of it... it sounds like most of the major game companies didn't do business there until fairly recently. Most Brazilian arcade games from the 80's were pirated, since the companies themselves didn't want to release them there.

JR

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[zektor]

I think you guys in Brazil have way too many good games! :) Some of my best trades/purchases come from Brazil :)

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Well, i basically answer some of the questions...
The girls in Brazil are great!!!, but they´re better in Argentina :-D with bigger boobs and nice asses...
The churrasqueria is cool, i love argentinian meat!!!!
Now, the vg...The experience with southamerican people will be great, unfortunately, nobody of us can´t go to the Philly classic or CGE (it´s too much money and the economical situtation is very bad). I think that also most USA collectors and gamers think more about Brazil than Argentina, but here there are a lot of games, pirate carts, Atari 2600 argentinian carts (of companies like Dynacom, EDU, Artkaris, etc.)...
Oh, anybody read the interview in the "Tips & tricks"???
Thanks to all and continue posting, i like to see more opinions and i hope this topic will be interesting for some more...

Matías