Radar wrote:You did really well scoring that lot - I've been actively collecting SC3000 for many years and have never seen some of those titles (Satellite Salvage, Kingdom, Tradewinds) come up before.
Cool. The old computers don't have rarity lists & guides for software like all the cartridge and gaming systems have. It's hard to know how much is out there of some stuff sometimes.
Radar wrote:Some of the Poseidon titles must have had extremely low runs as did Night Trotting etc. selling only through small ads / user newletters.
The covers are all original and reflect the "homemade" status - I have several SC3000 games myself (1 Day Cricket) where the cover is actually a photo (as in developed from film) of the hand drawn artwork.
Yes, I see. One of the covers of Night Trotting is such and has a picture glued on. "Bill's Basement", if original, is just the title typed on the front and side on the reversed unprinted side of a commercial blank cassette "Metron". Same on the cassette, it's just the Metron label and no game title. Maybe it's a user dub, as I'd be disappointed buying a game back then if the title of the game wasn't even listed on the cassette tape.
Radar wrote:I would like to encourage you 120% to get some of these dumped ASAP.
I just wonder if I have a non-vintage tape recorder in the house. Everything's 25+ years or older technology
Some parts of the site haven't been updated for a few years, so I would have imagined it was all there already.
Radar wrote:Fellow NZ collector Aaron "Holmes" has done a sterling effort over the years archiving everything he can find in relation to the SC3000 and I know he would love to archive any of these titles that have not already surfaced. I've personally sent him dozens of tapes (including many one offs) with out issue.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~atari/SC3K08.html
When I looked at the link a wee while ago I took 'archived' to mean that maybe Aaron had all these titles and the roms dumped. I have tried to contact the site but never got a reply. I was contacted by someone last year on one of my trademe auctions saying he had their 'Wanted' title "Poseidon Moonbase Alpha adventure" among other SC-3000 software. I have long lost who it was, but at the time I thought it was better off going the SC-3000 way and didn't push too much for them. Hope it did.
Radar wrote:Off those Sir Rodericks Quest, Vortex Blaster and Burglar Bill are some of the very best games for the system every produced.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's hard to know which are the good games sometimes, especially when you didn't have them, and for a system like this where the titles weren't worldwide in distribution.