Finally my Duck Tales Press Kit Arrive!

That is awesome, felicitaciones!

I had no idea about this kit.

 

From what I understand they just recycled old cartridge cases, so I don't think it would be hard to either make a run of them or buy a couple of thousand mario/duckhunt carts? Hell, I find it funny that they made a new PCB for such a small run. Why not just buy a bunch of Ducktales carts, paint it gold and release it if they were doing it in such small numbers and only for the press/people who fork out $ for it. Seems dumb to me..

 

Because they didn't make the PCB - it's a commercially available product from infiniteneslives.com - it was probably easier to do that than get a large enough number of the original PCB.

 

Congrats on getting this press kit DrAfroKid. This has to be the centerpiece of your collection right now.

Have any of these even turned up on ebay or other auction sites? Just curious if someone has tried to put a dollar value to one?

 

Oh wow, didn't know that...thanks for that.

*Just makes Capcom that much lazier...sigh*

 

considering they can get super common unwanted games for a dollar, paint the case, replace the label and put in a custom PCB vs paying for old copies of Ducktales (already a game that , painting it, and replacing the label. what they did is good for a few reasons

1) it was cheaper for them. Yay for them!
2) Ducktales is already an in-demand game. Copies go for $10-20 a cart.
3) the Remastered edition increased awareness and value of the original increased.
4) if they used originals and repainted them, that would make the value of the original increase even MORE.

SO by using unwanted super common games, gutting them, replacing the PCB, that not only did not make the original copy hard to find for collectors, it also added a new holy grail for collectors! Its win win for us!

The only thing they could have done better was to just cast new copies of the case instead of gutting common games.

 

I disagree - I am 100% certain that this press kit will become quite the collectible. The press kit for Mega Man 9 only offered an empty NES box and goes for over $150 on ebay. This is a working NES cartridge in a fancy metal box for one of the most iconic NES games.

 

Wow I didn't know this kit existed either! Awesome find, well done!

 

Your really lucky, Did you have to sing the theme song to this?