Virtual boy items unreleased.

I've got this freakin' sweet VB shirt. Anyone want to give me buckets of cash for it?



http://www.planetvb.com/modules/advertising/?m05
"Very few of these shirts were given to Nintendo factory representitives based on their respective performance. It was made by Sunrise for Nintendo. The embroidered Virtual Boy system on the back is highly detailed and measures 11 inches wide."

 

Surely get lot's of hi-5s in the street with that

 

I like to wear it while jammin' on some fresh video games and not doing chores. Parents just don't understand.

 

Mine don't either. "you already have an XBOX"... "That's not ANOTHER XBOX is it?" -_-

 

PM sent. I hope this doesn't mean that it has been washed a lot of times. Seriously, I'd rather have your gaming sweat in it than faded colors from too many times in the laundry.

 

You might want to start up your own thread in the member's collections to show off your collection, as this is derailing the topic somewhat. I don't believe that sample games are unreleased items, and so not really relevant. You seem to be using this topic more to show off your own stuff now, so please (as I think I mentioned before) create your own thread in the appropriate forum for that.

 

Would you like to give your explanation as to why sample games, which were never made available for commercial publication, do not qualify as "unreleased" items?

 

Unreleased is a term better used for copy's of games (on what format whatsoever) that have seen no retail release at all, this way no one will be confused. For 'sample game'-cartridges and discs the term 'sample' or 'promotional copy' is more on it's place.

 

These are "not for sale" store samples. They are pretty rare, nobody would question that, but "unreleased" means the company decided to not sell the game and just forget about it because it's not profitable/ethical to release it at the moment (like Propeller Arena or Half-Life Dreamcast).

 

What they said.

Sample = a shop demonstration of a game (intended to be) released for sale.

Promo = promotional copy distributed to magazines etc. for review (may or may not be the same as retail).

Prototype = a beta copy of a game (usually on cartridge) produced during the development phase (usually different from retail).

Unreleased = not released for sale.

Unreleased sample = a sample that was produced and distributed to retailers for display, but the game was never sold.

Samples of released games are not unreleased. They were released for purpose - to show off the games. Samples are never intended for retail.

Likewise for the shirt - it might be a nice promo item, but it's not unreleased. And you're not supposed to ask for offers by circumventing the marketplace here.

 

Precisely why samples can rightly be regarded as "unreleased."

 

No. Unreleased relates to the GAME TITLE, not the physical media it is on. Samples are samples of RELEASED games, therefore are not unreleased.

Read the rest of what I said. They are based on the released game. No collector would call a sample of a retail game unreleased.

 

There are some "released" items of games that finally turned out to remain "unreleased", though. Like covers/posters/demo discs that have been distributed to the public or stores and the final game was never released.

Also, this is true:

As both, the final game and the demo stickers were given out/sold, the VB Sample variations definitely count as "released". A beta version of a VB game that was never sold in stores would then again be "unreleased".

 

Debating semantics, Americas favorite past time.

Sammy Hagar was better that David Lee Roth. Now that is an argument I'd like to partake in. Just not in this thread.

 

Quite. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, you could have POS material (pod demo, poster, display box etc.) for a game that never gets released, which makes it material for an unreleased game. A good example is the Dreamcast white labels. Generally speaking, they're the same as the retail game, only they were given away to stores and magazines for review. They are review discs of a released product. The exception is Flintstones, which was never released. Therefore, the white label of the game is a review disc of an unreleased product.

On the same vein, I don't consider my DS station games as unreleased. They are shop samples of released games (e.g. Brain Training) despite being limited versions of the full game. Indeed, they may have features that aren't seen in the main game and, whilst that is of interest to collectors, it doesn't make it an unreleased game.

 

There is a major difference between an unreleased game and an unreleased item. This thread deals with the very broad topic of unreleased Virtual Boy items, not "games" (thus, it could include virtual items, such as games, as well as physical items). The entire package that you get with a "sample game" is an item that was never released for sale to the public at large. All such items somehow leaked out from the retailers' possessions and made it into private hands without any authorization for such by the copyright holders of the items. The virtual item on a sample cartridge, the game itself, may have been released in other forms, but the whole package that comes with the game/virtual item, being the whole item that is referred to as a "sample game," was never released for sale to the public and, thus, is an unreleased item. That is actually the meaning that must be understood here, because if the topic solely dealt with unreleased "games," as you understand them, "games" being solely the virtual items that can be put on physical items, such as cartridges, then this topic should appear in the Unreleased Games forum, but it does not. It in stead appears in the Rare and Obscure Gaming Forum, and one very good reason for that is because this topic, which is "Virtual Boy Items Unreleased," is to be understood as "Virtual Boy Items Not Released For Sale" (precisely how you defined the term "unreleased" above) and because all of these items were never made commercially available, that makes them rare and obscure, whereby they deserve to be found in the Rare and Obscure Gaming forum.

 

You're not going to win this argument.

A sample is never intended for sale. It's intended for use in store. Were these samples distributed to stores? If so, it was used for its purpose and, therefore, IT WAS RELEASED.

 

Uncirculated and unreleased is not the same... Look at the coin collecting industry..

 

In coin collecting, you'd use the term uncirculated but you wouldn't use unreleased Not a great example, there!