WORMS PINBALL for DC @ Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8121225257

Just curious, does anyone have any more info on this game? Never even heard of it...

Cheers!

 

Unreleased game, was on the PSX and sucked (apparently, never played it). Seller has put it at that price as a publicity stunt to promote his game expo thing. He would genuinly be buggered if someone bought it for that price.

You notice, it hasnt yet been pulled, but if one of us was to list a GDR it would be pulled almost immediately... :snipe:

 

Yep, pretty ludicrous price I'd say...

Still something very appealing about an unreleased (and finished) game... Is there a list somewhere of known-to-exist unreleased games? One other example of this kind of game would be PA (until recently )

Cheers

 

Stupid git, with a price like that.... I might turn him in to ebay just out of spite.

 

man, good idea! What a price :smt103

 

That would be really lame, hes not doing anything illegal. Dont like his price? Dont bid.

 

Sometimes an item has a high price there may be a few grumbles but sometimes people are willing to pay it. The price in this case is beyond a joke, no one likes it, no one will bid. On other boards where people have sent the seller a message the price is excessively high to put people off bidding and to promote some convention or show or something. It is a bit of a lame tactic to advertise a shot though :smt011

 

well, take it on the bright side , if it had a cheap price , someone would buy it , and then you couldn't beat the owner of the cd at this game (worms pinball) in the expo and receive a free bear. :drinkers:



:smt033

 

It's not the price it's the fact bthat he's using the auction as a cheap was to get people to that gaming show, he's got several other items up on ebay for the same ridiculous prices just to get people to come to that stupid show of his.

That why he should be reported to ebay.

 

A shittier game than PA for twice as much money ;-)

 

Well someone reported me to ebay and that 1 item was pulled. I wonder who? The other protos are still up there.

I don't know if you checked out the www.ecgx.com site at all but I am basiclly throwing a party. Free admittance, Free tables to dealers (still a few left) Free food, Free pop and FREE KEGS OF BEER.

I am not charging anyone money. I'm not even asking for donations. I just want people to show up and have some fun.

Ebay had a 50 cent listing day I thought it would be a good way to get the attention of people who are interested in unreleased games. BTW I have 2 copies of Worms Pinball so even if the one on ebay sold I'd still have one for the show. I have others as well which will also be on display.

I'm sorry you think I'm lame however I worked hard on this. I must have been confused when I figured a web site like this would be excited about the chance to see some unreleased games drink beer and hang out .


Adam

 

well, we are exited about a party of unreleased games and free bear ,
ithe only fact that bug us is that you take ebay to makes adds,like another one said , this isn't illegal , if you dont whant it at this price don't bid and don't bug, but you don't really whant to sell your game , am i right ?


i cannot go at your party because i'm not in the usa , but i i wish you to have a big succes and good luck !

making an expo is really difficult , and i just wish your hard work will be justified and you'll have enough fun to make it each years. :smt023

after the expo, somes pics and how the show was here, (succes? i hope so) i'm sure everyone will have fun to see what your expo was (well, those who wasn't able to go visit it.)

have fun.
;-)

 

Well all sounds nice of you! And plz dont take it personaly but some people rush to the fact it does look like your trying to make a quick buck from hardworking people here....

Now look at prop arena. $1000 for a game... alot of people here paid $20 donations and we mean ALOT... they got the release but they also got screwed by the guy who paid for the game. (long story no need to go into it).

Also the original seller did just seem to care about his quick buck.

Your auction made it look like it was an atempt at the same thing.

 

Buyatari, if you ever do one of these expoes on the west coast please e-mail me and I'm there.

Yeah, the people over reacted to the auction you had. Most of us frown on software piracy and people who charge enormous prices for unreleased games, but I'm sure we'd all love it at your expo, and no harm was done. I didn't report you, I hope no one else here did.

For the future, it's perfectly legit to list nothing for sale on an ebay auction and just use it for an ad. I see people doing it all the time. Just enable the private auction thing (so no one can bid) and a price of 1 cent. Ebay doesn't care, they still make thier money.

 

The people who see this post are able to see it for only 1 reason. They are not "casual" thinkers. By definition everyone who posts here, everyone who reads here and ESP those who mod here. If you can even see this post you are NOT a conventional thinker.

You may own things you aren't "supposed" to. You may use hardware in ways which they weren't "meant to" be used. You may even tinker with software in ways you "shouldn't" And you don't just do it. I've been a lurker here for some time so I know. You CELEBRATE it. You wave the big finger in front of any authoritative body which says you shouldn't or can't or better not and you say "What are you gunna do about it."

Yeah, So I posted an auction in a way I'm not "supposed to." Yes , I didn't post to sell it ( However, if you do have 3k I WILL sell it to you. I do have 2 different copies.) I did it in the same spirit as you. I posted a BIG FU to eBay who pulls beta auctions the minute they are posted in a way to promote an event where these same protos would be enjoyed by those who feel the same way I do at ebay's expense. 50 cent auction day.

I just didn't expect to be attacked for what I believed to be a common goal here. Now hopefully those of you who live close by and do have the means to show up WILL show up. No matter how "lame" my advertising is and I really do think you will have a good time.

To me "lame" advertising would be if I adverised it in the same way everyone does, by sending a press release about how a show which has never before happened is yet THE BEST in the world and can not be beat.

I guess I think I was better than that. I think those that apprecaite what I do deserve better than that. I am going to put on a kick ass show. Its going to involve creative fun contests and unreleased games you have NEVER seen before. If thats not good enough than hey man thats all I got and if you were offended by my auction (even though I can't see why) really and truthfully I AM sorry.

So enough of this........ lets just have some fun. If you have something to say I am VERY open to kick ass ideas. What would you do to ensure a great event that we are not already doing?

Adam

 

I think too some people over reacted about the auction. Of course the price was too high but reading the description it was more or less clear that it was some unusual form of promoting the show and East Coast Gaming Expo 2004 site.

 

So.....what other protos are you going to have on display?

I really dont think Worms Pinball is gonna pull many people into an expo....but who knows

 

Just as a bit of a note, despite my earlier post, I wasn't the one to report you to eBay - you can thank laziness for that. :smt043

My whole problem with the thing wasn't so much that you were using the game to advertise for your event (which judging from the website looks to be cool indeed) but the fact that you had it for sale at $3k. Now be that as it may that you were just intending for it to be used as an advertising device, but I can't but help and get my hackles raised for anyone that charges ridiculous prices for something simply on the merit of being an unreleased game. I love gaming, and I'm an avid collector, but my whole ability to collect things revolves around money, as I'm sure everyone else here does as well. With people offering unreleased games for $1000, $2000, $3000, not only does it mean that I will never have the chance to come into contact with something as cool as an unreleased game, but half the time (as with the case of the Castlevania CD-R shown on a French website several months back) the person who does buy it fades into obscurity and doesn't allow anyone else in the many online communities of gamers to experience these unreleased products. And it doesn't even matter if the game is a quality one or not - me personally, I can't see Worms Pinball or PBA Bowling being terribly interesting games (actually, I know PBA isn't) but simply on the merit of being unreleased they will fetch insane prices. So I'm not so much railing at you as I am the twisted collectors mentality that pervades the gaming community sometimes and drives prices up. (Don't even get me started on RSG....)

Anyways, a little more ontopic.

Your expo does indeed look awesome, but I have one tiny suggestion for you: host another one on the West Coast, preferably in a place a little more accessable to people than Southern California. Looking over your website, it seems to be great fun, but I sadly have neither the money nor the resources to make it from Oregon to Pennsylvania. :smt009 However, I wish you luck, and as I said, hopefully you can host another one on this end of the nation sometime. :smt023

 

If the expo was near my living place, then I would certanly come to the expo (unfortualty I;m in the Netherlands) I would even come only for the worms pinball..

 

The 3k price mark was set to get attention and not to expose me for the greedy bastard that I am (that was supposed to remain a secret). If I posted it TOO high it would be seen as a joke. I had to place it high enough so I wouldn't have to lose it and low enough so that people thought the seller was somewhat planning to sell it. People see that big number and they look. Had I posted it at 1 cent and a private auction I don't think as many people would notice it. Also just as many people would be upset that they would not be able to bid on it.

Can you imagine all the emails I would have gotten from people asking to become approved bidders had I done this? How would I politely explain to them that they couldn't bid?

If it makes you feel any better I paid approx $60 for the first copy of worms pinball and approx $100 for the second. So yes indeed you CAN get unreleased games for reasonable prices if you are willing to put forth the time to find them.

Adam