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Beavis and Butthead Arcade on Ebay, was this PCB ever dumped?
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Haze:
Couple of points

1) It's 3D0 hardware, even if it was dumped, neither MAME nor MESS has 3D0 support capable of running games yet and it might be some time before they do, if ever.  (Lack of active developers etc.)

2) While the DU will go for rare boards, they also won't be held for ransom.  A couple of sellers are doing this as of late, severely overpricing undumped games, clones and revisions, even if they're not THAT rare.  The DU simply don't bother, the majority of things will show up again, and as I've already stated, there isn't even the dev team available to emulate beyond the simplest of new dumps.

3) It's allegedly barely complete as a game anyway, just a couple of (bad) minigames thrown together, it's a prototype for a reason, and probably not much fun even if you do own it.

4) It's probably dumped (in some form) somewhere by somebody anyway, the majority of Atari protos are.

5) If it's a CD, that could be even more annoying, there are ongoing arguments still about the dumping quality / accuracy of CDs even for simply systems, nevermind something that's not yet emulated.

There are, in all honesty, more important things to sort out.
wweumina:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 27, 2011, 11:38:15 am ---scarcity does not equal demand, in fact scarcity could be the result of a lack of demand.

The NES example isn't comparable.  There are people out there that collect NES games and are out to collect every single one.  There aren't many ( any?) people out there out to collect every single arcade cabinet.

I could really care less if it ever gets dumped, just one more game to add to the filter list...

--- End quote ---

I did not say that scarcity equalled demand, I said that scarcity with some demand leads to a high price.  There is clearly some demand or the ebay auction would have no offers and we wouldn't be talking about it. 

I also have very little interest in the board (I couldn't care less if it is dumped) but I am opposed to people being opposed to other people contributing if they feel it is worthwhile.
Donkbaca:
nope, scarcity with some demand does not always lead to a high price, there has to be enough demand and supply to lead to a market, otherwise the laws of economics don't apply... but enough about econ.

Nobody buy it.  Not worth to buy a ---smurfy--- game in order for it to get dumped in the hopes that in the future it were to get emulated only to be ignored.  There are better things to spend resources on.
scofthe7seas:

--- Quote from: wweumina on April 27, 2011, 07:36:56 pm ---I did not say that scarcity equalled demand, I said that scarcity with some demand leads to a high price.  There is clearly some demand or the ebay auction would have no offers and we wouldn't be talking about it. 

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I disagree with this. I think people (and us) are talking about it because of the novelty, and the absolutely absurd price. If you look at the auction, there are no offers. I truly hope there never will be. As has been said, this kind of ransoming should not ever be endorsed.
wweumina:

--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on April 27, 2011, 08:06:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: wweumina on April 27, 2011, 07:36:56 pm ---I did not say that scarcity equalled demand, I said that scarcity with some demand leads to a high price.  There is clearly some demand or the ebay auction would have no offers and we wouldn't be talking about it. 

--- End quote ---

I disagree with this. I think people (and us) are talking about it because of the novelty, and the absolutely absurd price. If you look at the auction, there are no offers. I truly hope there never will be. As has been said, this kind of ransoming should not ever be endorsed.

--- End quote ---

Well on the auction there appear to be 4 offers from 3 different people which have been declined or expired.  I don't endorse ransoming but presumably this guy paid a certain amount for it that he is trying to recoup that or make a profit.  I'm not trying to be difficult but I just don't think it's reasonable to 'oppose' 900 people who might think this is worth $5 each. 

In a market this size, I would suggest it is the supplier basically setting the price as long as there is more than one potential and sufficiently interested customer (which I'm not sure is true but you can't blame the bloke for trying).
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