A Working SEGA Neptune prototype LOST in a move!

Hi gamers,

Every SEGA fan knows the story behind the one and only Neptune, it's mainly just a stand-alone 32X anyway. It was going to be a in-between the Megadrive and Saturn time frame to prolong the life of the Megadrive.

Recently a prototype collector that goes by the name of drx contacted a 1st party SEGA producer, as he was asking more questions about the system and just about to finally have it in his collection the producer said he lost it while moving houses. Sounds like a lie right? It most likely is. drx has many weird boards from SEGA as he claims, and I do believe him, he is fairly trusted by the community he has released a lot of prototype material in the past.

How could a professional first party producer lose such a rare piece of hardware, hell it's not rare it's ONE working on earth, and it's now misplaced. Now don't get confused with the many that people have "spotted" they were just case prototypes, no guts inside.

We may hear about the one and only Neptune again some day, but for now it's going to fade into the past. Sad day for many SEGA freaks including me, I could of seen a HD image of one of these oh well.

Source: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859

Batman Arkham City collector's edition. US vs EUROPE Taboo.

Hi Gamers,

Today was the day that many Batman fans have been waiting for, everyone who pre-ordered the collectors edition went home without the animation DVD that was included in the US release, but not anywhere else. The empty space under the statue of Batman was for the animation DVD. Many european buyers were puzzled when they opened the draw and found nothing. Along with a download code for the soundtrack, not a physical copy. This is rather beyond me, it's the same price as the US release (ignoring exchange rate), yet the extra CD and DVD were left out they could of at least include a download code for the movie as well, nah that was the right thing to do. Instead they give the European players extra DLC skins, ohhh how collectable are those!

Even though the collector's edition is rather detailed and pretty damn awesome, the cost cut was rude towards the European buyers especially if they wanted the animation DVD and a physical soundtrack. Usually that's the point of a collector's edition, is the physical stuff that it comes with, and not just pieces of paper with codes on them. It's pretty debatable to say the European players were completely disappointed as the statue looks great, and the box for the lot is very well presented. I can surely say, I'd be pretty neutral... if it was a neutral price.

This edition got released here in Australia with the statue, but I'm not aware if it included a physical copy of the soundtrack or not. Which is very confusing as Australia gets European releases usually, some stores are offering the import which happens to be the US version I couldn't say the game is region free. Another thing to add to the crap factor this whole epic edition with the awesome box is that it doesn't even include a case for the game nor a manual. What you do get is a art book and at the end of that art book is a DVD tray, who designed this? Have it separate, so collector's can have the game on the shelf!

I won't go too far into detail about the inconvenience about this edition, as some fans will agree and disagree about the points I make here. Overall the edition is rather cool and interesting, the art book and the statue is what you're really paying for. Consider the game as a throw in extra.

HEX1GON signing out.

More Bayonetta News!!

Hello gamers, once again!

Last night I made an amazing discovery on eBay, no I didn't buy a Biohazard Code Veronica Dreamcast, or a working Atari Jaguar CD but I did manage to grab a Bayonetta Climax Edition complete with famous pre-order only bonus gun. Not only did I manage to actually get a hold of one, but the amount of money I spent on it is a miracle.

I got this for $70AUD, I'm dead serious! However it came without the game, but the game it's self is selling in stores for about roughly $20AUD, the good thing is it came with the sleeve for the game to slip into I also have the game by it's self so now this will be a complete item once it arrives, how cool is that?

After doing more research, SEGA says it's strictly limited and only 1,500 units. The UK, Australia and New Zeeland got the pre-order bonus however the UK got a plain white box, as a posed to the NZ and Australian release got printed box. The item I bought is the one with the printed artwork, awesome!
With the gun being strictly limited, brand new in the box it fetches $400+ -- wow. So the item even being opened like the one I'll be receiving would be worth just as much or a little less, I could possibly place $350 as it's value.

The seller possibly just didn't know what they had, or wanted a quick sale. Miracles do happen and many collectors pick up the rarest things for very small amounts of money from time to time. So finally it's happened to me and hope it happens again another time, because damn it's awesome :D

This item will be included in my next collecting video, as I've been a little tight on money recently it might be rather short.

Below you can find images of the item I *should* be receiving.

This is HEX1GON signing out.

SEGA 32X value is rising, what?

Hi gamers,

For anyone who is a fan of AVGN would know how much the 32X sucked ass. While only being 6 months in production before SEGA pulled the plug, the system it's self is very rare not so rare that's it's exactly hard to find, but rare as not many were made.

Amazingly you can pick up a brand new 32X for around $160, yeah it's not my type of cake either but the demand for these have risen. The used value is a bit hard to determine mainly the reason behind this is, if the previous owner had a model 1 Megadrive/Genesis the metal slot insert would come with it, and with the model 2 it wasn't required, however the video communication cable is usually a missing piece.

Not many collectors keep track of the 32X hardware as the software library just wasn't solid enough, even I haven't kept track of it. The demand in the hardware market has changed, SEGA hardware is becoming VERY collectable and the 32X is becoming one of the most collectable systems, together with it's software library.