MichaelJMcKernan Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 I just picked up a sealed/shrinkwrapped copy of something called Stella gets a new brain CD....I guess this is supercharger games on CD, right? What's the rarity on this? And how hard is it to get a supercharger so I can play it? Also, this is like a gaming insider type thing, right....weird that I found it at a Saver's?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Historian Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 ah yes... and now the PM will begin.. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elviticus Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Superchargers aren't TOO hard to find, and I definitely recommend getting one to play that great CD!!! It's all the supercharger releases + and there are a lot of good games on it.... As far as rarity, I'm not sure. I've been playing a lot of Dragonstomper in the past few days - it's worth it just for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 I just picked up a sealed/shrinkwrapped copy of something called Stella gets a new brain CD....I guess this is supercharger games on CD, right?What's the rarity on this? And how hard is it to get a supercharger so I can play it? Also, this is like a gaming insider type thing, right....weird that I found it at a Saver's?!? The Cyberpunks FAQ page should answer most questions about the CD. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698/cy...rpunks/faq.html As for rarity, I recall hearing that there were somewhere around 1000 produced. The remaining copies were given to Hozer Video around 2 years ago. AFAIK, Hozer still has some copies for sale via mail order. Superchargers show up fairly often on eBay so you should be able to get one easy enough. And yes, very strange that you should have found one at a retail outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Since they were a homebrew type creation, i've never heard of them being sealed and shrinkwrapped. Mine wasn't. Did yours have the book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelJMcKernan Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 Well, I went back to the store, looking for the book. Thinking, there's no way it's here....... And I found it!!!!! Yes, this is sealed in shrinkwrap. Go figure! Bira Bira has been very good to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 I just picked up a sealed/shrinkwrapped copy of something called Stella gets a new brain CD....I guess this is supercharger games on CD, right?What's the rarity on this? And how hard is it to get a supercharger so I can play it? I guess one question is whether it's a first edition or not. I really don't know the difference, except that I recall that the book to the first edition should have a number in silver ink. I think they only made about 200 of those. They went wild on the second edition, presumably because the cost of producing 1000 wasn't that much more than the cost of 200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 The first edition are numbered directly on the CD. I don't remember if it's on the book itself. And I just got off of work, so i'm too lazy to look for the book to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I believe 2nd edition was sealed. I bought one from 4jays. It still came with the big oversized manual, but the disc in case was shrinkwrapped as I recall. It actually said ver 2 on inside of the insert in jewel case. Seeing in retail store seems odd. What type of store is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelJMcKernan Posted August 23, 2004 Author Share Posted August 23, 2004 It was in a thrift store. Weird-0-rama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 The 2nd edition discs are all shrinkwrapped. The 1st edition ones were not. In fact we had to hand-stuff the inserts into the jewel boxes on the 1st edition, bit PITA. The 1st edition manuals were not hand numbered. The content of the 1st edition manuals is not exactly the same as the 2nd edition manuals because we changed a little of the actual content from version to version. The cover of the manual and all the CD inserts are the same from version to version. (We had lots of extras leftover from the 1st edition). The 1st edition CDs had a black background on the CD itself. The 2nd edition CDs are just silver with red lettering. There were not enough leftover CD inserts to fill every 2nd edition jewel case. I'd say about 20% of them don't have inserts in them. I don't know if Hozer has gotten to those yet. I also don't think there were enough color booklet covers to go with every 2nd edition CD but I don't know where the cutoff is/was. We made about 350 CDs of the 1st edition, although only about 300 went to end-users. The rest were for private circulation. The lettering varied on the discs. I alternated between silver and gold pen. I believe I did gold pen every 10 discs. And I think I only did the special sayings "do what thou wilt" on the gold ones. I wanted to do some wacky stuff almost like a message in a bottle to see how these things circulated over time. The deal we had with Bridgestone Multimedia put a limit of 300 discs on the 1st pressing, but there was no limit on the 2nd pressing. We did 1,000 the 2nd time through because we could handle the overhead and it looked like it would be enough discs to saturate demand for perpetuity. We priced it so that we didn't have to sell out all 1,000 to make back our overhead. When sales trickled off we had done okay enough so we just donated the rest to Hozer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvis Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 I have a supercharger for sale. Make an offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 I just got Stella GANB from Hozer about 6 months ago. Shrinkwrapped and the CD was the one with the red lettering like you mentioned above. There was an insert. I absolutely love it. Dragonstomper and Mindmaster are two of my favorite games. After the High Score Club last week, I also have a new found love for Fireball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 I took a look at me ol' pal Mike's acquisition last night. It's definitely Version 2.0. Talk about perfect condition. One still finds the strangest things in thrift stores. He found Ghost Manor/Spike's Peak and Spacemaster X-7 at that same Goodwill in the recent past. He's even tried to sell them, but nobody wants them! Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 My cd is still new and shrinkwrapped. I never felt the need to open it because it's just a lot easier to play the roms from a laptop using PLAYBIN.EXE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelJMcKernan Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 So, should I sell this and buy a cheeseburger, or sell it and buy a bunch of cheeseburgers and some cheeseburgers for you guys too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 or sell it and buy a bunch of cheeseburgers and some cheeseburgers for you guys too? Only if you're pricing White Castle or Krystal's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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