Border Down Reprint 01/17/2008 - SOLD OUT! -

[Christuserloeser]

As you might know, G.Rev's excellent horizontal shmup Border Down is getting a reprint (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1212848_1124.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1212848_1124.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DDuj) sheduled for 17th of January 2008. - Now it seems that the entire stock is already sold out via preorder:

DIGG THIS NEWS (http://digg.com/gaming_news/Border_Down_Reprint_SOLD_OUT)

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Border_Down_Reprint_SOLD_OUT

My friend who lives in Tabata (near Tokyo) was gracious enough to go down to Messe Sanoh in Akihabara to order Border Down for me. This happened last week so I thought I had enough time.

Alas, it was completely presold. Perhaps the pressings were more scarce than I'd have thought. My friend went to Akiba around 3-5PM on the 10th of January so it wasn't really all that late.

Back to Ebay, huh? BTW the last few kanji on the sign below reads 'Orders have been finalized' or something.




Source: Dreamcast-Scene (http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2111)

[Elven6]

Good to know Dreamcast games are still sellin like crazy!

[quzar]

Good to know Dreamcast games are still sellin like crazy!

considering they don't release numbers on how many were printed, it doesn't mean all that much.

[geise69]

Why would you do a reprint but have very few copies to sell? I know it's a DC game and they aren't in a crazy high demand, but still. Also didn't Sega stop production of the GD-ROM? I guess there's still quite a few blank gd-roms going around still to press a decent number of reprints. It is good though to see DC games still selling. I'd sure as hell buy a copy if I didn't own the LE already.

[quzar]

Why would you do a reprint but have very few copies to sell? I know it's a DC game and they aren't in a crazy high demand, but still. Also didn't Sega stop production of the GD-ROM? I guess there's still quite a few blank gd-roms going around still to press a decent number of reprints. It is good though to see DC games still selling. I'd sure as hell buy a copy if I didn't own the LE already.

That was a rumour put out by someone more interested in their own agenda than facts. There has still be no proof to substantiate it.

[Christuserloeser]

SEGA reverted to ROMs for the NAOMI arcade system. This does not affect the Dreamcast at all. GD-ROMs are nothing but CD-ROMs with a high density data track so as long as there's CDs there's the option to produce GDs as well.

[geise69]

Well that's good to hear. I just heard the GD-ROM being discontinued a while ago and didn't know it was just a rumor. I wonder if there's going to be a second batch of these reprints, since it seems to be selling?