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[Red 5]

For 2 + years now I have had a search on Ebay looking for Glacier Patrol and Universal Chaos.

I was lucky enough to grab Glacier Patrol. It came up a few times.

Universal Chaos, in over 2+ years of searching has N E V E R come up on Ebay.
As in not once. Zero times. Nil, nada, nothing, zilch, other things meaning zero.

I search in title and description. I am automatically notified whenever one comes up.
I have mentioned this in a few other places over the years.

Start at post 56 of this one...
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Others wher I've brought it up:
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Edited by therealred5, Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:35 AM.

[homerwannabee]

I agree on this one. Even in 2003 Universal Chaos was tough to find. This one is by all accounts rarer than Glacier Patrol. I would even think about putting this as a rarity 9. I have seen more River Patrols and Lochjaws show up than I have this game.

[sdamon]

For years, you could get Glacier Patrol direct from Telegames, boxed, for a mere $15. (I was lucky enough to do so.) I remember there was a Ebay seller who would regularly buy them up and sell them on Ebay for twice as much.

It's safe to say Universal Chaos is rarer than Glacier Patrol. Anyone know how long UC was available for sale?

[yuppicide]

You mean this? Buy it for $19.99

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310117177285

I searched for 2 seconds and found it. Cheap too. I vote to leave it as a 5.

Do you mean NTSC? That says it's PAL and in the database here I don't see a PAL listing. We should add it?

Edited by yuppicide, Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:55 PM.

[sdamon]

The PAL version certainly seems to be less rare than the NTSC one. I bought a UC on Ebay, and it turned out to be PAL.

[Red 5]

yuppicide, on Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:53 PM, said:

You mean this? Buy it for $19.99

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310117177285

I searched for 2 seconds and found it. Cheap too. I vote to leave it as a 5.

Do you mean NTSC? That says it's PAL and in the database here I don't see a PAL listing. We should add it?

You can find the PAL version fairly easily.
The NTSC version has not appeared in an Ebay auction in years. That is not an estimate or an exageration.
At least 2.5 years.

[yuppicide]

... but I am saying there is NO PAL here in the database. How do you tell if one is PAL?

Someone needs to add it to the database if there is indeed one.

[Red 5]

I think all telegames games had PAL versions.

[BSA Starfire]

Another one here, £9.99 BIN

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...v...:1|240:1318

[homerwannabee]

BSA Starfire, on Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:33 AM, said:

Another one here, £9.99 BIN

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...v...:1|240:1318

Yes, you can post PAL auctions all day long and it will not effect the rarity of the NTSC version.

[BSA Starfire]

I assumed it was NTSC as the seller states it's Telegames USA.

[EMZayas]

BSA Starfire, on Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:18 AM, said:

I assumed it was NTSC as the seller states it's Telegames USA.

Does that matter? There are a lot of PAL games that say Telegames USA (on the boxes)

The seller took that info from that Digital Press website.

Edited by EMZayas, Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:00 PM.

[BSA Starfire]

I don't own any Telegames titles in PAL or NTSC , but as telegames was a UK company with a US division I assumed that the UK games would not have a USA logo.
Apologies for wasting peoples time, just trying to be helpful.
Best regards,
Chris

[Rom Hunter]

BSA Starfire, on Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:08 PM, said:

I don't own any Telegames titles in PAL or NTSC , but as telegames was a UK company with a US division I assumed that the UK games would not have a USA logo.

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

A lot of Telegames USA boxes contain PAL games.

In short: Telegames is a complete format mess.

I still hope to complete the final Telegames format list some day.

Edited by Rom Hunter, Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:37 PM.

[EMZayas]

Rom Hunter, on Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:36 PM, said:

BSA Starfire, on Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:08 PM, said:

I don't own any Telegames titles in PAL or NTSC , but as telegames was a UK company with a US division I assumed that the UK games would not have a USA logo.

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

A lot of Telegames USA boxes contain PAL games.

In short: Telegames is a complete format mess.

I still hope to complete the final Telegames format list some day.

Agree. Why have PAL games in a Telegames USA box? makes no sense. To it make more confusing, you can't tell whats NTSC or PAL. That really pisses me off. I hate asking sellers what format their 2600 Telegames games are

Edited by EMZayas, Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:46 PM.

[Red 5]

The auction in question states that the format is PAL in the auction itself.

Atari collecting is very odd.

10 years ago I never thought I would never own a Quadrun before I finished my NTSC telegames.

Now I expect I may never finish telegames and I have 1.5 Quadruns.

Edited by therealred5, Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:13 PM.