So another SEGA machine-mystery rumbled into town this week when my ongoing eBay hunt for a Mega CD turned up this little number – a hi-fi that the seller claims is a combination boom box/ megadrive and Mega CD.
Um…
At first, my spidey-senses called hoax as this geeza has clearly plugged a knock-off Megadrive pad into a cassette player. No dice amigo! Just because you’re asking £1500 dibbers for it , doesn’t mean I believe it’s anything more than a crappy hi-fi…
But then I saw the seller had good feedback, and had posted a load of detail – including a product ID. And lo! Google has a whole raft of similar pictures and this lowly pile of AIWA buh does indeed play the mighty Snatcher!
Who’d have thunk it?
Still. You’d have to be a) a mega fan and b) utterly minted to consider parting with 1500 clams to own this ugly sonofabitch. Especially as my google search revealed they’re prone to breaking down all over the shop… Nope – class mark 1 for me, please. Now I just need to find one for cheap…
Dunno what kinda bracket you’re looking at for a mega cd, and i dont know if the price is good either, but I saw a mark 2 Megadrive and mega cd for 80 dabloons for the pair in Brighton Replay Entertainment or whatever it’s called. Not that you’re around there any more, but if you have any contacts…
‘Tis a mk.2 though, as I mentioned, with no ‘motor-powered disc tray type thing and flashy li’l lights’ to quote that letter I once got printed in Mean Machines Sega. But it is still a Mega CD. Darn, if I’d only known I’d have bought a fleet of them back in the 32-bit era when nobody cared about them. Grig!
80 ain’t bad – for the machine alone, somewhere between 60 and a hundred. But it’s kind of he same price for mark 1 or 2 so it’s gotta be an original beaut. There’s way more mark 2’s but there’s still plenty of the other. I’m going for a bundle though – I own a megadrive, but I haven’t seen it in 5 years so gotta assume she’s a goner. Shame – I have all the wires and stuff still… Weird. It’ll be like Phil’s nes – it’s somewhere, in some box…
When I look at that pic, there’s one thing that jumps out at me – Final Fight CD running at 60hz without borders. Darn you PAL regions! The years of suffering…