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10/03/2006, 09:09
Game Demo Sells for $2,500
An anonymous collector paid $2,500 for the one of two existing copies of a DEMO of Sonix X-Treme. That’s right, I said a demo. Oh, and the demo was on a CDR that can easily be copied. So it’s anyone’s guess how many “unofficial” copies were made before it was sold. Insane.
Apparently, the seller was some anonymous Sega employee who was put in charge of destroying the other copies of the game for Sega. I guess the guy just stole it. Nice.
From the initial listing:
This disc is not a complete game, the simple reason being that there never was a complete game. What this disc contains is the small playable demo that was produced initially as a proof of concept for Sega of Japan, and then shown to the press at Gamer’s Day in 1996. The four screenshots at the bottom of this page are taken from this very same demo.
This is, he assured me, the only playable Saturn build ever seen outside of the development office itself, and I really have no reason to believe otherwise. Furthermore, with the possible exception of one disc under heavy lock and key in Sega’s library (according to another anonymous employee, who I spoke to about two years ago), this is very likely to be the only surviving disc PERIOD. Why does he know this? Because he destroyed the others himself, it was part of his job.
I guess the point I’m getting at is that, for better or for worse, this small little demo IS Sonic X-Treme for the Saturn. And if that’s something you feel you have to have, well…you’d better grab this, because there’s not going to be another opportunity. There is no chance of a “more complete build,” and it isn’t likely that another copy survived.
I can see someone paying that much for the ONLY copy of the game, heck even the demo, if it had a security ring on it that preventing copying, but this is one of two and it doesn’t. What do you think? And don’t get me started on whether this disc was stolen or not?
Cuanto freak suelto,el frkismo nos invade!!!
An anonymous collector paid $2,500 for the one of two existing copies of a DEMO of Sonix X-Treme. That’s right, I said a demo. Oh, and the demo was on a CDR that can easily be copied. So it’s anyone’s guess how many “unofficial” copies were made before it was sold. Insane.
Apparently, the seller was some anonymous Sega employee who was put in charge of destroying the other copies of the game for Sega. I guess the guy just stole it. Nice.
From the initial listing:
This disc is not a complete game, the simple reason being that there never was a complete game. What this disc contains is the small playable demo that was produced initially as a proof of concept for Sega of Japan, and then shown to the press at Gamer’s Day in 1996. The four screenshots at the bottom of this page are taken from this very same demo.
This is, he assured me, the only playable Saturn build ever seen outside of the development office itself, and I really have no reason to believe otherwise. Furthermore, with the possible exception of one disc under heavy lock and key in Sega’s library (according to another anonymous employee, who I spoke to about two years ago), this is very likely to be the only surviving disc PERIOD. Why does he know this? Because he destroyed the others himself, it was part of his job.
I guess the point I’m getting at is that, for better or for worse, this small little demo IS Sonic X-Treme for the Saturn. And if that’s something you feel you have to have, well…you’d better grab this, because there’s not going to be another opportunity. There is no chance of a “more complete build,” and it isn’t likely that another copy survived.
I can see someone paying that much for the ONLY copy of the game, heck even the demo, if it had a security ring on it that preventing copying, but this is one of two and it doesn’t. What do you think? And don’t get me started on whether this disc was stolen or not?
Cuanto freak suelto,el frkismo nos invade!!!