Have these yet to be priced?
Yeah, it would seem I left out the most obvious detail huh??
Yes, both are priced.
Price for Legend of Wukong is $40 + between $4 and $12 depending on where you are in the world and your method of payment. For USA, its $44 by money order, $46 by PayPal. To be shipped by Christmas 2008.
Price for Pier Solar has two different versions.
There is a Classic Package - which is the standard version of the game for $35 shipped worldwide. Also to be shipped by Christmas 2008. (although released separately by different companies)
Then there is the Posterity Package - available as a preorder only until October 29, 2008 - which in addition to the game also allows your name to be in game credits and manual credits, along with having a few words of your choice in the manual. Plus they have hinted some other bits may be included such as a drawing for someone to appear as a NPC in the game. That is $50 shipped worldwide. After October 29, only the Classic Package will be available. (duh) What will be sent to you is the same though for both packages - you won't miss out on any extra materials only in the Posterity PAckage by buying the Classic Package, besides having your name printed in the credits.
Basically the Posterity Package is for someone who's willing to pay a little extra to support the independent/homebrew/retro scene, and for
enthusiasts like myself that would just cherish the
cred opportunity
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Genesis game! I will be ordering the Posterity Package myself and mentioning
for my few words. I figure for the extra $15, how rad is that to exist FOREVER by having my name in the credits of an actual game?
If you're like say, under 25 or so, didn't grow up on cartridge systems like
Genesis like I did or not into the retro/homebrew scene, then the price might seem high for a game in an obsolete format. Especially if you're used to the current retail practice of overproducing tons of copies of a certain title, and then dropping the price drastically to less than half within a year to "Greatest Hits" status or to closeout prices to make shelf room for the next new titles.
Keep in mind that both games have been fully programmed and produced with full original artwork, packaging, factory made cartridges and cases from all new materials and professionally printed manuals. Pier Solar will include the Genesis/MegaDrive cartridge as well as a disc version playable on your
/Mega CD, and it'll have the soundtrack plus includes a bonus media disc with viewable files as well as a poster in the package (old cartridge games used to always come with posters - seems like they don't really do that so much anymore with the new games). If you're just used to the new stuff, you might think a cartridge should cost LESS than a current gen game because its old tech. Actually, its more expensive to produce a cartridge game than a disc game and cartridge game back when they were released were expensive to buy new. You hardly ever ever
ever saw a new cartridge game go on retail clearance for $9.99, and if you did it was probably just one title mixed among the crowd of boxes and it was a shock.
Nowadays, of course you see titles dropped to $9.99 all the time so people expect it.
So for what its worth, the prices are very reasonable considering all the work they've put in. If you're into classic games, you really gotta do it to support the homebrew/independent/retro game publishers and scene, so it will encourage them and other indies to try and take the time to put out more retro product. As a total skinflint gamer, I
almost never buy at full retail price and even more never buy preorders. I'm patient enough to wait for clearances or just trade with someone down the line once people have gotten around to completing their copies. My buying a new game at full price that was produced in the hundreds of thousands won't make much difference to some multi-million dollar corporate game company. But for anyone interested, you really ought to order from them to support them and the scene. Yeah, after a little while its most likely that someone will dump a copy of the game as a rom that'll be available on emulation websites that people can DL to play for "free". But really that's missing the point.
I'm pretty passionate about supporting the indy developers/gamers (they're classic enthusiasts too like me, "real" game players) - if you can tell. As cheeeep (with extra E's) as I am known to be - the fact I'm going to preorder these games at full price really says it all.
Small side note - I'm considering distributing Legend of Wukong (and maybe the other game too) on
if they are going to offer any distro opportunities, depending if the prices make sense to
of course.
What are these icons for? 
