Please share your thoughts on the value of these items. I cannot be sure due to their condition. Super Comboy Some parts more yellowed than others. Broken plastic piece in the power plug. Powers on and plays games. Super Gam*Boy Joystick Third-party. Tape on box. Samsung Super Gam*Boy Model 1 with poor-condition box, Samsung 3-button pad, Samsung RF, and 110/220v AC adapter. Thank you
Hyundai? What's a car making doing putting out consoles? lol Though, I gotta say that Samsung Genesis is sexy as hell. Do you know if ComBoy and GamBoy were the legitimate names for these? I get that weird Hong Kong / China knock-off feel from those names, but the systems look legit. I'll dig around and see if I can find you some pricing.
I have seen some stuff on these on http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/. From what I understand Hawanja is a fellow Assembler. Perhaps you could e-mail him and he'll give you info.
I'm hearing anywhere from $50 to $150+ on the Genesis. That's a pretty big gap. Sorry couldn't be of better help.
just out of interest ....on the mega drive does the cartridge actually lock in?, or does it just say that on the power switch for the sake of it, weird to see a actual physical revision if it does, its usually just different writing or stickers on these kinds of things another funny thing i noticed is the snes has standard screws instead of the usual game type
Thanks for your replies, everyone joosngoos - Thanks for trying to help find a price! These are official Korean releases, not knock-offs. Hyundai distributed Nintendo products (NES, SNES, GB, N64) in Korea, and Samsung distributed the Sega products (SMS, GG, MD, 32X, Saturn). Various other consoles also were released in Korea by other companies. The Nintendo/Hyundai consoles were all known by Comboy names (Comboy, Super Comboy, Mini Comboy, and Comboy 64). The Sega/Samsung SMS and MD had a name change during their lifetimes, so there are both GamBoy/Super GamBoy and also AladdinBoy/Super AladdinBoy consoles. Gamesquest1 - Yes, the cart does lock in. I believe this was also the case on the Sega Mega Drive Model 1, so it is not a unique feature to the Korean version. It doesn't interfere with the differently shaped cartridges from North America which are also playable (I never tried any PAL games however).
The power switch will not move into place with a PAL or North American (or South America etc) game inserted, if the cartridge lock is installed. It's a physical blocker arm. A few exceptions are EA games, Sonic & Knuckles, and 32X.
Ah, sorry for my mistake. You are right. I just checked, and the only North American style carts I have played on it are an EA game and a pirate cart with a notch cut into the shell to accommodate the switch. Thanks for your correction, Lum!
Greetings. I may be able to help. I was selling tons of Korean games on eBay up until a month or so ago. 1. Super Comboy - this is the easiest Korean branded console to find. Somehow though, they are rarely sold outside of Korea. There is an auction on eBay now that I would watch to get a feeling on the price. I imagine it will sell anywhere from $60 to $100. 2. 3rd party arcade stick - I remember having a new 3rd party Super Comboy arcade stick that I had trouble selling. I think I sold it for $30 eventually. The problem is that it's not official and it's expensive to ship. You would be better off selling that to a Korean collector in my opinion. 3. Samsung Gam*Boy - This is your jewel right now. Even with the box's condition, you should be able to easily sell this. If it were me, I wouldn't sell it for less than $200. In a perfect world I'd sell it for $300 or more. The key thing is if the hardware is new or not. Let me know if you have any more questions. I'm quite impressed that you were able to find these items. And in Seoul no less (I assume you found them in Seoul). *edited for grammar
