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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

eBay Randomness Digs Up 1st Game Mag, Silliest Guitar

genguit.jpg Everyone loves eBay, and on our latest trawl through the biggest marketplace of randomness in the world, we found a couple of neat game-related items. First up is a copy of Radio-Electronics magazine from 1970 which must be one of the first magazines ever to include the words 'game' and 'computer' on the cover at the same time (in this case: 'Try to beat R-E's "Penniac" $150 game computer'.)

There's not much info about the Penniac online, but we note that Radio-Electronics magazine itself was founded by Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback back in 1929 - not the only game-related magazine publisher to come out of the pulp magazine era.

Secondly, and sparklingly, we found a guitar made from a Sega Genesis. I think we need to repeat this. It's a guitar. Made from. A Sega Genesis. Unfortunately, the seller reveals: "No, the game system is not functional, but it is a real Sega Genesis." Right now there's a grand total of zero bids at the $99.99 starting price - though perhaps the insano collectors are waiting til the last minute to pounce. Or maybe they're not, because it's a guitar made from a Sega Genesis. Either way.

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You're probably not familiar with it, but there's a metal band (one-man band, actually) here in Brazil called "The Megadriver," which plays hardcore versions of Genesis games' tunes, ON a self-constructed guitar made out of a Sega Genesis :)

I've seen the guy play and it indeed sounds great. I thought he was the only guy in the world to have one of these, but well, eBay proved me wrong.

Sorry, forgot to link...

http://www.megadriver.com.br/ (site has an english version)

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