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Roll & Rocker. How could somebody have the Roll & Rocker — the only controller worthy of the LJN label — and keep it wrapped in its original plastic bag? What kind of cold-hearted person is able to resist the temptation of playing NES games by wobbling on a plastic board with a ball in the middle?
If you now need one of these, but don’t require your Roll & Rocker to be absolutely new (at a cost of $299) you can buy this cheap(er) complete, but not sealed, version for $100.
[Via GameSniped]
tags / ebay / nes / ljn / roll and rocker
As part of his Famicom 25 series celebrating the 25th anniversary of Nintendo’s 8-bit system, 1UP’s Jeremy Parish covered some of the console manufacturer’s despicable practices to keep third-party publishers in line, such as limiting them to only five new releases a year.
“A few enterprising companies found a way around this — publish more than five games under different names. A bit of bookkeeping trickery to dupe the bean-counters at Nintendo.”
“The two most famous of these ‘alternate labels’ were LJN — a brand Acclaim bought so they could publish the crap that was too abysmal even for the dire Acclaim brand (generally crappy licensed games that preyed on unsuspecting children) — and Ultra — Konami’s subsidiary for overflow titles, good and bad.”
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