EBAY FIND OF THE DAY: SONIC MOUNTAIN QUEST
Reader “JMB” correctly worked out that all you have to do to “get on” UKR is put “SEGA” into eBay then click through the pages long enough until something from before 1998 comes up. Here’s what came up for JMB.
It’s a Sonic Mountain Quest Cheap Plastic Christmas Present!
Buy it, put it in the loft. Then your grandchildren can callously bin it when they’re clearing out the house to sell a mere 12 hours after you’ve died.
Or just don’t buy it. Spend the money on something useful, like a nice bit of beef for Sunday.
By “nice bit of beef” we mean some meat for dinner, not a cheap prostitute.
“It has not been used as it has only been stored by a collector, not a child!” says the eBay listing. We already knew that.
Only a collector would know the value and importance of supplying a photograph of the almost entirely featureless rear of the machine.
That looks like 1982. Surely Sonic The Hedgehog wasn’t invented by Tomy in 1982 and then subsequently licensed by SEGA in 1989?
It’s OK. Any good collector knows that we’ll be needing a close-up of the game description text.
There you go.
It was on eBay along with some pinball thing. The listing has finished, which is probably for the best. We all have way too much of this kind of shit already.
filed in Uncategorized on May.07, 2008
May 7th, 2008 on 1:16 pm
I knew I’d seen that Sonic game somewhere before. Tomy made some excellent toys back then, Omnibot in particular.
May 7th, 2008 on 1:28 pm
not linked to this but apparently Sony are taking over the world, well not the world but Europe with vast sales of PSĀ£’3
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7386879.stm
we just arn’t doing enough to stop the evil Sony propagander machine
May 7th, 2008 on 1:38 pm
I owned that pinball machine at the bottom in my childhood. I don’t know where it is now. My mum probably threw it out.
May 7th, 2008 on 2:05 pm
I had that pinball machine, too! It was actually pretty fun and a lot better than some of the other toy pinballs I remember. The ball was very tiny and the whole machine was extremely noisy. But still, I loved it.
May 7th, 2008 on 2:20 pm
The 1982 copyright probably refers to the Kong-Man version of the same toy as linked to by photoboy.
It’s like a vertical version of Screwball Scramble, only with a giant robot gorilla, so instantly way better.
Then I discovered wanking.
May 7th, 2008 on 5:26 pm
I had Kongman, which seems to be identical to the sonic one, but with different stickers
May 7th, 2008 on 10:59 pm
kongman…amazing.
May 8th, 2008 on 1:34 am
I remember Kong man very well, the hardest bit was the kinda sideways see-saw bit (yellow on the Sonic version) about half way as often it would be too aggressive and just drop back down… :(
I really liked that toy though – kinda thought of it as like those walk in ‘adventure rides’ at funfairs (the ones with spinning tunnels, halls of mirrors and rubber floors etc.)…
May 8th, 2008 on 1:55 am
i had both of those! haha
May 8th, 2008 on 2:29 am
I genuinely have this in reasonable condition if you want it. I was contemplating sending some pictures in myself, but I thought it was so popular that someone would already have done it – I guess not.
I do have one of those Sonic “choose your own adventure” books where you have to roll dice and flick from page to page if you are desperate for updates though
May 8th, 2008 on 11:41 pm
It looks like a cereal box gone awesome!