Hello!

Welcome Aboard Superstarlet oh four. :)

Since you've arived there appears to have been a flurry of
information. As Gary mentioned, your collection is truly astounding.
Espescially seeing multiple copies of some of these titles in your
photo, I can actually hear people taking out their wallets ;)

Short of owning them all, I could imagine the next best thing would be
having these objects digitally realized. I know that Gary has modeled
most of the working components of flipsiders in 3d. I think getting
some high-res scans of these other games would also help in that end.
I could imagine for instance importing such images into Flash
presentations and making working versions of the games on the computer
that way.

The scans you have uploaded into the pictures section of the group are
tres cool by the way! Are your originals higher resolution than how
they display in the pictures section? Yahoo always downsamples
whatever you put there. You can also upload them into the files
section if you choose however, where they will luckily not be
downsampled. :)

So what think everyone else? High res board scans + (instructions x
flash programming) = cool flash versions of the games? I could fill
in much of the "flash programming" part of the equation.. another part
that would be helpful might be music and or sound though. Flash things
just get inexplicably cooler when you add music and/or sound, and
that's something I'm bad at. ;)

And, I guess something I might try then would be to do that with Rock
Tour or something since I have all the parts of the equation for that
game. I'll let ye know. :)

- - Jesse

On 28/02/06, superstar <superstarlet_04@...> wrote:
> i'm highly doubting that the '93 games were flipsiders. they must have been
> another
> similar game. there's too much info missing about them.
>
>
> --- In mbflipsiders@yahoogroups.com, "gary_fixler" <yahooSIGNUP@...> wrote:
> >
> > I agree. What are they hiding? Was there some great Flipsiders War,
> > and the wounds are still too deep for anyone to want to revisit that
> > dark chapter? I think they're just trying to generate hype, and darn
> > it, it's working.
> >
> > -g
> >
> > --- In mbflipsiders@yahoogroups.com, "superstar" <superstarlet_04@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > i will not believe these actually exist until i see them. since
> > anjar,
> > > hasbro, MB or the inventor won't comment, the illusiveness
> > > makes them way more appealing... and frustrating.
> > >
> > > --- In mbflipsiders@yahoogroups.com, Gary Fixler
> > > <yahooSIGNUP@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... When I got this email, I went to Jesse's mbflipsiders
> > > Yahoo!
> > > > group to reply, but though the screen says "49-78 of 79," the
> > > 79th
> > > > message isn't there. Did you delete it?
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, yes, that was my thread on BGG, wherein I was trying
> > > to get
> > > > any more info I could. I've been meaning to get that info over
> > > here,
> > > > but now that I see the dates over there, I can see work really
> > > has
> > > > gotten in the way, and time has flown past!
> > > >
> > > > That's my thread on BGG you found, which I started up when I
> > > noticed
> > > > the product ID numbers on my Flipsiders. I figured they could
> > > be used
> > > > to help track down the total number of Flipsiders out there, but
> > > as I
> > > > didn't have too many at the time, I still needed much help.
> > > Alfonzo
> > > > Smith was able to fill in some additional product IDs for me,
> > > > including that of the mythical Prom Date! He did duplicate the
> > > number
> > > > for Gold Fever and Road Rally as you can see, but I didn't want
> > > to get
> > > > pushy, since he had been one of my best sources of info
> > > already.
> > > > Unfortunately, with the common nouns used for the naming of
> > > the new
> > > > Flipsiders he listed, there was little I could search for online.
> > > The
> > > > only really oddly (and thus easily searchably) named one was
> > > > Caterpillar Causeway, but all that finds on Google is a few
> > > random
> > > > things, and now my thread on BGG. I searched out the rest, to
> > > no
> > > > avail. They are non-entities online, sadly.
> > > >
> > > > Since I've procrastinated long enough getting that info over
> > > here,
> > > > let's complete things. Thanks for the gentle nudge :) I will post
> > > the
> > > > info finally right now in a new thread with an easily findable
> > > topic
> > > > title.
> > > >
> > > > -g
> > > >
> > > > > i found this quote from someone on boardgamegeek about
> > > the 1993 flipsiders:
> > > >
> > > > > "I had a friend who was fond of the Flipsiders series so when
> > > they were discounted after
> > > > > being discountinued I wound up collecting them. When I
> > > catalogued my collection I was
> > > > > surprised to notice that the series was released by two
> > > different publishers. The ones with
> > > > > the 1988 copyright were released by Milton Bradley. The
> > > ones with a 1993 copyright were
> > > > > released by Diversified Specialists, Inc. (who?)
> > > >
> > > > > The newer games are:
> > > > > Caterpillar Causeway (#144172)
> > > > > River Run (#144185)
> > > > > Prized Pony (#144186)
> > > > > Alien Assault (#144200)
> > > > > Gold Fever (#144178)
> > > > > Road Rally (#144178)
> > > >
> > > > > There is a sticker on the back of these games that says
> > > "Distributed by West Coast
> > > > > Liquidators, Inc. Domiguez, CA 90220." This leads me to
> > > believe that the games were just
> > > > > dumped on the market and sold below cost."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > i've never heard or seen of any of these titles, ever. like
> > > aliens, do they really exist?
> >
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