DERBY STALLION 96 (Super Famicom)
Now, I used to own quite a sexy Super Nintendo collection around 5 years ago, it had all the big hits in there, but I sadly sold it for extreme profit to fund my crack habit, and by crack habit I mean an iPod…and by iPod I mean crack.
So back to 2011 and I suddenly find myself with a little spare cash and nothing to buy, so I want to start collecting retro games again, mainly for the amazing cover art. So I’m trolling eBay, like literally, I look awful when I’m on eBay, a gruesome sight, and I pick up this little beauty for £5 and its still SEALED! Someone spent 15 years looking at this and never truely knowing what was actually inside, maybe its spiders…or sausage rolls, who knows!
The only reason I bought this game is because it was so cheap and was sealed, I had pipe dreams of buying a small yacht with the epic profit I could make from it when I sell it in 2056. It’s for the Super Famicom game system (the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo) and is a Horse Racing Simulator…now I love horse racing as much as the next 21 year old, but if I wanna ride a horse I’ll go and steal one from the horse shop. It turns out this was made to be used with the Satellaview System that was only released in japan, it actually didn’t do half bad at over 100,000 subscriptions but it wasn’t cheap, selling at around $150. Now it wasn’t like satellite TV, you couldn’t get Babestation on it, it was a file transfer system that would let you download additional content for a very small selection of games.
You could only download software at certain times of the day, imagine if it was 3am; having to get up to download that oh so precious horse that had 6 legs and a rocket up it’s ass. The data was saved onto small 8mb cartridges that fit into the top of each game (in that slot at the top of the cartridge in the picture). The cartridges look a lot like the Super Gameboy, and I didn’t even look for a picture of the cartridge before I bought this thing, what a discovery!
Now I don’t plan on buying any more games that let me tame a stallion…in a dark stable….while the farmers away, but this game is certainly more interesting than I thought it would be!
