A short follow-up on Qb, my game.
Qb was released to the public, in cartridge form, at the 2001 PhillyClassic
show on April 20-21 2001. 50 individually numbered Qb cartridges were
produced for the PhillyClassic show. Cartridges were made by Randy of Hozer
Video - he did a fine job. I did the manuals and labels myself, and posted
them to Jeff Folejewski - one of the show organisers. Jeff had offered to
handle the sales and display for me - and once again, he did a fine job.
The only hiccup was that the labels hadn't arrived two days before the
show - but fortunately they arrived at just about the very last possible
minute :) So, after a few frantic hours pasting on labels (among the many
tasks he had to do), Jeff had the carts ready in time.
The cart + manual were sold for US$26.00 each, and exactly 50 (the full
production run) were sold. The last one sold 5 minutes before the end of
ths show. The show prototype (cartridge #1) was auctioned off. It had a
special label, so looked kind of neat. Anyway, Jeff was super-keen to have
this item for his collection, and won the bidding at US$125.
So, PhillyClassic Qb has made its debut, and will never again be available
as a cartridge. I've done OK with the profits (though cart production was
somewhat expensive). Now I can lay claim to having taken a product
completely from concept through to marketing. And what fun it was :) Once
again, many thanks to the people on the list who helped. And yes, some of
you actually made the credits!
Anyone on the list grab themselves a copy - and if so, what #?
Cheers
A
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