NCS Week of June 01, 1999

Imports
New PS Imports Shipped Gun Gauge and Jail Breaker are on the way and should arrive on Wednesday. Gun Gauge offers 3-D mech fighting action from the anti-mod happy camp of Konami. A number of restock titles are also expected on Wednesday including Z Gundam, Gundam the Battle Master 2, and Tenchu Shinobi Gaisen at US$49 per game.
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Neo Geo Console Update It never fails to disappoint. After telling our vendor that we would clear their entire stock of Neo Geo consoles, they have now reneged on the original price that they quoted us and have tripled their asking price. Apparently, they are avid readers of our website and are aware of the demand for these consoles. It appears that many of our vendors in Asia and Japan now read our updates to see what we're doing. Sigh, we will speak to them tonight and hopefully come up with a middle ground before we commit to the stock. If they are unwilling to lower their prices, we will likely cancel our order since they appear to be able to get their asking price from other companies in Asia they have contacted. Please await our update tomorrow.
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New DC Posters NCS has received a small number of Dreamcast posters for the upcoming DC games Giant Gram and Climax Landers. Gram features a crew of painted Japanese wrestlers and Climax Landers shows off the cast of characters in various action poses. Each poster order is $10 shipped with UPS Ground.
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Tokimeki Memorial Watches Konami announced a set of three Tokimemo watches featuring Saki Nijino, Shiori Fujisaki, and Miharu Tatebayashi. The center of each watch is adorned with an LCD screen that contains an image of the Tokimemo girl and her various expressions which change randomly. The watches will ship on July 07 at a price of Y9800 or roughly US$90. Pre-orders are welcome.

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DC Giant Gram VMS A solid red colored Giant Gram VMS has been released in Japan that contains a mini wrestling game. This special VMS will offer additional functionality to the Giant Gram game that is shipping later this month. NCS expects to take delivery of the Gram VMS next week at US$35 per unit. In related product news, NCS will also import additonal quantities of the transparent green colored Cho Hatsumei VMS next week.
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Dreamcast Magazine Vol. 17 The latest issue of DC Mag is now updated. Subscriptions were shipped last week but new orders are welcome today at US$11.50 per issue + shipping.
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DC Preview Discs We were comped with two special Dreamcast preview discs with today's shipments of imports. The first disc is a playable preview of Soul Calibur, which may be the same disc that was playing at the E3 show. As many of you who went to the show know, the DC version of SC is dazzling and graphically superior to the Namco arcade original. The second is a Climax Landers disc that contains an advertisement for the game and 3 VMS mini-games that range from a simple dungeon exploration game to a quirky life sim game. Each game takes up an entire VMS. Customers who place new orders for VMS units may request that one of the Climax Landers games be loaded onto their VMS at no extra charge, courtesy of NCS.