Official MSX T-Shirts on sale

by snout on 23-03-2005, 17:08
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The MSX Resource Center is proud to announce that, as of now, MSX fans all around the world can pre-order an exclusive and official piece of MSX Merchandize: a nice blue MSX T-Shirt with the characteristic MSX2 bootscreen printed on the front. For only € 9,99 (ex. shipping) you can become the owner of this collectors-item and wear it with pride to show the world you love the MSX computer system. There is a catch, however. We need to sell at least 100 T-Shirts to make this possible. We have therefore set up a page where you can pre-order the T-Shirts in various sizes.

But, there is more! You can als win an MSX T-Shirt for free! How? By playing Shirts Y'all!, a game created by Alex Ganzeveld. The person who gets the highest score the first with this flashgame will get an MSX T-Shirt for free. You can watch the current top 25 right here. So, what are you waiting for? Support the MSX Resource Center Foundation and show the world you're an MSXer at the same time and pre-order right now!

Relevant link: Official MSX T-Shirt - Place your pre-order here

Comments (40)

By Haohmaru

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23-03-2005, 17:17

Erm... what's the point in playing that flashgame when it only says 'CHEAT' after submitting the highscore?

By wolf_

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23-03-2005, 17:18

dun dun *clap*  ..
dun dun *clap*  ..
dun dun *clap*  ..
dun dun *clap*  ..
we          want
we          want
pho-tos!

Big smile

By snout

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23-03-2005, 17:31

BodyHammer: Fixed it, sorry bro! Smile

By BiFi

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23-03-2005, 17:36

Bussum, here they come Smile

By snout

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23-03-2005, 17:40

You can see those T-Shirts right here (and in various other places in our photoshoots section). We'll only deliver the blue ones with the black'n'white MSX logo for the time being though ;)

By msxgamesbox

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23-03-2005, 17:42

'The first person to get the highest score wins.'

Is this correct - if so, what's the high-score to reach then?

By snout

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23-03-2005, 17:45

msxgamesbox : we will (soon) announce a deadline to this challenge. The highest score on that date wins. If 2 or more person get the same highscore, the one to get that score the first wins. Hope that's cleared up things a bit Wink

By ro

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23-03-2005, 17:59

so euhrm, getting stiffed up already from all that hi-score email yo punks are receiving?

great game, tetris does NOTHING you here me, NOTHING haha.
well, gotta play me another round.. anybody into sharing hi-scores?

@ my first play I got 1800 points.. not bad for some one who's as braindamaged as the next pigeon!

By BiFi

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23-03-2005, 19:52

so many people with a 'let the blob catch a t-shirt tetris' addiction Wink

By snout

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23-03-2005, 21:58

So, who's going to prevent Wolf from winning yet another MRC Challenge? ^_^

(by the way: the story and music of the flashgame are just marvellous, don't you think?)

By snout

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23-03-2005, 22:21

By the way: feel free to link to (or spread) the flashgame as much as you like. Shirts y 'all in the media and such ^_^

By wolf_

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23-03-2005, 22:48

Actually it's a very mean game! Wink

Those shirts always fall down at the same interval, alex could've calced exactly when a shirt is at a point where you can't have time anymore to follow a sudden move from that wuppie. So eventually you *have* to loose, not because you loose, but because the algo is programmed to make you loose anyway.. ^_^
While that might sound like a contradiction (every game should make it difficult for you, which is the purpose of gaming), it's different in column, tetris etc. where blocks just fall without trying to make it hard for ya. If you loose in those game it's because you made a mess of it yourself Smile

By Sonic_aka_T

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24-03-2005, 00:16

Good to see you got your BlitzBasic 'playgame' app working wolf_ Tongue

By SLotman

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24-03-2005, 05:16

The "submit hiscore" doesnt work on mozilla firefox... I just made 3025 points, and clicked on "submit your high score", I was thrown back to the msx boot screen...

By BiFi

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24-03-2005, 08:57

It did work for me... but I'm way out of the top 25 already it seems... btw, somebody either cheated his/her way op to place 1 or the database has been hacked.

By BiFi

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24-03-2005, 08:58

or somebody has really nothing else to do Tongue

By wolf_

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24-03-2005, 10:20

3475 or more is already quite painful with the current wuppie-algo .. Smile

By snout

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24-03-2005, 10:26

Yay, we have the first disqualification on our hands ^_^ Smile

By AuroraMSX

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24-03-2005, 10:35

I suck at playing games... 925 or so was the best I could do. I'll just order the shirt and wait it out Wink

By ro

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24-03-2005, 12:57

yeah, that music track... AC/DC anyone?

By snout

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24-03-2005, 13:00

Yup, it's the MAMBO KURT (hero!) version of Highway to hell ;)

By hap

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24-03-2005, 14:22

How's payment done ? eg. creditcard/paypal (both of which are luxuries i don't have ;p ). Will it be possible to do a money transfer via the bank ? Or even cash at an MSX fair.

By snout

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24-03-2005, 14:27

I'll move this text to another section of the page, but to answer your questions straight away: As soon as the 100-shirts condition has been met, MRC will contact you to gather your address and calculate the total shipping costs. These shipping costs will be added to the total order cotst. Your T-Shirt will only be shipped after the payment of your order has been received by bank, paypal or in cash (e.g. at MSX fairs).Versatile, ain't it? Smile

By hap

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24-03-2005, 14:39

Woops, my brain must've somehow skipped that part while reading Tongue
Thanks.

By wolf_

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24-03-2005, 14:49

ps. "Manbow Kurt", no doubt .. ^__^

By snout

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24-03-2005, 14:58

/me gives wolf_ the funniest remark of the week award.

(since you are already on a prize-winning-frenzy..)

By Whizzy

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24-03-2005, 17:06

Someone is gaining on you...

By djh1697

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24-03-2005, 20:25

Will you let us know when you have got 100 orders ?

By Bart

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24-03-2005, 20:32

Ofcourse! All people who pre-order will be contacted and we'll prolly mentioned it on the news too.

By poke-1,170

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25-03-2005, 13:19

well foreign msx friends,this all goes to show how badly dutch people are...
YES they are cheap Smile They will even play videogames to get free clothes Wink

By karloch

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25-03-2005, 14:23

Damn it! I don't what size will suit me well: L or XL. I have T-Shirts of both sizes and depending on the trademark, L can suitme well while XL being too large or viceversa >_<

By snout

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25-03-2005, 14:33

Buy XL. If it's too long, you can always wash it on-the-hot-side Smile (Although I have no comparison yet, the shirts are printed in the Netherlands, which probably means they are going to be on the long side)

By karloch

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25-03-2005, 15:33

Nice idea Smile

By snout

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26-03-2005, 12:49

For those still in doubt, you can see a preview T-Shirt right here (scroll down)

By wolf_

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26-03-2005, 13:47

no "128kb ram free" beneath it orso? I vageuly remember your shirt to have something like that..

By wolf_

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26-03-2005, 13:51

www.msx.org/modules/Photoshoots/Gallery_folder/Bussum%202004/IMG_1947.jpg

see? told ya :)

By Bart

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26-03-2005, 16:45

Those shirts are MSX Magazine shirts, they're not the same Smile The design of the official (by ASCII) ones only have the MSX logo on it.. Nothing more.

By Sander

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27-03-2005, 13:35

Update: I'm sorry, but we can not accept Kyrgystani Som's at this moment.

By Manuel

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27-03-2005, 16:38

Hmm, actually, I like the MSX Magazine shirts a bit better... Can't we persuade you guys to put the 128k VRAM on it!? Smile
The will of the people! ;-)
(Everyone now vote for this!)

By Bart

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27-03-2005, 17:33

POLL! Smile