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Talking Point: Are Retro Repro Firms Exploiting Demand With Shoddy Products?

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Gleylancer is the latest to disappoint.

Given that many of retro gaming's most collectable items now sell for hundreds (and occasionally thousands) of dollars, it's unsurprisingly that enterprising companies are turning their hand to officially-licenced reprints to satisfy demand and make a quick buck in the process.

The latest example of this is
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, a super-rare Mega Drive shooter from 1992 that regularly fetches three-figure sums in its original form. Japanese firm Columbus Circle – which also creates its own
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– inked a deal earlier this year with original rights holder Masaya to
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, pre-orders for which promptly sold out within days.

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