2009 KLOV Shirt Wars!!!

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Is it just me or does it seem that in the past few weeks we have seen the beginning of the 2009 KLOV Arcade Shirt Wars. Threads started by some selling shirts, hijacked by other jealous shirt sellers.

I have bought a few shirts here. They have been nice. I will prob buy somemore. I like to see new people selling. I believe in free market, and no one person has the right to be the only one who sell shirts.

I think the quality will speak for itself. I purchased a Robotron shirt from one seller a few months ago and quality was good. I just ordered another from a different seller last week and I will report on its quality.

If there a 10 people selling shirts here and the are all quality. Thats fine with me. I will prob buy from the person thats not hijacking others who are trying to do the same. JMO:eek:
 
I second everything you said. The quality and the designs will speak for them self not who had what first or who's cheapest.
 
I don't care who is selling them or how many -- the more the merrier. I just want a silkscreened Spy Hunter shirt and a Joust shirt (preferably AtariScott's version) in a kids size and I'm happy.

But no such luck so far.

Hopefully someone will print these before too long and the more people printing shirts the more likely someone will be to print what I want. :)
 
It did pick up all of the sudden around here. It almost seemed like it stirred up when I posted I was getting shirts done.

I've been sitting on ideas and designs for a long time and now just happens to be the right time for me to get them printed up.

I'm really not to concerned with what's been done already to be honest. I just want designs that I think are cool and if others want in then that's great. I've spent over 12 years in the graphic design field. I'm always thinking about finding cool stuff to put on shirts. I now have a place that can do the kind of print work I've wanted.

So far I have no plans to make any kind of profit. I just got a glimpse of the bill for the Robotron batch and when all is said and done ans it looks like I will be putting in $3.32 beyond what was collected from everyone. That's ok by me. I'm getting 2 shirts of a design I wanted for a while.

Seeing that I'm still unemployed my wife would have liked to have seen me making money off these! She gave me the look and just said "what's the point?" I said "because it's cool!"

And I've been thinking alot about kids shirts. I actually had a Pengo one drawn up as a possible kids friendly design. I have 2 kids (2 1/2 and 6) so this has been on my mind for a bit as well. I'll be trying to gauge interest on this sometime in the near future if all goes good with the stuff I have planned already.

SO... while were on the subject... I will now use this opportunity to hijack this thread (since I don't think another t-shirt topic needs to start up on this board today!)

Here's the next 2 I'm hoping to do once the Robotron shirts come in. (Of course it all depends on if anyone else is interested since I don't want to pay $100 for a run of 2 shirts for just myself.) I will post about it when it is time to make a decision and get things rolling.

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At the very least then, do your own artwork and be creative with it. Don't use someone elses lifted from localarcade or whatever move a few things around and call that your design. put some effort into it. Sad to hear your opinion of duplication of efforts but you seem to be somewhat proud of yourself. There are those of us that have already been down this road when too many people all try to do the same thing, it always leads to the same place, people fighting and loads of negative situations. It's not worth it.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying don't do shirts, i'm saying be original, do your own artwork and be more creative.
 
Man, you guys are tough! haha.

I didn't spend 12 years ripping off other peoples designs.
What I meant with the whole graphics arts thing is that I'm always thinking in the mindset of designs in general. Even if they are designs that already exist. With the arcade stuff I personally like to see nice clean versions of artwork for games that I'm into that have nice art. To say I'm all proud of myself is funny to me. I just think the concept of having this stuff on shirts is cool!

I guess I said to much in the last post in regards to the designs. What I did is really no big deal since the artwork does exist. What I mostly did was the behind the scenes color separations and trying to make them "t-shirt printing friendly".
 
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Wow... really? 12 years? Time well spent I see...

tophatne1, I think he means that you should check your black levels. You see your shirt as all black, but we see your shirt as grey with messy black editing all over the front. Turn the brightness of your monitor up a little and you will understand.
 
OH. haha! Well that's embarassing. haha!
Those shirts were like thrown together with no thought at all and just to show the design on the shirt. I guess that doesn't make them look to appealing does it!
 
Yeah... the black level is what I was talking about. You fixed it and now my quote makes no sense.

:)
 
At the very least then, do your own artwork and be creative with it. Don't use someone elses lifted from localarcade or whatever move a few things around and call that your design. put some effort into it. Sad to hear your opinion of duplication of efforts but you seem to be somewhat proud of yourself. There are those of us that have already been down this road when too many people all try to do the same thing, it always leads to the same place, people fighting and loads of negative situations. It's not worth it.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying don't do shirts, i'm saying be original, do your own artwork and be more creative.

I dont think the localarcade website is up. But I do agree with this. If your making shirts not to use a file that was created by another shirt maker, for the purpose of making and selling shirts.

There were some Robotron shirts for sale last week. Yes there have been other Robotron shirts that have been sold here, I bought one of the older ones, and its nice, but the new one is different, and it is not using anothers shirt file. I liked it to so I ordered one of those too.

There is nothing wrong with having more than one source for a product. Thats what this country is all about. I will give fair review of the shirts I buy.
 
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Ok Ok... I will be sure to make a nice looking shirt pic in the future. I know you guys get the general idea. I promise the actual shirt will look a little bit better than the shitty mock up!:)
 
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I dont think the localarcade website is up. But I do agree with this. If your making shirts not to use a file that was created by another shirt maker, for the purpose of making and selling shirts.

There were some Robotron shirts for sale last week. Yes there have been other Robotron shirts that have been sold here, I bought one of the older ones, and its nice, but the new one is different, and it is not using anothers shirt file. I liked it to so I ordered one of those too.

There is nothing wrong with having more than one source for a product. Thats what this country is all about. I will give fair review of the shirts I buy.
What difference does it make all these shirts are a copyright violation anyway. Right?
 
I wonder who, if anyone, actually holds the copyrights anymore?

The companies that produced these games are long gone...

It's not like they are making up Harry Potter shirts and clashing with an active enterprise. And there is no money actually being made on the sales which are very low quantity and low distribution.

I don't really see the harm in it, myself.

Particularly with the shirts that have an obvious game related theme but aren't using the original graphics -- those would have been okay even BITD when the companies that produced the game were still around.
 
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