A bunch of mom-and-pop online game shops have acquired mysterious shipments of one of many PS4’s rarest video games, Poop Slinger. If you happen to’re unfamiliar with the story of Poop Slinger, it is a fairly fascinating one. The PS4 sport was launched in 2018 on PSN with a bodily launch in 2019. The bodily launch was dealt with by Restricted Uncommon Video games, to not be confused with the extra established and well-known video games distributor Restricted Run Video games. Nonetheless, as you may think, there wasn’t a ton of demand for a sport referred to as Poop Slinger, particularly when it was obtainable digitally.
In consequence, few copies have been made, and even fewer have been bought. Though it was estimated there have been fewer than 100 copies in circulation, Sony requires a minimal of 1,000 copies to be manufactured for bodily PlayStation video games. Nonetheless, nobody knew the place the remaining 900 or so have been. As a result of its rarity, it turned a sizzling merchandise on-line, and copies have been listed for upwards of $1,000 on websites like eBay.
Final week, issues received extra fascinating. These “lacking” copies began exhibiting up at impartial gaming shops throughout the nation. YouTuber and sport retailer proprietor cakehoarder claimed that 39 shops had acquired six sealed copies every, for a complete of 234 copies launched into the wild.
Nonetheless, nobody really is aware of the place these video games got here from. The return deal with was for an additional sport retailer, which was reportedly simply as confused as those that acquired the bundle. It has been theorized that somebody stumbled upon extra inventory of Poop Slinger in a warehouse or a storage unit and opted to offer it away. Others have steered the developer or somebody concerned with the sport might have determined to dump additional copies that they had stashed someplace.
In 2019, VG247 reported that Restricted Uncommon Video games must shut its doorways because of the failure of Poop Slinger, and collectors would take the unsold copies to repay the mortgage. Nonetheless, it is unclear what the collectors did with these copies. Maybe they have been bought at an public sale, or they’ve simply been sitting on them.
Nonetheless, to make issues much more baffling, Restricted Uncommon Video games is again. The socials for the corporate and its web site are operational, and it even addressed the matter with a weird video. The corporate posted a video of a content material creator referred to as Laborious Rock Nick speaking in regards to the value of an undisclosed merchandise. He talks in regards to the stress of the fluctuating value, nevertheless it’s unclear if he is referring to Poop Slinger or one thing else, like crypto. Laborious Rock Nick died in 2024, so this is not a video that Restricted Uncommon Video games commissioned in response to the sport’s reappearance.
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The entire state of affairs solely provokes extra questions than solutions. Who despatched out these copies? What’s the finish objective? It’s going to be fascinating to see if this story develops additional or if the chronicles of Poop Slinger stay an unsolved thriller. If you happen to’re all for enjoying Poop Slinger your self, it is obtainable on PSN for $4.99.
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