> Re-releasing could be the way forward. After eight years or so, Prince of > Persia > simply isn't worth £9.99 in today's market. Back in the Spectrum days, games > got > re-released about four years after its original release (and the period got > shorter towards the end of the Spectrum era, sometimes down to the order of a > few months). Why haven't the SAM software sellers followed suit? > > An uncharitable mind would put it down to greed, to squeeze every last penny > out > of the SAM market. Put PoP et al out for £2.99 or £3.99 and you'd sell a few > copies. Create three or four game compilations and put them out for a tenner > and > you'll make some more money. In a games market which is very probably > non-existent, any sales are better than none at all. > > Nick
I must admit I do like my games but hate spending money. I can pick up game for my Saturn and 3DO for just a few pounds (£3.99 for example) and therefore can't actually see Sam games being worth much at all now. Back when I first got my Sam it was competing quite reasonably with the scene at the time which was ST, Amiga, Specturm, CPC, C64 and perhaps Sega Master System but now it obviously doesn't compete. I know people will shoot me down in flames for this but I dont' think Sam games have any real commercial value now. I mean some of those Sega Master System games cost a good fraction of a million to develop but the Master system is a completely dead format now. Take the ST scene, this is almost completely dead too but ST commercial games are available easily over the internet. Perhaps we ought to compile a list of all the stuff we each have and then start making dsk files from them making sure we are not duplicating our efforts. I'm sure I can get a good fast ftp UK site with enough capacity for all of it. A friend works at ukonline and I won't have any problem getting space there. UkOnline is part of Easynet and they have some damn fast servers. Perhaps I can sort it so about six of us have full access to upload to the site and we can share maintenance and credit for it. Once we've sorted out the uploading we can start giving it a nice html front end.
