Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Jim Leonard wrote: I plan on sniping: [snip] Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid And you said you weren't to bid on RPGs? :) Anyway, I won't be bidding on anything from him for the two reasons I mentioned in the other mail.

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Alexander, if you win the shrinked copy of Silver Seed and decide to get rid of one unshrinked one, please let me know. (Also, OT, Tom, mail mails aren't getting through to you again) Pedro R. Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] So long, and thanks for all the fish

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Pedro Quaresma boldly stated: Jim Leonard wrote: I plan on sniping: [snip] Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid Why did you guys have to go do this? I have *no* money to spend, but now I'm interested in his UFO, Global Conquest,

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Leonard
Pedro Quaresma wrote: Jim Leonard wrote: I plan on sniping: [snip] Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid And you said you weren't to bid on RPGs? :) I'm not bidding on these too seriously. The Times of Lore I'm bidding

[SWCollect] New SKUs

2001-11-13 Thread Lee K. Seitz
I went to my local Wal-Mart today and dropped by the software aisle. My internal reaction went something like this: Gah!!! What are these?!? Are these PC games??? [Picks one up.] Yeah, I guess they are. They shrank! The boxes are about the size of DVD movies, but two or three

[SWCollect] Instant messaging skillz

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Leonard
For those who care, I've just added myself to ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo IM. You should be able to look me up via email address or via MobyGamer. Sorry for the global email, but it seems as if everyone has been trying to instant-message me lately.

Re: [SWCollect] New SKUs

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Leonard
Welcome to the wonderful world of new packaging standards. I hate it with a passion. I started a thread on this as soon as I heard about it last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/msg00258.html Lee K. Seitz wrote: I went to my local Wal-Mart today and dropped by the

Re: [SWCollect] New SKUs

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Leonard
Chris Newman wrote: Yes, but why should this be restricted to limited editions? I think it should be the norm, as it once was. I think this paucity of physical components falls under the same category as companies releasing barebones documentation to virtually require that the player buys

Re: [SWCollect] New SKUs

2001-11-13 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard boldly stated: Chris Newman wrote: I think this paucity of physical components falls under the same category as companies releasing barebones documentation to virtually require that the player buys the strategy guide (aka real manual). Am I being too harsh here? No, you're

RE: [SWCollect] New SKUs

2001-11-13 Thread Hugh Falk
That's one I figured out on my own. I didn't find HHGG as difficult as other Infocoms...but plenty of other games stumped me...the first stumper I remember was my first Adventure game...Scott Adams' Pirate Adventure on the TI-99/4a. I couldn't figure out how to get past the alligator without a