That
reminds me, in the beginning of Rex Nebular you're flying in your spaceship and
get the copy protection question. If you mess it up, a hairline crack appears in
your viewport, all the air rushes out, and your head
explodes!
Stuart
-Original Message-From: MASTER
You made me think about the code wheel for Pool of Radiance. For some
reason, on my computer, the code that came up was Savior about 3/4 of the
time. So I copied the game for a friend of mine but didn't give him the code
wheel, telling him that he should try Savior, and if that didn't work, just
Why is there no market for sports games collectables?
My opinion is because sports games just replace one another with each
successive release. It's not like they're different games (ie, a new sport).
Sure, once in a while I get nostalgic for Great Baseball on the SMS, or
Bases Loaded or Tecmo
What
about The Fool's Errand and the other Cliff Johnson games? Those were designed
for Mac, weren't they?
Stuart
-Original Message-From: Peter Olafson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:25
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect] No
market for
As
Inspector Clouseauwould say, "Not anymore..."
Stuart
-Original Message-From: MASTER
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Pedro
QuaresmaSent: Friday, June 04, 2004 3:40 AMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Another
one?!Yes these are
particularly rare.
Of
course, back then I didn't know what Montezuma's Revenge really was, hence why
Panama Joe (or whatever his name was) was running so fast :
)
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:30
AMTo: [EMAIL
Very cute! : )
I noticed this line (talking about Pong): I saw a documentary on this. The
game was so popular in arcades that it got jammed up with quarters. I
wonder if that was the documentary that Jim mpeged for us...
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
Well, I disagree that it would be worth ZERO. The fact that it's still an
original Akalabeth sticker in spite of everything else should still make it
worth something.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:34 AM
To:
Also, BTW, I would bet that he was kidding. Cut Jim a little slack here,
people...
Why Joe, I wouldn't have thought that YOU would be the one to not give
someone the benefit of the doubt. : ) NOTICE EMOTICON HERE : )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
Well
if it was for display purposes, and he was planning on keeping it in his
personal collection forever, then I could definitely understand
it.
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:28
AMTo: [EMAIL
Let me apply some Talmudic logic here:
The general rule is, whensoever A can be converted into B, but B cannot be
converted into A, A must be worth at least as much as, if not more than, B.
: )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21,
Is it because of the condition of the manual that there are no takers, or is
the game just not that rare anymore?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=412708;
rd=1
Stuart
--
This message was sent
Yeah,
yeah, but usually there are tons of early bidders also...
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:13
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect]
Personal Software Zork on ebayIn a message dated
Hmmm...
If I had to summarize:
Most people are unhappy that the prices are going ridiculously high.
There is a big argument about whether it should be MS or M(S).
Nobody sees the connection between these two threads?
Stuart
Like This threads
Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
Hmmm...
If I had to summarize:
Most people are unhappy that the prices are going ridiculously high.
There is a big argument about whether it should be MS or M(S).
Nobody sees the connection between these two threads?
I don't, actually...?
--
Jim
Yeah,
I noticed that too. If it's a French-manual version, with the game still in
English, it could still be worth something, but I doubt that's the
case.
Interesting tidbit about this game. This game was created by Sanctuary
Woods, and said company went out of business right around the
WTF? I thought maybe this was shilling or something, but I see Peter Olafson
bid $350. Looks like Dan was prescient when he said about selling the games
a la carte.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Josh Lulewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:04 AM
To: [EMAIL
Yes, I have a copy. It's a FMV adventure game, supposed to be pretty bad, but
relatively hard to find (that's why you didn't see it on ebay). If it's in the box you
will find a buyer. In the shrink, even better. These people at gameboomers have
invented a term called BAAGS (Buy All Adventure
Umum.umm
I'm speechless.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum
Thought people would be interested in seeing a new
.
Freddie
Lucasarts Museum- http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
From: Stuart Feldhamer
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:18
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SWCollect]
Journeyman Project
I
have that stuff too...where
I have
that stuff too...where did you get it?
Stuart
-Original Message-From: Freddie Bingham
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:36
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SWCollect]
Journeyman Project
Anyone collect the
Journeyman Project 2? I have a
Now you see the problem here...high prices bring people out of the
woodworks, and they're all going to expect to get $3500 or so...
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Josh Lulewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect]
Someone who knows about Infocom take a look at this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3669906360category=182
Notice that in the picture there are two booklets...what's the deal?
Stuart
--
This message was
To tell you the truth, I was not so impressed last year. The software
collector's meeting was awesome, but the rest was sort of blah. In the
absence of the software collectors, I see no reason to go.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday,
That's
odd...I'm a subscriber and I'm pretty sure I didn't get this
reproduction.
Stuart
-Original Message-From: Hugh Falk
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004
12:31 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE:
[SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum
Just
and frustrated me as a subscriber.
Hugh
-Original
Message-From: Stuart
Feldhamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:38
PMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the
CGW Museum
That's
odd...I'm a subscriber and I'm pretty sure
That's
funny you said that, my wife was reading over my shoulder and she was like, "Why
are you reading about a sex expo???" : )
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:48
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
Since nobody else answered, isn't it Hardball?
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Okmelt wizard...
Baseball is right, but which one? :-) Here's a useless
wizard...
Yes, and by Marco's reasoning, that makes you the nerdiest of all :-)) (Or
at least tied with me for posing the question).
Hugh
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Feldhamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE
I always wondered...is that his real name? It sounds too much like Silas
Marner.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Castle Wolfenstein
That's a new one to me.
On a
For
#2, wasn't it called Tales From the Unknown or something like
that?
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:25
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SWCollect] Trivia
QuestionsSomeone saw my web page and
I
meant Bard's Tale #1, question #2 out of your two. What I am talking about is
the title written on the bard's tale EA folder. Do you have one? Mine is
somewhere around here...
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, March 01,
I think you may be jumping to conclusions here...
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Sierra/Lucas/Tolkien/Ultima/ADD/SSI - info and
questions
*snip*
Before you
For bad games, Braindead 13 comes to mind too. Does that count like a
sequel?
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Oh my G*d
Hugh Falk wrote:
Regardless of
I am experiencing the buyer's remorse...
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] Microsoft Adventure
Typical how these two similar auctions ending at similar times fetched
I think the most valuable game is:
Seastalker: Horatio Sebastian Paraknishparpishkamishpan and the Ultramarine
Bioceptor. : )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:33 AM
To: 'C.E. Forman'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE:
I did this once myself, and I felt very bad about doing it. A seller had, among some
other items, an Adventure in Serenia. I convinced him to sell it to me for a rather
cheap price. Then the next day he told me that somehow his ferret had gotten into the
Serenia and had eaten it up so badly
I refuse to accept responsibility for this decision. : )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] 5.25s vs. 3.5s
Yep, I found him right away. His eBay ID too. LMK if
For some reason, it seems like this game is not as rare as people thought it
was.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Would YOU bid on this?
Breakers, PC:
I'd go
A related link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3653450856
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] ZorkQuest #2
Just saw
] Need advice regarding a Wasteland purchase
Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
That's another scam...don't get me started.
At the risk of spawning another monster OT thread, I have to know: Why
is slabbing a scam? Is it because their ratings are worthless? Or is
it because it hardens the market so
If you really think that only 50 paying guests will show up, how many
speakers do you think you'd be able to get? Not too many, I would think.
I personally would like to attend this event, but it's hard for me to travel
clear across the country what with work, school, wife, new baby, etc.
Stuart
For some reason I thought you guys all knew about this already...sorry I
didn't mention it.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] DOSBox: Getting DOS games to run
Too late...they're all gone (at least, if my past experience is any
indication).
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:34 PM
To: Software Collecting
Subject: [SWCollect] Want me to pick these up?
Saw the following
Mine is Monday, Sep 08, 1997. Although I was bidding on onsale.com way
before that.
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] When did you discover ebay?
Ah, thanks.
Why
would you think it's a fake? That version of Ultima was released after Ultima 3,
IIRC. It can't be THAT rare...
Stuart
-Original Message-From: B.L.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, December
10, 2003 6:28 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
[SWCollect] ultima 1
Looks like its in good condition too. Edward, I assume you aren't bidding on
this or you wouldn't have advertised it before the auction was over. : )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Edward Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the deal with the parchment? My copy, the CD-ROM version, bought off
the shelf when it came out, never came with the parchment, and I remember
going back and forth with Activision about it for over a year(!) via email
before I finally found out that it wasn't just my copy and that the text
of Qyntarr - piracy?
Aww geez, not another faker... *sigh* I'm not even done with the last
one
yet.
I've asked him for a picture of the orb, we'll see what it looks like.
Will
forward. (Guessing it's like a marble or something he threw in.)
- Original Message -
From: Stuart
Look at this ebay auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3037582718
Anyone know what this orb of qyntarr is? The guy's feedback is hidden, and
there must be a reason. I think this may be the same guy who sold me the
Indiana Jones Revenge of the Ancients in the DVD case.
Stephen,
I never heard of Riddle of the Maze before. Can you provide some more info?
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Stephen S. Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] Couple questions about recent unobtainables
YAY!!!
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] Fixed for real
All the @oldskool.org mailing lists are fixed again. Sorry for the spam.
Email at will.
--
Jim
I'm trying to find some kind of external 5.25 inch floppy drive to hook up
to my laptop. A USB device would be preferable, but I would take a parallel
port connection or just about anything else. I would like to be able to boot
from the drive.
I found a company called Micro Solutions that
Do they have to be VHS tapes? There were tons of making-of videos included
on CDs with various games. Also, have you considered the legality of this
(not that I care)?
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:39 PM
To:
WellI mostly collect for IBM, but it doesn't have much to do with my
age. My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I, then a Model 3, then an Atari
800 XL, then a Commodore 128, and then a PC AT. The reason I mostly collect
for IBM is that I collect newer games too, and I need to somehow restrict
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Software collecting videos
Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
Do they have to be VHS tapes? There were tons of making-of videos included
on CDs with various games. Also, have you considered
I own both of these games. I bought Kilrathi Saga when it came out, from EB.
(Too bad I disposed of the box.)
WC3 Premiere I didn't hear of until it was fetching high prices on Ebay.
HOWEVER, I bought a copy not too long ago for $29.95 from an online store
that found a whole bunch of them
Maybe
if whoever plays this cartridge and learns how to add and subtract, they will
learn that $1000 is a lot of money to pay for math
lessons...
All we
have to do is create a new Atari 2600 game and we can sell a (very) limited
number of copies for $1000 each.
Stuart
-Original
OK, look at this. I found this auction on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=11047item=3004366043
I was thinking, this is weird. It says 125 games, but only a few are listed.
And the feedback rating is only 3. So I figured, let's see what else this
guy has to offer. And
Any of the people on this list have a spare copy of Once and Future from
Cascade Mountain Publishing that they'd be willing to sell/trade to me? I
never heard of this when it was first released, unfortunately, and was also
too stupid to buy it from Ye Olde Infocom Shoppe when they had an extra.
The
worst thing is that when you view feedback on Ebay, there is no way to just see
the negative feedback. You have to jump through 17 pages of "A seller"
before you get to "The seller stole my money, then sodomized
me".
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Huh?
When I looked at this auction before I don't think the buy it now price was more
than $25 or so...maybe I'm going bonkers.
Stuart
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:52
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
Maybe you guys all noticed this part of the auction before, but I sure
didn't...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3004111440category=4315
He's got an image from the YOIS vault, and some (presumably gay) porn on the
monitor. This is a new low for Ebay...
Stuart
The"picture of Chris"he used is from the April Fools page
Chris posted a couple of years ago...
Stuart
-Original
Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:19
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Chris
Foreman's Gay
The guy replied to my email. Ebay's site is so confusing now...how do I go
about reporting this guy? Also, what will they do to him for it? He
currently has a bunch of auctions up, but they're ending tomorrow I believe.
Also, is this something that the list members are interested in? If not, I
Remember not too long ago I mentioned Bud Tucker in Double Trouble as a
particularly rare and valuable game? Well some guy on ebay listed it among a
bunch of different other auctions he had up. I bid the opening bid of 2
pounds. Nobody bid on it for a few days, then today I got a bid cancellation
King's Quest 1 was the first adventure game where you could move the
character around on the screen, as far as I know. What is a quasi-3D
adventure game? How about Asylum?
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Chris Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:44 PM
To:
I have
the QFG anthology. I bought it at Costco in the US some years agoit was a US
release. I chucked out the box long ago, unfortunately, but still have the
contents. It has QFG 1-4 plus various different versions of the games in
different languages, IIRC. There is no QFG 5 demo. I
No kidding...are you trying to depress us all, Chris? : )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:53 PM
To: Software Collectibles Mailing List
Subject: [SWCollect] You can still get a great score on eBay...
.when the
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