[SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread hughfalk
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RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Freddie Bingham
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Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Olafson
Hugh, Idon't think -any- of the versions of Maniac Mansion are rare. But eBay is strange this way. Sometimes a game that is fairly common gets separated from the main flow and caught up in a bidding eddy--probably for no other reason than two or three people happen to want it at that particular

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Jukka Eronen
I had always assumed the Apple ][ release was the same packaging as the C64 but this shows it is not. I suppose there may be Apple or IBM releases in the same packaging as the C64 and vice versa but I have yet to see them. http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org/maniac.php Actually my Maniac Mansion

RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Freddie Bingham
://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Jukka Eronen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare? I had always assumed the Apple ][ release was the same packaging

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Jukka Eronen
Does it have the same font as the box in the auction? No, as said it's the very first straight release without meteor tails. Copyright is 1987. Here's the back (haven't scanned the front): http://koti.mbnet.fi/psychic/pics/gamecollection/big/maniac1_back.jpg And actually the back of the box

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Leonard
Peter Olafson wrote: I don't think -any- of the versions of Maniac Mansion are rare. Apple releases are some of the rarer releases of MM, but I think the current bid price of $157 is about $57 more than sane :) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) World's largest electronic gaming project:

RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Freddie Bingham
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare? Peter Olafson wrote: I don't think -any- of the versions of Maniac Mansion are rare. Apple releases are some of the rarer releases of MM, but I think

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Dan Chisarick
Always seems someone has unlimited disposable income... right about the time you see something you'd like to have. For insanity like this, I wonder how insurance companies would compute the value of such an item. Purchase price? Average cost? Replacement value (whatever that is)? When you

RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Tomas Buteler
://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare? Peter Olafson wrote: I don't think -any- of the versions of Maniac

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Leonard
Tomas Buteler wrote: I usually find myself paying above average when I absolutely must have the title in a particular moment. I don't know about you guys, but some games come and go in my memory, and when it comes, well, I get quite frustrated not to have it. And like everything in this life, you

Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Leonard
Freddie Bingham wrote: Its all relative to what you want and if you value sealed with original stickers to be worth more. I found the $3600 price of Drash to be about $2600 above sane. That's because it was, in my personal opinion. However, I'm broke, so my perspective is a bit warped :) -- Jim

RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????

2004-04-07 Thread Hugh Falk
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare? Hugh, Idon't think -any- of the versions of Maniac Mansion are rare. But eBay is strange this way. Sometimes