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Hugh,
I don't think -any- of the versions of Maniac
Mansion are rare.
But eBay is strange
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
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 :)
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Jim
be about
> $2600 above sane.
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> Freddie
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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
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> Peter Olafson wrote:
> > I don't think -any- of the versions of Maniac Mansion are rare.
>
> Apple releases are s
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 :)
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> 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 m
eum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
> -Original Message-
> From: Jukka Eronen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >I had always assumed
>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 Ma
Hugh,
I don'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 particul
Rare opened? Maybe 2 or 3 a year on eBay though this is only the second
Apple ][ I've seen and I just won the other opened for $52.
Rare sealed, even with the advertising stickers on it? Of course.
Still, I think it would sell for more if it was the IBM version.
I have the IBM version shrink-wra
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