Re: [SWCollect] Infocom games' boxes

2001-07-24 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Let's put it this way: I have no problem sharing my sources with you guys *after* I've picked them clean. ;-) Which is what I was expecting Pedro to do. Which is what I expect we all do. For example, I can tell you guys that there are several Cyber Exchanges and Software ReRuns around

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-24 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Stephen Lee wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma wrote: [snip] PS: Never mind, I think I figured it out: He's uneducated; he listed Fountain of Dreams as very rare Wasteland sequel. It's not rare at all, nor is it the true sequel. It isn't the true sequel, but it is fairly

Re: [SWCollect] Ultimas (was: Infocom games' boxes)

2001-07-24 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Pedro Quaresma wrote: For example, I can tell you guys that there are several Cyber Exchanges and Software ReRuns around where I live (Naperville, IL, USA). I tell you this because I've already picked them clean for my own purposes. You didn't pick the RPGs, did you? :) Nope. I don't

Re: [SWCollect] Infocom games' boxes

2001-07-24 Thread Jim Leonard
C.E. Forman wrote: Let's put it this way: I have no problem sharing my sources with you guys *after* I've picked them clean. ;-) Which is what I was expecting Pedro to do. Which is what I expect we all do. For example, I can tell you guys that there are several Cyber Exchanges

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-24 Thread Karl Kuras
What the heck is a terror game? What I think he means are survival horror and similar games, designed to spook you. Granted, there havent' been too many successes here, especially in the the olden days (can really only think of two games that really scared me, Project Firestart and Aliens).

Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-24 Thread Chris Newman
Sounds plausible to me -- I would probably add Alone in the Dark to the list even though it is a cross-genre adventure. It certainly scared me! Karl Kuras wrote: What the heck is a terror game? What I think he means are survival horror and similar games, designed to spook you. Granted,

[SWCollect] Recent IBM games

2001-07-24 Thread Lee K. Seitz
I went to the local used video game store this evening just to look around.* They also sell old overstock computer games. I discovered a couple published by IBM back in 1995. I was aware they published several games in the early days, but nothing so recent. Looking at MobyGames, I see one