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

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

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

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 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?????

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?????

Does it have the same font as the box in the auction? I mean is the Maniac Mansion with meteor trails or is it the straight font like this http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org/images/maniac/mm-1987front-small.jpg What does the copyright year say on the back? Lucasarts Museum -

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

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?????

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?????

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. Freddie Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL

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

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?????

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 have to pay extra if

[SWCollect] Another Is this rare?

Deluxe Edition of Wasteland??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemcategory=4610item=4121816523rd=1 Aside from lines like Casual collectors may wish to pass this by and each disk verified by Copy II Plus (which I'd love to know how he did that since the protection on Wasteland was

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

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?????

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

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Dan Chisarick wrote: I'd be led to believe that the album cover came FIRST, then the box, as the last few Apple II games came in boxes (John Madden and Earl Weaver did). Thoughts? Yes, that is how it was. He seems to have it backwards. Geez, I would kill small rodents with my bare hands

[SWCollect] Games museum planned for E3

I'll be at E3 if anybody else is attending and interested in meeting... Games museum planned for E3 Intellivision and the Classic Gaming Expo announce that they'll have a games museum exhibit at this year's E3. Intellivision and the organizers of the Classic Games Expo (CGE) have today

RE: [SWCollect] Another Is this rare?

The only two EA games I know of that came in both Flat and Standard boxes are Wasteland and Starflight. However, I'm not a box-variation fanatic so it is possible others exist. Anybody know any? Since I'm asking questions: My Apple Wasteland has copyrights from 1986 - 1988 (depending on where

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Oh, Im very familiar with that syndrome, Peterweve probably victimized each other a couple of times. Welcome to the groupof course, now I cant publicly vent the next time you outbid me J By the way, congrats on the Drash. Hugh -Original Message- From: Peter Olafson