http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8103582942
Last one sold in the U.S., $300+! I've got a guy who's going to pay and
reship for me, should come to about $35 - $40 total.
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Indeed, what is it?
Marco
Hugh Falk schrieb:
Never heard of it...is there a story behind it?
Hugh
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From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:22 PM
To: Software
Huh. Guess they must have revamped the FB page as they don't show a count
for neutrals anymore, though they did as recently as 6 months ago (maybe
more recent). Under the old system it would have said 0 neutrals even if
you had none. This could have been changed to curb the edge a neutral
used
I should still have the original article about
them. For awhile they were getting a bunch of older software from another
source, some of it reshrinked by said source. (They have never done
reshrinks of their own.) At first they were selling without a whole lot of
understanding of the
To my knowledge Zork was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just
about everything, as in give me that zork over there.
That's what I've read in every article about the original mainframe Zork
(Dungeon). It's possible the MIT term derived from the Brunner novel.
Just in case any of you were thinking of bidding on this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8103195577rd=1
.be aware that it's not an original advertisement flyer, but a page cut out
of a magazine and framed by the seller (which I suspected after seeing this
one:
Yeah, the slipcover goes over the plastic case and then the whole thing is
shrinkwrapped. This guy sold one last year and he said he had a few more.
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From: Stephane Racle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; swcollect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 15,
Just tried searching on a seller's old user ID and eBay didn't recognize it.
Used to be you could do this and it'd come back with the current ID. This
is going to make it harder to follow crooks who swap their IDs out for new
ones (but keep the same account).
If I can add to this: I believe that the MEDIUM you write about isn't
complete
without the actual gameplay experience: Loading the game, looking at the
title
screen with anticipation, gameplay mechanics, looking at maps, consulting
add-ins/feelies. I feel that it is imperative that the game
What I'd like to know is how people (the same
people all the time)are finding the rare items. Granted, I'm aware
of a few sellers putting a ton of stuff up, so people watch their
auctions. Everyone searches on Infocom, Drash, etc. But I've also
seen some really obscure stuff by an atypical
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From:
Feldhamer, Stuart
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:16
AM
Subject: [SWCollect] Origin Museum email
address
Someone help me
out with Joe's current email address. Joe, you should update the
Just in case anyone else wondered.
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From: Aaron Kipness [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Message from eBay Member
Another Mt. Drash popped up on EBAY and I'm not about to compete with
another Drash and get
eBay Member
Interesting. Though I wonder what will make it appreciate more if all
of a sudden they're popping out of the woodwork (relatively speaking).
He's the one who had a tape + warranty card only auction, yes?
On May 17, 2004, at 7:56 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
Just in case anyone else
BTW does anyone here own original game art?
Cover art or ingame?
Not the actual paintings per se, but I have a number of films from
Activision showing the work-in-progress cover art for a number of
post-Infocom releases: Lost Treasures, LGoP2, Zork Grand Inquisitor (which
shows some neat
I saw this too. Hilarious!I loved
the fact that they were over-thinking, over-analyzing everything, believing the
different colors on the blocks in Tetris meant something, wondering if you can
do stuff with the umbrella and purse in DK, rapid-fire in Space Invaders,
etc.
- Original
I still troll the used item bin for the very occasional vintage goodie
that shows up. Found two yesterday: LucasFilm's Tie Fighter and OOP's
Perfect General II.
At what store? Those are a decade old.
Every once in a great while this can happen. I got a brand-new Countdown by
Access at
- Original versions of Elite, which used a device called a LensLok. This
one is actually on par with Chronoquest (maybe worse). It's a clear
plastic
device that you squint through and try to decode a shape on the screen. I
have one, and I actually just read an article on it in retrogamer
Hey gang,
As you might recall, a few of us were talking back in Jan/Feb this year
about putting together a software collector's expo (VCGC, formerly
SCExpo) featuring classic authors as guest speakers, and vendors who
specifically deal in the vintage games we collect.
But we've run into a couple
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