Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-14 Thread Pedro Quaresma


Jim Leonard wrote:
 Anyway, I won't be bidding on anything from him for the two reasons I
 mentioned in the other mail.

Go ahead!!  Geez -- I have my own price for these things so it's not
like I'm going to be mad if you outbid me.  I'm not claiming dibs on
these, just letting you guys know what I'm planning on sniping on.

No no, it's not because of the dibs issue. It's for those two reasons I
mentioned on my first reply to Alexander: a) he doesn't want int bidders b)
charging $6 sh for US shippings is a too much.

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Pedro Quaresma


Jim Leonard wrote:

I plan on sniping:
[snip]
Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid

And you said you weren't to bid on RPGs? :)

Anyway, I won't be bidding on anything from him for the two reasons I
mentioned in the other mail.

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I plan on sniping:

Sirtech Seven Spirits of Ra BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Cinemaware Rocket Ranger NEW Ready to Bid
Sierra Dynamix Willy Beamish RARE CD VERSION Ready to Bid
Sierra King's Quest 2 - RARE ORIGINAL BOX Ready to Bid
Sierra Championship Boxing BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Access Martian Memorandum BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Access Mean Streets BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Electronic Arts Marble Madness Ready to Bid
Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid
Broderbund Operation Clean Streets BRAND NEW

I will be bidding very seriously for the Access and Sierra Boxing
titles; the rest I am only so-so on.  You all have been warned!  :-)

C.E. Forman wrote:

 Watch for my snipes on some of his Infocom and Sierra items... but please
 don't let that stop you from bidding yourself!

 - Original Message -
 From: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:12 AM
 Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

 Excellent, excellent info, thank you!!!

 Of course, what code of honor do we follow here?  :-)  As a courtesy, I
 am going to set up some snipes and I'll tell you guys what I'm sniping.
 It's probably nothing you guys are interested in, as I am a non-RPG nut.

 Alexander Zöller wrote:
 
  BadBen has caved in, currently lists most of his inventory on eBay for
 $9.99
  apiece (badben1), mostly RPGs, some interesting. Guess he didn't
exactly
  sell a lot of items for the prices he initially asked ;-)

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Pedro Quaresma


Alexander, if you win the shrinked copy of Silver Seed and decide to get
rid of one unshrinked one, please let me know.

(Also, OT, Tom, mail mails aren't getting through to you again)

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 Was the CD version of Willy Beamish a talkie?  If so you may have just
 gotten some competitiion and no lying now!   :-)

 Well, the last time I saw this on eBay it fetched something like $250.
 That's wayyy higher than it's worth, but this is still highly sought
 after.

True, but the actual 'going rate' seems to be lower (spotted a boxed talkie
that went for $45 a couple of months ago). Adventures seem to react even
more strongly to sudden demand than RPGs. The best example is probably
Duckman, which peaked at an incredible $275,... and then a bunch of people
became aware of this gold mine and flooded the market, so we're down to
about $30 at the moment (I know one guy on the GameTZ that made a small
fortune that way; he was _the_ source before others caught up). Playing
Games Interactive still has a few copies left:
http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/item.html?PRID=988178

BadBen: I'm considering to snipe The Silver Seed, and also the GT Software
release of U6, as I need shrinked copies of both.

/Alexander

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Lee K. Seitz

Pedro Quaresma boldly stated:

Jim Leonard wrote:

I plan on sniping:
[snip]
Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid

Why did you guys have to go do this?  I have *no* money to spend, but
now I'm interested in his UFO, Global Conquest, and Modem Wars.  Argh!
I suspect they'll go for more than I want to pay, so don't worry about
bidding against me, if I do bid.

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Leonard

Pedro Quaresma wrote:
 
 Jim Leonard wrote:
 
 I plan on sniping:
 [snip]
 Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
 Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid
 
 And you said you weren't to bid on RPGs? :)

I'm not bidding on these too seriously.  The Times of Lore I'm bidding
on more seriously than the Tangled Tales.
 
 Anyway, I won't be bidding on anything from him for the two reasons I
 mentioned in the other mail.

Go ahead!!  Geez -- I have my own price for these things so it's not
like I'm going to be mad if you outbid me.  I'm not claiming dibs on
these, just letting you guys know what I'm planning on sniping on.

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-12 Thread Pedro Quaresma


Weird... a) He's only accepting US bidders now (he used to accept
international, IIRC) b) $6 for shipping in continental US?!

(Ack, there's a Silver Seed in there!)

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$9.99
apiece (badben1), mostly RPGs, some interesting. Guess he didn't exactly
sell a lot of items for the prices he initially asked ;-)

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-12 Thread Jim Leonard

Excellent, excellent info, thank you!!!

Of course, what code of honor do we follow here?  :-)  As a courtesy, I
am going to set up some snipes and I'll tell you guys what I'm sniping. 
It's probably nothing you guys are interested in, as I am a non-RPG nut.

Alexander Zöller wrote:
 
 BadBen has caved in, currently lists most of his inventory on eBay for $9.99
 apiece (badben1), mostly RPGs, some interesting. Guess he didn't exactly
 sell a lot of items for the prices he initially asked ;-)

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-12 Thread C.E. Forman

Watch for my snipes on some of his Infocom and Sierra items... but please
don't let that stop you from bidding yourself!

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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices


Excellent, excellent info, thank you!!!

Of course, what code of honor do we follow here?  :-)  As a courtesy, I
am going to set up some snipes and I'll tell you guys what I'm sniping.
It's probably nothing you guys are interested in, as I am a non-RPG nut.

Alexander Zöller wrote:

 BadBen has caved in, currently lists most of his inventory on eBay for
$9.99
 apiece (badben1), mostly RPGs, some interesting. Guess he didn't exactly
 sell a lot of items for the prices he initially asked ;-)

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-12 Thread Jim Leonard

It is indeed.

Karl Kuras wrote:
 
 Was the CD version of Willy Beamish a talkie?  If so you may have just
 gotten some competitiion and no lying now!   :-)
 
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  I plan on sniping:
 
  Sirtech Seven Spirits of Ra BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
  Cinemaware Rocket Ranger NEW Ready to Bid
  Sierra Dynamix Willy Beamish RARE CD VERSION Ready to Bid
  Sierra King's Quest 2 - RARE ORIGINAL BOX Ready to Bid
  Sierra Championship Boxing BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
  Access Martian Memorandum BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
  Access Mean Streets BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
  Electronic Arts Marble Madness Ready to Bid
  Origin Times of Lore BRAND NEW Ready to Bid
  Origin Tangled Tales BRAND NEW NEVER OPENED! Ready to Bid
  Broderbund Operation Clean Streets BRAND NEW
 
  I will be bidding very seriously for the Access and Sierra Boxing
  titles; the rest I am only so-so on.  You all have been warned!  :-)
 
  C.E. Forman wrote:
  
   Watch for my snipes on some of his Infocom and Sierra items... but
 please
   don't let that stop you from bidding yourself!
  
   - Original Message -
   From: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:12 AM
   Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices
  
   Excellent, excellent info, thank you!!!
  
   Of course, what code of honor do we follow here?  :-)  As a courtesy, I
   am going to set up some snipes and I'll tell you guys what I'm sniping.
   It's probably nothing you guys are interested in, as I am a non-RPG nut.
  
   Alexander Zöller wrote:
   
BadBen has caved in, currently lists most of his inventory on eBay for
   $9.99
apiece (badben1), mostly RPGs, some interesting. Guess he didn't
 exactly
sell a lot of items for the prices he initially asked ;-)
  
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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-11-12 Thread Alexander Zoller

 Was the CD version of Willy Beamish a talkie?  If so you may have just
 gotten some competitiion and no lying now!   :-)
 
 Well, the last time I saw this on eBay it fetched something like $250.
 That's wayyy higher than it's worth, but this is still highly sought
 after.

True, but the actual 'going rate' seems to be lower (spotted a boxed talkie
that went for $45 a couple of months ago). Adventures seem to react even
more strongly to sudden demand than RPGs. The best example is probably
Duckman, which peaked at an incredible $275,... and then a bunch of people
became aware of this gold mine and flooded the market, so we're down to
about $30 at the moment (I know one guy on the GameTZ that made a small
fortune that way; he was _the_ source before others caught up). Playing
Games Interactive still has a few copies left:
http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/item.html?PRID=988178

BadBen: I'm considering to snipe The Silver Seed, and also the GT Software
release of U6, as I need shrinked copies of both.

/Alexander

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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 uncommon, and it was
considered
 a sequel (until people realised that Tim Cain wasn't even part of the
 project! ;)

 Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams, IIRC, were for many years the only two
 post-nuke RPGs in the market

Well, heh, Fountain of Dreams was generally considered to be better than
Scavengers of the Mutant World.

Yeah, I forgot that one :(

OTOH, I'd like a copy of Scavengers,
since, well, it's an RPG and I don't have a copy.

Seems to be pretty rare, I haven't found it anywhere either. Not that I've
looked too hard, but I really haven't seen it.

(That's another for
your list.  Superhero League of Hoboken isn't a post-nuke scenario, BTW;
it's more of a post-acute-global-warming-and-other-assorted-catastrophes
scenario.)

It's nevertheless a post-catastrophe RPG, and the game surely looks like
it's post-nuke... it's hard to call it simply sci-fi, so Jim may want to
include it on the post-nukes.

I think there were one or two other old post-nuke RPG's as well, but they
were all comparable in quality to Fountain of Dreams from what I can
remember.

I've never played much FoD, I admit, so I can't share my opinion, but as
far as RPGs go, I think we have them all covered...

I just remembered a whole new category... Terror games, or do you have it
already, Jim?
-- Stephen

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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).  But it has to be looked at as a genre in
and of itself, since trying to evoke an emotion like fear in someone is a
laudible goal in the effort to make games a true art form.

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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, 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).  But it has to be looked at as a genre in
 and of itself, since trying to evoke an emotion like fear in someone is a
 laudible goal in the effort to make games a true art form.

 Trantor
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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-23 Thread Pedro Quaresma


Jim Leonard wrote:
Caught this website:

http://www.badben.com/

It's bad enough that it's viewable under Internet Explorer only, but
$200 for a Black Cauldron?  The CD version of Willy Beamish for $149?
Wing Commander hintbook for $80?? (sealed, but still...)

You think that's bad? The _extremely rare_ Ultima VIII for sale at $129?
And hintbooks at $100+?

Here's the kicker:

Wizard and the Princess by Sierra. Untested, for unknown computer
system. $199.99

It's the diskette only!  For unknown computer system!!

Hey, UCS is very RARE!!! Only 30 were sold in the US! ;)

Am I overreacting, or do people (other than Will D. ;-) actually pay
these prices?  I would *never* pay $249 for an original KQ1, unless it
was personally signed by Robert Williams or Jeff Stephenson.

I don't think so... well, on eBay sometimes things get out of hand, but I'm
not seeing that guy selling many games in a nearby future.

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 uncommon, and it was considered
a sequel (until people realised that Tim Cain wasn't even part of the
project! ;)

Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams, IIRC, were for many years the only two
post-nuke RPGs in the market

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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-23 Thread C.E. Forman

Infocom's Trinity is... *sort-of* post-apocalyptic... How can I say this
without giving away the spectacular ending...?  But not really, I guess, in
the truest sense of the term.

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 Let's not forget some of the best car-oriented RPGs:

 Autoduel
 Roadwar 2000
 Roadwar Europa


 They are all genre benders (Autoduel has some Arcade elements, the
Roadwars
 have strategy elements), but they are definitely classic futuristic RPGs.
I
 don't know if they fit into the particular category as you see it.

 Hugh

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 Jim Leonard wrote:
 Pedro Quaresma wrote:
 
  Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams, IIRC, were for many years the only two
  post-nuke RPGs in the market

 I would LOVE to know of more; I created the Post-Apocolyptic genre on
 MobyGames
 specifically for games like this.  For example, wasn't Twilight 2000
 sort-of a
 PA RPG?  (can't remember the game well).

 I'm not sure, but you may be right. It wasn't quite sci-fi, in the least.

 I have a Mindscape managerial strategy game from 1988 (can't remember the
 title) that was a PA game as well... who can remember more of historical
 and/or
 gameplay significance?

 I can try to help you with the RPGs at least...

 I've never played much of 2400AD, but I think it's sci-fi, not
post-nuke...
 Hired Guns, maybe?

 I'm 99% sure that Superhero League of Hoboken is a mix of post-nuke with
 super-heroes

 And you have Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, that's for sure.


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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-23 Thread Stephen S. Lee


On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Jim Leonard wrote:
 It's bad enough that it's viewable under Internet Explorer only, but
 $200 for a Black Cauldron?  The CD version of Willy Beamish for $149?
 Wing Commander hintbook for $80?? (sealed, but still...)

$149 for CD Willy Beamish isn't *that* far out of line ... then again, the
reports I've heard say that the additional CD perks actually make the
game worse.

(If you're listing fixed prices, you can charge higher than eBay,
especialy if you think you can snag a clueless newbie, but ... eesh.)

Concerning Willy Beamish, does anyone have the Willy Beamish wristwatch?
(Not a prop, you had to order this separately.)

-- Stephen


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Re: [SWCollect] Ludicrous prices

2001-07-23 Thread Stephen S. Lee


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 uncommon, and it was considered
 a sequel (until people realised that Tim Cain wasn't even part of the
 project! ;)

 Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams, IIRC, were for many years the only two
 post-nuke RPGs in the market

Well, heh, Fountain of Dreams was generally considered to be better than
Scavengers of the Mutant World.  OTOH, I'd like a copy of Scavengers,
since, well, it's an RPG and I don't have a copy.  (That's another for
your list.  Superhero League of Hoboken isn't a post-nuke scenario, BTW;
it's more of a post-acute-global-warming-and-other-assorted-catastrophes
scenario.)

I think there were one or two other old post-nuke RPG's as well, but they
were all comparable in quality to Fountain of Dreams from what I can
remember.

-- Stephen


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