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 shrink-wrapped and since it is the same package as the Apple ][ then I probably won't bid on this. 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 Freddie Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3089791979; ssPageName=ADME:B:RECO:US:2 -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 moment.(Virgin's Ascendancy a few years back would be another example.) Typically, these things don't last. :) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3089791979ssPageName=ADME:B:RECO:US:2--This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed tothe swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect'Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 first release one-piece box is for Apple ][ so it was released in the two box types for both platforms. It has a red sticker like the auction, though didn't compare if it's exactly the same (but as said my box release is the first one). Don't know if there's IBM version in the first release box. - Jukka -- http://koti.mbnet.fi/psychic/ - Synchronic Web -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Jukka Eronen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 first release one-piece box is for Apple ][ so it was released in the two box types for both platforms. It has a red sticker like the auction, though didn't compare if it's exactly the same (but as said my box release is the first one). Don't know if there's IBM version in the first release box. - Jukka -- http://koti.mbnet.fi/psychic/ - Synchronic Web -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 mentions copyrights for Commodore 64 and Apple II; I'm sure your version does too. So it probably wasn't released for IBM in this box, at least according to the lack of its mentioning. - Jukka -- http://koti.mbnet.fi/psychic/ - Synchronic Web -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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:http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene:http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings: http://www.oldskool.org/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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: http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene: http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings: http://www.oldskool.org/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 take into consideration that almost no two copies of vintage goodies are in the same condition, it makes it all the more exciting. On Apr 7, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: 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:http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene:http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings: http://www.oldskool.org/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 you can't afford to wait. I don't consider it insanity, I just think it's added value over the commercial/collector value. I actually think he's paying a bit extra to KEEP his sanity - isn't it just torture to think you'll never see that game, in that condition, ever again for sale? I'll gladly pay twice as much just to avoid that feeling :) I may not know much about the collector's value of all games, but even if I did someday, I'd still find myself paying above average for some games. Call me insane if you will, but I'd rather not be sane then :) Which reminds me, welcome Peter Olafson! Best regards, Tomas Buteler --- Freddie Bingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Freddie Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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: http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene: http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings: http://www.oldskool.org/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 have to pay extra if you can't afford to wait. Agreed... I almost bid $200 on Breakers three years ago because I simply wanted that game (to collect AND to play). Luckily I found it for $38 last month. I don't consider it insanity, I just think it's added value over the commercial/collector value. I actually think he's paying a bit extra to KEEP his sanity - isn't it just torture to think you'll never see that game, in that condition, ever again for sale? I'll gladly pay twice as much just to avoid that feeling :) LOL that is so true Which reminds me, welcome Peter Olafson! Agreed, welcome! -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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 Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
RE: [SWCollect] Is this particular version rare?????
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 moment.(Virgin's Ascendancy a few years back would be another example.) Typically, these things don't last. :) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3089791979ssPageName=ADME:B:RECO:US:2 -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
