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
Pedro R. Quaresma
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