Now you've got me started, how are you going to stop me? :-)... Robot Rascals is a tougher one to find...but then again some people might not consider it a flat box...I do. It is what I call the Fat Box variation (here's a fatbox pic: http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/fatbox.jpg). It has the same dimensions, but is the thickness of about 3 standard flat boxes. Anyone interested can read more on my flat box page (http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/eaflats.htm).
One of the hardest flat boxes to find for me was another Fat Box -- Radio Baseball (http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gallery/image71.htm). It was one of the last flat box games (1986) and wasn't very popular. It took me 2 years of searching eBay every week to find one, which I won. I think it went for $5. Like I said it wasn't popular. It might be the rarest, but I still don't think it would fetch much on eBay. Funny though, I've had about 5 people contact me searching the web for that game (and running into my site). They always want a copy very badly, so it seems to have a bit of a cult following. Another rare one (I've only seen one...the one I have, but I don't know how rare it actually is) is Word Flyer (http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gallery/image111.htm). This is one of the few Edutainment flat boxes. D-Bug (http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gallery/image21.htm) is another. (I don't consider the very common Music Construction Set to be Edutainment. I don't classify it as a game at all). Other rarer ones are: The Last Gladiator, Return to Atlantis (Amiga title), Touchdown Football (EA's first football game, pre-Madden), Ferrari Formula One (another Amiga title). None of these are too rare, though probably harder to find than MULE, Wasteland or Starflight (very popular games). It's just that the latter 3 are harder to buy since they are highly sought after. Pictures of all can be found here: http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gallery/index.htm Hugh -----Original Message----- From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Today's finds Congrats on the finds, Lee. Hugh, out of curiosity, which EA games are the hardest to come by? I'd always thought of M.U.L.E. as rare, just from my observations of everyone seeming to want it, no one seeming to have it. Robot Rascals is another, I believe they sold a very limited number of copies? Also there's a flipbox package for Wasteland that, from my personal experience, is far more common than the flat version. ----- Original Message ----- From: Hugh Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Today's finds > Nice finds...Wasteland will usually go on eBay for over $20 (although I've > seen it go for less occasionally). I've also seen it go for over $50. That > an M.U.L.E. are probably the most sought after EA Flats (although not the > most difficult to find by any means). > > Hugh > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:32 PM > To: Software Collecting > Subject: [SWCollect] Today's finds > > > I'm only hitting the thrift stores very infrequently these days. I > hit one today and found Wasteland and Lords of Conquest (both are EA > flats, if you didn't know) for the Apple II. Only cost me $0.50 each! > I picked up Wasteland just because of all the talk about it here > lately. There was also flats for Bard's Tale and some IIgs golf > game, but they were both missing the disks. 8( (Figures, the first > strictly IIgs game I see since getting one, and there's no disks.) > > There was also a barely (if at all) used copy of PC Tools Deluxe > version 6. I see from eBay that it's not worth anything, but would it > come in handy for problems I might have with an older PC? When and if > I ever get any older PCs set up, that is. > > -- > Lee K. Seitz * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/ > Wanted: Vintage Pac-M*n necktie > (The asterisk is to keep from mucking up people's Usenet search > results. Replace it with an "a", if you didn't know.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/swcollect@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/swcollect@oldskool.org/
