Hey Brad, Sorry to get picky, but since that coin holds such an important place in your childhood and football success, I thought I'd make a minor correction. The coin is from Ultima V. Ultima IV has an Ankh.
I don't remember if I ever told my story here...I probably did...so I won't do it again. Maybe it's time for a refresher on everyone? Hey that would be a good feature to add to your site, Brad....You have a user list. Let people put a little bio about themselves on their user page. Hugh -----Original Message----- From: CcomputerGameCollector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Greetings Jim, Whenever I get into something; in this case computer game collecting, I always try to look at the big picture, and then evaluate what's missing, and what could make my experience better as a whole. After my internet research, that brought me to sites such as yours (which is a fantastic resource), and others such as gamesTZ (which I, personally, think is a big mess & only marginally useful) plus many others that deal with tributes to specific games or platforms. What I didn't see, however, was a hub for collectors. The end-all site that was the standard for game collecting. If there had been one I found, I wouldn't have made CGC, but I wanted to see functionalities that I didn't see on any website; such as allowing me to post games for sale, or for trade indefinately instead of ebay being the only option; or just a website devoted strictly to computer game collecting, and nothing else. Death Sword is one of my all-time favorites. It had to be the quickest round-robin type of game me and my friends ever played. The head shots were the best. The main computers I ever played computer games on was an IBM PC and Amiga. I had a PC very early on too (84ish), so the only time I checked out commodores & such was as friends houses. Where do you house 600 games? Hehe, I'm running out of room already, and just keep the ones that don't fit in my case in boxes until I find something. Barrister bookcases are often quite costly, unless you get a cheapass Sauder one. Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Greetings > > CcomputerGameCollector wrote: > > > > I don't think my collection is that impressive yet; it is approaching 70 > > pieces, maybe 55 different titles. > > I have to ask, then, why go through the trouble of creating the website? > Still entranced by this new budding hobby, or some other reason? :-0 > > I say this because many of the people on this list either buy/sell/trade > software for a living (hi Tom!) or have collections in excess of 400 titles -- > I would have expected one of them to have broken down by now. > > Your story sounds very much like mine, just shifted ahead four years. I got > into computer games in 1980 when a friend's mom who worked for AT&T brought > home an Osborne CPM machine and it had Adventure on it. I'm mostly a PC > person because the first computer my family personally owned was a PC in 1985, > but I've dabbled in Mac, Amiga, Commodore, and various Apple flavors (II+, > IIe, IIgs) before and since. > > My collection is almost 600 titles of wildly varying quality and genre, half > of which I purchased to eventually enter into MobyGames (I'm co-founder). > About 100 of these are treasured by me (or others; I don't particular crave > RPGs, but I own a few). Like you, I am of the rare breed that > collections/enjoys action titles for the PC (not considered a collectable by > most collectors, but that doesn't stop me). For example, I was pleased to see > we own both own Death Sword and Techno Cop :-). All of my titles are PC, with > the exception of 100 unboxed C64 disks (NTSC, not PAL). > > Some of my highlights in terms of "rarity" (hate that term) include Murder on > the Zinderneuf, Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror, and Ulysses and the Golden > Fleece. (All for PC, which is what gives them that extra "rare" punch.) > Other items treasured by me but probably not by many others include Pinball > Construction Set, Music Construction Set, Bank Streem Music Writer (with PC > hardware board), Tass Times in Tonetown, Wibarm, Mean Streets, Martian > Memorandum, Countdown, World Class Leader Board, Hoverforce, Test Drive 3, > Tunnels of Armageddon, Starflight, various Accolade games from 1987-1990 (Bar > Games, Gunboat, Blue Angels, Altered Destiny, many others), Wizardry (2nd > edition), and finally my favorite RPG of all time, Wasteland (with cluebook!). > -- > http://www.MobyGames.com/ > The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. 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