"C.E. Forman" wrote: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=1940428873 > > You guys notice this one? Unbe-freakin'-lieveable. This is the only sports > game I've ever seen that's fetched a good collector's price, wonder what's > so special about it? I know I've gotten a lot of Shoppe requests for Micro > League.
The Micro League series was a hit (no pun intended) in the early days because they were pure statistical simulations -- like "fantasy football" but for more than just football -- and they were very thorough. The baseball series in particular was updated by several yearly update disks with complete team rosters. It was a mandatory thing to own if you were a baseball fan and used computers, kind of like how XOR Corporation's NFL Challenge was a mandatory software title for anyone into fantasy football. Useless detective work: The seller uses webtv, so he's probably an older retired guy getting around to selling his stuff. The buyers were half new, half experienced. Based on their previous purchases, they are all sports fans primarily and computer users secondary (more likely, a distant third :). Maybe that helps understand the high price -- some baseball fan out there was a big fan of (some team) in (some year) and wanted to simulate fantasy baseball using something universally known to do it well. (I knew those psychology classes would come in handy :) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? Drop by http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.demodvd.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]/
