As for rarity assessment wouldn't production numbers be needed? I mean there are loads of worthless games out there that you never see on ebay because no one would buy them, not that they are uncommon. Also the effect of one game selling well tends to 'scare' other copies up for auction. Someone commented that its hard to find "Black Magic", but I found it in the first 30 days of looking. But its possible that if one or two of these sold that others may follow.
Still, I don't think that stops us from taking a swing at it. Start with a list, and amend it over time. Its bound to be a little off until it gets some feedback into it.
I'd humbly suggest the original Akalabeth and Mt. Drash would be "Oddity". Stuff like Starcross and Suspended would probably be "Imaginary".
What'd be *incredibly* cool would be to get the grading scale and the rarity scale integrated into ebay :) They have drop-downs for lots of other things, why not this?
On Jan 27, 2004, at 11:44 PM, Hugh Falk wrote:
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<x-tad-bigger>This group has tackled the issue of a condition grading scale. Does anybody think it’s worth trying to put together a rarity scale? You know…to judge how common a game is. I’d recommend we call is the CURIOUS scale:</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Common</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Uncommon</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Rare</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Imaginary</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Oddity</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Unique</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Seriously, there are a few sites that do this specifically for cartridge-based media, but wouldn’t it be nice to have one for our hobby? How would we judge rarity? We could poll the list of collectors for starters. A place like Brad’s computer game collector site (</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>http://www.computergamecollector.com</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>) would be ideal for tracking this info if it was supported by most of us. We could then add more subjective info like the number of times a game was spotted on eBay. It would be great if we could actually track this as part of the DB.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Anyway, I know this is ambitious…a lot more ambitious than the condition grading scale, but what do you think?</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Speaking of ambitious, I’ll be looking into hotel conference rooms this week.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Hugh</x-tad-bigger>
