On Mar 11, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Per-Olof Karlsson wrote: [Snip]
One thing got me quite puzzled though: he is leaving me with the impression that CPC sold no less than 30,000 copies of Akalabeth, and a mighty 50,000 copies of Ultima!? Can this really be true? Am I misinterpreting what he wrote perhaps?
No, those are the figures I've generally seen. Pretty damn good sales for the time period.
If this is really true, I cannot for the life in me understand the prices on these games. Surely there can’t be tens of thousands of hardcore Ultima collectors willing to pay several hundred bucks for these?
Most of them probably didn't survive or didn't survive intact. I think I have several CPC Ultima disks. Not so many people kept the cover sheet and/or the manual. The lack of surviving copies is what makes these rare, not the size of the production run.
Also, remember this the the start of Ultima getting big. People weren't so into collecting Ultima and Akalabeth when ziploc bags were the main packaging medium.
On another note, I’m sure you all have noticed that there is a CPC Akalabeth on eBay right now.. Nobody’s mentioned it though, so I thought I’d just say it, hehe.
That's my other one, if you don't recognize the seller. ;-)
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Edward Franks
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