I need help with trying to buy some adventure games....

KANDYMAN-IAC · Wed 05/04/2006 04:16:35

Hello Everyone,

I', in a bit of pickle about a year and a half ago I lent some very important games to a friend. Then a little bit on I ended up moving to a different state. He now can't find them, I don't have them and I am becoming confused if i ever lent them to him. He has told we that i can find them to buy he will pay from them. But i can't really even seem to be able to do that.

The Lucas Arts classic adventure games don't seem to be being sold in australia anymore. At all. Because of this I have lost. Sam and Max, as well as DOTT, the dig, and Fullthrottle. But I would also like to find a talkie version of Loom (which I know is as rare as hell and is a collectors item).

It's a damn pity I just can't ask if any of you nice chaps had games that I could get a copy of but I realise this is against the law.

Kandyman in need of adventure help.

Radiant · Wed 05/04/2006 08:47:43

http://www.ebay.com

seaduck · Wed 05/04/2006 09:28:27

You can also find them on Amazon - but Amazon only send games to US adresses. (I don't really understand why). But this can be possibly resolved in one of these ways:

1. Ask a friend (AGSer?) in the US to help you, let Amazon send the games to his address and he will send the games to you by post. (That's what I did, and it worked perfectly!)

2. These games are mostly from Amazon marketplace - Amazon is just the mediator of other sellers. Perhaps the individual seller will be willing to send the game abroad.

Good luck!

Edit: I did a much more stupid thing, BTW. I lent a book (a rather good and expensive one) to a classmate at the university. I forgot about it and he wasn't my classmate from the next semester on anymore. I forgot his name, so I don't suppose I will ever see the book again. Talk about being stupid.

Kinoko · Wed 05/04/2006 11:30:41

I lent a very nice friend my two Grim Fandango discs (which I got from another friend so it's not like I paid for them) and I got one back (I think). I'm sure he looked sincerely for the other one but given that he's moved house now, I don't hold out much hope for it :/ I'll buy it again if I see it somewhere but yeah, these games are getting harder and harder to find

DutchMarco · Wed 05/04/2006 17:16:16

I know it's wrong to say / do this, but the term "buy the games" sticks in my mind when I read this.

But that's been discussed until everyone was blue in the face, so many times now...

BOYD1981 · Wed 05/04/2006 22:21:20

well i'm no lawyer but technically speaking it shouldn't be considered illegal to download a game you have already bought as you didn't purchase the actual code rather a licence to play the game, hence the End User Licence Agreement (which nobody has ever read and you can't actually read and agree to with most games until AFTER you've bought them as somebody who recently wrote into PC Gamer UK pointed out)...

ManicMatt · Wed 05/04/2006 23:12:54

Yeah but they no longer own the original copy, so I imagine just like if you had an album you bought and say, it was stolen off you, legally you should delete any back ups you own. (Like as if anyone would do that!)

BOYD1981 · Thu 06/04/2006 12:54:46

well legally the other person shouldn't have stolen it

Kweepa · Thu 06/04/2006 15:02:11

Hmm. Morally there's a difference between the game being stolen from you (or lost) and you lending it to someone and not getting it back because you lost touch with them. I don't see a big issue with somehow getting the game to play it again in the first instance. But in the second instance if you do that someone has gotten a free copy with your complicity.