Ebay Buy: Holy S**t!!

[DanClarke]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MONKEY-ISLAND-2-1991-SEALED-BOX-FREE-WORLD-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ8233706460QQcategoryZ11047QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

:o

[Privateer Puddin']

What's the point in keeping it sealed? The best thing you can do with MI2 is play it

[DanClarke]

What's the point in keeping it sealed? The best thing you can do with MI2 is play it

or keep it sealed and sell it for £100?

[Privateer Puddin']

no, mi2 is worth more than £100 to me

[DanClarke]

no, mi2 is worth more than £100 to me

im sure a 'normal' copy could be aquirred for about £2 somewhere.

[Anarcho]

99 pounds is like, 200 us dollars, right?  who the heck will buy that?  It's not even that good anyway...

[Ubel]

99 pounds is like, 200 us dollars, right?Ã,  who the heck will buy that?

A collector?

no, mi2 is worth more than £100 to me

Would YOU buy it for £100? I wouldn't

[DanClarke]

lol call me crazy, but i just bought it, ive spoken to a few people who think a sealed copy could be worth quite a lot more...

[Privateer Puddin']

* Privateer Puddin' goes to game and gets friend to seal old adventure game boxes

[Privateer Puddin']

no, mi2 is worth more than £100 to me

Would YOU buy it for £100? I wouldn't

If i had to, sure.

Dan, I personally don't think it'll be much more, i'm a massive mi2 fan and i don't want it, now.. one of those Ron Gilbert signed boxes from ronfest..

[vict0r]

99 pounds is like, 200 us dollars, right? who the heck will buy that? It's not even that good anyway...

Aaah! :o Blasfemia!

[magintz]

Lots of companies have shrink wrapping machines like my work does, sealing something is as easy as pie, watch out for that.

I work in a video game shop and when we had a store refit we cleared all the cabinets and found some brand new unused jaguar and saturn games ^_^

[Huw Dawson]

Hmm... recently I bought DOTT VGA boxed set from Cancer Reaserch UK for fifty pence... It's complete with book, all floppy disks and everything. I wonder how much it's worth?

[Tom S. Fox]

99 pounds is like, 200 us dollars, right?

I purchased the rare enhanced multi-language CD audio version of Monkey Island 1 with the Monkey Island 2 Interface a while ago, and that was not as expensive!

[DanClarke]

99 pounds is like, 200 us dollars, right?

I purchased the rare enhanced multi-language CD audio version of Monkey Island 1 with the Monkey Island 2 Interface a while ago, and that was not as expensive!

its not in the vicinty of 200 dollars, when has the exchange rate ever been oveer $2 to £1? Besides, stuff like this is what are student loans are for 

[Tom S. Fox]

Well, then it's better.
I've been wondering.
But still, it is quite expensive!

[ildu]

100 pounds is pretty much exactly 172 american dollars. This is according to yesterday's rate.

Btw, I've got boxed copies of a lot of games. No Monkey Island 2, though. For example, my original boxes include:

Alien Incident
Beavis & Butthead Do U
Beavis & Butthead in Virtual Stupidity
Beneath a Steel Sky
Congo: Descent into Zinj
Curse of Enchantia
Curse of Monkey Island, The
Day of the Tentacle
Discworld
Discworld 2: Missing Presumed...?!
Eco Quest
Escape from Monkey Island
Gabriel Knight 3
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Last Express
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail
Litil Divil
Longest Journey, The
Orion Burger
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Sanitarium

Then I have some old and some new collections. I've got the Gabriel Knight Mysteries collection, which includes GK1 (with speech), GK2, a graphic novel for GK3, a soundtrack and also the GK book. I got it for 10 euros. It's from 1998. Another collection is the Classic Adventures from Lucasarts collection, containing Monkey Island, Loom, Indy: Last Crusade, Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken. It's also got a huge manual that contains info for all games. It's an old one, from 1992. Another collection is one with the two first Simon the Sourcerers. It's from 1995. It was supposed to contain a t-shirt, but it wasn't in the box. I've also got Space Quest 4, but there's no box for it.

[DanClarke]

ahhh leisure suit larry love for sail, that wa actually a very good gamne i thought! it had some sniff pad with it that had different smells lol, i used to have it but i lost it in a house fire 

[ildu]

It's very cool that all the oldies had so many extra plugs in the game packages. For example Larry 7 with the sniff pad, Sam n Max with the manual dress codes or MI2 and Litil Divil with the code wheels. They should have more of that nowadays. That's also one thing I'm worried about in the future when digital distribution becomes more common. I don't want Telltale's Sam n Max in episodic format as data on my HD. I want a big cardboard box, a complimentary comic, an old-style manual and a subscription ticket for free walkthrough support via telephone . The only thing I want changed from the original is diskettes.

[imspeshul]

Thats a complete rip-off, I downloaded that game 3 months ago off a warez site.