Ebay Buy: Holy S**t!!

[DanClarke]

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

*sigh* i didnt pay as much as i did so i could look forward to pulling the sealing off the game and getting it installed straight away.

[Janik]

It's very cool that all the oldies had so many extra plugs in the game packages. ... I want a big cardboard box ...

I'm kind of glad that the game makers have switched to smaller boxes. I have a box that had Gabriel Knight 1 and 2 (and a paperback novel (!) based on GK1 which I never read), that box is so huge it barely fits anywhere. The worst was opening a big box, taking out a bunch of cardboard and getting a single CD in its case. No manual, nothing. Why have a box 12 times the size of the CD?!

[Gilbert]

Because:
1. It looks better on the shelf .
2. It makes you think your money is more well-spent.
3. Larger boxart.

[edmundito]

I've never owned the original Monkey Island 1 and 2 Boxes. The version I usually play is the cd version that came with CMI as part of a special promotion. But once, I got to see the original Monkey Island box, from a fellow Monkey Island fan, and it was the greatest thing evar.

[Babar]

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!

I (not so recently) acquired the same CD. But I got it free with my Soundblaster Card .
While I wouldn't pay $200 for sealed Monkey Island 2 game, I'd probably buy it for $50 (which probably amounts to the same when converted to units of "Monkey Craze"). The boxed version is definitely better than downloading it off the net.

[Ishmael]

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

You don't apparently see the nostalgy and collector's value here. Sure, I have downloaded the first game I ever played - Doom - off a warez site a long time ago. But I would pay about anything to get my hands on a boxed copy of it. I've played it through several times, know almost every secret, and such, so there isn't much in that sense left, but to feel the weight of the box in your hands and know it's something so old and still so great and...

So on. Got carried away.

[Tom S. Fox]

it had some sniff pad with it that had different smells lol, i used to have it but i lost it in a house fireÃ, 

House fire?
And you are sad about losing the sniff pad?

[Elliott Hird]

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

1: It's a collectors item from 1991.
2: No warez talk on the forum.

Go away.

[DanClarke]

it had some sniff pad with it that had different smells lol, i used to have it but i lost it in a house fireÃ, 

House fire?
And you are sad about losing the sniff pad?

yeah i lost a lot of stuff, there was a gass expolion in my house so i had to jump out of the window, not great fun. 7 months of living in hotels and rented houses whilst ours was rebuilt = not nice.

[Ishmael]

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

Fuck off.
1: It's a collectors item from 1991.
2: No warez talk on the forum.

Go away.

3. If you're not a moderator, don't pretend to be one.

I know I am not one, but I am just stating a somewhat common opinion here. You really should watch your postings before you have the mods on your back for real.

[vict0r]

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

Fuck off.
1: It's a collectors item from 1991.
2: No warez talk on the forum.

Go away.

Whats wrong with downloading?

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Downloading illegal material is generally looked upon as illegal...

I don't think Elliot Herd was acting like a moderator, it was just a general response to a rather "Look at me, I'm a dumbass!" post.

By the way, Impeshul, it's kinda like most vintage things.  Sure, you could buy a better car cheaper, but it's a collectors item.

[Elliott Hird]

That's, K. N.

(-_- butt saved once again)

[Ubel]

I think Elliott WAS acting like a moderator. He does that quite often. AND imspeshul wasn't actually talking warez since he didn't paste a link to any warez site or anything like that. He simply stated he downloaded it illegally 3 months ago.

[ildu]

I used to have a policy that I wouldn't download any adventure games and would always buy the game. The first AG I didn't buy was Grim Fandango. Ironically, it turned out to be the best AG game I ever played. And I always regretted that I didn't buy it.

[ManicMatt]

Is my Lord of the rings text adventure trilogy worth anything? (Even if I thought it was crap?)

I also have "the three stooges" in it's box.

Not an adventure game, but Zool 2 had free stickers and a poster, and a chupa chups lolly inside! I bet someone has kept the lolly as a collecters item, but with added mould, ugh! (If sweets EVER get mouldy)

I played monkey island 1 on a lucasarts classics collection.

Somewhat off subject, but I played the monkey games in this order:

2,1,4,3

[m0ds]

Elliot - I don't appreciate your potty mouth on this board, please don't let that happen again. & yes you did act like a moderator - and although warez is bad - someone merely mentioned it, not promote the use of it. This post was reported, and someone was genuinly offended by your reaction. Please try and control your rage over a "computer game" in the future.

[AlbinoPanther]

We don't have enought money
We don't have credit card (who have it in Serbia?)
We don't work
We pay collage 1000 euros per year
We LOVE Monkey Island Madness
We want to download it

Now help us or hang us

[Helm]

are those the only two options?

[Gilbert]

We don't have enought money
We don't have credit card (who have it in Serbia?)
We don't work
We pay collage 1000 euros per year
We LOVE Monkey Island Madness
We want to download it

No matter what, none of these are reasons for pirating a game, they're just excuses.
Well if you have no other choice...

* Gilbot V7000a ties a long rope onto a high branch of a large tree...