Re: Most elusive game
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Monet: Mystery Of the Orangerie. Sigh. Rae
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Re: Most elusive game
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05/09/03 12:54 AM
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yep, i'd say monet. just when i had enough money, it was sold out. heck, playing games interactive was the only distributor, and they only had it for a few months. i wrote wanadoo, and they didn't even realize that it was no longer published . bugs the heck out of me why they would pull the plug off of monet so soon. after all, i'm sure they must've invested a descent amount of money on the project gopher
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Re: Most elusive game
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05/09/03 02:40 AM
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Up until recently it was 'Touche : . . . . '. I missed it twice for a snip of a price due to freak disruptions of my BAAGing sensors. Finally nabbed it, but to think that I could actually have three ! What trading armory that would have been ! These days, the one I keep missing (wel-ll once !), is 'Pandora's Box', original 400 puzzle edition. Grrr ! [blip] slow internet connection ! BTW, my Monet is 'Monet : The Mystery of the Orangery ; The Adventure is in His Painting'. I'm not aware of the other title's existence. Gelert.
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Re: Most elusive game
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05/09/03 05:46 AM
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I don't know if you can get it anywhere else, I haven't looked, but The Last Express - I have now missed out on 3, that's right 3 in a row, on eBay - I just keep forgetting to check - luckily there's another one on there now (it seems to pop up quite consistently) - I will definitely get this one.
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Re: Most elusive game
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Pokey...Is American Starlex a website? Thanks I typed in the name but nothing happened so was just wondering... Happy Gamer
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Re: Most elusive game
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05/09/03 10:33 AM
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It is listed on their site, though it is hard to find--under accessories. I don't know how current the page is. You could try calling them.
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Re: Most elusive game
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05/09/03 11:24 AM
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There's a couple of oldies that have eluded me - but I didn't just miss them, I can't find them! Black Sect, Curses, the CD copy of Twilight Zone, Maupiti Island. It took me two years to finally find Hook, although it's on floppies. And Gelert, Touche is one of my very favorites, and I was so excited after a year of looking to get it - what a wonderfully funny game!
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Re: Most elusive game
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Scout, In The Dead of Night is a shareware game. I don't think you will find it boxed, but maybe they released a demo in a cardboard cover. I saw Maupiti Island at an Amiga store, but it was Amiga. Here (No surprise there) I haven't even seen the DOS version in german or French! Those should be much easier to find. The only extremely rare German games I know of are Maupiti Island and Gag. Chewy Esc From F5, Alien Incident, 3 Skulls of the Toltecs and Bud Tucker in Double Trouble are much easier to find in German.
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Re: Most elusive game
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Core, wasn't GAG developed by a Russian team? Auric Vision I think. I got hold of the Russian version, but the English one is very elusive. Scout, that's cool that you got Bazooka Sue. I knew you couldn't resist forever. Mortville Manor, Maupiti Island, Black Sect....I've given up trying to find PC versions of these. Same with ChronoQuest 1 and 2. I've been looking for Mystery at Greveholm for awhile with very little luck. Also, Who's Fat Lou? and Psycho-Killer are like they don't even exist. Who knows, that may be a good thing. I'll keep looking though.
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Re: Most elusive game
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Hey Scout! I've seen an original boxed DOS version of Maupiti Island but in Spanish and I didn't buy it. I'm still cursing Now, the English version... forget it. I think it was only distributed in Europe and not many units. And yes, you can redirect all sounds through a sound card and you need to save, save and save. What was that about Mortville Manor?? I hope you're not talking about the PC version!
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Re: Most elusive game
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A boxed copy of Dinotopia. I was so close about 5 times. Every time it was the same EBay bidder who snaked the game at the last minute. The last time I wasted bidding - I had the winning bid til the last 5 seconds. Swoop - Mr. "I must buy every copy of Dinotopia on earth" - swooped in and grabbed it. Bidding then closed and I couldn't couter bid. I did finally get a JC version, gave up on the boxed version. Sometimes I wonder what that guy wants with all the copies? I checked and they never sell any games. He also paid whatever price it took to get each game. From 365.00 to 32.00. Maybe he redid his rec room with Dinotopia boxes or something. I have seen boxed copies (or at least one boxed copy) of In The Dead of Night. It's a cool game. I know I saw one at EBay a long while back and every once in a while one pops up. Laura
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Re: Most elusive game
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Gee, you almost give me heart attack. If you thought Maupiti Island for the PC was hard to get then you'll be glad to know that Mortville Manor is even worse. In fact, it is so rare that actually few can tell if it really was made for the PC.
About Maupiti Island - what OS are you currently using? Have you tried VDMSound?
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Re: Most elusive game
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Originally posted by Scout: Also just got Bazooka Sue, by the same artist who did Chewy. It's only in German though the walkthrough translates very nicely using Babel Fish. It can be hard to find, I guess. It's quite common on eBay in Germany. Very cheap too, couple of dollars. That is also true for the German version of Chewy, Bud Tucker, Gene Machine, Orion Burger etcetera. But yeah, I've never seen a DOS version of Maupiti Island though I guess it exists....somewhere. In the Home of the Underdogs..? I know, I know, I'm not trying to open a can of worms, it's just that when you've already PAID for something, like I did in the eighties for the Magnetic Scrolls for instance... well, you know what I mean. IMO. Betje
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Re: Most elusive game
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Betje, I meant that there are probably copies of Maupiti Island in collections, attics, packed away in storage units, who knows, maybe a pallet load of them sitting next to one of Alice Interactive in some forgotten warehouse like what happened with Liath... :-) I know it's on UD but somehow it's not quite the same as having the real game though it's a great research resource and archive of what once was and now is no more. Rael, It's on Amiga Classix 3, a compilation cd of old Amiga games that come bundled with an emulator to convert to PC. I loaned it out so I don't have it here to look at but I couldn't get the emulator to work properly on my Win 98se system. I think I remember it being one of the more common Amiga emulators. The person I loaned it to couldn't get it work either. It's really hit and miss. Here it is on e-bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3023016762&category=11991
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Re: Most elusive game
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took me over 5 years to get the nintendo game dragon warrior 4 it took over 2 years to get super nintindo games - kirby's dreamland 3 and kirby's super star and harvest moon. for computer games - over 2 years to get touche - with box and manual and vampire diaries with manual. bud tucker - cd only, chewy escape from f5 with manual, quest for glory and king's quest collection - with manuals and terratopia 0 cd only - over a year to get. nickie and i talked about monet and she predicted it wouldn't be available very long and turns out she was right. how glad i am that i kept the one i got in a trade a while back. games that are still elusive for me are these. super ninendo game - terranigma pc games - nephi's quest nigel's world bluebeard & new robinson with english subtitles twilight zone
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Re: Most elusive game
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I want to get Obsidian-have tried to bid for it on e-bay but the price always goes up too high-is it really as good as everyone seems to think? Also want to get Pandora Directive-love Tex murphy and have UAKM and Overseer.
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Re: Most elusive game
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Trying to buy Obsidian on ebay (even though it's not that rare of a game) was an eye-opening experience. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> I would bid up to what I thought was pretty fair (i.e. around $50) and kept getting outbid. But curiously, within a few days, I would get an email from "somebody" who had another way I could buy Obsidian. They had "lots" of the game, brand new, in a jewel case, sealed. I'm sure you know the drill. It had "PIRATED" screaming at me. I will not buy pirated games knowingly (although I have borrowed games to play if I can't buy them....case in point "Ghosts") and I mean knowingly because the first time I bought a game on ebay (Azrael's Tear) I ended up with 50 pirated copies. When I fessed up how naive I was here at GB, it generated a chuckle or two. Marion
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Re: Most elusive game
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Originally posted by Scout: [QB] Betje,
I meant that there are probably copies of Maupiti Island in collections, attics, packed away in storage units, who knows, maybe a pallet load of them sitting next to one of Alice Interactive in some forgotten warehouse like what happened with Liath... :-) With Reah too! That must have been a Project Two Interactive warehouse. Betje
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Re: Most elusive game
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Looking for Yellow Brick Road by any chance...? One or two elusive games, that's the hallmark of a really great collection. Betje
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Re: Most elusive game
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bigmamma1 -
Try Gametz for Obsidian. I found it there and almost bought it but the lady who had it for sale (Diane Wegmann) was on vacation and didn't answer my email until 2 months later. By that time I'd found it elsewhere. She still has it listed. Also our very own housewife (Liz) has it listed there too.
Good luck!
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Re: Most elusive game
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Finding Yellow Brick Road is definitely tough. Finding its sequel is 100X tougher.
Nickie, I haven't heard anything about either the Twilight Zone game or Curses. Do you (or anyone else) have info on these? Thanks!
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Re: Most elusive game
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up until recently it was "bad mojo"... it just slipped thru my fingers at ebay, due to me not paying attention ! but, thanks to scout, i have it now my other elusive games are "liath" and "bad day on the midway"
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Re: Most elusive game
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I've been looking for Gene Machine for ages. It never comes up on ebay. Somebody from Italy offered to sell it me for over $100, but as I told her, I don't collect games, I just want to play them. Oh well, I probably couldn't get it to run anyway.
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Re: Most elusive game
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I have been looking for Tivola's "Opera Fatale" for ages now.
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Re: Most elusive game
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I'm still looking for the Roberta Williams Anthology. In fact, I've just put my Sherlock Holmes: Rose Tattoo up for trade in exchange for it in the trading post. The first Laura Bow game was the first one I played on a computer (with graphics), and I have wanted the anthology for a couple of years. Happy gaming, Beth
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Re: Most elusive game
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Every game I don't own. I am not joking, since there are so few adventure games availebly in Norway I can buy those I find.
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