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Rarity Guide

mibemibe
edited April 2005 in Games
Will there ever be a rarity guide of Spectrum Games?

The rarity guide on Atari games (www.atariage.com) is awesome and this helps people value the goods before spending a fortune on eBay...
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2005
    Phil Kendalls gonna be writing one very soon :)

    *runs and hides*
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited April 2005
    Seriously (look the word up in the dictionary mel :lol: ) though, I think that could be a job for someone on the preservation team, seeing as they would know which games are difficult to find.

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  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited April 2005
    Its an idea. I am currently designing some pages for my site that, whilst not being a rarity guide, will have the ability to show who has what in their collections. I guess the less copies of a title in the database, the rarer the title is.

    It will also act as a guide for prices as it will work out the average price paid for titles. This is all assuming that people use it!

    This might be a good place to start with other peoples ideas as I have a general idea of whats going to happen, but input is always good.

    One other 'feature' is that users will be able to generate pages for their own websites as well.

    Due to other commitments, this is going to take around 6 months to do, so theres plenty of time to get some thoughts in.
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2005
    ill get lister in on it....he has one thought about every 6 months, must be one due soon :)
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  • usspeccyfanusspeccyfan
    edited April 2005
    I know of some one with a copy of Death Pit!!!!! that's awful rare!
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited April 2005
    Ofcourse you do.
  • Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
    edited April 2005
    @usspeccyfan

    This one:
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Death+Pit$&pub=^Durell+Software+Ltd$

    If you have, then we'd love to get it preserved in the archive.

    Cheers


  • Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
    edited April 2005
    @mibe

    <Joke Mode>
    You could always go into the spectrum catagory on eBay and type the word Rare or [email="R@RE"]R@RE[/email] and you'll get loads of games comming up... like the ultra rare scrabble by psion :oooo.
    </Joke Mode>

    Joking aside, I guess most MIAs can be considered rare as many remaning ones are by small houses and possibly only sold a few.

    People have different opinions of what is rare and what it not.

    Lee's page should help, but of course you have have some eBayers using it and lobbing the said title in for the max value.

    Someone once, said, "It's as rare as you think it is" Or "It's worth what you're willing to pay". Actually I dunno if anyone actually said that, but words similar were muttered somewhere, along with "Crap I got outbid !!!"

    Cheers

    Andy
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited April 2005
    And I'm well known amongst the archive team for my speedy delivery of scripts.

    Eh? Whats that Tony?
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  • usspeccyfanusspeccyfan
    edited April 2005
    OK, OK....it was a copy of Sabotuer in a death pit box.....any way how much would Jeff Minter's 3D3D go up for now?
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