[Dragom]

Originally Posted by usman

Hi All,

I am compiling a list of all RARE & Valuable Adventure Games. Any one can help or advice in adding any rare title in it ?

Hi,
do you have Umbra Conspiracy in it? do you have any information about this game? review ?
I only know the i-tube video about it. Not much...
thanks anyway!
And what about Skyborg?

[Owskie]

Originally Posted by Antoinetta

For a site that has a lot of "rare" collectors' games, check out the following hyper-Link.

http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/catalog.html

Antoinetta

I wonder how they get their games, anyways... they mark their games REAL low, kinda depressing but good at the same time.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Owskie

I wonder how they get their games, anyways... they mark their games REAL low, kinda depressing but good at the same time.

In spite of their current sale prices, most of their games have never been exactly low-priced. Gilbert Goodmate still requires a whopping 129.95 dollars! Grim Fandango and Nightlong $79.95, Hopkins FBI $89.95, Drascula $179.95...

[bliprob]

If you are looking for Skyborg, PM me. I have a shipping box of retail-ready shrinkwrapped copies in my basement. Each copy includes with a pack of the trading cards, too.

[Larry Emmo]

So there's a lot of very, very rare adventures, but the ones that are the most rare I'm guessing are games that nobody has ever even heard of and there for can't list :-). But anyway I got Nippon Safes for example and Duckman and Kyrandia series in a yellow box and probably some other supposedly very rare games but they cant be worth more then a 100 dollars at the most, not exactly big bucks?! Or please correct me if I'm wrong, I could do with a couple of thousand dollars.

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

I just bought a shrink wrapped Duckman (German) and it cost me $40US.

[Gabe]

The game is a first person, point & click adventure with whimsical, three-dimensional characters set in detailed graphical locations, which you view in 360 degrees. The collection of cute little creatures called imps is the key for saving games and solving some of the puzzles. Puzzles are varied and include the traditional ones (using inventory items, talking to non-player characters, etc.) as well as a few arcade style sequences.
Reminiscent of cartoon style LucasArts games, The Quivering brings together a blend of spookiness and comedy. Listen to voice impressions of Vincent Price and Boris Karloff. Visit and fully explore classic movie sets and meet your favorite monsters.
Yes The Quivering

[DustyShinigami]

What about Discworld 1 & 2 for PC? These must be the rarest of the rarest adventure games. You can't buy them anywhere from what i can tell, only download them from The Underdogs. They only seem available for the PlayStation.

[Larry Emmo]

Originally Posted by Alucard

What about Discworld 1 & 2 for PC? These must be the rarest of the rarest adventure games. You can't buy them anywhere from what i can tell, only download them from The Underdogs. They only seem available for the PlayStation.

No sorry I dont think so, by that logic pretty much all adventure games should be rare! There are very few games you can buy from the stores or that isn't second hand now a days but Discworld was a very popular game and they're not that old so I'm guessing a lot of people still have their old copies at home but just dont want to sell them, I know I do. So does that really make them rare. Rare games to me are games like Voodoo kid, shit games that nobody bothered to buy when they had the chance and thus only exist in a very small number of copies.

[Jadefalcon]

Two contributions by myself.

The mention of Rex Nebular brought to mind another adventure by the same company, Return of the Phantom, based on the Phantom of the Opera. I believe they also did a third adventure...Dragonsphere, that was it.

Review is here

http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/disp....jsp?index=227

Also, there is another game called Dreamweb

[Dragom]

Originally Posted by usman

Hi All,

I am compiling a list of all RARE & Valuable Adventure Games. Any one can help or advice in adding any rare title in it ?

Well, I guess I might help a little bit..., but I've no idea what you have there already... can you help me to help you?

Anyway, here are just a few:

Town With No Name (1993)
Hound of the Baskerville
Skyborg
Affaire Morlov
Drascula
Chewy: Esc from F5
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller

...but again, there are many more - if not knowing what you have I will lose track even those I am listing right now...
Cheers

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Dragom

Town With No Name (1993)
Hound of the Baskerville
Skyborg
Affaire Morlov
Drascula
Chewy: Esc from F5
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller

Ah yes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Prism Leisure Corporation (1993). I used to have it. It may be hard to find, but my mint copy got no bidders on ebay a couple of years ago. I later sold it privately for just ten dollars. It's not a game, it's a terribly watered-down version of the novel. They just added a few photographs and the voice of "Dr. Watson" who reads the novel to you. You're much better off with the real thing.

And the Morlov Affair! Shudder... a real eyeopener for me. I'd been collecting rare games on ebay and gametz like mad, I paid a lot for this one and it turned out to be the most awful stinker. The worst of the worst. Huuuu! I sold it again as fast as I could and I've become a different type of collector.

PS: I don't mean to imply that all the games you mentioned are bad. Not at all.

[Dragom]

Originally Posted by Fienepien

Ah yes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Prism Leisure Corporation (1993). I used to have it. It may be hard to find, but my mint copy got no bidders on ebay a couple of years ago. I later sold it privately for just ten dollars. It's not a game, it's a terribly watered-down version of the novel. They just added a few photographs and the voice of "Dr. Watson" who reads the novel to you. You're much better off with the real thing.

And the Morlov Affair! Shudder... a real eyeopener for me. I'd been collecting rare games on ebay and gametz like mad, I paid a lot for this one and it turned out to be the most awful stinker. The worst of the worst. Huuuu! I sold it again as fast as I could and I've become a different type of collector.

You are absolutely right about the lousy game HoB was!
Also, never finished Morlov (probably not enough interesting...).
But, to me, the main point in your note, is about how you respond to that...
I guess you took the healthy way...
On the contrary, I keep having pleasure on getting obscure games....
This is probably worse than the higher level of BAAGS (you know...).
So, among hundreds of games, which very probably I will never play, I keep hunting ALSO those "unplayable" ones.
Possibly they are rare because many threw them to the garbagge bin, still, even so, they are rare...
However make no mistake - I like good games!
(oh no don't ask me to define what is a good game - that should probably open another thread!)
Cheers!

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Dragom

On the contrary, I keep having pleasure on getting obscure games....

Nothing wrong with that. To be honest, I do too. But if they turn out to be really disappointing, I don't want to keep them around. For instance, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Who's Fat Lou, which is a mediocre game at best... or so I heard. But the choice between Fat Lou and Cosmology of Kyoto is easy.

This is probably worse than the higher level of BAAGS (you know...).
So, among hundreds of games, which very probably I will never play, I keep hunting ALSO those "unplayable" ones.
Possibly they are rare because many threw them to the garbagge bin, still, even so, they are rare...

Any adventures you're especially proud of?
I treasure my Blue Heat, Puppet Motel (PC, the Mac version is not very hard to find), The Case of the Cautious Condor, Alice: An Interactive Museum, among others.

[Kazmajik]

I've got a really old one I never hear about. It's Treasure Island, put out by Wyndham Classics in the 80s sometime. It's a text-parser adventure game, but with graphics, and the story is right out of the book where you play Jim Hawkins. I've still got the box, the 5.25" floppy disks, and the booklet that came with it.

[Marian]

Just curious...has anyone ever actually seen a Cosmology of Kyoto up for sale on eBay? I've spent a LOT of time on eBay in the last several years and have never seen one. I've never seen Who's Fat Lou, either. With the exception of those two, I believe I've seen just about every rare (mentioned) game out there at one point or another.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Marian

Just curious...has anyone ever actually seen a Cosmology of Kyoto up for sale on eBay? I've spent a LOT of time on eBay in the last several years and have never seen one. I've never seen Who's Fat Lou, either. With the exception of those two, I believe I've seen just about every rare (mentioned) game out there at one point or another.

I've seen both. Twice. Once years ago, once in 2006.

I was too late to bid on the first Fat Lou, the auction had already ended. I did bid on the second one, but someone else was determined to get it. We were the only bidders.

I remember the Mac version of Cosmology of Kyoto up for sale (just the CD, nothing else), wasn't interested. Last year there was a boxed PC version on ebay, it sold for five or six hundred dollars. Too high for me. Especially since it was the blue Western box and not the much more beautiful red and white, Japanese folding box.

PS: Looked it up, CoK sold for $481.87 on 7-Oct-'06.

[Marian]

Wow. Interesting stuff. I highly doubt I will ever be the high bidder on a Cosmology of Kyoto auction!

What designer/publisher did Who's Fat Lou? I tried to find some info on it and came up with basically zip.

[Dragom]

Originally Posted by Fienepien

...
Any adventures you're especially proud of?
I treasure my Blue Heat, Puppet Motel (PC, the Mac version is not very hard to find), The Case of the Cautious Condor, Alice: An Interactive Museum, among others.

If you mean the so called rare, I prefer to call them "hard to find" games, I would say that feel lucky for enjoying to have a nice slice of those already mentioned in this thread (among them...Cautious Condor and Murder Makes Strange Dead Fellows, 3 Skulls, Touche, Alien Incident, Master of Dimensions, The Synnergist, Noir, Masterpieces, Chewy, Detritus, Dinotopia...King, Space and Police Quest collection series, as well as Quest for Glory collection).
From those you are proud of - and I envy you! - I just have French versions of Puppet Motel, Treasure Hunter and Kama Sutra). Grackon's Curse, Alice IM and Cassandra G. are still in the form of 'backup'...no way to reach those, so far! still my struggle, lately is to get all manuals - I bought too many games without them, in the past...

[Dragom]

Originally Posted by Kazmajik

I've got a really old one I never hear about. It's Treasure Island, put out by Wyndham Classics in the 80s sometime. It's a text-parser adventure game, but with graphics, and the story is right out of the book where you play Jim Hawkins. I've still got the box, the 5.25" floppy disks, and the booklet that came with it.

I know that one. There is the first version on Floppy, and another on CD: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, developed by Europress and published by USGOLD/Front Street Publishing, right playing Jim Hawkins.
I found my still sealed box at eBay...