If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the
FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to
register or
login before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| 20 MAY 2009 at 12:16am |
SAMSpace Cadet
Posts : 148
Joined: 13 FEB 2004
Status : Online | Would the extreme heat/exreme cold of your attic warp your discs?
|
| 20 MAY 2009 at 1:40am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Whisper (19 MAY 2009 7:45pm)
As for Mortville Manor. I'm ashamed.
Ah... too bad, I nearly wet myself when I saw your box picture. All I can say is: I told you!
Now seriously, I've been hunting for this title over many years but I never saw it surface. Only a couple of years ago I finally concluded that no English version was ever released for PC (I actually had a good source confirming this but I honestly forgot what it was).
Mind you, that's still a pretty neat find you got there! More valuable than TWO copies of Alice together - yup, two of them.
As for Black Sect, you're right. Not English. I have a Maupiti too, but it's German with an English text box. I have copies of the English version on diskettes as well though. So, I just pretend to myself that I have the English version. Why? Because I'm a sad person I suppose!
I have a Spanish copy of Maupiti Island and I really treasure it. Probably not as rare as an actual English copy, but it has the manual and disks intact. And - um - I guess I'm also a sad person because I'd do the same in your situation.
BTW I actually found a way around a crazy bug present in ALL of the Maupiti Island translations which makes the game hang hopelessly if you read any document outside your cabin. I can send you the modified file if you'd like to.
There was a 3rd game in the series planeed, wasn't there? Surikya or something like that. I've seen the screenshots on the Lankhor site, I'm sure. Too lazy to check now though. Doh!
Oh yes. Shameless plug:
http://www.justadventure.com/articles/UnfinishedGames/UnfinishedGames.shtm
My gawd, that article is SEVEN years old. There's a small glimpse of Sukiya there but you can find some very exclusive shots over at www.lankhor.net - I'd kill for the remaining code of that game [smiley=evil.gif]
|
| 20 MAY 2009 at 7:19am |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (19 MAY 2009 10:53pm)
Originally Posted By Whisper (19 MAY 2009 7:45pm)
As for Mortville Manor. I'm ashamed. I went up to my 'secret' game store room
Which would be the attic?
[size=14][font=Comic Sans MS]Until the fateful night of the dreaded leaky roof last November they were. But no more ......... oh noooo! No more! That was a very narrow escape indeed. I was daft to store them there in the first place.
|
| 20 MAY 2009 at 7:08pm |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | BTW I actually found a way around a crazy bug present in ALL of the Maupiti Island translations which makes the game hang hopelessly if you read any document outside your cabin. I can send you the modified file if you'd like to.
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=14]Hi Agustin. I'd welcome that. Thanks for the kind offer. I'll p.m. you.
|
| 22 MAY 2009 at 6:07am |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Whisper (20 MAY 2009 7:18am)
Originally Posted By SirDave (19 MAY 2009 10:53pm)
Originally Posted By Whisper (19 MAY 2009 7:45pm)
As for Mortville Manor. I'm ashamed. I went up to my 'secret' game store room
Which would be the attic?
[size=14][font=Comic Sans MS]Until the fateful night of the dreaded leaky roof last November they were. But no more ......... oh noooo! No more! That was a very narrow escape indeed. I was daft to store them there in the first place.
Send your collection here to Arizona - the soothing dry arid climate is just what they need
Nice box by the way... I recall some time ago mentioning that I'd played Cranston Manor on an old IBM 5150 PC (mid to early 80’s). It was quickly pointed out that doing so should have been impossible (because no one recalled it being distributed for the PC). I wonder.... maybe this was the game I played…
BTW - if you run across a boxed copy of Bargon Attack – I know someone that would appreciate a bit of information.
|
| 27 MAY 2009 at 10:23am |
DeeZasterIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 21 OCT 2008
Status : Offline | This is easy, its the most controversial game ever made (or stolen I should say). The game is... Limbo of the Lost. I've seen it being sold last year for hundreds but I doubt you'll ever find it on ebay again (it might be banned now to sell).
|
| 27 MAY 2009 at 10:29am |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2751
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | Darn, i really regret not buying it when i saw it on sale. And it was only about 200sek (slightly more than 20€).
|
| 27 MAY 2009 at 2:40pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Does Ringworld and Return to Ringworld count as rare? These are both DOS games that come on a CD and I just brought them at Amazon on Memorial Day (May 25th).
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
|
| 27 MAY 2009 at 3:35pm |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By DeeZaster (27 MAY 2009 10:23am)
This is easy, its the most controversial game ever made (or stolen I should say). The game is... Limbo of the Lost. I've seen it being sold last year for hundreds but I doubt you'll ever find it on ebay again (it might be banned now to sell).
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=14].... and if I had one, unopened, to sell, how much do you think it would sell for now?
Originally Posted By K515 (27 MAY 2009 2:40pm)
Does Ringworld and Return to Ringworld count as rare? These are both DOS games that come on a CD and I just brought them at Amazon on Memorial Day (May 25th).
K515, Ringworld is fairly frequently seen on eBay, but Return to Ringworld is there less often, and is far more sought after. I think there's one on there now at a fairly high 'Buy-It-Now' price.
|
| 27 MAY 2009 at 3:50pm |
loobilooPrivate Detective
Posts : 598
Joined: 3 APR 2008
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Interesting question Gelert! It had been available from a lot of sources way after the controversial revelations until fairly recently. I guess availability lasted until previously ordered stocks had dried up. I had a search earlier & it was nowhere to be found!
Another rare & almost impossible game to find is Jekyll & Hyde produced for the Playstation 2 in the UK. I saw it in a store when it first came out & wish I had bought it there & then because I haven't come across it since!
|
| 29 MAY 2009 at 2:35pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Geler (27 MAY 2009 3:34pm)
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=14]
K515, Ringworld is fairly frequently seen on eBay, but Return to Ringworld is there less often, and is far more sought after. I think there's one on there now at a fairly high 'Buy-It-Now' price.
I found it, Gelert. Here is a link to the ebay page: http://cgi.ebay.com/RETURN-TO-RINGWORLD-rare-cd-pc-game-manual-larry-niven_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247QQcategoryZ11988QQihZ011QQitemZ320367074813QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1VQQsalenotsupported
Boy, am I glad that I grabbed the one on Amazon on Memorial Day for $17.69 plus S & H!
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
|
| 7 NOV 2009 at 12:08am |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline |
I know I'm at risk of accusations of blatant advertising (but still, I thought, in relation to our conversation here of a few months back), but I thought I'd let y'all know that I'm selling my Maupiti Island, Touche The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer, Dinotopia, Piri: The Explorer Ship, Cassandra Galleries, and others on eBay at the moment. Just listed Maupiti Island tonite.
It's here; http://shop.ebay.co.uk/sniffer_dog/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
|
| 9 NOV 2009 at 12:02pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Damn! I'll just have to bid on that one Animal is also a great find too.
Are there blurbs in three languages on the back of the Maupiti box?
|
| 15 NOV 2009 at 11:23pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Aw! I missed grabbing Cassandra Galleries! But then again when I buy on ebay, I always stick to the "buy it now's" and I never bid - thus I guarentee that I get the game rather than losing it to a higher bidder (this happened back in early 2002 when I was bidding on MS Space Simulator on ebay, and woe, was I very upset to lose it!).
But I grabbed that Celtica (Dutch version from a seller in the Netherlands) PC game a fortnight ago and Morpheus from a fellow gamer on this forum back in Aug. 2009. My Dutch Celtica has the exact same gameplay/screenshots as the US version, only the stuff you have to read during gameplay is in Dutch.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
|
| 17 NOV 2009 at 1:27am |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rael (9 NOV 2009 12:01pm)
Damn! I'll just have to bid on that one Animal is also a great find too.
Are there blurbs in three languages on the back of the Maupiti box?
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=14]Just saw this Agustin. Sorry. Topic notification didn't work for some reason.
The answer's YES. In 3 languages, including English. The game sold tonite though. Sorry if you missed it. :-/
|
| 17 NOV 2009 at 1:31am |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By K515 (15 NOV 2009 11:23pm)
Aw! I missed grabbing Cassandra Galleries!
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=14]I haven't listed this yet. Listing it this week, or next. Plus Touche: Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer, Piri The Explorer Ship, and, perhaps, a few others.
|
| 20 NOV 2009 at 8:30pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Ack! The eBay alert didn't work. Double damn! >
What was the selling price?
|
| 20 NOV 2009 at 10:50pm |
GelertPrivate Detective
Posts : 492
Joined: 14 MAY 2004
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rael (20 NOV 2009 8:30pm)
What was the selling price?
Not as much as I'd hoped. >
|
| 21 NOV 2009 at 1:37am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I enjoyed Cassandra Galleries; it's a straight puzzle game, minimal storyline which is the excuse for all the puzzles. Nice. Pity they don't make this sort of game anymore.
|
| 21 NOV 2009 at 2:07am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Whisper (20 NOV 2009 10:50pm)
Originally Posted By Rael (20 NOV 2009 8:30pm)
What was the selling price?
Not as much as I'd hoped. >
Come on, you can tell. I will be the one that laments the most anyway
The sad thing is that not many people truly appreciates Maupiti Island and its value.
|
