I don’t watch my local classified (kijiji.ca) religiously but I do look every now and again. And on occasion I do find games that I would like to have. The three games below were from one seller and they were listed for $180 CAD for all three. I thought that was very expensive. To get a better idea of their value I searched for recently sold listings on ebay for each title. I was surprised to see that they have recently sold for amounts that would add up to about what this sellers was asking for.
But since ebay is not a healthy indicator of value I still was not compelled to pay the $180 asking price. I sent an offer of $100. I was pretty sure that I was at risk of offending the seller. So I said something to the effect of ‘here’s my offer if you find these aren’t selling please let me know’. I did not have to wait. I got a quick counter offer of $120 for all three.
You know what happened next. I bought them. $40 each doesn’t feel like a steal but it’s still affordable enough for complete good condition games.
The Flintstones is in very good shape. The plastic case photographs well but it does have some nicks and dings.
The next two games feel similar in genre and style. I’ve heard good things about both. Uncharted Waters and Pirates Gold are in similar condition. Both are in good shape while the manuals have some wear and Pirates looks like the cover might have some mild sunfade.
I spent some time speaking with the seller and I found out that he’s leaving the country and selling his games that he feels are not his personal essentials. Hopefully he’ll be able to keep everything that really matters to him and get some cool stuff with the money made.
And I will enjoy having some new games for the Sega Collection.
Retro Megabit 
Pirates Gold is such a fun game. Nice score!
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I’ve heard that a lot. From watching gameplay videos it actually looks a bit boring but I believe there must be more to from all the feedback I hear. I’ll have to give it a go.
Did you play it on PC or the Genesis?
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I’ve played Pirates! on the C64 and multiple PC versions (the last was Sid Meier’s Pirates!) and it’s a fun game. It’s got a bit of action in it but I think its mostly a chilled experience as you travel around pursuing your goals. 🙂
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See, that sounds pretty good; “a chilled experience”.
I don’t always want games that need super fast twitch reflexes. I’m feeling extra good about these additions!
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You definitely did well with your purchases! I wish I could find more games with boxes! 🙂
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I’m noticing that it’s definitely harder these days to find complete Genesis games. They don’t come around too often. But it’s still worth looking. What are some of your favorite boxed Genesis games that you have?
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No Genesis games for me at this stage – been trying to get my collection on Atari consoles and computers in order. Quite envious of your collection though! 🙂
I really like the 16bit era of game systems though… I think in a lot of ways the good games hold up better compared to others before and even after it.
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Atari is a good system to collect for! True classics and where home console gaming began. I really do love the cover art on Atari games. If you have a picture of your collection I’d love to see it.
I have a handful of games for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I love some of those games like Munch-man, Parsec and TI Invaders!
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I post a few things up from time to time but I think I should do a little more – I do like the extra attention you take in getting great pictures of the boxes and games.
Here’s a couple of my links:
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Love that boxed Dragon’s Lair! That game truly blew my mind when I first saw it in the arcade. It wasn’t graphics; it was a cartoon that you played. The wow factor was off the charts.
It looks like you have good amount of boxed games in great condition. You need to find a shelf and some room. I know, it’s easier said than done.
I do like taking pictures of my games. It’s strangely satisfying. I also like posting the occasional gameplay videos but that takes a lot more time and I can’t do it as often as I would like.
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The copy of Dragon’s Lair was my brother’s and I remember it being a pretty big deal at the time – he was rapt getting that as a gift. The Atari ST version does a really great job of looking like the original game (I think it’s about 60-70% of it) but it really thrashes the floppy discs as you’re playing. 🙂
A few of these are sitting on shelves now so I’l try to set them out so the best are noticed. Now that you mention it, the Dragon’s Lair box is one of the best looking ones I have there… 🙂
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That’s insane. I can’t image Dragon’s Lair running from floppy. Or even installing from floppy!
Wasn’t the original arcade version running from LaserDisc?
How many floppy’s are in the Atari ST version?
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Yep, the arcade game was originally Laserdisc! I believe there even used to be software available that let you hook up a home computer to a LD player and drive Dragons Lair but I never seen or read more about that. Needless to say it was likely an expensive option!!!
I’ll need to dig through my disk boxes (I keep them separate from the game boxes as they weren’t safely held in place) but there’s at least four floppies so it was possibly the biggest game in the collection. It was also specially formatted for early ST owners with single sided drives so they could play the game but only get half of the content. Crazy stuff! Developers on ST/Amiga were able to do some impressive stuff but we’re really hamstrung by those 800k floppy drives.
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That Flintstones game has always intrigued me. How is it?
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Like a lot of my games Flinstones is one that I’ve never tried. At the time the price felt good so I scooped it while I could. I find the games I play the most are the same games I use to play when the Genesis was current. And games that I knew about back then and wanted but never had until now.
I do hope I get to it one day. Right now my attention has bee on my Sega CD; where I’ve been playing Popful Mail and Lunar.
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I feel you on that. As I get older, I gravitate toward the same couple dozen games. Nice! Love Lunar so much; that game has endless charm. The PSP remake was so good too.
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