Ultima: Escape From Mount Drash

[Mayhem]

No, not mine... but Peter Olafson is selling his copy (sign of the apocalypse?). This is the version I was runner-up on bidding way back in 2004!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161229528882?ss ... 1423.l2649

I knew about this in advance, but as no one had posted it here yet, I figured I'd do it...

[orion70]

Will there ever be a complete high-res set of scans of the box, manuals, and cassette? I'd like to reproduce them on a real box, so that I can have my own copy of it

[rhurst]

There are already... and there's a small stash of them selling right next to the crates of Windows 8.1 and Winter Olympic memorabilia.

[Mayhem]

Will there ever be a complete high-res set of scans of the box, manuals, and cassette? I'd like to reproduce them on a real box, so that I can have my own copy of it

No, for that precise reason. No chance of letting anyone try to reproduce something worth thousands of dollars and listing fake auctions...

[orion70]

I am sure nobody can reproduce these items without doing a poor, trivial imitation, as I did before for Infocom adventures, and more recently with Microsoft's original Adventure (1981). It's only a way to spend my time reproducing boxed complete games, which never existed or I can't afford.

[Mayhem]

I know a couple of people who make excellent reproduction and original cardboard boxes, so I and they would politely disagree on the point of quality. This is also why there's no public TAP of the game either, to prevent people from making fake original tapes.

[Barney]

I know a couple of people who make excellent reproduction and original cardboard boxes, so I and they would politely disagree on the point of quality. This is also why there's no public TAP of the game either, to prevent people from making fake original tapes.

You know....for a game that is supposedly so rare, I sure see quite a few of them for sale out there. I bought a game a few years back, and have never once seen once since: Close Encounters of the Worst Kind.

[Mayhem]

It can be a fallacy just relating observational occurrences... I would suspect the reason for seeing EfMD more often for sale is that more people know that it is worth something, and more people are looking to purchase it, which pushes the price up.

A number of years ago, while my ex-gf was researching and helping to put together a PS1 rarity list and price guide, it was evident early on that many of the harder to find titles were selling for less than expected, and certainly less than some much easier to find in-demand games. This was mainly due to a lot of collectors not realising what the rare games were, the rare games being usually not so good (which is partly why they never sold much in the first place), and letting the market balance itself out.

Let people know, and they will come, to paraphrase a quote from Field of Dreams. That moment for EfMD was ten years ago, when this precise copy sold on eBay for $3,605. Outside of THE first Apple II Akalabeth release, this is probably the rarest Ultima game to purchase.

I know Close Encounters is really, really rare (I do own a copy as well). You know it's rare. A lot of folks do not. And the demand would be a lot, lot less. People like playing ROM dumps of rare cartridges to save having to purchase them

[Barney]

I prefer to play my favorite games on the Mega-Cart....but there is nothing like owning the ORIGINAL as well.

[Mayhem]

And the final price... $3,050. About what the CIB copy last year sold for. So the price has stabilised a bit heh.