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Fallom posted:It's feast or famine with those places. I hit up 2-3 thrift shops every weekend or two and go months without a find, then one day I get something like this: Nice. You could probably sell Ultima 7 and Underworld II for at least $50 each if they're complete with all the manuals, maps and trinkets (U7 came with a little metal fellowship medallion and a cloth map, UU2 had a little bag with metal rune stones in).
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jojoinnit posted:I found a boxed copy of Wing Commander 2. Did I miss out on any gold? I see copies on ebay at under $20 with no bids. So no, sorry!
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On another note, the only Ultima games I don't own in the original big box with all the goodies inside are 1, 2 and Escape from Mt Drash. I never see the first two on offer for under $200, and Drash seems to often be > $400 which is just insane. I don't own any of the compilations either, but they're basically worthless. I'm betting I could get a fair few quid for 3-9, both World of Ultimas, both Underworlds and every boxed version of UO. Anyone want to sell me Ultima 1 or 2 for a not-completely-crazy price?
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Fallom posted:Not only are they complete, they have all the previous owner's notes and dungeon maps carefully written out on paper. Hah, drawing out maps for RPGs - now that's a relic
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Dr. Quarex posted:I feel like Escape From Mt. Drash usually went for more like $10,000 but I suppose I have not paid attention for a few years. I remember a complete, boxed copy going for something like that yeah. I see it on ebay for < $1,000 but it's usually incomplete or unboxed or generally in poo poo condition. There's a copy of Ultima II right now with a completely torn up box that the seller is asking hundreds of dollars for, lol.
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FilthyImp posted:30 MEGS? Jesus. Did they forget to include a whole set of levels or something? My good man let me introduce you to a little thing called GetRight, to ensure your downloads always get completed! poo poo, I'm 15-20 years too late, aren't I? edit: lol GetRight still exists.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The thing that wrecked me was the fact that the original Demo for Kingpin Life of Crime was 109MB. We downloaded it on the Optical at work because even with ISDN, it would have taken forever. I downloaded a one-CD DivX rip of The Exorcist (right before it was unbanned in the UK, so early 1999) and it took an entire week on my 33.6kbps modem 
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Randaconda posted:Regular movies being banned outright is so weird to me. The Exorcist ran in cinemas and you could get it on VHS in the early 80s. The UK still had blasphemy laws on the books at that time, which a lot of people attribute to the ban, but what actually happened was in 1984 they introduced the Video Recordings Act, which meant anything being sold for home video now had to be given an age rating by the BBFC. The director of the BBFC at the time, James Ferman, was a notoriously conservative crybaby and refused to allow The Exorcist to have a certificate, because he thought it would result in children watching it. So nobody was allowed to buy or sell The Exorcist on home video any more. Copies that already existed (bearing in mind that home video was still crazy expensive at the time) got circulated as legendary 'film nasties', a title which was also attributed to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Evil Dead. Ferman was also the man responsible for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and all associated material being rebranded as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK. He also had a massive hate-boner for nunchucks, which meant that an awful lot of Bruce Lee movies - and the TMNT movies (which didn't get rebranded to 'Hero') - were massively edited to remove any scenes that featured nunchucks. He was considered extremely liberal by infamous lunatic Mary Whitehouse. Then, weirdly, when he finally retired in 1998 (and a bunch of movies were finally available) he became an advocate for relaxing legislation on hardcore porn. Quote-Unquote has a new favorite as of 15:59 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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Randaconda posted:How could anybody ban The Evil Dead? The Evil Dead wasn't really 'banned' in the same way that the Exorcist was, but was only allowed to be shown in cinemas with a lot of gore cut out. iirc that same cut got released on VHS in the early 90s, but it wasn't until 2001 (Ferman retired in 1998) when the original uncut version was finally released. Dawn of the Dead had a pretty similar fate. Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't even allowed in cinemas, and didn't get a home video release until 1999. Maniac (the original) has never been released uncut here. A Clockwork Orange wasn't banned, contrary to popular belief, but voluntarily withdrawn by Kubrick after he and his family faced a number of death threats because (you guessed it!) The Daily Mail started scaremongering about copycat killings. Of course, there was never any actual link found between any murders and the movie. It was finally released to cinema and home video in 1999, after Kubrick died. Possibly the funniest one is when there was a police raid on a bunch of video stores to seize these banned 'video nasties' and they ended up confiscating copies The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas because the police believed it must be a hardcore porn video. In short, the UK is a land of contrasts but all those contrasts are varying shades of stupid.
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Humphreys posted:Using Sub7 on dialup to remotely connect to my friends dad who was over a microwave connection on a resort island resulted in me and his son sending porn to his printer used to do SCUBA certificates. Fun times. Oh man, I had a blast loving with people with Sub7 back in the day. I must've been around 13 or 14. There were tools to roll your own variant that could do stuff like ping you on ICQ (another wonderful relic) whenever an infected user came online. Some kid I vaguely knew from some dumb 'hacking' channel on IRC somehow managed to infect himself with my variant - god knows where he got it, as I hadn't sent it to him and I wasn't actively uploading that crap anywhere. I had fun screwing with him by making his disc drive open and close, making the caps/num/scroll lock keyboard lights flash on and off and periodically typing into the Word document he was doing his homework in. Then his dad (or someone claiming to be his dad) came and started typing very angry messages about how he was going to call the police on me for 'hacking'. At this point I noticed that the CD in the drive was a single of Lolly's cover of 'Hey Mickey', so I turned up the volume and started blasting that horrible song and spinning the monitor display round while he wrote increasingly pissed off messages. After about 20 minutes of this I got bored and told the 'dad' I'd remove the virus if he promised to tell his idiot son to not run random .exe files he found on the internet ever again. I was a very edgy teenager, as you can tell.
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Horace posted:I love SMS box art. I love how that grid, font choice and clipart style make every game look like it's a PC program for collating tax invoices. I love how the grid background is too heavy and messes up text. I really love examples like the Ghostbusters game art, which is so devoid of any creativity at all I think it might be a genuine masterpiece. I wanted this as a kid but my parents wouldn't buy it because it said "Mega Cartridge" on it, which made them think it was for the Sega Mega Drive (European Genesis) and not the Master System, meaning I wouldn't be able to play it. The guy in the shop also told them that it was  I got it on Amstrad CPC 464 instead.
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Plinkey posted:you mean the: xbox, 360, xbone, xboners  xbox, xbox three hundred and sixty, xbox three hundred and sixties, xbox one, xbox ones, xbox one ten.
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The_Franz posted:remember the people who collected giant binders of 1cd xvid movie rips and swore up and down that they looked just as good as a real dvd*? Don't doxx me please
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I used to use notepad++ for everything but I switched to Sublime Text recently Same. I used to use notepad++ when I worked in IT and just sort of tinkered around with development. Now I'm a developer, Sublime Text owns. I've been using it for years and despite trying different things I always end up going back to it.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Yeah, it is always a crapshoot whether being extremely proactive or completely failing to think about something will end up being the proper strategy with a possible collectible. I got rid of all of my boxed games apart from the Ultima series, because they seem to regularly be worth reasonable sums on eBay. One day I will find copies of the first two Ultima games with all the maps and trinkets intact. They're the only ones in the main series that I don't have (unless you count Escape from Mt Drash but lol I'm not taking out a mortgage to buy that). I also have both of the Worlds of Ultima and Underworld games, all the boxed UO editions (including the limited run of one of them that has the hilariously stupid Todd McFarlane robot Blackthorn toy) and a couple of Famicom ones. I found the manual for the original System Shock and the terrible novella that came with Planescape Torment when I moved recently, though I have no idea what happened to the actual games.
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