This is something I discussed once with either Alexander Zöller or Richard Pickles: I believe the main reason that makes the mentioned games valuable was the "emptiness" of good adventures in the post-Monkey-Island-2 90s.
The list mentioned by Stuart below are but a part of some good adventures (if I'm not mistaken all 5 of them are adventures) that came out in that period. Others like Flight of the Amazon Queen, Igor: Objective Uikokahonia, etc are also extremely rare _and_ coveted adventures, maybe because they were made in Europe.
For a certain period, it was amazing the kind of price that some of them would fetch on eBay. Mind you, some of them still fetch Myth-like prices!
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Jim Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"Feldhamer, Stuart" wrote:
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> I don't like this poll much. Currently, Kilrathi Saga is winning, but you
> can buy a new shrinkwrapped Kilrathi Saga on ebay right now for $175. Last
> night I saw a mint opened one for $125. What about the following games from
> the 90s:
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> Alice: An Interactive Museum
> Duckman (English version)
> Orion Burger
> Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
> 3 Skulls of the Toltecs
But there is a difference between "rare" and "valuable", as I have found out
with my collection. I have a lot of extremely rare pre-1990 action games for
the PC (Wibarm, for one) but I don't think anyone would call them valuable.
What makes the above games valuable?
(No, I am not defending the poll -- I didn't write it :-)
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