I've found Micro League baseball to be very common ( have about 6 for various platforms), but Micro League Baseball II is relatively rare...that might have something to do with the price (but I'd never pay near that much for it).
I've found the original John Madden Football (from 88/89) to fetch a decent price as well (but not nearly that much). Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Micro League Baseball "C.E. Forman" wrote: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=1940428873 > > You guys notice this one? Unbe-freakin'-lieveable. This is the only sports > game I've ever seen that's fetched a good collector's price, wonder what's > so special about it? I know I've gotten a lot of Shoppe requests for Micro > League. The Micro League series was a hit (no pun intended) in the early days because they were pure statistical simulations -- like "fantasy football" but for more than just football -- and they were very thorough. The baseball series in particular was updated by several yearly update disks with complete team rosters. It was a mandatory thing to own if you were a baseball fan and used computers, kind of like how XOR Corporation's NFL Challenge was a mandatory software title for anyone into fantasy football. Useless detective work: The seller uses webtv, so he's probably an older retired guy getting around to selling his stuff. The buyers were half new, half experienced. Based on their previous purchases, they are all sports fans primarily and computer users secondary (more likely, a distant third :). Maybe that helps understand the high price -- some baseball fan out there was a big fan of (some team) in (some year) and wanted to simulate fantasy baseball using something universally known to do it well. (I knew those psychology classes would come in handy :) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? Drop by http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.demodvd.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
