I'm with you I have my Nintendo and have more games for it than all my other consoles combined. I am still looking for the pipes game and a robot so I can laugh at how slow he is. My Atari 2600 still sees use at my father in laws house at thanksgiving so that is cool also.
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:37:36 -0400 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Macintosh SE 30 + Powerbooks One of the things I've learned in dealing with the vintage console video game collectors market is to never underestimate the power of new-in-box stuff. A game that might be $10 or $20 bare is suddenly worth $200+ or more in box complete, even an open box. In a recent extreme case, an original Nintendo with a collection of games sold for $13,000 because of one single game in box that was considered just about the holy grail of collecting. The funny thing? The game itself was maybe $3000 of it, the *box* was $10,000. The rest of it (including the console itself) was just fluff. Makes it hard for people like me who just want to play old games with friends, prefer the real thing over emulators, and don't care much about cosmetics and value. I horrified one of my fellow collector guys once when I mentioned tossing a NES and a couple dozen games in a basket and carting it over to a friend's house. He was worried about me damaging the labels and values of the games. I'm slightly surprised that an SE/30 is rare enough for this treatment yet but I suppose there's probably few enough of them new-in-box. And for the folks worried about it working or not, it's unlikely it'll ever see the powered end of a power plug anytime soon so I wouldn't worry about it :) Scott On 8/29/2012 2:57 AM, Jason Johnson wrote: I don't know how or where someone gave you 900 for an older Mac but to each his own. I am collecting macs at this point and for the price of gas for most of it I received apple IIs, an apple III, a cube, 2 SEs one with 25 MHz accelerator, a classic and a plus. I guess new in box means something to them. I use mine as much as I can trying to get stuff loaded up on the hard drives ( great for the holidays as my about 40 apples are an awesome working museum). People are giving there older apple hardware to recyclers and they ar being destroyed and I am trying to stop that as parts are hard enough to find. Again I'm glad you got what you did from your sale. If I had money I might guy on a spree like that. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
