Thorium

There is nothing fishy going on. I allow private bidding just because some people don't want to have their name shown to everyone. It's probably the case that the other guy is thinking that something fishy is going on because someone retracted their bid and then this person retracted their bid as well. It is true that you can retract a bid, but that is meant for mistakes, like you mistakenly put a zero to much on your amount. I think it's not a nice move by you, because it clearly made someone question the auction. But i am still happy to sell it to you and will not end the auction prematurely.

I just put up a copy of Boulder Dash for Atari 2600 on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/303316238920

There was an error in the description of Scott Adams Adventure Series. It's relisted: Scott Adams Adventure Series Limited Gold Edition Sealed

And the next batch of auctions is up: Forbidden Forest C64 Sealed Summer Games II C64 Epyx Sealed Turrican C64 Rainbow Arts Sealed The Great Giana Sisters Atari ST Goblins Highlands Computer A2-FS1 Flight Simulator David's Midnight Magic Odyssey The Compleat Apventure Beneath Apple Manor Scott Adams Adventure Series Limited Gold Edition Sealed

Put Boulder Dash 2600 up. I got it originally here on AtariAge, so possibly some people missed out on it and still want to have it.

Two more games listed: Impossible Mission C64 Epyx Sealed Impossible Mission II C64 Epyx Sealed And yes, i put everything up with a starting price of 1$ or 1€. It's much more fun to see it go up and where it ends. It's also fun to put the games up slowly instead of all at the same time, you never know what is listed next. I try to have a mix of different genres and platforms up.

I will also put up SSI gold boxes. The only one i am missing is Neverwinter Nights. You should be able to get most of them relatively cheap. Definitely under 50$.

I do have some, but it wasn't a focus of my collection. From the top of my head Battle Isle series, Settlers Series, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, a sealed Diablo 2 LoD. Master of Orion 1 and 2, X-Com series. Also a lot of the older RPG's i have DOS versions of, for example Ultima 1 and Dragon Wars.

Put some more games on eBay: The Great Giana Sisters Atari ST german release Ultima II 1st Edition Wilderness Campaign solo disk release Slowly coming more. I don't want to put up to many at the same time. ^^

While i am in the process as selling of my computer game collection it seems most collectors care a lot about originality. Now that's not surprising, however most collectors don't seem to care about the disks and cassettes still working, it's purely the visual condition they care about and the physical parts being original. I wouldn't be surprised if some hardware is worth more to some collectors if in not working condition, but all parts original.

Here are the listings: Akalabeth Dungeon Campaign 1st Release Maniac Mansion 1st Edition C64 US Sealed Wasteland Apple 2 Sealed The Great Giana Sisters Amiga Pipe Dream Lucasgames Oldorf's Revenge I am a little blown away by the prices the auctions are going for. I wasn't expecting most of them to go _that_ high. Yes. Apparently they do. Haven't used the account in years. Just reactivated it for the collection sale.

I don't know if someone from eBay reads this thread, but i just got a message telling me they tripled my seller limit. They probably fear on missing out on sales provision. ^^

First auction ended: Dungeon Campaing 1st release from 1978 for Apple 2 I probably hit the monthly eBay limit soon. I do sell outside of eBay, you can still contact me if you search early RPG's and Adventures.

I get a lot of requests for more detailed photos of Akalabeth. For some reason i can't add more photos to the auction. I always get an error message, when trying to edit the listing. I did spoke with eBay support and they are looking into the problem. But since i can understand that more photos are needed to understand the condition of the items better, i did made more photos and i uploaded them to an image hoster: https://imgur.com/a/YgXQlTx The photos should give you a very clear understanding of the condition and authenticity of both the disk and manual. One thing i want to point out is, that you can see, there is another label underneath the one on the disk. It was common practice for California Pacific to reuse unsold disks and they just slapped another label on top after rewriting the disk. It's not at all a sign of not being authentic. If you want to know how i came into possession of this item, it's a pretty boring story: I got it from eBay. As i live in germany, it's practically impossible to find games from that time for apple 2 in the wild for me. I don't remember the date i won the auction, but it's between 10 and 12 years ago. It was part of a lot of apple 2 games and wasn't even listed in the auction. I noticed the manual in the picture of the lot, and sure enough, it was part of it. I am sure, i wasn't the only one who noticed, as the auction still got up to a high price. But still cheaper than ones i have seen go before.

There is more upcomming from Synergistic Software. I don't want to put everything online at once, but piece by piece. My goal was to get at least one version of every RPG released from 1978 to 1982. And i came pretty close. So i have multiple variations and editions, especially of the Synergistic Software RPG's. But the Dungeon Campaign on auction right now, i believe to be the very first release from 1978 and this is the only copy i have ever seen on eBay and thats the one i got. I consider it one of the rarest in my collection and historicaly very interessting. Edit: I was also providing photos of Dungeon and Wilderness Campaign to the CRPG Addict, when he made his articles about the games, because he wasnt sure at the time if they ever had single releases or was only been sold as a bundle. All of this will be up for sale.