C64 complete rarity guide help

[Chickybaby]

Thanks for any info btw. Can anyone help please? I'm going nucking futs looking!

I've checked past threads with little success. DP doesn't have a full list. I checked MayhemUK's and that's an awesome page but not a complete list. Lemon64.com has a huge site and game list but no rarity scale.

Is there any scale really out there?

I'm trying to log hubby's games and a few of my own on cart commander and only half of the titles were even listed w/ no rarities. We have about 60 actual game disks and about the same in copies, also a few carts. (Which I am not even looking at yet,lol.)But we'll always take freebies, who wouldnt? :wink:

[Mayhem]

I think this is the proper definition of "mission impossible" here

 

When you've got over 10k original titles published for a machine (as in the C64's case), then trying to give a rarity and value to all of them is, well, rather unfeasible!

 

By all means sling a few titles my way, I should be able to give some sort of evaluation on them if you want price/rarity...

[MegaManFan]

How about a rarity list for just cartridges?

[Flack]

Digital Press' online rarity guide does have all C64 carts.

[MegaManFan]

Right on Flack.

[Mayhem]

And I should know as I'm in charge of that

[Chickybaby]

The main problem we are having is with floppies(see it's not just a man's problem) like Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego etc.

Thank you guys for your responses though very much appreciated.

[wrenchien]

and those ghost dogs are pretty cool, chickybaby... pretty cool indeed.

[AncillaryDrone]

I tried making a rarity list for the C-64 once. I gave up though because I couldnt make accurate rarity determinations, and I had help. It seems like even the littlest software companies still managed to get thousands of disks out the door and into the hands of somebody, somewhere. Every time I thought I had a "holy grail" I'd always find another, and another and another. If there's a rare disk-based game for the C-64 I'd really like to know what it is.

 

The problem seems to be that manufacturing floppies is cheap, so thousands are produced. Even if they dont sell at first the price would go down so low that SOMEBODY would always buy it. Also, people seem to treat software different than Atari cartridges - so there's still a lot of boxes and manuals even for the more-rare titles. Another problem is floppies are easily damaged, how much are you going to pay for a non-working game even if it IS rare?

 

The market works differently than it does for say, the 2600. What sells the most are actually COMMON titles that everyone used have like the Ultima series.