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Monkey Island over priced, how much would you pay for a Monkey Island game

Wolfstar27Wolfstar27
edited July 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Doing my search on Ebay, and i came across a so called Rare Secret of Monkey Island CD in a dvd case, by FM town, its a Japanese version....the seller is asking for US $1,100.00 Approximately £743.19 for Bristish pounds, now thats alot of money, since you can actually still get the orignal in box on PC for so much cheaper, even on CD, and even for that price there asking for $16.00 for shipping

Now how much would you pay for a Monkey Island game or whats the maximum you would spend?

heres the ebay listing

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FM-Towns-Monkey-Island-very-Rare-Lucas-Arts-CD-Rom-/220618961625?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item335dea32d9

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  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited June 2010
    "Never pay more than 50 bucks for a computer game"
  • NeeloNeelo
    edited June 2010
    That's a ridiculous price... I wouldn't pay 100$ for a game, 1,100$ is just ridiculous...
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited June 2010
    over $100 last I checked
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited June 2010
    It all depends on how much you want to complete your collection....

    I for one would never pay that much.... but I can see where someone would... if its a just once kind of thing.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    FM Town versions are always expensive.
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited June 2010
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    "Never pay more than 50 bucks for a computer game"

    I thought it was 20!
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    OzzieMonkey wrote: »
    I thought it was 20!

    The PC CD version probably is dependent on where you find it. I got all the Monkey Island games at once, excluding the latest chapters for my 15th birth day for far less money than that.

    That was 7 years ago though.
  • VeronicanPlayVeronicanPlay
    edited June 2010
    I am going stick with with the Special Editions for a few bucks.

    I might be an MI fan, but I am not a hardcore MI fan. :P
  • HaydenHayden
    edited June 2010
    How much would you pay for a Monkey Island tie.
  • Wolfstar27Wolfstar27
    edited June 2010
    wow that looks pretty sweet, but is so expensive
  • zammapzammap
    edited June 2010
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    over $100 last I checked

    WHAT

    I paid 15 bucks for that back in the day at kmart. Now I really really really want to punch my sister for lending it out to some person I didn't know and now it would cost an arm to replace

    >: O
  • JennyJenny
    edited June 2010
    Ah! That is insanity. And yet, if I had money to burn, I'd buy it. :p

    I'm so glad I have most of the Monkey Island games already. Although I am missing SMI on the original disks, that I would like to get my hands on. At least I have it on the CD.
  • Wolfstar27Wolfstar27
    edited June 2010
    Jenny wrote: »
    Ah! That is insanity. And yet, if I had money to burn, I'd buy it. :p

    I'm so glad I have most of the Monkey Island games already. Although I am missing SMI on the original disks, that I would like to get my hands on. At least I have it on the CD.

    i bought my orignal on floppy of SoMI ages ago on ebay, try it, you might find it cheap, i got it on CD aswell but i use that as a soundtrack CD, i dont know if you know, but if you put it in your cd player and skip the first track you have the music on there from the game
  • NeatNitNeatNit
    edited June 2010
    I'll have to stick to piracy and/or taking the files from the Special Editions.

    I wasn't alive when The Secret of Monkey Island was released, and I only became a gamer at about 2005-ish. I never had a chance.
  • DideroDidero
    edited June 2010
    NeatNit wrote: »
    I wasn't alive when The Secret of Monkey Island was released, and I only became a gamer at about 2005-ish. I never had a chance.
    I got into Monkey Island too late to buy the games first-hand too, except for Escape, which I got for a birthday once.
    I did find a copy of Curse in great condition on eBay though, so if you really want the games, that's the way to go. And not all copies on there are $1100 ;)
  • NeatNitNeatNit
    edited June 2010
    I said I became a gamer at about 2005-ish. I hadn't heard of Monkey Island until, like, 2008.

    And I don't trust ebay...


    Plus, I really hate buying stuff second-hand :P
  • DideroDidero
    edited June 2010
    NeatNit wrote: »
    And I don't trust ebay...
    It does take a bit of trust and experience, but eBay also has good policies in place to prevent scams. Just don't bid on any auction that uses a stock photo ;)
    NeatNit wrote: »
    Plus, I really hate buying stuff second-hand :P
    That is annoying, yeah, but when the choice is between 'second hand' and 'no copy at all', it isn't hard to choose, especially when Monkey Island is concerned :)
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited June 2010
    Didero wrote: »
    It does take a bit of trust and experience, but eBay also has good policies in place to prevent scams. Just don't bid on any auction that uses a stock photo ;)
    I've actually bid on a lot of auctions that used stock photos. What you want to look at more than anything else is seller feedback. Generally powersellers with thousands of sales and 99% approval are safe bets.
  • JennyJenny
    edited July 2010
    Wolfstar27 wrote: »
    i bought my orignal on floppy of SoMI ages ago on ebay, try it, you might find it cheap, i got it on CD aswell but i use that as a soundtrack CD, i dont know if you know, but if you put it in your cd player and skip the first track you have the music on there from the game

    That's works? I did not know that! I was always so worried about my games, I always thought they might break. And that's the CD with SMI and LR that does that? Or the CD of just SMI?

    I went on ebay and found a box of original CD slicases for SMI. It's asking for $1,995.00 :eek:
  • zhebricazhebrica
    edited July 2010
    Jenny wrote: »
    That's works? I did not know that! I was always so worried about my games, I always thought they might break. And that's the CD with SMI and LR that does that? Or the CD of just SMI?

    I know the CD with just SMI can be played like an audio CD. I found that out when I was a kid -- I'm not sure what possessed me to see what would happen if I put it in my CD player, but it does work and it does not harm the game in any way. The first track contains the game data, so if you play that, you'll only hear static, but that doesn't hurt the disc either. I must have listened to the songs dozens of times when I was little, and 18 years later, I still have the disc and the game and audio still play fine.

    I have no info on the SMI+LCR CD, though.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2010
    zhebrica wrote: »

    I have no info on the SMI+LCR CD, though.

    I've got the White Label double pack disc and that plays in my cd player fine. I think it's just the music from SMI but not 100% certain.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited July 2010
    Wolfstar27 wrote: »
    if you put it in your cd player and skip the first track you have the music on there from the game
    Jenny wrote: »
    That's works? I did not know that! I was always so worried about my games, I always thought they might break. And that's the CD with SMI and LR that does that? Or the CD of just SMI?
    zhebrica wrote: »
    I know the CD with just SMI can be played like an audio CD. I found that out when I was a kid -- I'm not sure what possessed me to see what would happen if I put it in my CD player, but it does work and it does not harm the game in any way. The first track contains the game data, so if you play that, you'll only hear static, but that doesn't hurt the disc either. I must have listened to the songs dozens of times when I was little, and 18 years later, I still have the disc and the game and audio still play fine.

    It's called "redbook audio" ('redbook' being the name of the audio CD standard.) It's not that common in recent games, as encoding has vastly improved over the years, but originally, apparently one of the better ways to have CD-quality audio in a game was to literally include audio CD playable music on the disc. I have a copy of Descent 2 somewhere that also has Redbook audio.


    As for the question of whether an SMI+MI2 disc has redbook audio: yes, it does, but only for SMI. MI2 still uses midi music.

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    (Yes, I know about typos in the track info... whoever originally submitted the metadata to Gracenote didn't know how to spell.)

    EDIT: oh, lol. Don't be confused about it saying SOMI for E:, as that is my virtual drive to mount images on (and has my custom made SOMI:SE installer mounted atm for some reason.)
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