copies known to exist of magical chase?

[madboom0522]

Alright I have heard tons of stories on how many copies of the us Magical chase were made. Does anyone have a real idea as too that amount? Maybe how many might be in the wild today? Heard rumors that some French guy was buying up alot of copies in the last 5 years.... Anyone?....

[Necromancer]

There is no known.  Everything we think we think we know is conjecture, educated guesses, and tea leaf readings.  Does it really matter anyway?

That said, let's say there's 500 of 'em out there.  Maybe 2500 were made - 1500 destroyed on liquidation - 500 lost to sands of time = 500 left over for collectards to call their precious and fap themselves silly over.

[madboom0522]

Alright that gives me some better of an idea then...

[mrhaboobi]

i remember many years back one particular person buying up alot of copies, i cant remember his name though, for some reason i thought he was in a wheelchair though if that rings a bell for anyone.   i checked my emails but cant find it.. hell i even have emails from wmac from 2009.. crazy...

[mrhaboobi]

That was me. And, btw, it is no longer a wheelchair; now I rock a mobility scooter with diamond encrusted gold spinner wheels.

Was it?  i seem to remember a really different email address and ebay username, this was in the days when aesmasterauto.... etc was still just starting out.

[madboom0522]

So my guess about someone buying copies was right then. It would be safe to say that there are about 500 copies left in the wild then?

[mrhaboobi]

god only knows...

[toymachine78]

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?

[DragonmasterDan]

So my guess about someone buying copies was right then. It would be safe to say that there are about 500 copies left in the wild then?

There have been more than a few threads on this already. But that number would be on the high end of estimates.

[madboom0522]

Alright enough about that. How about the pc engine version and the fan version?...

[DragonmasterDan]

Alright enough about that. How about the pc engine version and the fan version?...

Thousands of each, probably tens of thousands of the PCE version.

[madboom0522]

That's quite a bit. Now here is something I wounder about. Why is a game like Darius alpha with a lower production number so much easier to get hands on? There is almost always a copy on e-bay.

[Necromancer]

Because it's not a US game.  Simple as that.

There are dozens of people on here that are actively seeking out teh rarez US games and probably just one looking for JP stuff.

[madboom0522]

Alright then. Are you almost close to finishing your collection? What do you have left? I have 6 cd games to go to have them all...

[Necromancer]

I'm probably as close as I'll ever be, as I'm in no rush to a hollow victory of completing a collection that means nothing to me other than a "complete collection to sit on the shelf".