This thread reminds me...
What was the story again, about that guy who sold his Magical Chase to someone on this forum, for a cheaper than ebay price, and that person then months later sold it on ebay for profit?
I recall a lot of mess about that. and laughter.
I forgot about that... This was years ago, before 2010, I'm pretty sure.
Not so long ago at all. This summary glosses over many of the details:
No, Fulci is probably referring to Nat's copy.
Once upon a time, c.2006, the guy from Dark City Productions (an awesome TG16 website during the Nineties) decided to auction off all of his games in the shoutbox (back when we had one of these forums). Moderator Nat somehow knew the guy and scored the enviable job of assisting with the auction. The auction was relatively unannounced, as active members like myself and Esteban didn't even hear about it. So... an entire U.S. set sells to a handful of low-balling PCEFX curmudgeons (before all of the noobs... before crazy inflation) late at night on a random weeknight. Magical Chase sells and Nat outbids the other couple of bidders, winning it for an unbelievable-even-in-2006 price of $150.
A couple of years later, Nat idealistically resells it for the same $150, sans any public announcement, sans any offers from long-interested veterans, to a complete noob who quickly flips it on ebay two months later for x4 the profit.
Forever after, whenever the topic of prices and inflation would come up, Nat would endlessly insist that Magical Chase was a $150 game that anyone truly interested should be able to find it for that price. It was insufferable.
