Christmas in March....

[nat]

....well, not really, since I had to buy it all.

I got a note today that I had 3 packages waiting the post office.

I got home, opened 'em all up and these are the spoils:



Cost breaks down like this:

Lot with Magical Chase, Powergate, Raiden, Dead Moon = $215
M&MIII = $100
XE-1 joystick = $59

That's a total of $374 for all that, shipped. Dead Moon and Raiden I already own (I was after Magical Chase) and those are already sold for essentially $20 each. That means Magical Chase + Powergate for $175. Assuming I can get $5 or $10 for Powergate which I don't really want, that's a US Magical Chase with manual in pristine condition for $165 which ironically isn't much more than the inferior Japanese version goes for.

So when all is said and done, I'm basically in the hole $324 for Magical Chase, Might & Magic III and the XE-1. I'm not complaining however-- I've been after a mint Magical Chase and XE-1 for years. I've been idly interested in picking up M&MIII if the price was right, and $100 shipped is about as good as it gets for the US version. This deal is also worthy of note as $165 is the most I've ever spent on one single video game, ever, in my entire life. The runner-up was Zenki FX which cost me $120 for complete mint-in-box copy.

I was really feeling the burn when I paid for all this over the past two weeks, coupled with an $800 car repair... But now I can sit and enjoy my spoils knowing that once and for all, the magical chase has come to an end.

[ceti alpha]

Gratz nat!!  That's a magical lot for a magical price. 

[Necromancer]

That's a pretty decent deal for Magical Chase and proves that good deals can be had on ebay, as long as you're patient and willing to ignore the overpriced auctions.

P.S. - Wanna make a smooth $10?  I'll pay you $175 plus shipping for that Magical Chase.  Hell, I'll even sweeten the deal and throw in a copy of Peach Boy! 

[SignOfZeta]

Shit. I'd never pay that much for that stuff. Maybe Magical Chase, maybe, but why hell did you drop $100 on Might and Magic III? f*ck what these games are "worth" I want to hear why Might Magic III is $100 worth of fun. I demand satisfaction.

[nodtveidt]

M&M3 is expensive because it's a rare, late-issue game. I'm surprised he got it for so cheap.

[nat]

Shit. I'd never pay that much for that stuff. Maybe Magical Chase, maybe, but why hell did you drop $100 on Might and Magic III? f*ck what these games are "worth" I want to hear why Might Magic III is $100 worth of fun. I demand satisfaction.

It might not be, like I said, I was only idly interested in picking it up. It looks like fun and like Nod suggested, it generally sells for much more. I'll play it and if it sucks terribly or something I can always sell it off and easily make my money back.

I'm slightly disappointed in myself since those two (M&MIII and MC) are now in the top 3 most expensive games I've ever bought, usually I won't buy anything even approaching $100. But those two.... You just never, ever see them for less. As a matter of fact, I don't know that I've ever seen either one as cheap as I got them for since TZD ran out of stock.

[Joe Redifer]

Awesome haul, Nat (notice the proper capital "N").

I'll pay you $40 for Magical Chase, you pay shipping.  Throw in Raiden as well and it's a deal.

[Turbo D]

 

Thats an awesome haul dude. You made out better than I did on magic chase!

[SignOfZeta]

M&M3 is expensive because it's a rare, late-issue game. I'm surprised he got it for so cheap.

f*ck what these games are "worth" I want to hear why Might Magic III is $100 worth of fun.

Can you not read or can you just not understand why games are supposed to be "fun"? I want to know why this game is 3x as fun as LoT, twice as fun as Star Parodia, etc.

If you enjoy oppressive suffocating dungeon dirges you could have every King's Field and Dungeon Master game ever made for $100...and still have about $50 left over for the shitloads of weed needed to enjoy the software itself.

[runinruder]

It might not be, like I said, I was only idly interested in picking it up. It looks like fun and like Nod suggested, it generally sells for much more. I'll play it and if it sucks terribly or something I can always sell it off and easily make my money back.

Might & Magic III is really good, and you'll get lots of play time out of it.  Also, since it's so deep and complex, it's one of the few games where it truly is advantageous to own the US version. 

If you enjoy oppressive suffocating dungeon dirges you could have every King's Field and Dungeon Master game ever made for $100...and still have about $50 left over for the shitloads of weed needed to enjoy the software itself.

M&M3 is nothing like Dungeon Master, and "oppressive" and "suffocating" are silly words to use when describing the most open-ended and nonlinear RPG on the system. 

[nodtveidt]

Can you not read or can you just not understand why games are supposed to be "fun"? I want to know why this game is 3x as fun as LoT, twice as fun as Star Parodia, etc.

Can you not read or can you just not understand why some games are simply more expensive than others? I want to know why LoT got 3x more pressings than M&M3, twice as many as Exile II, etc.

[SignOfZeta]

Can you not read or can you just not understand why games are supposed to be "fun"? I want to know why this game is 3x as fun as LoT, twice as fun as Star Parodia, etc.

Can you not read or can you just not understand why some games are simply more expensive than others? I want to know why LoT got 3x more pressings than M&M3, twice as many as Exile II, etc.

I'm pretty sure LoT had at least 20x the number of pressings as M&MIII. That's not the point. I wasn't asking why its expensive, I was asking why people waste that kind of cash on lesser games. Did Circus Lido get less fun when they found 10 cases of them and the dollar value tanked? No, it sucks ass either way. M&M isn't terrible, but its not all that great either.

[nodtveidt]

Did you ever stop to think that maybe he is a collector? And is willing to pay whatever price he can find to complete his collection?

[SignOfZeta]

Did you ever stop to think that maybe he is a collector? And is willing to pay whatever price he can find to complete his collection?

Yes, understand this fully, and I find it ridiculous. That's why I'm attempting to torment his sense of reason, your too I guess.

[nat]

That's why I'm attempting to torment his sense of reason, your too I guess

 

Like I said, I'm a little disappointed in myself as it is. It's not like me. But at the same time, I'm happy to have Magical Chase finally. Might and Magic III we'll have a verdict on soon enough....