So, another Magical Chase on eBay...

[offsidewing]

So I'm not reading that wrong.  $650 for Magical Chase.  Makes me wish I would have bought those three sealed copies for $25 at the Electronic Boutique in New Philly in 1995.  Random stop to pee 15 years ago could have meant a new $2000 wrist watch today.  Bling Bling.

I've got a box for Power Golf with wrapper and foam insert.  Anyone want to pay $450 for that???   

[mrhaboobi]

3 sealed one would have bought you a couple of watches in todays inflated market

[mrhaboobi]

Actually out of interest, ( this has most likley been discussed)  Do we know roughly how many MC made it to the market?  And was it distributed more in certain areas ( eg east vs west cost )..  Seems insane that we see so few copies.. surely there are hundred or thousands of them floating around?

[D-Lite]

Actually out of interest, ( this has most likley been discussed)  Do we know roughly how many MC made it to the market?  And was it distributed more in certain areas ( eg east vs west cost )..  Seems insane that we see so few copies.. surely there are hundred or thousands of them floating around?

Story is there were 5000 produced.

[mrhaboobi]

5000 so why the hell is it worth so much.. i doubt there are 5000 collectors wanting them   somewhere someone is sitting on a gold mine of new sealed boxed games..

[D-Lite]

You see, the problem here is, you're obviously not a baseball card collector.

I am, but only the US versions.  It's a pretty cheap hobby, since there's only one (World Class Baseball). 

Haha, nice.
But seriously, anytime someone thinks prices of videogames are nuts, look at baseball cards.  It's a piece of cardboard with a picture, that's it.  And I'm not just talking '52 Topps Mantles here, I mean even the most current stuff, some of it gets hundreds and holds value.  At least a game is playable and a physically relevant item needed to play.  Baseball cards are paper.

[D-Lite]

5000 so why the hell is it worth so much.. i doubt there are 5000 collectors wanting them   somewhere someone is sitting on a gold mine of new sealed boxed games..

Well, 5000 made, right?  Then you figure 90% of them were bought, opened, and the box disposed of immediately.  Of those 500 left, years later half were shit-canned by a mother clearing out the attic.  Of the 250 left with box, 60% were buried with the Atari 2600 E.T.'s in the desert.  Of the remaining 100, half are in Roy's basement.  Of the last 50, 49 are with collector's that haven't actually played a game in 20 years.

The last one is mine.

[mrhaboobi]

nice..   and i guess almost believable .. although i havent played my copy of the game, i did play a game on the weekend, so automatically that nullifies your thinking

Sounds like its time to dig up some landfills ..

seriously though do we have any ideal of the distribution, would be interested to know where people remember seeing them for sale..  perhaps some of the US missed out.

And whats with all these new sealed games on european ebays?  is that really NOS from sales of the PAL hardware that failed?  any info on that gear.. did MC ever make it into the PAL market..

[D-Lite]

Well you have to figure it was the very end of the lifespan of the Turbo, so of the 5000 (maybe it was 3000?), some were likely sent back to TTI and perhaps destroyed.  Bargin bin for some too.  And those were likely bought by kids that were just looking for a cheap thrill and trashed it.  Seriously, what do you think happens to all those Wii M&M's games you see at WalMart?

[mrhaboobi]

We dont have walmart   and i know what happens, because over here they are sent back to Sony ( in teh case of ps2 when i worked at a video game store ) and crushed/snapped/destroyed.  Kinda sad really to think that so many videogs suffer because of us

[geddon_jt]

Here's the real question... how much are you guys willing to pay for official Magical Chase box *shrinkwrap*?

I'd consider carefully peeling the shrinkwrap off of mine, if the price was right...  Mine is not sealed, mind you, but neatly sliced at the top, and the shrinkwrap is still tight and shiny. Anyone? Anyone?

[D-Lite]

Here's the real question... how much are you guys willing to pay for official Magical Chase box *shrinkwrap*?

I'd consider carefully peeling the shrinkwrap off of mine, if the price was right...  Mine is not sealed, mind you, but neatly sliced at the top, and the shrinkwrap is still tight and shiny. Anyone? Anyone?

Too bad NeoGeo games never came shrinkwrapped, eh JT?

[Sparky]

Here's the real question... how much are you guys willing to pay for official Magical Chase box *shrinkwrap*?

I'd consider carefully peeling the shrinkwrap off of mine, if the price was right...  Mine is not sealed, mind you, but neatly sliced at the top, and the shrinkwrap is still tight and shiny. Anyone? Anyone?

Hey that sounds like my copy ((goes to check on it))
yep, shes still tight

I wonder how many copies got over here to Canada.... don't laugh it might have happened

[Nemo]

It's a nice cute-em-up, nothing particularly special like say Sapphire or Rendering Ranger, but I'm always amazed prices people pay for rarity, no game IMO is worth more than $100 unless you're talking about a PCB, of course I've bought and sold games for more, but $600+, that's just surreal to say you own a tiny piece of plastic and cardboard.  Even more amazing when you consider a JP version does exist (though not for chump change either) when we're not talking about a text-driven game like Dynastic Hero.  This is a case where I'm glad emulators exist so your average gamer can actually play a game such as this without being gouged in the pocketbook.

You see, the problem here is, you're obviously not a baseball card collector.

Touché.  Most often it really is all about the status of owning the item, I guess I will never fully understand that myself unless my money trees actually start sprouting.  Even back when I was a collector, I wanted the "rere" game to actually experience Panzer Saga and Snatcher, not just to know they are sitting on my shelf.

[nat]

D-Lite is right about the 5,000 figure for the MC print run... Here's food for thought: Order of the Griffon had the same print run as Magical Chase. So like "mrhaboobi" said, why the f*ck is it worth so much? Order of the Griffon doesn't go for $650.