Thanks Merman and Frank for those informative replies. I should have read more of the GTW articles on their site - then I would have known myself. I've read some of them, but there are still many to go. A great site!! I'm surprised to see how many games that the site has managed to find. How do you track down all the information?

In time it will be a problem finding new additions - since there must be a finite number of games that weren't Perhaps some of the old titles get's picked up and get completed still?

Would have been awesome to see a complete version of Time Crystals. Remember I seeing a working demo of the game (in an early stage) made by JD Sachs (Saucer Attack). It was and still is a masterpiece of pixeled artwork. Especially the waterfall and dinosaurs sprites. Sound was great too. I will look up the article on that game - see if I find some news regarding the fate of the game. IIRC it was shelved by Sachs himself due to excessive pirating of US software at the time.

Speaking of Sachs & Saucer Attack (the original US disk release), it seems to be a HOT title - I've seen it twice on 'da 'bay. Anyone ( Jerry? ) got a link to the last one seen auctioned - or what price it got? I remember a BIN version (8-9 months ago) sold for £70.

No worries hbhzth. As for finding all the info - its a combination of researching on the web, contacting devs via various means (Facebook, LinkedIn etc), researching via old magazines and scans.

Indeed as time goes on, it will be harder to find the commercially intended GTW's (as summed up by my recent blog post.. http://fgasking.wordpress.com/...are-dying/) . Stuff being produced now that may not get completed will be easier as most people will have things kept digitally already.
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Thanks for the post Jerry. Nice artwork.

It's no doubt - the US disk version got the best cover artwork. I don't know if the game got any nice intro's like the demo version of Time Crystals had. I remember having Saucer Attack on turbo tape (and later as one file on disk) - it was extremely short. Only about 60 blocks - or something. It was only the saucer invader part though. Keine introduktion gibt es!

Would have been awesome if JDS had made the full version he had planned - with tanks in the streets and being able to move around in the city, IIRC. That would have been more fitting for the disk format, I think

I guess Sachs was more of an amazing game designer rather than being a master programmer? Was it cut short due to lack of having a team doing the full version?

There's some of his artwork on a recent forum thread - worth checking out. It was ahead of it's time... and probably inspired a lot of upcoming C64 artists.

Well, Alter Ego went for a fantastic £151 in the end so I'm very happy with the result!

Honourable mentions also for Blue Max on tape which once again went crazy, finishing at £45.50 plus p&p, and Out Run on tape - surely one of the most common C64 titles ever released (I must have about a dozen copies in the attic!) which sold for an impressive £11.50 plus p&p.

Congrats on the Alter Ego auction Jerellis1. It has to be a decent price for this title. Is it me or does US titles sells better in EU almost every time? I saw you got some good prices on a couple of tape games too Less said - the better. It's madness - but oh so rare games that collectors have to jump at the chance when it presents itself.

Must be exciting for a seller to watch the final seconds... Having popular titles that ends around the same time, picking up speed the last 10 seconds... Right?

I'm speechless when it comes to some of Limekelly's auctions (Hi Kelly). Some are wiling to pay KILLER PRICES - for what I consider a common, non-rare game. Like Blue Max (US GOLD, tape version). Not long ago another sold for over £110,- Now it happen again £46!! But still it's £36,- too high. A few days ago I bought a similar version of US GOLD's BLUE MAX 2001, paying £5,- which IMHO is a more uncommon title (sequel). It was not sold as widely as the first did; which was high in the charts for a long time.

It has to be the same reason why tape games such as Commando and Ghost and Goblins ends high also. They sold tens of thousands units - each, BUT: the games are classics & good games - it has to be why. Right? People bid with their heart - not their head

BTW, Jerellis1, the game you wanted to monitor, WARLOCK-THE AVENGER (Druid III), ended today. I think the one you sold may have been a freak incident - as this had only 2 bidders and ended at listed price (£17). And it was a very good version too - looks like brand new - no crushing or box peeling off in places. I know the buyer was very pleased - he told me so .

Jawbreaker is harder than find than some other Sierra carts, but not as rare as the two I mentioned before. Most of the Sierra carts do have those shiny labels, and yes, I do have Jawbreaker with that orange label, making me think it was possibly the first one it released.

Funny you mention those other titles. Dot Gobbler is arguably the easiest OEM title to find (and yes, it does have various labels), and Maze Man is the easiest Turbo Software title to find. All of Maxion's cartridge releases are relabels of Spinnaker games, which is perhaps why they are not given separate entries in GB64. The label may say another name, but none of the game code was changed. Took me a long time to get a complete set of those mind you...
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Weekend's is ending and it's time to look if there was any HOT bidding...

Bubble Bobble (disk) ended at £62!

A really GREAT find, sold yesterday for the bargain price £45,- Yie Ar Kung Fu + Uridium (DISK). Just wish I was able to spot that one before it was sold to some other lucky C64 enthusiast. Damn it. The older Imagine titles has to be quite rare on disk these days. Don't think I've seen Yie Ar Kung Fu listed the last 12 months.

HES cartridge Pastfinder (boxed) £50,- Seems to be the going price for boxed HES carts - seen similar auctions in both EU and AUS - and this is roughly the price they end at.

On US eBay carts are almost always unboxed for some reason. Unless sold in an eBay store or the odd private seller - dunno why that is?

The Goonies (Disk, USGOLD) ends at £90!

It looked to be in great condition, seal still attached and almost complete (rare), plastic looks like new; no crushes or waves. So the price isn't outrageous - compared to similar games.

Little activity on this thread lately. Sorry, I've not been following ebay too closely lately - but I have seen some hot titles changing owners:

Hunters Moon (Disk) ended at £47,-. Kind of high for a jewel cased title?

Wizball (Disk) ended at £47,-. Same price, same casing.

The Last Ninja (Disk) ends at £42,-

These are very good games and among the C64's true classics. If anyone knows the prices TLN has fetched the last 3-4 times - please share. I think it's one of those titles where the price tends to vary a great deal. Depends on who's watching at the moment.

Renegade (Disk) ended at £63,55. That's quite high I think. Esp. for a jewel cased game and may I add: not a very good game either Any comments?

This one we've seen before, nothing strange about this price I guess, being it's pretty rare: Double Dragon (Single Cart) ends at £90,-

And the final "hottie" today - not a game - but it took me by surprise how much the final price was: This C64 hardcover book ended at $114,-. It must be a rare book then? I had never seen it before - having no idea if it's rare or not. Hardcover version is always the one to own thou The dust-jacket was nowhere to be seen. Collecting books as well - I know that put's the price down a few notches. So if you have any hardcover books - keep that dust jacket, don't throw it away.

Wow! Zak McKracken sold for just short of £160 including p&p - that's a good £100 more than this title was fetching fairly regularly as recently as a year ago. I'm personally very pleased to see this, as my own example still has the original clear plastic wrapping around it! And Maniac Mansion wasn't too far behind with a respectable £82 plus p&p.

Elsewhere, Pirates looks to have regained some of its popularity, achieving an impressive £62 plus p&p.

High Frontier sold for £50 plus p&p - this was a buy-it-now listing which someone obviously decided was worth the price. I'd really like to own this one and I didn't spot this auction until it had already ended, but personally I wouldn't have paid £50 for it (maybe something like £30 would have been the right price for me to go for it). But it sold anyway, so fair play to the seller!

The cassette version of Zombi has sold as a buy-it-now item for a fraction under £50 plus p&p - this game's value seems to have soared just over the past couple of months, as I'm sure another example sold for much less than this fairly recently.

The disk version of a great compilation, The Magnificent Seven, went for £44 plus p&p, and another compilation, the System 3 Pack, sold for £41 plus p&p.

The cassette version of Cells & Serpents sold outright for £29.99, and, typically, an admittedly excellent example of the cassette version of Elite sold for £39.99 plus p&p on practically the same day as the example I was selling sold for a paltry £3.45... crazy old eBay!

Incidentally, I try not to deliberately draw attention to my own current listings in this thread as I don't think that would be right, but I just wanted to mention one game that I listed earlier this evening as I'd be interested to know more about it (hopefully someone here can enlighten me!) It's a cassette by Durell Software from 1985, and it's an action adventure game called Shades; the reason I'm so curious about it is that it doesn't appear in the Lemon 64 database, so I guess it must be pretty rare... anyway, if you know anything about this game then please let me know!

I see above there was a copy of The Last Ninja on disk that went for £40+, but here's one on eBay which starting off at £70 as a buy it now!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare...0707478999

I appreciate setting a fixed price rather than fake bidding on items.
So its totally fair and up to the seller to do it like that.
Some put ALL their games online for twice the price they're worth, because for THAT price, they WOULD part with it ;-)
You dont have to buy if you dont want to :)
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I've recently came back to the c64 and decided to build up collections based on publishers rather than willy nilly games here and their.

Ocean, Imagine, Thalamus and Elite are first on my list.

Biding my time I've managed to pick up quite a few titles in the last few months. I've noticed some of the bigger stores, Attic Bug etc who do have quite a lot of titles I'd like to add to my collections, but i have to agree that their prices are often quite a lot higher than the one offs that appear from time to time on ebay.

I've decided to be patient and resisted the urge to buy their titles so far!
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