#Speedrunners game pc ebay manual#

Prices are insane right now because the market hasn’t been flooded yet because the people who bought and still own this stuff are either unaware of what’s happening, or like myself, they just don’t want to sell. Therefore, my reasoning says there are still tons of mint condition Wolfenstein 3D’s out there waiting to be discovered.Īnd this is true for any popular old game. Lots of folks like me bought multiple copies when they went on clearance because they loved the game and wanted display copies. I mention that because lots of people bought Wolfenstein. Thus, I’ve got more than one sealed copy of Wolfenstein in a box in a closet somewhere. I mean, back when I was collecting this kind of stuff (because I loved it), I never in a million years thought these games would be worth anything. Those boxes are not in very good condition, and people are still paying $600+ for frickin’ Wolfenstein 3D, one of the least-rare games of its era. Hell, look at the pictures in the auctions I linked to up there. The most valuable part of a game is the damn box, since after all these years, it’s very difficult to find a box in mint condition. Those can be replaced rather cheaply by looking for auctions listing “floppies only”.

The floppies themselves are the least valuable items. For example, here’s a current Wolfenstein 3D sale on eBay, and the seller wants $600.00. Acquiring that same (complete in box in nice condition) collection now would cost me a small fortune, even opened and used. I’m old enough that I bought them new, either from mail-order, or at a store. Now though, I am thankful for instance, that I already own boxed copies of every single-player game I want to play by iD Software. So before, if I wanted to play some obscure PC game, and even if I wanted an unopened copy, I could jump online and find one with not much effort or expense. Things have gotten a bit crazy lately, even in the PC collectors segment, games of which were always, up until recently, not considered to be very collectible due partly I suppose to their non-standardized box shapes and sizes.

The last few years, this practice has been getting much more difficult and expensive, and I’ve just about given up on it with the exception of Adventure games, most of which can be bought at reasonable used prices, provided you don’t need a shrink-wrapped new copy. I used to buy these games fairly frequently on eBay because most games I was after weren’t rare, and in most cases I could pick up a shrink-wrapped copy of an old game for $10 to $30.

#Speedrunners game pc ebay manual#

And as I do still have my old machines in functioning order, I’ll try and track down a complete used copy, mostly for the game itself, but also partly because I like the box art, and I do enjoy going through the manual or other feelies the box may contain. I sometimes will watch a Lets Play of an old PC game and then want to play it myself, and a lot of older games aren’t available on legit sites like GOG.