#Ebay sinclair zx spectrum movie
#Ebay sinclair zx spectrum software

Plus there's a market for them, but the industry has at least met the 'supply and demand' by reissuing vinyl. It's likely it won't be 100% minty fresh, so the experience just isn't as good! lolД¬ompare it with vinyl and people love getting fresh vinyl records, the smell of them, the texture when holding them. That's what puts me off spending that much money on a Spectrum game. What that means is you don't get the true 'nostalgia hit' where you're holding the exact same thing as you would have done 30+ years ago. It's even more noticeable with cardboard boxed games, the boxes are quite dry. This is the thing I've found with buying Spectrum games, quite often they seemed to have been kept in a loft which means the paper inlays becomes very brittle.

I could pay 40 or 50 euros for a very sought after game in great or mint condition, but those prices of hundreds of pounds are way beyond my limit. All this adds to the price, but certainly a winning bid of 343 pounds is too much.

#Ebay sinclair zx spectrum software

Strange cover too! Looks more like Chewbacca than a dinosaur!ДЄlthough it's an average game (to say the least), I can understand a high price for Robocop 3 (not that high, really): it was the last or one of the latest games released for the Spectrum by Ocean Software in 1992, probably there were not many units produced and just a few sold, it came in a fragile cardboard box not easy to preserve in reasonably good shape after 30 years. The strange thing is that even the budget re-release (on another of Alternative's weird sister labels that lasted about 6 months) is really difficult to find. I think Rex was Martech's second last game, I wonder if they had supply or cash flow issues by that point and couldn't duplicate enough copies.

But it was impossible to find in the shops! And nobody I knew had a copy either. I remember Rex getting a great review in YS ( a mega game) plus there was a playable demo on a YS covertape and I remember thinking it was a really nice game. I don't want to imagine what price it could reach the day it goes on sale a copy in good condition.

#Ebay sinclair zx spectrum movie

I know Rex went rather unnoticed in 1988 when it was first released (amidst a crowded market with a lot of arcade conversions and movie tie-ins), and probably didn't sell too many copies and since then has earned classic status, but I can't believe it's so hard to find nowadays, because it's not so rare (or shouldn't be).