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Board game values - 9/17/2007 10:44:33 AM

MrBoats

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Does anyone know how how the market is for the older boardgames? I remember when Terrible Swift Sword came out and was priced at $16. I was a teenager and didn't have two nickels to rub together, nor 100 square feet of playing area! Then, I think around 2000 or so, I saw a unopened copy of it in a gamer's store in NYC for $300. I had a lot of boardgames collecting dust at that time, and they have all been tossed or given away -- I'm wondering if I lost a small fortune. I had most of the AH wargames and quite a few SPI releases. I'd give my eye teeth for a few of the good ones -- especially the original Squad Leader games. There was nothing better than the new game smell and the sight of sheets of unpunched counters. Girls and beer were good, too....

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RE: Board game values - 9/17/2007 8:01:04 PM

MikeBrough

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ORIGINAL: MrBoats

Does anyone know how how the market is for the older boardgames? I remember when Terrible Swift Sword came out and was priced at $16. I was a teenager and didn't have two nickels to rub together, nor 100 square feet of playing area! Then, I think around 2000 or so, I saw a unopened copy of it in a gamer's store in NYC for $300. I had a lot of boardgames collecting dust at that time, and they have all been tossed or given away -- I'm wondering if I lost a small fortune. I had most of the AH wargames and quite a few SPI releases. I'd give my eye teeth for a few of the good ones -- especially the original Squad Leader games. There was nothing better than the new game smell and the sight of sheets of unpunched counters. Girls and beer were good, too....

Check your games on www.boardgamegeek.com. Most games have a value in the 'Marketplace' panel.

I'm in the same position as you - disposed of my collection just before prices soared.

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RE: Board game values - 9/18/2007 2:12:06 AM

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I have a punched set of counters for the origional Squad Leader and an unpunched Squad Leader set edition 4, please submit your eye teeth and $300 ;) It's basically two sets of the Squad Leader game with only 1 set of maps. I also have an unpunched AH "Age of Renassiance" game as well. It should be worth a fortune also. Then I have Milton Bradleys "Dark Tower" unfortunately it's punched and no box, but, I've seen the boxed versions selling for over $300 on ebay and $100-$150 for those that work without a box. I also have an unpunched Pacific War: Theater of Operations by SPI along with two laminated maps for it. You don't find many games anymore with laminated maps. Submit $1000 (and your eye teeth lol) and I will send you all my AH/SPI wargames and even toss in some Strategy & Tactics collectors issues that are selling for over $50 each. ;) Oh I have an unpunched "Third Reich" game as well, almost forgot that one. ;)

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RE: Board game values - 9/18/2007 1:01:02 PM

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Ravinhood,

Torture me some more -- rub it in! I envy you. I bought Third Reich in the summer of '81 with my first decent paycheck. I started with Tactics II in '78 and went back and forth between AH and SPI titles after that. While I lived at home most of my disposable income went for games and later I picked them up when I could. I lived in NYC for 17 years and haunted the Compleat Strategist at every opportunity. Then, (cue the ominous music) I got my first decent computer in '93 and stopped trying to fit 4X8 sheets of plywood into a studio apartment. Now I don't have any of the board games and I wish I did, if only for the opportunity to sell them on EBay.

I remember Tactics II was $6.00 when I bought it in a toy store, and I think the priciest titles, like TSS, were 16 -- 20 dollars. Those were the days!

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