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MrBoats -> Board game values (9/17/2007 10:44:33 AM)

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....[8|]



MikeBrough -> RE: Board game values (9/17/2007 8:01:04 PM)


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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....[8|]


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. [sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif]



ravinhood -> RE: Board game values (9/18/2007 2:12:06 AM)

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. ;)



MrBoats -> RE: Board game values (9/18/2007 1:01:02 PM)

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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