Timpsi,
If you follow the links on the amazon pages on the right hand side of each is number of "new" or used copies, and links to retailers. Most of them are online shops, operated through Amazon.

And as i said later, ther was always more than one possible retailer for each of the games. :ok:

Software Surpriced seems to be another of Amazons psuedonyms.

Timpsi,
reading your post, I got also impression that you had very sad childhood!? LOL

That post was joke, and your over-reaction is quite surprising.

Suggestion: Get a life...

Seems though most of them refuse to ship internationally, which is a drag. Seems interesting, though - generally these have been viewed as unreliable sources (due to the lack of information about the sellers), but perhaps they could be utilized somehow?

Aye, the Surpriced cart seems to link directly to Amazon.

The inappropriate content of your post aside, I fail to see how a fair request for explanation of a non-understood comment would be 'overreacting.' Sorry I didn't get your joke, although I did try.

cdaccess charge extautionate prices for most of the games (aka its being overpriced) i'd be ok with cdaccess if the prices were reasonable for the old games but as most of the games there are overpriced, im against cdaccess. im not against the principle, im against overpricing of old games.

I hear ya, some of the prices for some of the older games is just ridiculous. Das not cool :not_ok:

For a game thats 15 years old isnt worth paying even a buck...

I wonder if you say the same about 15 year old books, movies or CDs, too? And I've always thought people in the abandonware circles consider old games valuable and generally better than the new ones.. ;)

Personaly i have NO problems with caughing up 15 $ or 10 € for an old game as long as i know it's good..
eg. I own:
Civ1 for Amiga, costed me 50€ roughly when i got it
Civ1 for PC, costed me 35€ when i bought it.
Civ1 CD-realease bought a few years back. Cost: 10€

Total: 95€ worth of Civilization 1

Civ2, i hold 2 PC-copies of, at the cost of 50€...
and so on...

I don't mind paying for the games, the problem is to get them.
I would NEVER shop again from Amazon after a dispute with them over books i bought a few years back, and most other places i've found it, they don't ship anywhere outside USA.

I did however get Total Annihilation: CC-expantion from an online-shop and the slightly hefty cost of 40€ including shipment, but man.. just the BOX was worth that!

Im not sure im getting this, if a said game is no longer manufactured or supported by the publisher and thus unavailable by any practical non international means, it looks like abandonware to me. But if CD access get hold of a few original copies of it, suddenly they own the sole rights to it, Where will it stop?

Titan, you bought games at the time they were popular. Even today I am not buying new games, as I believe that they are well overpriced. I believe that with more reasonable pricing they might make more money, as that will decrease pirated software.

I paid 10 bucks for Civ1 and Colonize cobo couple yers back, even I had copy of both games. On amiga most of my software was pirated, as I saw unrealistic to pay 100DM for a single game, which I might dislike after try. :blink: