Retro Games Collector » commodore 64 http://www.retrogamescollector.com About retro games collecting for retro games collectors by a retro games collector Wed, 12 May 2010 19:53:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Whacko prices for Jacko games – Case 2 http://www.retrogamescollector.com/whacko-prices-for-jacko-games-case-2/ http://www.retrogamescollector.com/whacko-prices-for-jacko-games-case-2/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:57 +0000 admin http://www.retrogamescollector.com/?p=208 It had to happen. With the demise of the sequin gloved, ape loving pop legend there had to be a rise in price for merchandise bearing his name. Even 20 year old ZX Spectrum software isn’t immune from price hikes. Take this little gem I saw on a popular internet auction site: 1989 Spectrum Michael Jackson Moonwalker Game + Poster.

moonwalker

It might not seem like a lot of money to pay, but prior to WJ’s demise the game was pretty much worthless. Doubt if it would have had a single bid let alone 8 of them.

Worse still it looks like everyone is digging out their old Moonwalker games, I just saw the Amiga version with a starting price of £29.99 and a Commodore 64 version starting at £19.99. Sad but true.

Now I’m sure I’ve got a copy here somewhere…

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The aforementioned software is called Breadbox64 and amongst other things it allows you to Tweet (obviously!), access your friends feed and access individual friends timelines. You can also run this using C64 emulation on your PC, but what’s the point in that?

If you fancy Twitter ‘retro style’ head on over to his website here. Now where’s the ZX Spectrum version?

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