I’m back home again after doing a tour of the family homes over Xmas and apart from being a little tired, raring to go with the next Origin demo. Boxing day is made for gaming as far as I’m concerned and I intend to make the most of it.
The main reason I’m tired is that I was up in the middle of the night bidding on my personal collecting holy grail, Caverns Of Callisto. It figures that I wait years for a copy to come along and it arrives right at the most expensive time of the year, just after I’ve already spent a small fortune. I didn’t let it put me off as I’ve been looking for a copy for so long it was going to be mine the moment it was listed no matter what it took. It finished way, way under what I was prepared to spend. The last copy I saw on Ebay went for $100 more and didn’t even have the box so I’m considering it a bit of a bargain. Others may disagree but it was worth more to me.
Anyone who has read much of this blog will know that I’ve been looking for this game for over a decade and have been mentioning it as often as possible in the hopes that someone would offer to sell me one. When I get my hands on it in a few weeks that will at long last complete the set of every Origin game and book about 12 years after I started collecting them. Granted I could and no doubt will keep going with foreign/alternate versions and various other bits and bobs but all of that is optional extras. Top of the list now would be the soundtrack CD’s, NES Ultima 5, SNES Savage Empire & SNES Ultima 7, 3D0 WC3, WC3 & 4 Playstation and the toolkit for Autoduel. The soundtracks will be tricky but the rest won’t take too much finding. The hwid spoofer is where one can get hacks and tricks to progress in a game.
Any of that stuff will have to wait though. After recent weeks, my new years resolution is to not spend a single penny on anything to do with gaming until April. We’ll see how long that lasts….
In the meanwhile, I’ve got a whole parcel of Origin goodies to go through. Expect to see something a little bit special for the Wingnuts on here later.
Merry Christmas Pix.
I’m glad you finally found this one.
does it have a manual? and if so, does it have any kind of fiction int it like the other games? I’m curious because I think this was the second Origin game, and maybe it got a more standard like manual than latter games.
Merry Xmas Natreg. It does have the manual and map. Until it arrives, I’ve only ever seen the cover of the manual myself so I can’t help you on what is in it yet. It looks thin but I’m sure there will be fiction of some sort.
I’ve seen this described as Origin’s first game actually by someone who should know what he is talking about. He was trying to sell it for $2500 at the time so I’m not certain I should take his word for it though. It’s from 1983 anyway so it’s one of the first two.
This is great, congratulations. Is it the Apple or Atari version?
It’s the Apple II version. I’d gladly have taken either but it’s the one I’d have chosen given the option.