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Title: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: AmigaMance on August 21, 2009, 05:24:51 PM

Hi.
 This isn't a subject about Amigas, but close. :)
 I have a boxed speech synthesizer cartridge for commodore 64 computers and i was wondering how rare this is. Is it like ultra rare?
 I haven't decided if i want to sell it. Just asking about its rarity.

 I also have a game cartridge, called "star ranger" and few original games in tapes.

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: klx300r on August 21, 2009, 05:49:38 PM

pretty rare around my parts..could probably fetch you $40 to $60 USD on ebay?

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: motrucker on August 21, 2009, 06:01:19 PM

Not at all "rare" around this area. Last one I bought I paid $5.00 for (with all the cables, manual and box in great shape). But - on eBay, who knows what it'll bring....

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: amiga92570 on August 21, 2009, 08:58:41 PM

It was a pretty common Cartridge, thats not to say you can't get a fair amount on ebay and such. Rare is my Vic-20 collection.

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: Klatch on August 22, 2009, 04:06:55 AM

I bought a lot of 8 c64's at auction from the military. One of the c64 still had a military training cartridge. It was a FPS simulation like America's Army is today. It apparently needed a hand gun like Nintendo's Duck Hunt to work properly. I would still have it today, if my Grandfather hadn't tossed the whole lot of them, including my full working systems. :(

Here is mention of it. Called MACS http://www.johnlowry.com/johnny/2008/11/26/military-simulator-video-games/

and http://www.thegamergene.com/classic/the-macs-multipurpose-arcade-combat-simulator-for-super-nintendo/

and the military docs on it. http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA217593

Wish I still had it....

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: the-topdog on September 01, 2009, 12:40:09 AM

They are not very rare... I picked up a boxed C64 speech synthesizer CIB for $12.53 on eBay 6 months back.  You see them pop up every few weeks and they routineley go for between $8-40 depending on how many people are bidding at the time.  The highest I ever saw one go for was $65 in a buy-it-now... the buyer must have been on crack to pay that much.

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: AmigaMance on September 01, 2009, 03:14:19 AM

You guys broke my bubble. :razz: I thought that it was very rare, but i was wrong.

Title: Re: How rare is this C64 peripheral?
Post by: paolone on September 01, 2009, 09:29:14 AM

Honestly, almost nothing for the most sold computer of all times can be considered "rare", except for some weird peipherals produced in a few samples.