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The Lost Ride

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:25 pm
by rupert
I decided to look for a few games on ebay to advance my collection abit, found this The Lost Ride and thought it look interesting so had a bid, the next time I look it's on £20! how much is this game worth, I hadnt heard of it befor?

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:35 pm
by Bas
the game is worth as much as you're willing to pay for it... The Lost Ride is pretty rare I guess, although I would NEVER pay 30 euros for it.

crazy people :?

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:35 pm
by rupert
I found this thread which was quite interesting. I would still like a rough guide of whats an ok amount to pay. I see from that thread that it's a 'buggy' game but not too bad on 200 series CD-i's?

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:37 pm
by rupert
you answerd my pricing question, thanks, so forget that bit :D

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:57 pm
by Bas
yes, as they say - On my 490 it's not fun playing anymore because the disc crashes every minute :O

So ok, I admit these titles I recommended you yesterday are all pricey!

but The Lost Ride offers great graphics, and it's FAST!

How much you want to pay depends. Personally, I would not go any higher than 5 euros. I'm sure, if you check regularly on local auctions sites (and not on that overpriced ebay) you will eventually get it for a price like that.

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:53 pm
by rupert
Incase you were interested, it ended on £41!.. click

I got The Apprentice from the same seller (click again) for £2.99 (or £5.98 with post). Ive never played it but read on here somwere that it's quite good?

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:07 pm
by Bas
Yes, The Apprentice is considered to be the best platform game on CD-i. A lot of variety, you can't really go wrong with this title: action-packed is a nice word to describe the disc.

41 pounds for The lost Ride: Insane! Is it really that rare !?!

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:26 am
by rupert
Bas wrote:Yes, The Apprentice is considered to be the best platform game on CD-i. A lot of variety, you can't really go wrong with this title: action-packed is a nice word to describe the disc.

41 pounds for The lost Ride: Insane! Is it really that rare !?!
I got it yesterday (the apprentice) and had a short go.. all seems great so far, how come there wasnt more great platformers like this?? from what I can see the CDI handles it really well.

As for the Lost Ride I can only guess one hasn't been on ebay for a wile. It happends like this with Master System games, If somthing hasnt been on for a few months then when it does pop up it will go for much more then usual, i.e. I sold a Championship Hockey for £80.00 (0.99p start) last year, but since then it's never reached above £30 and somtimes goes under £20. strange place ebay, it pays to wait round and search well.

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:04 am
by Erronous
rupert wrote: I got it yesterday (the apprentice) and had a short go.. all seems great so far, how come there wasnt more great platformers like this?? from what I can see the CDI handles it really well.
Walk in a game store and buy 10 random games. How much of these would be absolute crap would you think? More than 50%?

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:19 am
by rupert
Erronous wrote:
rupert wrote: I got it yesterday (the apprentice) and had a short go.. all seems great so far, how come there wasnt more great platformers like this?? from what I can see the CDI handles it really well.
Walk in a game store and buy 10 random games. How much of these would be absolute crap would you think? More than 50%?
I'm not quite sure of the relevence but i'm guessing 10 at random would produce maybe 2 or 3 good games, the rest would be avarage at best..

What my comment ment was that from what ive seen there arnt many plattform games on the CD-I, but I think there should be as The Apprentice seems to be really good.. perhaps Philips and its developers felt that 2D platform games were old fashioned and wanted the CD-I to do somthing new?

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:07 am
by Bas
As it seemed Philips was thinking about Interactive Movies more! However, some exclusive platform games have been released, like Lucky Luke, Christmas Country, Christmas Crisis, Flashback...

Don't forget Pyramid Adventures!

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:18 pm
by rupert
wasnt Flash Back released on every populer format at the time?

interactive movies have there place I suppose but they age bad. looking back they are not much fun now.. :cry:

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:09 am
by Bas
yes, my mistake :oops:

I still enjoy the classic ALG games, and if they would produce new interactive movies like "De Zaak van Sam" I would certainly still enjoy them. In my opinion the replay value is low, because you've seen it all before. But it's the same as with regular movies. How cool would it be if you would have a controller in the cinema and you could choose the plot? That's what De Zaak van Sam is basically about. Unique ;)