anagrama
Joined: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 354
Location: Newcastle, UK
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| Smurfs 2 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:40 am |
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> No I dont think so. Like I said he's was Dutch. Sounds like a Danish name to me.
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Finnish, to be precise :)
So, this *suggests* that there are copies out there other than Mikko's stash, right?
All the ones I've heard about in the past seem to have stemmed from the Pelikonepeijoonit guys, but I was never sure if this was really the case or just Usenet rumours.
Does anyone have any solid info about Smurfs 2 in general? Any idea how many Mikko & Manu found? How many are circulating?
The last one I've heard of that was sold changed hands for around €200.
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Mikko Heinonen
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| Re: Smurfs 2 |
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:18 am |
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Haha, amusing what a Google search can turn up...
I'll give you my official version of the story now.
I found something around 10 to 15 mint, boxed copies of Smurfs 2 in the Czech Republic in early 2000. I bought two or three immediately, then had my fiancée (working in Prague at that point) buy some more after I realised how much interest it created. All in all, something like 5-8 copies. In late 2000/early 2001 my brother went back to CZ on holiday, I asked him to pick up any Smurfs 2s there might still be around. He brought back less than 10 copies, saying that the rest (5 to 10) were in really poor physical condition. During my final visit to Prague in early 2002 there was no sign of the games anymore where I had originally found them.
This one sale on eBay Germany that Omar Cornut mentions in his description of Smurfs 2 is the only one that I am totally unrelated to. All the other games around have passed through me at some stage in their life, as far as I know.
So, these ca. 15 games I have eBayed, donated and/or traded to the extent that I now have 2 copies of the game left. One is opened and tested, the other remains sealed. I still receive numerous inquiries about this game on a near-weekly basis, but the remaining copies are not for sale or trade - unless you happen to have a working Dreamcast devkit :)
As for pricing, I think the highest that one of my auctions closed at was $120. Finland, which is my home country as the previous poster correctly pointed out, is a remote country that seems to scare people away... So I'm sure that if, for example, one of the few Americans I sold the game to have auctioned it off they are sure to have received more.
Mail me if you have any further questions...
Over and out,
Mikko/Pelikonepeijoonit
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