exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

I expect no one on here has ever heard of the Game 'Lode Runner' or the machine it runs on, a 'Commodore 64' as they are (apparently) so rare and valuable: :lol:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156502524909 ... SwOsxmtOML

I like the huge reduction possible with the coupon code... :lol:

@JezC thats not even his most expensive retro gaming item either!

There was a handheld game on there for £7.5k! Only I gave him the benefit of the doubt on that one, because I'd never heard of it, so it may be worth more.

mrbombermillzy wrote: 26 Apr 2025 13:32 I expect no one on here has ever heard of the Game 'Lode Runner' or the machine it runs on, a 'Commodore 64' as they are (apparently) so rare and valuable: :lol:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156502524909 ... SwOsxmtOML

Wow, I was playing that on my Atari 800 just the other day, looks like I'm quids in....

I've seen that seller before, prices are often stratospheric.

Madness..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177402586352

I guess the guy lowered the price a bit because of the missing key...

exxos wrote: 01 Oct 2025 09:34 Madness..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177402586352

To get one of these I ended up buying it in a thousand pieces and rebuilding it!!! Only cost me €30 though :)

Sadly these are rare as rocking horse :shite: these days, just as rare to find a Mega ST with one...

exxos wrote: 01 Oct 2025 09:34 Madness..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177402586352

To put that in perspective, a Mega ST keyboard with a problem with 1 key sold for
$75.00 at the VCF Midwest 2025 show I just attended.

A couple of the guys I was with absolutely would have bought it but they didn't
get to it first. It went fast (of course). :)

Darklord wrote: 01 Oct 2025 14:26

exxos wrote: 01 Oct 2025 09:34 Madness..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177402586352

To put that in perspective, a Mega ST keyboard with a problem with 1 key sold for
$75.00 at the VCF Midwest 2025 show I just attended.

A couple of the guys I was with absolutely would have bought it but they didn't
get to it first. It went fast (of course). :)

Unfortunately, and I don't know why, they seem to be both expensive and rare here in the UK. I bought a Mega off somebody and he wouldn't include the keyboard as he had another machine he wanted it for.

In theory there should be as many keyboards as Megas, the reality there just don't seem to be. Hence why my keyboard in not a UK one, but I have tweaked it for UK use. My other Megas have Eiffels.

Apart from my MSTE, which has a proper MSTE keyboard.

Mega ST (and Mega STe/TT) keyboards are rare globally, the former far more so.

Maybe it's because the plastics on the Mega ST keyboard have crystallised more and hence shatter as soon as you look at them. They're selling for hundreds of pounds/dollars each these days.