Hey, I just noticed that there is an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) on Mindscape's releases, leading me to believe that they were sold in bookstores. I'm not sure, but they may have been used on other games as well. The ones I have in my collection are:
Dirty Harry: 0-7911-0480-X
Flight of the Intruder: 0-7911-0501-6
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: 0-7911-0286-6
Infiltrator: 0-7911-0310-2
Now, here's the kicker - any reissues of a book with an ISBN number
MUST have a new ISBN number. Same goes for movies and likely the games as well. This means that any game that had a software revision would require a new ISBN, so if there are any software variants to the games in question, then the ISBN would be a clue as to which games might have them.
On a related note, since I knew that Wisdom Tree also sold their games through bookstores, I checked on the box for my copy of Bible Adventures. Although there was no ISBN number, it did have a SPCN (Standard Product Code Number) on it. It appears this standard was used by Christian retailers instead of the UPC standard, this makes sense. Also, there may be different ones for different variants, so I figure we list them here as well. If they're different, we'll work on getting the variant info attached to each one after the fact.
Bible Adventures: SPCN-9-9016-3000-2
These codes may also help find the games when scouring the 'net for games...many websites I've seen that offer books and such offer to search by ISBN as well as title, and I would assume something similar exists for Christian bookstores and such. Happy hunting
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"It's always amazing to me how some of the most worthless games from a gaming perspective tend to fetch outrageous amounts of money. But then again, it could be said that something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I'm curious if the high bidder of the $873.04 Stadium Events (cart-only) realizes that it's nowhere nearly as rare as about 20+ games I can think of that sell for 1/10th that amount? At any rate, I wanted to draw attention to this trend: if people say it's rare, it must be true, and therefore it must be had at any price."
-Dain Anderson, October 14, 2006
Originally posted by: kryptk33p3r
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