Tandy Radio Shack games

[JerseyDevil65]

I picked these up recently:

Color File II (complete)
GFL Football II (complete)
Dino Wars (cart)
Temple of Rom (cart)
Dungeons of Daggorath (cart and manual)
Rampage (cart)
Tetris (cart)
Rad Warrior (cart)
Shanghai (complete)

I know nothing about computer games, anything of value here?

[Arcade Antics]

I know nothing about computer games, anything of value here?
Nope.

[JerseyDevil65]

Nope.

Oh well. Didn't pay anything for the lot so, no loss. :)

[Atarileaf]

Hey lets not say its worth nothing. There's some good games in there like Rampage, D of D, Tetris, Rad Warrior, Temple of Rom, etc. You won't get rich but throw it on ebay as a lot and you'll get some bids. I have all those or I'd make an offer myself.

[Bojay1997]

Hey lets not say its worth nothing. There's some good games in there like Rampage, D of D, Tetris, Rad Warrior, Temple of Rom, etc. You won't get rich but throw it on ebay as a lot and you'll get some bids. I have all those or I'd make an offer myself.

True. However, a lot of Tandy Coco and TRS-80 collectors prefer boxed complete games to loose carts which generally sell for next to nothing.

[Gameguy]

I had a loose copy of Dungeons of Daggorath a few years ago, I ended up selling it for $1.

[Atarileaf]

True. However, a lot of Tandy Coco and TRS-80 collectors prefer boxed complete games to loose carts which generally sell for next to nothing.

The boxes are just generic silver boxes, they're nothing special. I still think the OP should throw them on ebay as a lot. He'll make some money. There are a lot of coco collectors just looking for loose carts.

Not to brag but I think a lot of my coco videos are getting people more interested in the machine :D

[Steve W]

I suggest you try to sell them here. I found Rampage, Mind Roll and Rad Warrior last year and a couple of people PMed me asking if I was planning on selling them. So there are people around the site looking for Color Computer games. Sure, the larger percentage of visitors of this site seemed to have not migrated to this 'branch' of the DP forum, so you might want to hold off until DP's server transfer is done and people come back to the forums again.

[Bojay1997]

The boxes are just generic silver boxes, they're nothing special. I still think the OP should throw them on ebay as a lot. He'll make some money. There are a lot of coco collectors just looking for loose carts.

Not to brag but I think a lot of my coco videos are getting people more interested in the machine :D

That's why I qualified it with boxed complete, meaning instructions and inserts, etc...I'm sure many Coco collectors buy loose, but those are the collectors who won't pay much for the carts. It's the complete, boxed games that command a premium depending on the rarity of the game. I've never heard of your videos, but I'm guessing many people got into the TRS-80 and Coco as a result of many elementary and middle schools getting them rather than Apple products in many areas. I know we still had lots of them in Los Angeles area schools and this was well after the PC compatible had become the standard business and home computer for many people in the 90s.

[JerseyDevil65]

The boxes are just generic silver boxes, they're nothing special. I still think the OP should throw them on ebay as a lot. He'll make some money. There are a lot of coco collectors just looking for loose carts.


Thanks for the help guys.

2 of the games (Football and Color File II) come in clear plastic blisterpacks. One has a old Radio Shack price sticker for $19.98 so I assumed that's how they were sold. The Shangai comes in a oversized black box. There was also a empty box in the lot that just says Sierra on it and has pictures of mountains.

I'm thinking about keeping these to see if if I can find the system to play them.

[Atarileaf]

Thanks for the help guys.

2 of the games (Football and Color File II) come in clear plastic blisterpacks. One has a old Radio Shack price sticker for $19.98 so I assumed that's how they were sold. The Shangai comes in a oversized black box. There was also a empty box in the lot that just says Sierra on it and has pictures of mountains.

I'm thinking about keeping these to see if if I can find the system to play them.

Well you can't go wrong there but finding a coco 3 to play some of them on is harder. A coco 2 with 64k can be found fairly easily on ebay for cheap but the coco 3's command a lot more and are harder to get and some of those games you listed, perhaps half need the coco 3 to run.

EDIT - if you do want to sell them, my advice is post a message here: http://www.coco3.com/community/
or you can post a message to the coco mail list here: http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco by emailing to this address: coco@maltedmedia.com
You may find buyers there. Hope this helps :)

[JerseyDevil65]

Well you can't go wrong there but finding a coco 3 to play some of them on is harder. A coco 2 with 64k can be found fairly easily on ebay for cheap but the coco 3's command a lot more and are harder to get and some of those games you listed, perhaps half need the coco 3 to run.


In that case, I'll probably just try to trade them for stuff I want. :)

If anyone is interested in these and has some Colecovision or N64 games to trade, PM me and we'll talk.

[Steve W]

Well you can't go wrong there but finding a coco 3 to play some of them on is harder. A coco 2 with 64k can be found fairly easily on ebay for cheap but the coco 3's command a lot more and are harder to get and some of those games you listed, perhaps half need the coco 3 to run.
I once passed on a CoCo 3 many years back, and I've never found another one in a thrift. I come across a model 1 or 2 every once in a while, but not that dang Model 3. How much are those worth, anyway?

[Atarileaf]

I once passed on a CoCo 3 many years back, and I've never found another one in a thrift. I come across a model 1 or 2 every once in a while, but not that dang Model 3. How much are those worth, anyway?

They can go from $50 to $80, even more sometimes, depending on condition, loose, boxed, etc. A site called "Cloud9tech" sells them with two different price points - $50 for a yellowed unit and $70 for a fairly non-yellowed unit and they're all fully tested by the site owner. I bought one from him a couple of months back.

If you want one, I'd order now, I don't think he has too many left from the hundreds he started with a few years ago.