ABF: Any idea what this game is worth?

[A Black Falcon]

Sid Meier's Gettysburg is a game I got for Christmas back in 1997, and it's great! It is a real-time strategy wargame, taking that most complex of strategy games, the wargame, and making it much more accessible as is Sid Meier's thing. The game has depth, as you do have multiple formation options for your troops, multiple movement speeds, etc, but it's easy enough to learn. You can play through the battle all at once or in scenarios which cover only pieces of it, and at the end of each one are scored based on how many of the objectives you held, etc. The graphics definitely have aged, but I think the gameplay still holds up. Gettysburg isn't quite on par with Civilization, but it's a great game in its own right. I'd never sell it! It says a lot about how I never got into the wargaming genre, but Sid Meier's Gettysburg is almost certainly the wargame I've played the most. Love this game.

Antietam is the sequel to Civilization, covering another Civil War battle in the same engine as the original game. It also has a (I think it was free) addon called South Mountain, which adds a smaller battle that happened earlier in the campaign that led to Antietam. More of the same but still good.

After that, Firaxis licensed out the engine to a development team who made two Napoleonic Wars games that run in the same engine as Gettysburg, Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle and Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory. I have Waterloo and like it, but never have gotten Austerlitz... I should sometime.

That Skyrim OST seems like a pretty sweet find.

Around here, most of the pawn shops have made eBay pricing standard procedure, so it's very hard to find the sweet deals any more. There's still local flea markets, but more and more people are getting savvy to online sales trends and sell based on that. I still occasionally find a hidden gem here and there (I found "The Magic of Scheherazade" in a complete box set at a local Vintage Stock for about $20, which is a lot cheaper than the $50 or so a complete version of that game usually goes for), but generally it's getting harder to find such things. My best bets have been perusing garage sales by elderly people trying to get rid of the stuff their kids left in the house after they moved out. Even then, most garage sales are nothing but tacky clothes and tacky knick knacks around here, so I'd really have to commit to have a good chance of finding some lost gem out there.

Yeah, it's definitely getting harder to find good deals on games. Many classic prices may be near peak now, but still, they're high, and stores are far less likely now to price things way below value, they just go by ebay prices... except for PC games, at the few places you can actually find them such as Goodwill; those are often quite cheap. Of course you need to be careful and know what you're buying if you buy used PC games, though -- to avoid games which have one-time-use keys which surely have been used if they are open (unless it's so cheap that you're willing to take a chance or just want the box), to make sure it has everything you'd need to play such as if it's a game which requires a cd key and puts it on the manual but it's a disc-only copy of the game, in the very rare case you find a floppy disk game is it missing its codewheel, etc...