COLLECTING (Good Luck)

Rarity in the UK 9/10 Guideline Price £125. allow about £3 to ship to UK also and possible customs charges AND RECOMMENDED INSURANCE). although you could find one in the UK with a lot of patience, around the £90 mark and £5.00 (special delivery)  postage. not released with a cardboard cover.

Now we are talking serious collectables, in my opinion Backgammon is THE rarest Videopac Cartridge that was available on general release, several factors came into play which makes Backgammon the jewel in the collectors crown.

• Backgammon is boring as far as videogames of that day go, its not realistic enough compared to today's gaming capabilities to attract serious backgammon players.

• It was the first release in the Videopac+ style boxes, I think this may have confused buyers as to whether it was compatible with their system, for a start there's no number 48 on the cover, it has the clear back plastic.

•  It was only released in Europe, and as mentioned on an earlier cart, many people at this time were moving onto the home computer market and away from the TV games.

As you will see from now on the release variants are severely reduced by this.

Backgammon had at least Four release variants which were only Language Variations for the manual, the cover has its language variant typed in the bottom corners. of the four released there was.

NL/I = Netherlands/Italian
GB/SF = Great Britain/Suomi (Finnish)
F/D = French/German
S/DK = Danish

 

Of which I do not know which is the least common, and therefore the most valuable.

In  two and a half  years there has only been 2 copies of Backgammon on eBay, most people would class the likes of Transamerican Rally as been the rarest, because of its limited availability to members of the Videopac clubs.. however stylish graphics made this an attractive buy and by this method it outsold backgammon. There has been around 5-6 Trans American Rallies on eBay per year.

There are only two known variants to backgammon, which only are instruction manual variations, and does not effect the cartridge or cover.

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	UK £ Guide	£140+	NA	NA
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