I was looking for this one for some time and finally snagged one on eBay. I don't think the seller wanted to send it. I had to open a case but I tried to stay nice as possible. I even offered to send more money if that was the problem as I just wanted the game. I told him I'd love to buy more things from him as he some great items. Half wondering if I would after all this. In the end he did decline my offer of extra money and finally close to a month (give or take) later I got what I paid for. According to Wikipedia The game did very badly, selling 27 copies in the US and only 176 copies worldwide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Henry's_Playhouse I wonder how many copies of this game are really out there. This game can not be as rare as Wikipedia says it is, can it? I wonder if excess stock was wholesaled or if all the extra discs were sold in compilation packages. There was a compilation of discs where this disc was included so there are more discs out there than you expect.
The 27 sales figures came from one article on Trilobyte and was one of the facts I need to check for the GBR gamers edition, took me a while but I found out from a torrent of emails and phone calls that the 27 figure was a weeks worth of sales, which is pathetic but not the total sales figure in the end it was estimated the compilation sold in total about 6,000 copies worldwide.
Seems there's 2 copies on amazon right now (1 listed as new) for about $20... http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Henrys-Playhouse-PC/dp/B000REHW7I
I saw that but the game was sold seperate in a 10 disc mix mash. Those could be from that set. With Amazon you never know what you will get as there are no pictures. The 6000 units sounds more reasonable for a total run but high if they really only sold 27 the first week. Is 6000 worldwide or US.
Great, another shitty game with my name in the title. All I know is when I am old, if I have blue spaghetti hair and a 3 story house coming out of my head, I think I'd shit myself.
I was told that excess stock may have been sold to wholesalers. Does the 6000 figure count all games produced or would the number exceed 6000 if you took that into consideration?
This is the tricky thing as an version sold is counted as a sale regardless if it is sold directly, via a distributor or a wholesaler. 6000 was the figure I got as a whole from US, Canada and UK sales, although this was over 3 years ago when I did the research. The compilation did not do that well as games were coming out that were starting to look better and had deeper game play then 7th guest, et al...
I see so 6000 were printed then. It is possible that more were printed but never paid for and thus never shipped? Later wholesaled. It is also possible that 10,000 were printed and 6,000 sold and then the company goes out of business. The remaining stock left in the building and sold by the landlord. I bought directly from the same landlord.
