Eamon merchandise
Eamon merchandise is rare given the non-commercial nature of the game series, but known commercial products related to the game are listed below, followed by information on the current market for collectible Eamon-related items.
Products
Software
Though the main Eamon series is non-commercial and freely distributed, some related software projects have been commercial ventures:
- Lightning Eamon, a compiled ProDOS-based version by Scott Everts published around 1987.
- Super Eamon, a graphical variant created by Paul Van Bloem and published around 1985 by Van Bloem's Little Green Software. The price for the system master was $20, and the single adventure (The Haunted House) was $15. A "Starter Pack" containing both of these plus several conventional Eamon adventures cost $37.
- SwordThrust, the commercial successor to Eamon created by Donald Brown and published in 1981 by CE Software. Each of the seven disks in the series retailed for $29.95.
- The Adventure, an unauthorized commercial adaptation of the series published around 1985 by Green Valley Publishing.
- Adventures 256, 257, 258, and 259, published by Softdisk in the mid-1990s.
CD
The Eamon CD is a compact data disc produced in 2000 by Tom Zuchowski that contains all the Eamon adventures available at the time, plus maps, pictures, all the newsletters, and other miscellaneous items. The CD sold for $3 including shipping.
Notebook
John Nelson announced his project to create "the official Eamon notebook" (a customized three-ring loose-leaf binder) in the October 1984 issue of the Eamon Adventurer's Log:
The notebook idea has struck a lot of members fancy and we would like to proceed with it... The cost of the notebooks to members will be $10 each plus postage and handling. They are 100% vinyl with padded covers and backs, silk-screened with the Eamon Dragon and lettered in Old English script along the spine. They will have pockets on the inside for placing notes and will be a standard size (8 1/2 x 11) 1" thick.
Nelson also later described it as "the perfect place to keep your EAG newsletters!"
Diskette labels
In the early 1990s SoftKey Publishing sold a set of pre-printed Eamon diskette labels, with the diskette names in Old English-style type. The set covered all EAG adventures at the time, plus master disks and dungeon design and utility disks. SoftKey sold the label set for $5. Tom Zuchowski described them in the December 1990 issue of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild Newsletter, noting that "they are very popular among people who have seen SoftKey disks, and after receiving several requests they have decided to make the label set available as a separate item."
Clothing
Assembly Lines, a retro computer t-shirt store operated by Chris Torrence (@CT6502), sells an Eamon dragon t-shirt for $19.95, introduced around the time the store opened in June 2019.
Auctions and resale prices
Pieces of Eamoniana sometimes appear for sale at auction sites like eBay or through other collectible vendors. This section documents Eamon-related items that have appeared for sale on public sites from c. 2018 onward as an aid to anyone interested in determining going rates for Eamon materials and collectibles.
Omitted are listings where Eamon disks are part of a larger lot of software.
| Item | Condition | Posted | Sold | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Main Street and Softdisk editions of SwordThrust
|
Good | 2 February 2024 | 9 February 2024 | $192.71 | eBay #305382045252 |
DharmaQuest for Lightning Eamon
|
Good | 30 July 2023 | 6 August 2023 | $645.00 | eBay #394779171023 |
Eamon disks (set of 10)
|
Good | 27 January 2023 | Unsold | ($29.95) | eBay #266104100011 |
SwordThrust #1, Softsmith edition
|
Good | 13 November 2022 | 5 December 2022 | $149.00 | eBay #175487716044 |
Eamon disks (set of 109)
|
Very good | 21 March 2022 | 28 March 2022 | $43.00 | eBay #304360005169 |
Eamon disks (set of 9)
|
Acceptable | 16 February 2022 | 26 February 2022 | $5.00 | eBay #304360005169 |
SwordThrust complete set
|
Very good | 8 December 2021 | 15 December 2021 | $3,666.00 | eBay #324929529968 |
SwordThrust #1
|
Very good | 27 October 2021 | 3 November 2021 | $187.69 | eBay #194470674012 |
Castle of Doom disk
|
Acceptable | 2 July 2021 | Unsold | ($24.95) | eBay #363453103988 |
SwordThrust master disk
|
Acceptable | 2 July 2021 | Unsold | ($24.95) | eBay #114872772916 |
The Vampyre Caves disk
|
Acceptable | 2 July 2021 | Unsold | ($24.95) | eBay #363453107084 |
Eamon Player's Manual and Designer's Manual, printed
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Acceptable | 29 October 2020 | 8 November 2020 | $28.00 | eBay #114488990232 |
Assorted Eamon adventure and utility disks (x21)
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Acceptable | 28 October 2020 | Unsold | ($65.00) | eBay #284060536713 |
SwordThrust #1 Softsmith edition, box and manual (no disk)
|
Acceptable | 19 October 2020 | 26 October 2020 | $292.00 | eBay #254753203557 |
Assorted Eamon adventure disks (x14)
|
Acceptable | 15 October 2020 | Unsold | ($124.95) | eBay #362941728417 |
Super Eamon Starter Set
|
Acceptable | 2 February 2020 | 9 February 2020 | $349.95 | eBay #362898191472 |
SwordThrust #1
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Good | 2 February 2020 | 9 February 2020 | $1,325.00 | eBay #362898192065 |
Assorted Eamon adventure and utility disks (x9)
|
Good | c. September 2019 | 7 October 2019 | $19.99 | eBay |
Super Eamon
|
Acceptable | c. February 2019 | 18 February 2019 | $79.95 | eBay |
| Eamon adventure disks 3, 4, 5, 6 | Good | c. September 2018 | 15 September 2018 | $14.99 | eBay |