Rllmuk forum regular Mike Pierce was about to go home from his local carboot at Needham Lakes, Suffolk when something caught his eye. "This guy had bags of tapes, all bundled up with about 30 in each bag, but the one I got was the only one with real games in, the rest looked like copies, albeit all printed labels etc. I could have unknowingly walked away from a boot full of pre-release demos or something!" laughs Mike.

What Mike did actually walk away with was a bagful of standard Commodore 64 releases together with one rarity: Alligata's Who Dares Wins. Not Who Dares Wins 2 (which is very common) but the first game in the series which was withdrawn pronto when Elite Systems, holder of the Commando license, threatened legal action.

"There was not really anything of note (that I thought of anyway) in the bundle, I checked all the names on ebay to see if it was worth listing any of them separately, none seemed to go above £3 or £4 so figured I would sell the lot as a bundle." says Mike. However, soon the keen-eyed car-booter was receiving considerable interest in just one game from the bundle...

"It wasn't until I started getting quite a lot of questions about Who Dares Wins and an offer for over £75, that I thought I had better take the listing down and get some more information about it." he says. The game is currently off-eBay as Mike ponders his next move. An auction starting Sunday with a reserve price is the most likely outcome and Wizwords will be keeping a close eye on the listing's progress! Meantime you can check out the pics below...

Footnote: Alligata released the excellent Who Dares Wins 2 shortly after the legal threats from Elite. Save for the addition of a few buildings here and there, the game was identical to its controversial forebear. Yet strangely Elite were non-plussed second time round...