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Rare and Expensive Video Games
Hm, I don't believe we have a topic for this yet. I've been interested in the mystique of rare video games on various old consoles lately. The Atari 2600 had a lot of them, mostly because the console manufacturers didn't need to approve a requisite number of copies be made, and anybody could code a game, so that led to a lot of small companies producing extremely small runs of titles (we're talking a hundred or fewer here). After mentioning in the other thread my rare Swordquest: WaterWorld find at a local shop (for $200!), I started getting curious if anyone else has had a run-in with a rare game.
I have one of the rarest North American GameCube titles, which in that region fewer than 4,000 copies sold. That would be: Pokémon Box: Ruby and Sapphire. I received this application as a gift two years ago (very much appreciated!). Its value is roughly $150, but the outer cardboard box is missing, which is quite rare, and an ordinary GCN-GBA cable, which I own. I also own the complete North American set of e-Reader cards for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. It's worth about $50 to $80. Pictures here. Next, I own two of the Eon Ticket for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, complete with the instruction pamphlet, worth about $80 each. (Wow, I scanned this over 11 years ago.) As for my best garage sale find? That would have to be these three games at $7 total: Altogether, these games are worth roughly $110. As I already owned Pokémon Colosseum, I passed it on as a Christmas gift to the person who gave me Box, but I kept Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. (Yes, I did just take the picture with my own copy of Colosseum. ) Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; November 15, 2014 at 11:56:56 PM. |
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I'm not really too much into collecting rare games, but I used to own a copy of LoZ: Collector's Edition for GameCube. Currently, the rarest game I own is a copy of Pikmin 2 (GC, not Wii ) that I got from GameStop a couple of years ago for $40.
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*roots through my drawer*
Eh, rare video games isn't something I have a lot of. The hardest one for me to obtain has been Xenoblade Chronicles, took a while to hunt down and cost 50 dollars used, but it's not "rare" the same way Eon Tickets and Virtual Boys are. |
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Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; November 16, 2014 at 01:49:34 PM. |
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Man i wish i could borrow an Eon Ticket from you Cat! I have an E-reader to use it to, but not a Ruby/Sapphire game (Just emerald). But i have been hunting down E-reader pokemon cards from the first few sets of when the old Ruby&Sapphire TCG sets that support the e-reader.
Oh and how much is Pokemon coliseum worth. Last edited by kakashidragon; November 16, 2014 at 02:50:02 PM. |
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Yeah, complete means it includes everything that came with the original purchase: box, disc/cartridge, manual, and sometimes also the advertising material. Getting a complete copy of a game in a plastic container (most disc-based games, most Genesis, DS, 3DS, Vita) is quite easy, but doing so with a game that came in a flimsy cardboard box is more challenging. Most people settle for the cartridge and manual with those, and some create their own cases.
Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; November 16, 2014 at 04:56:09 PM. |
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I don't have much in the way of rare games, but I guess my most valuable/uncommon game possession is my Pokemon Crystal cartridge. Not to say the game is impossible to come across, I assume most flea markets probably have some floating around still even to this day. But with that said it did take me roughly 3 years to find and I haven't seen one in a flea market or pawn shop since.
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The rarest one that I have that comes to mind right now is actually Digimon Rumble Arena 2 for Gamecube. From what I understand, it's hard to find, and my local shop has it for $55. I think what happened is that it had a really soft release. I don't remember seeing any advertisement about it before it came out. I just saw it in the store one day. I've also got a copy of Super Mario RPG, but that one is a little more common if you ask me.
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Oh boy, the original Australian release of Saints Row IV is going to most certainly be extremely rare in the future:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/unc.../1100-6424902/ |