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[-KRS-]

I have a seal copy of Starfox for the SNES (only payed $2 for it)

When I bought it, it still had the original price tag stickers on it from Montgomery Ward.

Hmm, didn't the SNES games usually have that Nintendo seam like today's Nintendo games do? You know, the seam that you pull on to open the plastic that has the Nintendo logo all over it. I remember that F-Zero and ALTTP had that when I bought them new very late from Club Nintendo in Sweden when they cleaned out their leftover stock in like 2001 or something. Perhaps only the later copies had that. Man I wish I didn't open ALTTP. Would probably be pretty expensive today otherwise.

 

[blizzardjesus]

Hmm, didn't the SNES games usually have that Nintendo seam like today's Nintendo games do? You know, the seam that you pull on to open the plastic that has the Nintendo logo all over it. I remember that F-Zero and ALTTP had that when I bought them new very late from Club Nintendo in Sweden when they cleaned out their leftover stock in like 2001 or something. Perhaps only the later copies had that. Man I wish I didn't open ALTTP. Would probably be pretty expensive today otherwise.

The Seam with Nintendo written on it is only in Europe. In japan most famicom and super famicom games were not shrink-wrapped at all. In the US they were shrkinwrapped just like his Starfox box.

 

[Borman]

Hmm, didn't the SNES games usually have that Nintendo seam like today's Nintendo games do? You know, the seam that you pull on to open the plastic that has the Nintendo logo all over it. I remember that F-Zero and ALTTP had that when I bought them new very late from Club Nintendo in Sweden when they cleaned out their leftover stock in like 2001 or something. Perhaps only the later copies had that. Man I wish I didn't open ALTTP. Would probably be pretty expensive today otherwise.

Europe had different seals than the US for a lot of things.

 

[-KRS-]

The Seam with Nintendo written on it is only in Europe. In japan most famicom and super famicom games were not shrink-wrapped at all. In the US they were shrkinwrapped just like his Starfox box.

Europe had different seals than the US for a lot of things.

Ah I see. Good to know, thanks!

 

[Ultratech]

Probably not entirely what you're looking for, but Price Charting does a pretty okay job.

Going by that site based on price:

NES: NES Console (Uh...yay?)
SNES: Kirby Super Star
N64: N64 Console (though I've got an original OoT gold cartridge, if that's worth anything)
GC: LoZ Collector's Edition

Sega: 32X (it's missing cables or something though; never could get it play Doom right).
GB/GBC: GBC Console/Pokemon Crystal
GBA: NES GBA SP (though the outside case is scratched to hell)
DS: Digimon World DS

PS1: FFVII
PS2: Tales of the Abyss

Frankly, my stuff doesn't really amount to much.

 

[GManDH]

I have a monopoly board game from the early 1970s. Other than that all my games are your average fighting games.

 

[djtiesto]

Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun, Rondo of Blood, Valkyrie Profile, Radiant Historia, Earthbound (cart only), Lufia 2 (cart only), nearly every US-released Megaten, and boxed copies of all 4 Dragon Warrior games. Also, Phantasy Star Adventure (GG Import), Pier Solar second print, and Star Odyssey.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Panzer Dragoon Saga I guess is the most expensive? I don't really know prices so it's hard to tell.

 

[joeygreco1985]

-Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for Xbox, but the value went down after the XBLA version was released.
-first run copy of the Xbox version of GTA San Andreas (with the hot coffee stuff on the disc). Those are rare now, right?
-Ocarina of Time/Master Quest disc for Gamecube
-UFC 2009 for Xbox 360 signed by Dan Henderson and Rich Franklin. Rich even made a joke to me about how he was getting his butt kicked on the back cover by Anderson Silva when he signed it lol
-Random collector's editions (Halo 2, Forza 4, MGS4, AC Brotherhood, Perfect Dark Zero, Saints Row 2, some other ones I can't remember)

 

[RedNumberFive]

I have a seal copy of Starfox for the SNES (only payed $2 for it)

When I bought it, it still had the original price tag stickers on it from Montgomery Ward.

Suikoden II

I went into my local Play N Trade and they pulled it out of the drawer. Some kid had traded in a PS1 and a ton of great RPGs for it. I paid $80 in store credit for a PS1 game I'd been wanting to get for a while.

That sounds exactly like my experience finding Suikoden II. A chance encounter at Play N Trade, and $80 later it was mine.

 

[kingslunk]

Earthbound

 

[Tyrael]

 

[EXGN]

I used to have a copy of Suikoden II but I sold it during college for $150 to buy books

 

[distantmantra]

I used to have a copy of Suikoden II but I sold it during college for $150 to buy books

I sold my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga in graduate school back in 2004 for $300. Great game but I needed the cash and I'll probably never want to play it again.

 

[RyType]

-Demons Crest Pal Cart
-Demons Souls Black Phantom Edition
-Terranigma
-Super Mario RPG
-Shenmue II
-Nights Into Dreams
-Goemon Mystical Ninja 64 1 +2
-Sega Ages: Gunstar Heroes & Monster World (Bought Monster World day one off Play Asia, one of my favourite series)
-Hudson Gamecube Set: Bonk, Adventure Island, Star Soldier, Lode Runner
-One Piece Unlimted Cruise part 1
-Megaman Legends 1 (one of my favourite games ever.)
-Megaman Legends 2
-Misadventures of Tron Bonne
-Megaman Wily Wars
-A Sealed copy of Gitaroo Man
-Wind Waker Limited edition with Master Quest
-Lunar 2 (got the game cheap because the guy selling it to me warned me that I couldn't play it, its the american version)
-Moon RPG remix (a game I got for cheap and had no idea what it was until that Ghaleon post a while back.)


Probably not all rare, I also have Conkers Bad Fur Day, Sonic Generations Special Edition and Shadow Tower Abyss. Most of these games have some of my fondest gaming memories- I just wouldn't have the heart to sell em.

 

[GalacticSushiman]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22477177&postcount=44

Quite a lot actually

 

[Dabanton]

I have 2 copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga that i picked up i already had one copy and saw the other for £10 in a games shop it was in amazingly good condition.

From this gen

Anno:A new World for the Wii was almost impossible to find for a while not sure what the situations is like now but i have a copy of that

And Little King Story is going to be one of those games that people are going to want to have in a few years time picked up two copies of that last year as Game were flogging them for £5 each

 

[Zero148]

my rarest game should be Conker's Bad fur Day with booklet for my N64. I used to have the limited Edition of Wind Waker with the OoT Master Quest disc, but somehow I lost the disc which made the edition limited...

 

[jjgames]

Probably not entirely what you're looking for, but Price Charting does a pretty okay job.

I own PriceCharting.com, thanks for the love. We try to keep an accurate price on every game out there including quite a few rarities.

I'm going to set the bar high...

Mine:
[image]

Only 50 exist. One of the rarest PS1 items out there.

Not sure if it tops this or not, but I own NBA Elite 11.

 

[i-Lo]

Original ICO

 

[krae_man]

I guess it's my Boxed copy of Store Keepers for the Game Pocket Computer:

Took me forever to find that.

I actually have a complete set of games for it:

I think Astro Bomber is really rare as well. Well they all are but those two in particular are harder to find I think.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

Star Fox Competition

My friend found 20 of those at a local garage sale a euro apiece years ago. He's sold a few on ebay but I think he still has about half. If anyone's looking for one of those I could hook you up.

 

[Sky_Blue]

Not sure how rare some of this is, but in my collection I have:

-Castlevania Symphony of the Night (complete PAL version with bonus CD and artbook)
-ICO (PAL original cardboard sleeve edition)
-Shadow of the Colossus (PAL original cardboard sleeve edition)

-All the USA Xseed/Falcom premium edition releases:
Ys Seven
Ys the Oath in Felghana
Ys I&II Chronicles
Trails in the Sky

-Zelda Twilight Princess (PAL Gamecube version)
-Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence (PAL version with all extras)

-Donkey Kong Game and Watch complete in box with all manuals etc

Pretty sure there's more I could list but that's what I can think of off the top of my head at the moment.

 

[Kuramu]

I'm one of 8000 who bought Cubivore

 

[Tex117]

The rarest game I own is game called Dragon View or also called Drakkhen 2 for the SNES.

It was a fun little game for the SNES...

I've never even met anybody thats even played it other than me.

 

[TheBanditKing]

Not sure how to define rare when it comes to games, anymore rare just means old. Though some of my stuff is both

Alundra (Signed by Vic Ireland)
Panzer Dragoon Saga (Bought it as Saturn was being phased out of Toys R Us yrs ago)
Shining the Holy Ark
CastleVania Chronicles
Shining Force 3 Pt 1 (was so pissed we never got the rest back in the day lol)
Symphony of the Night for Saturn (JP ver)
Dual Hearts
Growlancer Coll LE PS2
Tales of Destiny

I have tons more but no point in making a giant list.

 

[wonderland]

Rarest in terms of print run is probably my copy of Border Down LE for the Dreamcast. I believe that out of the 15,000 copies printed, only 5,000 are LEs.

oh man , this is awsome!

 

[MikeE21286]

Not sure if it tops this or not, but I own NBA Elite 11.

That's pretty awesome.

BTW...looks like you can get about $1k for that I'd dump it.

http://videogames.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-3/nba-elite-11

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

I have a sealed copy of the Mass Effect 1 collector's edition (I got a copy when it came out and randomly won some bioware drawing for another copy that I didn't find out I won until about a month after the game was already out). Didn't really think it was that rare, but apparently it's going for a lot on ebay.

 

[Anth0ny]

Not sure if it tops this or not, but I own NBA Elite 11.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

never forget.

 

[Killer Yakuza B]

I dunno how rare these are (I imagine not at all), but I've either seen them mentioned in this thread or don't see that many other people with them: Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Metal Combat, Super Scope 6, Wario's Woods (SNES), Ogre Battle 64, MegaMan 7, Paper Mario, Conker, Zelda Collector's Edition for GCN, Pikmin 2, Skies of Arcadia, Yoshi's Story, Kirby 64, F-Zero, and the Majora's Mask Gold "3D" cart. I also have an American cartridge of Super Street Fighter 2 SNES that for some strange reason came with a Japanese ROM inside instead.

So, yeah, nothing too rare at all.

Yep. Very rare. Gametraders (a store that deals in old and new) is selling the Gamecube copy for $149.95AU. If that doesn't scream rare then I don't know what does.

Fuck, I traded mine years ago to a friend for Mario Golf.....

 

[JordanKZ]

I own a boxed PAL copy of Terranigma for the SNES. Those usually go for like £130...

 

[madp]

Is Robot Alchemic Drive for PS2 considered rare? God I love that game.

RAD is almost impossible to find, I'm surprised it isn't worth more. I spent like a year looking for a copy at Gamestop before just going the ebay route. I've still never seen one for sale used anywhere B&M, be it GS, vintage stores, or elsewhere.

Holy crap @ those Game and Watches - lovely condition, that's got to be worth a fair bit, no?

My fave collectible is probably my Bit Generations games:

(not my pic) Not sure if they're at all rare though.

SO MUCH JELLY. I only have Boundish and Soundvoyager, I'd love to get the rest without selling a kidney. The little boxes are just the best thing.

I own PriceCharting.com, thanks for the love. We try to keep an accurate price on every game out there including quite a few rarities.


Not sure if it tops this or not, but I own NBA Elite 11.

Whoa. This gen's Stadium Events for sure. Since you're serious enough a collector to have secured a copy, you may know the answer to this: have any 360 copies survived? I've only ever seen PS3 come up for sale.

 

[Last Baron]

A sealed copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy. Or Xenogears, but that's probably not as rare.

 

[turnbuckle]

I'm going to set the bar high...

Mine:

Only 50 exist. One of the rarest PS1 items out there.

Oh man, I am jealous.

Rarest thing I have is Earthbound with box and guide.

 

[OnkelC]

 

[Fourth Storm]

Suikoden II.

Also, 3 out of 4 discs of Shenmue II PAL for DC. In perhaps my greatest gaming tragedy, my friend threw out my Dreamcast while moving, which I suspect had disc 1 inside. Boggles my mind how he could do that but also how I ever trusted his drunk ass w/ such a rare gem in the first place.

 

[Dunan]

Not quite a "game", but I have the very rare 1995 SIGGRAPH Square's Preview Extra with the FFVII playable demo and the famous FF7 tech demo with FF6 characters moving around in 3D, which was quite impressive at the time.

People are willing to pay good money for this collector's item; I might sell mine, as I don't think I've put it into my PS1 in at least five or six years.

http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2011/...ew-extra-final-fantasy-vii-siggraph-95-works/

 

[Fourth Storm]

Not quite a "game", but I have the very rare 1995 SIGGRAPH Square's Preview Extra with the FFVII playable demo and the famous FF7 tech demo with FF6 characters moving around in 3D, which was quite impressive at the time.

People are willing to pay good money for this collector's item; I might sell mine, as I don't think I've put it into my PS1 in at least five or six years.

http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/2011/...ew-extra-final-fantasy-vii-siggraph-95-works/

Dude, that's seriously awesome! I didn't know the SIGGRAPH demo was converted to Playstation. I thought it ran on "high-end SGI workstations."

 

[Endesu]

Probably Persona 2: Eternal Punishment for the PS1.

Apparently Rule of Rose is somewhat rare as well?

Edit: Oh, I guess some of my computer titles are rare as well? Complete System Shock 2, Lurking Horror for Apple II, Realms of the Haunting, Alone in the Dark 1-3... also Pathways into Darkness for the Mac.

 

[KTallguy]

That siggraph demo is only a video, not playable right?

I have some bit generations stuff, a copy of Linda 7 for the PS1... but nothing too rare... I think.

 

[Ragus]

The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition for GC.

But I'm not sure if it really is rare :/.

 

[Muffdraul]

I do. It's the PAL version though. But I don't think any version is that hard to come by, is it?

For the record he was asking about the Panzer Dragoon Orta themed Xbox console, not just the game. Pretty sure they were only for Japan, no idea what the run quantity was.

And my rarest item is probably Panzer Dragoon Saga, 1st pressing. Bought it at release, completely clueless of its rarity at the time.

 

[Max Knight]

I'm one of 8000 who bought Cubivore

My little brother has a copy of Cubivore. Great game. I had no idea it was so rare.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Is MGS3: Subsistence considered rare? I still have my copy, but I'd be willing to sell it now that i have the HD Collection

 

[phosphor112]

It was Brave Fencer Musashi...

FF8 demo disc, no scratches, booklet, original case...

worth 80 bucks.

No idea where the fuck it went... worst thing ever.

 

[ameratsu]

I have a laser cel from the ps2 release of resident evil 4. it has leon with a chainsaw guy behind him. no idea how rare it is though.

I also have the ga-ko alarm clock that came out shortly after MGS4. Only 2000 units, so that sounds somewhat rare.

 

[strife2k]

Atari XE: Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Jr
PlayStation: Dragon Ball GT Final Bout, Final Fantasy Tactics (Black Label)
PlayStation 2: Disgaea Hour of Darkness 1st Issue, and another Nippon Ichi games related to Disgaea universe

 

[Younicorn]

Probably a sealed copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

It's been steadily increasing in price on eBay for a few years now, and is around the $250 mark. I know that's nothing to some people who have older SNES carts, but it's the rarest title I have - and I keep all of my games.

To eBay!

 

[DownWithTheShip]

I have an unopened copy of Cubivore. Not really that rare, but it's all i've got.