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Rarest game in your collection?
- Thread starter Captain N
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1. Xenosaga Limited Edition
2. Tales of Eternia Premium Box
3. Super Robot Wars Alpha Limited Edition
4. Super Robot Wars Gaiden Limited Edition
5. Super Robot Wars Impact Limited Edition
6. Unlimited Saga Limited Edition
7. Bio Hazard: Code Veronica Limited Edition
8. Sonic Adventure 2: 10th Anniversary Edition
9. Shin Megaim Tensei 3: Nocturne Limited Edition
10. Metal Gear Soild 2 Limited Edition
11. Zone of THe Enders 2 Limited Edition
12. Devil May Cry 2 Dante Paper Figure (Free with DMC2 game)
1. 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha Limited Edition
2. Super Robot Wars OG Limited Art Book(Free with SRWOG game)
3. Devil May Cry Soundtrack (Free with DMC game)
4. Legend of Zelda Gamecube Edition (Free with Windwaker game)
5. Making of Onimusha DVD (Free with Onimusha game)
6. Onimusha 3 DVD (Free with Onimusha 3 game)
7. Capcom Anniversary Special DVD (Free with Bio 4 Best Price)
8. Super Robot Wars Impact DVD (Free with SRW Impact game)
9. 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha DVD (Free with 2nd SRW Alpha game)
10. Monster Hunter Special Disk (Free with Monster Hunter game)
11. Final Fantasy X soundtrack (Free with FFX)
12. Devil May Cry 2 necklace (Free with DMC2 game)
Used to be such a sucker for Robot Wars limited edition, but stop after they started giving crap. Anw thats it for now, I bet there are still some more lying around:lol
Okay. I -know- I have rare stuff somewhere in my closet, but at the moment...
* Miner 2049er cart for the Atari computer
* Entire USA Virtual Boy collection -except for- Jack Bros. (Hey, Water World is rare)
* Other stuff
I'd have to dig through the closet and document things.
* Miner 2049er cart for the Atari computer
* Entire USA Virtual Boy collection -except for- Jack Bros. (Hey, Water World is rare)
* Other stuff
I'd have to dig through the closet and document things.
AgentOtaku
Member
so is MGS: TTS now becoming rare or something?
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
I have quite a few games in this thread that, if these posters are right, are rare, didn't even know.
MGS: TTS
Black Label GoW1 and 2, Okami, SoTC, God Hand
MGS4 LE?
ZoE 2
Non-FES Persona 3 with artbook and soundtrack
MvC2 for Dreamcast.
Not sure how many, if any, of those are rare.
MGS: TTS
Black Label GoW1 and 2, Okami, SoTC, God Hand
MGS4 LE?
ZoE 2
Non-FES Persona 3 with artbook and soundtrack
MvC2 for Dreamcast.
Not sure how many, if any, of those are rare.
Beer Monkey
Member
DavidDayton said:
Miner isn't rare, it is extremely common (exception: 2600 version). However, Bounty Bob Strikes Back (Atari 8bit, C64, Atari 5200) is. I have it for the 5200.
TheGrayGhost
Banned
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Alex Anderson
Member
Alpine Games for Lynx, but it's a homebrew and not a commercial release. It's mine until I mail it off on Monday
Stuff I can think of off the top of my head that probably had low print runs:
GBA: Bookworm
GBA: Ninja Five-O
GBA: Urban Yeti
PS2: Karaoke Revolution Country (I got it to sell on Amazon, leave me alone)
PS2: Futurama (maybe more sought after than rare)
PS1: Robo Pit 2 (budget release, maybe not)
PS1: Qix Neo (budget release, maybe not)
PS1: Early gen light-gun games
Lynx: European Soccer Challenge
Lynx: Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge
Lynx: BattleWheels
Xbox: Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (maybe more sought after than rare)
Not that much, really. Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket Color are the least mainstream systems I own.
AgentOtaku
Member
Xabora said:
only things that falls into that catagory for me are my copies of LOOM and Secret of Monkey Island
...though LOOM is back at my parents house =(
Jazzy Network
Member
birdman said:
It's rare? Lol I have it I didn't know it was rare.
Criteria:
Not easily gotten.
Not played by many.
Not owned by many.
Not released as a LE, SE, Premium whatever.
Amount of platforms released on.
That being said. Mine would probably (not really thinking too hard here) have to be the SFIII premium disc. Only a few made, not released in any other form, and was a pain in the ass to get. Not too many people played SFIII yet alone the premium disc. Games like Saga could be rare in one place and Atari E.T like quantities in others. Rare in the U.S, a buttload in Japan. Rare could be stated as a passage of time since it's no longer selling in retail but that doesn't apply to someone like me. Rare means rare.
Not easily gotten.
Not played by many.
Not owned by many.
Not released as a LE, SE, Premium whatever.
Amount of platforms released on.
That being said. Mine would probably (not really thinking too hard here) have to be the SFIII premium disc. Only a few made, not released in any other form, and was a pain in the ass to get. Not too many people played SFIII yet alone the premium disc. Games like Saga could be rare in one place and Atari E.T like quantities in others. Rare in the U.S, a buttload in Japan. Rare could be stated as a passage of time since it's no longer selling in retail but that doesn't apply to someone like me. Rare means rare.
RadioHeadAche
Member
Probably Fatal Frame 2. Is Okami PS2 rare?
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
I have tons of game-unrelated personal computer antiques at my parents', for example the Omikron Basic programming guide, GFA Basic programming guide, a shirt advertising C-LAB's Notator for Atari ST, a C64 manual with tons of misprints, uncountable amounts of magazines with assembler code to type off in them, years and years of ASM issues like this motherfuckerXabora said:
And a friend of my parents has a Roland MT-32 lurking in his basement.
MightyHedgehog said:
I was expecting more people here to drop 'Radiant Silvergun', it's nice to see a few other people who own Rakugaki Showtime and Mega Drive (JP) Alien Soldier. I think the RAREST thing I own is probably Silhouette Mirage on the JP PSX. The saturn version is worth more, but it's quite common. It took me a good 6 months of eBay stalking to grab it.
Also, Ganbare Neo Poke Kun and Engrish Language Evolution on NGPC!
schild said:
It has to be a combination of them all. Just because there is an extra premium edition of a game does not make it rare if there is a standard version out there that anyone can easily access it. The contents itself are rare, the game is not. Get it? And yeah, that game you mentioned would actually be rare compared to many games.
Jazzy Network
Member
So FF7 isn't rare? Cause a shit load of people have played it, yet it's selling for 70+. Those criterias are flawed.
CharminUltra
Member
Same here!Struct09 said:
Went to the bottom of my pile of shame when I got it. Then once I was ready to play it I found out it was truly a limited release :lol
Ecchi-Time7
Banned
Lunar Star Story Complete SE PS1 game. The cloth map is still crisp : (
Kadey said:
Kadey, that criteria is insane. I have stacks of preview copies of games that are more rare (as in, nearly impossible to get) of both releases and unreleased games. 99 dragons isn't rare. If so, go buy yourself 20 copies at any load of gamestops and stock up. That's just madness.
rare1 Audio Help /rɛər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rair] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
adjective, rar·er, rar·est.
1. coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon: a rare disease; His visits are rare occasions.
2. thinly distributed over an area; few and widely separated: Lighthouses are rare on that part of the coast.
3. having the component parts not closely compacted together; not dense: rare gases; lightheaded from the rare mountain air.
4. unusually great: a rare display of courage.
5. unusually excellent; admirable; fine: She showed rare tact in inviting them.
I've bolded the correct criteria for something to be rare (at least in the sense of video games).
The only addendum I could see making to it is this: Demand outstrips supply - and more supply isn't coming.
Case in point: The cost of FF7 was driven up due to demand outstripping supply. Now does that make it rare? It depends on whether one thinks demand will continue to outstrip supply.
This is not rare. No matter what sort of insane criteria you apply to gaming. Sorry.
Alex Anderson
Member
EctoPrime said:
Yep, the US version. It's worth about 30 bucks, I think. Maybe it had a different publisher in Europe.
schild said:
I did say you have to factor in all those criteria. Not just one. Like the example I gave. FF7 was also released on the PC, in multi-territories and easily gotten in Ebay auctions. And you pretty much proved my point in your first sentence. Drake isn't an extremely rare game in which you probably are throwing to put into my mouth as saying but it is more rare in that it's only released on one platform and in U.S territories compared to many games released all over the place and on multiple platforms. You think someone can just walk into a store in Europe and expect to get one?
Let's use that elemental gearbolt game as an example. Okay. Yeah, he has some special edition that few people have. But that doesn't mean people don't have access to the regular game itself that was released in huge quantities and all over the world. In essence, the game isn't rare, but the contents he has is.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Actually, I still have Radiant Silvergun and Silhouette Mirage for the Japanese Saturn, as well as others (mostly 8-bit stuff)...just that I didn't really want to make a big list because that would require me sifting through a lot of boxes in storage. But yeah, I love me some Treasure...ever since Gunstar I went out of my way to import every single release of theirs.Perdew said:
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Tetris DS is probably the rarest I have.
schild said:
I'm not forcing anyone to use my criteria. :lol That's just my own personal criteria since I have hundreds of rare games if going by regular standards and many of them I don't consider rare going by the fact just because I have an exclusive edition doesn't mean people couldn't still play it somehow in another form.
But remember, there's lots of people who have been in and around game developers who didn't even have to spend money to get rare stuff. The best definition is the simplest one. I mean it's mostly Occam's Razor here.Kadey said:
If very few people have it, it's rare. That's pretty much my basic definition. I didn't like the addendum I posted above, but I did to be kind to the kiddies in this thread that do find that stuff rare.
That said, I've got something in one of my systems that's probably rarer than anything else in this thread or, for that matter, probably in your house. But you know, it'll be released, and there's no content changes except maybe some typographical shit. But it's rare. Italicized up in that mofo.
Just saw this edit. That changes everything. So you're taking the absolute most raw definition of a game, itself, the disc with the game on it, being rare. Interesting, sort of. But only because it renders nothing rare because of the bittorrent. The contents, IMO, are what's important. The disc it's pressed on. The books that come with it. The casing. That's all part of the collection. Collecting history. For example, you have what, over 9,000 Game Boy micros? Most collectors would think you're fucking nuts for ever removing more than one from the packaging. Hell *I* think you're fucking nuts. But that's not what we're discussing here:
With your edit, you have basically rendered rare to not exist. It's just ones and zeroes. If I really want to play Rakugaki showtime, I can.
pancakesandsex
Member
DTJAAAAM said:
You win the thread.