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- Feb 27, 2013
Weren't there 250,000 little samsons made. And I am pretty sure it wasnt in the final 25 nes games.Sealed collecting and rare are two completely different things. I don't equate rarity and value but there are times when they go hand in hand. A good example of a rare game that's worth a lot (mostly inflated pricing) is something like my copy of Little Samson, only a couple thousand were made and it was a late in life NES game, one of the last 25 ever released for the system. I definitely consider something that old where production numbers were below 5,000 to be legitimately rare. There are still lots of rare games not worth shit like Eek the Cat on the SNES. Retro collecting is a mess right now so I can speak for the rarity of titles and a good majority of rare retro games are also pretty valuable.
Anything after the sixth generation of gaming, the word rarity changes drastically due to production numbers being largely increased and gaming was more wideacceptedly as a form of legitimate entertainment or art, and people were somewhat aware that older games retained value. Flash forward to the PS3 and 360 and it's hard to find something truly rare that cannot be purchased digitally. Most "rare" modern shit are limited and collectors edition junk sets that are packaged with a ton of worthless plastic and art books.