What's the rarest game you own?

DukeFredrickofStLouis said:
you're telling me you don't just have all GameCube and WII games you actually want on a USB drive and load it through Homebrew?
Same with Dreamcast, the minute i found my old Dreamcast could play burnt CD-Rs i spent a whole day making burnt CDs, because fuck paying 150$ for some of those games.
Even my PS2 collection is very small, I go by a simple piece of logic, I buy games i have intentions of playing at some point, I just hate with people say "BUYY THIS GAME ITS SO RARE", I just don't see myself playing many of the "rare" games.
Also with Those mini consoles, I always pump them full of Roms as a semi kinda but not really legit way of playing those games.
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Oh, I was just posting about what I've noticed about the game collecting market. I never pay up for rare games once they pass their MSRP. I've just been collecting games and scouring for deals all my life, all the way back to childhood when I'd go bargain hunting with my mom. Even I, a person who has a nice collection with some decently expensive games, 100% encourages anyone and everyone to pirate and emulate the shit out of everything. Paying over MSRP for a game when you've got other ways to play it is absurd. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance is not worth $500. Anyone who pays that much is a corporate cuck.

But, well, a lot of Wii games could be found for good deals for the better part of the 2010s, so I tried to scoop up everything I ever figured I wanted to play. The only problem is, a lot of the more expensive, well known games never tend to price drop - like, I never saw Pokemon XD for any less than $50, and now it's $200 CIB. Same deal with the N64 Mario Parties and all Fire Emblem games. Those are the kind of games where I'd rather just pirate them from the get-go.

Something I've posted about before, and I firmly stick to, is that you should always, ALWAYS use whichever version is best for you, laws be damned. You should pirate the fuck out of old SNES RPGs, because cartridges are faulty, and its always been easy to lose your saved games. You should pirate the fuck out of Photoshop, because paying a monthly subscription for software is lame as hell. And you should pirate the fuck out of expensive-as-hell GameCube and Wii games, just like you're already doing, because the onus of selling them at a fair price is on Nintendo or the publishers, not you. Mr. Pirate Man can offer me a copy of Path of Radiance I can play on my computer, smartphone, hacked Wii, Steam Deck, all for free, and it's up to Nintendo to compete with that.
 
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sasazuka said:
I doubt it, they made literally millions of copies for the PS2 and original XBox, unless he means the Special Edition version or the PC version.
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From the way he explained it to me, it's an age thing.

San Andreas was the GTAO/Fortnite of its day. Lots of trashed cases, discs being btfo by kids, played until they fucked up etc. He told me he rarely gets a working copy of SA on trade
 
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Glowie Hunter Art Bell said:
From the way he explained it to me, it's an age thing.

San Andreas was the GTAO/Fortnite of its day. Lots of trashed cases, discs being btfo by kids, played until they fucked up etc. He told me he rarely gets a working copy of SA on trade
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I rhink, even if you assume that 50% of GTA: San Andreas PS2 disks are now unplayable due to scratches or disk rot or otherwise being destroyed, there's still gotta be at least a couple of million still-playable disks in the NTSC-U (re: United States, Canada, and probably also Mexico and wherever else they sold American market PS2 games) region alone.

The US PS2 version is still a sub-$15 game on eBay according to PriceCharting.
 
McAfee'sCorpse said:
No Idea. Probably some rare nes game I own but just don't know it, But I guess Manhunt for the ps2.
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I have both Manhunts on PS2... but one day i left my copy of Manhunt 2 laying in a room i don't usually go in and i opened the box one day (months later) to play it... the disc was fucking gone and all this time later i've still never found it. I don't know how the fuck it happened considering i'm not a slob and i'm usually the type to always return my discs to their cases. it's such an enigma. to this day I feel like someone might have stolen it, or I just placed it in a really stupid retarded place and it's never turned up (don't see why i'd do that tho). shit just straight up magically vanished from earth and it sucked because that game is relatively rare as well
 
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I have a sealed Japanese copy of Pokemon Gold.

I got to play Silver earlier than anyone in my area as a child because I visited Tokyo at its release to see some family, who bought it for me and a poorly translated English strategy guide. Coolest kid on the playground for a very small amount of time. Anyways, my dad secretly bought a copy of Gold to give me, packed it and then forgot about it. 15 years later hes cleaning out his house to move and finds it and gives it to me. Its a bit squished, but I have it on my Gunpla shelf collecting dust, no idea how rare it is but maybe I will wait a few years and try selling it.

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I guess The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2. I don't remember any adverts for it in gaming magazines and I happened to come across it in like 2004-05 and didn't even know what it was.
 
Last Half of Darkness III.

This is an MS-DOS adventure game that is so obscure, it was once thought to be nonexistant. I was actually instrumental in finding a working copy of the game and being the reason its on abandonware sites... although I don't think the versions on them are actually my own copy, as mine had a bug that made the game incompletable (the graphics would glitch once you performed a necessary action).

There was actually a bit of a story here. See I had discovered the first two LHOD games through Abandonware sites, and the second ends on a cliffhanger. But like I said, at the time people thought the game was vaporware. My only lead was I found a walkthru writer who casually mentioned having played part three (and, incidentally, not liking it). So I went to a forum I was a member of at the time with this information and they helped me find a guy who had the same name as the FAQ author, who I then contacted... turned out, it was indeed the same guy and he sold me his copy of Last Half of Darkness III.

One of these days I would like to follow that up.... the Last Half of Darkness series is actually a bit of a rabbit hole. There was apparently a CD-ROM game during the Windows 95/98 era (simply called "Last Half of Darkness" but which was neither a sequel nor a remake) which is hard to find. This one does pop up on abandonware sites but apparently boxed copies (which you had to buy direct from the creator) had feelies, and I would love to own it.

I should note... this one I'm looking for will be a CD-ROM game that lacks a subtitle. If Its called something like "Shadow of the Ancients" or "Tomb of Zojin" etc its the wrong one.
 
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I have a sealed Japanese copy of Pokemon Gold.

I got to play Silver earlier than anyone in my area as a child because I visited Tokyo at its release to see some family, who bought it for me and a poorly translated English strategy guide. Coolest kid on the playground for a very small amount of time. Anyways, my dad secretly bought a copy of Gold to give me, packed it and then forgot about it. 15 years later hes cleaning out his house to move and finds it and gives it to me. Its a bit squished, but I have it on my Gunpla shelf collecting dust, no idea how rare it is but maybe I will wait a few years and try selling it.

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You're looking at 250 dollars right now, according to pricecharting. Good job, dad!
 
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It's sad going through this thread, realizing you owned many of these now rare and valuable games and either gave them away years ago, traded them in, or sold them for barely anything. Then again, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing because we used to actually play games for the experiences and then move on when we were done with them unlike the modern day hoarders who buy up every copy so they can sit on a shelf untouched. The fun and memories we got from those games back then was better than the money they're worth now.
 
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Judging rarity by how inflated the ebay prices are; Rule of Rose (PS2), complete with bonus OST.
 
SOS: The Final Escape for PS2

I got it for £1 and it was hidden behind a bunch of games so methinks an employee deliberately priced it down so they could get it with staff discount after their shift.

EDIT: or more I HAD it before I flipped it for nearly £200 a while back once I realised there was absolutely no reason to hold onto it as a trophy other than for autism reasons. If I want to play it again I can just emulate it.
 
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Angelic 2 the Core said:
It's sad going through this thread, realizing you owned many of these now rare and valuable games and either gave them away years ago, traded them in, or sold them for barely anything. Then again, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing because we used to actually play games for the experiences and then move on when we were done with them unlike the modern day hoarders who buy up every copy so they can sit on a shelf untouched. The fun and memories we got from those games back then was better than the money they're worth now.
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I've had this exact experience, as I used to own games like MUSHA for Sega Genesis (used to be worth ten bucks, now hella expensive). I actually managed to get a less-than-legitimate copy on a multi-cart....

.... But funny thing is, when I played it again I kinda remembered why I wasn't that attached to it. It's a fun game and all, but I needed the money and it was one of those "oh, its neat to have it" type of deals rather than something that's like, foundational to my childhood. Any game that was legitimately that big a deal to me I wound up either not selling at all, or somehow getting back. Most of the time what would happen is I'd watch a youtube video or run the game emulated, be all like "eh, I actually don't think I wanna pay ebay prices for this" and just move on.

Basically, I just wanna tell people not to regret what they might've had to do just to make ends meet.

And if its a cartridge game, most of those can be gotten on repro carts now, and repros are just as good as the real thing--sometimes they're even better.
 
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I started playing Rising Zan for PS1, which got me thinking about a game I own and love, Samurai Western. I got my copy for $5 like 15 years ago, then looked up how much a complete copy goes for.
$300. This market has been fucking massacred by "speculators". I don't even know if it's my rarest or not tbh as I haven't looked through my PS2 collection in years, I just know I have a copy. Another really expensive one I know I have is Devil Summoner 2: Raidou vs King Abbadon, but being an SMT game, the price is much less surprising.
 
Pee Wee Herman said:
Interested in hearing the story behind this one, considering you could only rent it at Blockbuster back in the day.
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I bought it from a video rental store that was going out of business, back in thr day I would always go to those stores when they were closing to buy all their horror movies for cheap.
 
Limbo of the Lost. I spotted it just sitting there in the bargain bin at a local supermarket and snatched it up immediately. Best $2.5 ever spent.
 
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