What's the rarest game you own?

I don't know if they are rare instead of just in demand, but I have .hack/Quarantine and Tail Concerto. And those usually go for more than I expected. I also have PSO Episodes 1&2 plus for Gamecube. I figured it was cheap because I got it so cheap. But nope. It's not.
 
Actually I picked up a bunch of old PC games the other day too, no idea which the rarest is but there's some relatively expensive ones in the mix. Not sure how "good" most of these are but I feel like by the time some of the later Ultima games were coming out they had worked out the issues with the difficulty curve.
 
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Dragoonism said:
3½ actully.
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Just get some old computer with a floppy disk from a friend/grandma/garage sale. Then install some software that can create an image of a 3.5 floppy. That should be fine if you didn't use any non-standard floppy disk formats. (Any format used by standard PCs of the day)
 
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alex_theman said:
Just get some old computer with a floppy disk from a friend/grandma/garage sale. Then install some software that can create an image of a 3.5 floppy. That should be fine if you didn't use any non-standard floppy disk formats. (Any format used by standard PCs of the day)
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Wanna do it, but easier said than done!
Cant name someone i know who have a PC with a floppy disk drive for about 10 years at least and "stone age" computers mainly ends up at the dump here rather than garage sales.
 
We used to have that SNES game that was a sidescroller and had cowboys. My SO was stupid enough to sell it. -_-

I guess the rarest game we have is Fire Emblem on Gamecube and on the Wii. That's not saying much though, lol.
 
Dragoonism said:
This makes me wanna check what i have on the old unmarked floppy disks laying around.
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That's a good point, there's all sorts of "lost" games that came out on the PC's and Amiga's etc of the time.
I mean they're not worth anything, but it's sad to think a not inconsiderable amount of vidya history is gone.

PropaGONDA said:
We used to have that SNES game that was a sidescroller and had cowboys. My SO was stupid enough to sell it. -_-

I guess the rarest game we have is Fire Emblem on Gamecube and on the Wii. That's not saying much though, lol.
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Sunset Riders? Shame, that was a gem. And the Fire Emblem's are pretty decent as far as modern rare game go.
 
Dragoonism said:
Wanna do it, but easier said than done!
Cant name someone i know who have a PC with a floppy disk drive for about 10 years at least and "stone age" computers mainly ends up at the dump here rather than garage sales.
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As long as the floppies in question are 1.44meg disks, you can use a USB floppy drive.
 
Anchuent Christory said:
That's a good point, there's all sorts of "lost" games that came out on the PC's and Amiga's etc of the time.
I mean they're not worth anything, but it's sad to think a not inconsiderable amount of vidya history is gone.
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Atleast Commander Keen was released on Steam!
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alex_theman said:
As long as the floppies in question are 1.44meg disks, you can use a USB floppy drive.
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Don't expect miracles, wouldn't be surprised if the disk contains old txt files.
 
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Lou Wrong said:
Actually I picked up a bunch of old PC games the other day too, no idea which the rarest is but there's some relatively expensive ones in the mix. Not sure how "good" most of these are but I feel like by the time some of the later Ultima games were coming out they had worked out the issues with the difficulty curve.
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So I went through and catalogued these, my list of old "big box" PC games is now as follows. Note, I owned a few of them, including most of the sealed stuff, beforehand and I keep Atari computer stuff on a separate list, so a fair few things from this haul aren't listed here.

Abrams Battle Tank
Apollo 18
Army Men
Bad Blood
Bank Street Writer
Tales of the Unknown Volume I The Bard's Tale
The Bard's Tale Construction Set
bleem!
The Black Cauldron
Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday
Castles
Centurion: Defender of Rome
Centurion: Defender of Rome
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Code-name: Iceman
Comanche Maximum Overkill Mission Disk 1
Communication Series Connect
Computer Crosswords
Conquests of Camelot The Search for the Grail
The Cycles International Grand Prix Racing
Demon Stalkers
Deep Space Operation Copernicus
Eathrise
Echelon
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Falcon 3.0
The Filer
Fisherman's Paradise
The Fool's Erand
The Games People Play
The Games Winter Edition
Gold Rush
Graphics Master
Gunboat River Combat Simulation
Hacker
Harrier Combat Simulator
Heatwave Offshore Superboat Racing
Hole-In-One Miniature Golf
House of Cards
Infiltrator
Infiltrator II
Japan Scenery Disk
JET
Keef the Theif
King's Quest Quest for the Crown
King's Quest V
King's Quest VI Heir Today, Gone Tommorrow
Lands of Lore
Lethal Tender
Life and Death
Life and Death II The Brain
Lightspeed Interstellar Action and Adventure
Lock-On
Lode Runner
Loom
Lords of Conquest
The Lotto Program
Mech Warrior 3
MegaTraveller The Zhodani Conspiracy
Might and Magic
Might and Magic II
Might and Magic VI The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII For Blood and Honor
Mind Mirror
Mindshadow
Mines of Titan
NFL Coaches Club Football
Planescape: Torment
PC World's PowerBase Volume III
Powerdrome
Quake II
Ressurection Pack for Quake
Rockford The Arcade Game
Rooms of Doom
Santa's Christmas Caper
Scenery Disk 7
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Sentinel Worlds I Future Magic
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
Silent Service
SimCity Graphics
The Software Toolworks Star Wars Chess
Sorcerian
Starflight
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Star Trek The Screen Saver
Super Tetris
Tangled Tales
Tank
Terminal Velocity
Tetris Worlds
Times of Lore
The Train
UFO
Ultima III Exodus
Ultima VI The Flase Prophet
Value Pac 3 in one Oil's Well, Stellar 7, Firehawk
Vegas Casino
Video Poker
Video Poker a la Carte
Visions The Complete Astrology System
V for Victory
Wasteland
World Games
X-Com UFO Defense
X Wing

The rarest one? Well its actually one of the aforementioned Atari computer games. "Magic Storybook The Three Little Pigs" is apparently so rare that its never been dumped and actually has some real-world value despite being shovelware for babby.
 
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Lou Wrong said:
So I went through and catalogued these, my list of old "big box" PC games is now as follows. Note, I owned a few of them, including most of the sealed stuff, beforehand and I keep Atari computer stuff on a separate list, so a fair few things from this haul aren't listed here.

Abrams Battle Tank
Apollo 18
Army Men
Bad Blood
Bank Street Writer
Tales of the Unknown Volume I The Bard's Tale
The Bard's Tale Construction Set
bleem!
The Black Cauldron
Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday
Castles
Centurion: Defender of Rome
Centurion: Defender of Rome
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Code-name: Iceman
Comanche Maximum Overkill Mission Disk 1
Communication Series Connect
Computer Crosswords
Conquests of Camelot The Search for the Grail
The Cycles International Grand Prix Racing
Demon Stalkers
Deep Space Operation Copernicus
Eathrise
Echelon
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Falcon 3.0
The Filer
Fisherman's Paradise
The Fool's Erand
The Games People Play
The Games Winter Edition
Gold Rush
Graphics Master
Gunboat River Combat Simulation
Hacker
Harrier Combat Simulator
Heatwave Offshore Superboat Racing
Hole-In-One Miniature Golf
House of Cards
Infiltrator
Infiltrator II
Japan Scenery Disk
JET
Keef the Theif
King's Quest Quest for the Crown
King's Quest V
King's Quest VI Heir Today, Gone Tommorrow
Lands of Lore
Lethal Tender
Life and Death
Life and Death II The Brain
Lightspeed Interstellar Action and Adventure
Lock-On
Lode Runner
Loom
Lords of Conquest
The Lotto Program
Mech Warrior 3
MegaTraveller The Zhodani Conspiracy
Might and Magic
Might and Magic II
Might and Magic VI The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII For Blood and Honor
Mind Mirror
Mindshadow
Mines of Titan
NFL Coaches Club Football
Planescape: Torment
PC World's PowerBase Volume III
Powerdrome
Quake II
Ressurection Pack for Quake
Rockford The Arcade Game
Rooms of Doom
Santa's Christmas Caper
Scenery Disk 7
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Sentinel Worlds I Future Magic
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
Silent Service
SimCity Graphics
The Software Toolworks Star Wars Chess
Sorcerian
Starflight
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Star Trek The Screen Saver
Super Tetris
Tangled Tales
Tank
Terminal Velocity
Tetris Worlds
Times of Lore
The Train
UFO
Ultima III Exodus
Ultima VI The Flase Prophet
Value Pac 3 in one Oil's Well, Stellar 7, Firehawk
Vegas Casino
Video Poker
Video Poker a la Carte
Visions The Complete Astrology System
V for Victory
Wasteland
World Games
X-Com UFO Defense
X Wing

The rarest one? Well its actually one of the aforementioned Atari computer games. "Magic Storybook The Three Little Pigs" is apparently so rare that its never been dumped and actually has some real-world value despite being shovelware for babby.
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You should try and get in touch with someone to dump it.
 
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PropaGONDA said:
We used to have that SNES game that was a sidescroller and had cowboys. My SO was stupid enough to sell it. -_-

I guess the rarest game we have is Fire Emblem on Gamecube and on the Wii. That's not saying much though, lol.
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Sunset Riders?

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Very fun game btw. I remember it was in the arcades too.
 
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