What are some of the most Expensive/Rare console game ever?

racketboy

racketboy

CAGiversary!
What console titles are some of the most valuable ever?
Being a Saturn fan, I think of Radiant Silvergun and Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Can anybody think of more?
 
The Euro release of the Neo-Geo AES Game "Kizuna Encounter" last sold for $12,500!!! There are only 4 copies known to exist...
 
[quote name='peteloaf']The Euro release of the Neo-Geo AES Game "Kizuna Encounter" last sold for $12,500!!! There are only 4 copies known to exist...[/QUOTE]

We have a winner. You'll find little else that even comes close.

Radiant Silvergun isn't rare either, just sought after. There's always a copy on eBay.
 
There was the game pak that Nintendo user for its Nintendo World Championships, those go for over $1000 each.

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html

Saddly, I choked and did not make it past the second round (which required 200,000 points) after scoring 350,000 in the first round.

However I avenged myself during a Nintendo event at Disney World's Paradise Island on the Star Fox competition pac.

http://cheats.ign.com/objects/496/496296.html
 
Copies of Unlimited Saga.......... its rare that anyone keeps such crap after playing it for 2 minutes........ so its rare in the sense that no one owns it........
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']Copies of Unlimited Saga.......... its rare that anyone keeps such crap after playing it for 2 minutes........ so its rare in the sense that no one owns it........[/QUOTE]

There's a new copy at my local circuit city for $6. ;)
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']Copies of Unlimited Saga.......... its rare that anyone keeps such crap after playing it for 2 minutes........ so its rare in the sense that no one owns it........[/QUOTE]

Remember the once rarity of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout? $400 for a copy of one of the worst fighters ever? No thanks.
 
[quote name='Kain Vincent']Remember the once rarity of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout? $400 for a copy of one of the worst fighters ever? No thanks.[/QUOTE]


I'd still love to get my hands on an original version. What do they go for now? I haven't seen one on ebay whenever I check.

Panzer dragoon is the most well known of normal, great rare games. I don't believe it belongs with upper echelon of rare games, as games like burning rangers had similar print runs and can still be purchased new from the distributer. PDS is a pricey because of equal parts game quality and scarcity, and it's only 150 or so. It's in the same category of dracula x rondo of blood (even if PDS is somewhat rarer), great game, somewhat difficult to find, but not super rare.

Donkey kong country competition and star fox competition are rare and often go for 300+. I think the dkc goes for a little more than star fox. They were available only from the nintendo power shopping guide (or whatever it was called) they used to put in the magazine every quarter. I bought dkc from them for 20 bucks, missed the star fox one though.

Darxxide for 32x was a european only release and considered the 32x's best game. That's worth about 300 I believe.

Battlesphere (and the updated gold version), for jaguar, is very rare and cost over 200+ when it was released by the manufacturer (the price has since been lowered, but I've never seen them sell it at the lower price). It was a homebrew. It immediately sells for 3 or 400 on ebay whenever they sell a few more on the site, and the reprints took only a couple days to sell out. The company has ran out of material though and there will be no more reprints.

Dynastic hero (u.s. version, japanese is like 20 bucks) for turbo duo goes for up to and over 500.

Magical chase for turbografx 16 goes for about 300, it is generally considered the rarest u.s. turbo game and is almost universally considered the systems holy grail. This is wrong though. IT is much, much easier to track down magical chase than dynastic hero, which I've only seen one (two tops) of on ebay ever. Dynastic hero is rarely mentioned even in turbo communities.

Sapphire for the pc engine duo (arcade card required) is worth over 500, it's a great, import only shooter. There was recently a bootleg or a reprinting of it, which is debatable. There is a slight difference from this one and the original. They had flooded ebay (at about 100 a piece) but are no longer availabe. I'm not sure how they have effected the price.

Darius alpha was a promotional pc engine game that was free with the purchase of a certain darius game. You had to mail away for it (japan only). It goes for up to, and occasionally over, a thousand.

Pc Genjin 3 Taikenban is another extremely rare promotional pc engine game. I've never seen one anywhere (though I'd love one). It's essentially Bonk 3 (bonk is pc genjin) except they dress him up like a girl (look at the bonk with eyeshadow in my sig). I have no idea of the value.

Also there are some atari games that go for over 1000. I believe I saw one go over 3000 once, and I don't even think that was an unreleased game. I don't know atari though. Though atari collectors are the really insane ones. They're the star trek freaks of video games.

Turbo duo (u.s. release) has about 6 (out of 20-25 games total) games that often hit or exceed 100. Cotton, super air zonk, bonk 3 cd, dynastic hero, beyond shadowgate and I think I'm missing another one. There's also sydmead's terraforming, possibly the rarest duo game in the u.s. Basically, I have the only one I've ever seen (purchased it brand new from telegames.co.uk). It is a low demand title, but I haven't even see one anywhere else. I think this game could well exceed 100 or 200, but at the same time it may not even hit it. It all depends which collectors see the auction.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']I'd still love to get my hands on an original version. What do they go for now? I haven't seen one on ebay whenever I check. [/QUOTE]

Was at the local used game store. $20-$25 depending on the region.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']The u.s. one dropped that much? I'd think it still has collector value.[/QUOTE]

I saw a Pal version, and a 2nd version, which I couldn't tell if it were the Japanese or American Version (since they asshole who priced it decided to place the sticker over the region logo). There weren't any on ebay over $10.
 
I would say Earthbound is fairly expensive and saught after (not necessarily" rare") and Earthbound for the NES is the most rare (apparently there is only one cart of it)
 
[quote name='Kain Vincent']Remember the once rarity of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout? $400 for a copy of one of the worst fighters ever? No thanks.[/QUOTE]

I remember seeing an original copy of that game in 6th grade on the bus to school. Thanks to that I didn't perceive the game to be super rare....and I sold a new copy of unlimited saga to a friend once and made a dollar. I felt kinda bad but I only sold it to him for 5 bucks...
 
Lolo 3 is difficult to find, and is a good game. Not super rare or anything though.

[quote name='urzishra14']I would say Earthbound is fairly expensive and saught after (not necessarily" rare") and Earthbound for the NES is the most rare (apparently there is only one cart of it)[/QUOTE]


Earthbound for the nes is an unreleased game so it really wouldn't count. Even so, it's not the only example of that happening, thought it's the most notable.
 
[quote name='iufoltzie']There was the game pak that Nintendo user for its Nintendo World Championships, those go for over $1000 each.

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html

Saddly, I choked and did not make it past the second round (which required 200,000 points) after scoring 350,000 in the first round.

However I avenged myself during a Nintendo event at Disney World's Paradise Island on the Star Fox competition pac.

http://cheats.ign.com/objects/496/496296.html[/QUOTE]

Cool...I have one of the Star Fox Tournament Carts.

Isn't SNES Ogre Battle supposed to be pretty rare? I think I remember reading that only about 1000 were made before the publisher was sued over copyright issues?
 
Ogre battle is rare, but I've owned 2 of them (found in eb and gamestop during the past 2 years) and I know a store that currently has 2, and there's 3 on ebay at the moment.
 
how about guardian heroes or the NES tournament carts... i remember there was a thread that had a link to an ebay auction and that cart was going for around a couple grand.
 
[quote name='Backlash']I read on CAG that Flintstones 2 for NES was pretty rare/valuable. Dunno how much so though.[/QUOTE]

I believe a copy went for 2 or 300 on ebay, but I'm not certain if that was a fluke. It is very rare and valuable though.
 
Speaking of roms, I have a playable of Kameo for Xbox (NOT 360). Any opinions on how valuable it will be in the future?

As for released stuff, here are some obvious examples that come to mind:

NES - Tengen's version of Tetris, Arkanoid with the controller
Sega CD - Snatcher, Lunar: Eternal Blue
PSone - Valkyrie Profile, Discworld 1 and 2, Intelligent Qube, Suikoden II
 
I have Half-Life on Dreamcast.. finished but never released, so you have to download it and burn it..

I have Snatcher. One of my favorite games of all time, if not my favorite game of all time.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']Speaking of roms, I have a playable of Kameo for Xbox (NOT 360). Any opinions on how valuable it will be in the future?

As for released stuff, here are some obvious examples that come to mind:

NES - Tengen's version of Tetris, Arkanoid with the controller
Sega CD - Snatcher, Lunar: Eternal Blue
PSone - Valkyrie Profile, Discworld 1 and 2, Intelligent Qube, Suikoden II[/QUOTE]

I never even knew arkanoid had any value until today. I saw it listed as rare on a list someone made and then checked ebay, seems to be worth about 50 or 60. I have a mint/flawless one in box with controller and packaging. I figured it was worth 5, 10 bucks tops.

For sega cd, I think the rarest would be koei flying squadron. Snatcher is definately up there. Samurai showdown is another rare one, I've never seen a u.s. one on ebay but the PAL version goes for over 100.

Suikoden 2 isn't very rare, just uncommon with extremely high demand. I've seen discworld a lot in gamestops, I don't think that's very rare.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']I never even knew arkanoid had any value until today. I saw it listed as rare on a list someone made and then checked ebay, seems to be worth about 50 or 60. I have a mint/flawless one in box with controller and packaging. I figured it was worth 5, 10 bucks tops.

For sega cd, I think the rarest would be koei flying squadron. Snatcher is definately up there. Samurai showdown is another rare one, I've never seen a u.s. one on ebay but the PAL version goes for over 100.

Suikoden 2 isn't very rare, just uncommon with extremely high demand. I've seen discworld a lot in gamestops, I don't think that's very rare.[/QUOTE]

I didn't actually say the games on my list were rare; I tried to pick those I knew were valuable. It's a tough call with older games, too. I bought a disc-only copy of Keio Flying Squadron (not to be confused with Koei, who does all those damn Dynasty Warriors games) for $3 a few years back. Of course, things are worth more complete, but again there's a difference between rare and valuable.

I like to think that Discworld is valuable, because I got so sick being outbid on eBay that I paid a whopping $70 for a mint one. ;) I'm a huge fan of the Discworld books, currently reading my 26th one.

Let's not forget Cubivore for GameCube, an Atlus game that allegedly had a print run of 2,500. It was so low, Atlus had to get special permission from Nintendo to do it.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Damn atlus, I loved cubivore, but then they reprinted it. Collecting loses its fun if they keep reprinting stuff.[/QUOTE]

I think the problem isn't the reprints, it's the fact that they don't change anything to make it easy to tell the diffference, like the GH label or different cover art. Personally I like the reprints because it keeps people from praising games to the sky due to rarity and price.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']For sega cd... Samurai showdown is another rare one, I've never seen a u.s. one on ebay but the PAL version goes for over 100. [/QUOTE]

I've got a U.S. complete copy of Samurai Showdown for the Sega CD. I never knew it was worth a thing! I was about to put it on my tradelist too, haha. I took a picture of it below just in case I'm reading this wrong:

ssrywateska2vu.jpg


How much is it worth in very good condition?
 
Just out of curiosity, where are some Rarity lists concerning printed runs of videogames and how many copies were sold regionally? I've tried to check DP lately, but I can't seem to get the guide to work.
 
[quote name='rywateska']I've got a U.S. complete copy of Samurai Showdown for the Sega CD. I never knew it was worth a thing! I was about to put it on my tradelist too, haha. I took a picture of it below just in case I'm reading this wrong:

ssrywateska2vu.jpg


How much is it worth in very good condition?[/QUOTE]

I wish I would get first dibs on everyones stuff before they find out its rare.

Though I don't know the value, just that it's very rare and the PAL one goes for over 100. Could go for that much, may not. I'd guess at least 40 or 50.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Though I don't know the value, just that it's very rare and the PAL one goes for over 100. Could go for that much, may not. I'd guess at least 40 or 50.[/QUOTE]

I tried looking for a copy on Ebay and nothing showed up. I even searched online and I have yet to find a store that sells it. Knowing that it's worth something I'd like to find some type of resource that would show the going rate for this game. Do you know of anywhere that has that?
 
[quote name='rywateska']I tried looking for a copy on Ebay and nothing showed up. I even searched online and I have yet to find a store that sells it. Knowing that it's worth something I'd like to find some type of resource that would show the going rate for this game. Do you know of anywhere that has that?[/QUOTE]

Remember: Rare and valuable are two different things. If you put a game up for auction that you haven't seen up there before, it may not get crap for bids, because it's possible nobody's looking for it.
 
[quote name='Morrigan Lover']Capcom only sold 5000 copies of Vampire Chronicles for the Dreamcast. It was only available through their website.[/QUOTE]

?

i am pretty sure this game never was released beyond the beta version because the game was so bad.

as for nes games:

stadium events is pretty rare for the usa nes.

the panesians are very rare(maybe 300 of them were made. Hot slots bubble bath babes and peekaboo poker are the games. They are really crap 8 bit porn, i dont think they show any penetration, but when you get enough money a stripper takes off her clothes and starts masturbating)

menace beach volleyball is pretty rare for the nes.

i think the rare genesis game is the japanese version of castlevania bloodlines, it goes for mad dollars when its on ebay, but it is the same game as the usa version, just really really rare.

if you want to talk about rare games, you need to include the rare systems: the sharp x68000 and the fm towns and fm townsmarty are crazy rare. I dont ever see the systems on ebay, the only way I know of to get those would be to get one off of yahoo japan auctions.

All of the games for those systems are in such low production it is just silly.
 
there's a game called "baseball starring Honus Wagner" thats going for 1.25 milion. it comes with a free card or something .
 
Vampire Chronicles is a full game on the Dreamcast. However, it is missing a lot of options, and it doesnt have endings at all.
 
[quote name='thagoat']there's a game called "baseball starring Honus Wagner" thats going for 1.25 milion. it comes with a free card or something .[/QUOTE]

There were only about 30 of those t206 cards known as of the late 90's early 00's. I actually saw one once, can't remember if it was being sold directly or at an auction.

I think most estimates put the total around (many not located) between 50-100.

oh well, if anyones a blithering idiot I'll trade my 1800 game collection, plus about 40 systems (about 34 unique, rest different variations), a few hundred dvd's, a hundred + cd's and hundreds of vhs's for your t206 wagner. Years of entertainment for a piece of cardboard. You can't go wrong with this deal.
 
I would say any decently rare game if it's sealed can fetch big bucks. I have sealed copies of Phantasy Star IV, Space Megaforce and Ninja Gaiden Trilogy that I'm pretty sure are worth major $$$ if I ever decide to sell them. I would also add Final Fight 3 (SNES) to the "rare and expensive" list. I won a complete, mint copy on ebay a few months back and paid ridiculous dollars for it. It was the only copy I had ever seen show up like that on ebay.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']Speaking of roms, I have a playable of Kameo for Xbox (NOT 360). Any opinions on how valuable it will be in the future? [/quote]

How does this compare to the one that's out right now? Dying to know :drool:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
bread's done
Back
Top