We each tell what the rarest old vidya we own. Can also tell how you got it. Mine is Wild guns for Snes, came with the Snes I bought at a flea market and came with 40 other games. Picture is not mine.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:19:41 2015 No.2569237 [Reply] [Original]

We each tell what the rarest old vidya we own.
Can also tell how you got it.
Mine is Wild guns for Snes, came with the Snes I bought at a flea market and came with 40 other games.

Picture is not mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:42:26 2015 No.2569321 >>2569237 ITT: people that don't know what "rare" actually means. If I can go on ebay right now and buy one, it's not rare.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:46:06 2015 No.2569346 >>2569321 ITT: le autism and le rules-nazi bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:48:05 2015 No.2569353 >>2569321 You are so fucking retarded. Did you know that there are varying degrees of rarity?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:51:04 2015 No.2569364 File: 37 KB, 256x255, Klonoa_playstation_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not a huge rare game collector.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:54:20 2015 No.2569379

>>2569346
>>2569353
Do you know that if there's thousands of something and it's easily available, that's "common" and not "rare"? I collect records, and you know what's rare? A private pressing, maybe a few hundred hand numbered copies. 1963 OEM VW parts are rare. Pre-war Martin D45 guitars are rare. Tigers are more rare than many, many video games. That's rarity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:54:36 2015 No.2569382 >>2569364 Nice, how much did you pay for it?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:05:02 2015 No.2569430

>>2569379
How hard is it for you to understand that there are varying degrees of rarity? There are fewer copies of Wild Guns than the average SNES game. Therefore, it is rarer than the average snes game. If you have to be a complete autist about it, you could call it semi-rare. What stupid world do you live in where something can only be "common" or "rare" and there's no middle ground between your two black-and-white categories?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:06:43 2015 No.2569437 >>2569237 xenoblade chronicles got it at goodwill for $3. cant afford to buy many games at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:07:30 2015 No.2569441 >>2569379 >I collect records, and you know what's rare? A private pressing, maybe a few hundred hand numbered copies. Actually, that would be classified as "extremely rare" :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:08:49 2015 No.2569443 >>2569379 Actually, something can only be called "rare" if there's only one copy in the entire world. Something that has an entire hundred copies could hardly be called rare. :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:09:51 2015 No.2569448 >>2569379 >a few hundred hand numbered copies I've seen things on eBay that have had way fewer copies than that. But according to your expert logic, it can't be rare if it's on eBay, right?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:10:54 2015 No.2569449

>>2569379
>1963 OEM VW parts are rare.
>If I can go on ebay right now and buy one, it's not rare.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-OEM-Engine-Push-Rod-Tube-Volkswagen-Beetle-Fastback-Karmann-Ghia-Transporter-/121253670087?fits=Year%3A1963|Make%3AVolkswagen&hash=item1c3b482cc7&vxp=mtr
Guess you just contradicted yourself, huh?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:18:27 2015 No.2569463

>>2569430
Let's say Donkey Kong Country sold over four million copies (it did). Now let's say Mega Man X3 sold about 40,000 (it did). MMX3 is relatively rare compared to the millions of DKC, but it's not actually rare by any definition. You can still easily buy copies of MMX3, CIB like new even. Rarity means just that, it's difficult to find and not easily available by traditional means. Nintendo World Championship is rare, prototypes are rare, certain unlicensed stuff is rare; Wild Guns and Klonoa are not fucking rare.

Or are we talking about some dumb made up "rarity list"? That shit is way more autistic than using words correctly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:19:45 2015 No.2569469 I found chrono trigger in a basket of sports games for $5 in 2006

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:44:11 2015 No.2569523
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>>2569437
>best friend fan of xenoblade chronicles
>go to Gamestop
>he meticulously searches every shelf for it
>tell him to give up because that's too rare for a game like that to be here
>he finds one on the middle shelf behind two games
>$60
>asks me to hang on to it while he goes to the bank
>mfw I had to stand at Gamestop for an hour and a half holding xenoblade
Is it really that great?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:58:29 2015 No.2569557

>>2569463
Rarity isn't just determined by the amount of copies that were created. It's also determined by the demand vs the amount that are available. So you could have 100k copies in existance and if 250k people want it, that in turn increases it's value and makes it rarer to obtain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:59:14 2015 No.2569561 >>2569523 Tell your friend to get a goddamn debit card.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:02:28 2015 No.2569569 >>2569237 Not exactly sure how rare it is but I have my original copy of xenogears for ps1

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:05:10 2015 No.2569576 >>2569321 >We each tell what the rarest old vidya we own. >rarest old vidya we own >RAREST WE OWN

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:05:29 2015 No.2569578 File: 10 KB, 600x400, BxmYjFpCIAAtBAx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:06:25 2015 No.2569581 >>2569523 >while he goes to the bank I don't get it, did he have to mortgage his house or is he just too stupid to call up Gamestop and ask if they have a game?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:09:05 2015 No.2569589 >>2569581 Not him, but I guess there's always the question of if the employee looks well enough/even bothers to actually check, or if their per-store computerized inventory is accurate (assuming they have one).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:10:35 2015 No.2569596 Not "retro" retro, but I do have a copy of both Katamari Damacy and Chibi Robo, both of which are apparently not super common to come by in the US.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:10:47 2015 No.2569597 >>2569557 It's cute that you can just make up new definitions for words and concepts. >100k copies in existance and if 250k people want it So in your imaginary world where 40% of people who want it, own a certain game, that is considered rare. Got it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:17:29 2015 No.2569618 I have aero fighters on snes

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:22:28 2015 No.2569634 >>2569523 i dont care for it, just saw it and bought it. its ok just mot worth taht much to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:23:56 2015 No.2569636 I dunno. Mega Man Legends 2 maybe? That or SNES Sunset Riders.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:27:29 2015 No.2569643 File: 39 KB, 472x375, niggers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my father got it for me about 5 years ago; he paid about 80$ on ebay cib i just sold it for about 700$ fucking nerds lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:36:06 2015 No.2569667 >>2569643 OP asked for your rarest game, not most price gouged.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:40:07 2015 No.2569689
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One of my favorite prototypes that I have. While Famicom carts are typically hard to open, it appears that whoever used this cartridge actually sanded or otherwise filed down the edges of the side-clips on the case a little bit so it is easy to open and close back up by hand.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:48:10 2015 No.2569712

I don't even know what's my rarest game and I don't honestly give a damn. Doesn't help most of my games are budget rereleases.

I'm pleb as fuck when it goes to game taste and I still have to build a collection of games I actually care about (I will have to play them on an emulator first, and then invest when I get some expendable money).

Is the boxed Grim Fandango sort of rare?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 19:00:26 2015 No.2569757
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I'm not sure how rare this is, but every gameshop, yardsale, and friend I know seems to own the All Star version that doesn't have Super Mario World. I also don't remember how it came to my possession since my dad had it longer than I can remember.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 19:03:12 2015 No.2569764 >>2569689 >prototype of one of the worst games ever kind of neat

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 19:16:05 2015 No.2569803 >>2569757 that version is a Canadian exclusive, it's common as shit in Canada

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 20:00:00 2015 No.2569910 >>2569803 Naaa... Released in the US and the EU as well. Printed for the Combo SNES box in 94.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 20:37:40 2015 No.2570008 >>2569597 Strawman argument. I never said that. And you're terrible at math.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 20:40:16 2015 No.2570017 >>2569757 I'm pretty sure pack in games aren't rare.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 21:12:27 2015 No.2570115 >>2570008 And you're retarded, you forgot that.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 21:48:33 2015 No.2570246
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Picked up a copy of Action 52 at a yard sale about 6 years ago, along with like, 15 or so other NES games (including Bucky O'Hare), a bunch of SNES manuals (and an SNES Doom box) for about $10-$20, I forget the actual number.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 21:50:18 2015 No.2570252 >>2570246 Tell me, does it smell like burning plastic like the nerd said it does when it's being played?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:08:26 2015 No.2570320 File: 627 KB, 2737x1836, capri sun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Let me see if I can help this thread.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:18:01 2015 No.2570372
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>>2570252
Nope, that's probably the actual Nintoaster's lack of heatsinks/vents. This is without looking at the internal system of the casemod, but if you play any game for a long period of time with something covering the vents, it'll start to smell. Also, this cartridge is among the minority that actually plays Alfred N The Fettuc and Jigsaw.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:18:58 2015 No.2570378 >>2570372 neat, you should dump the rom (unless a working rom of those already exists).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:26:26 2015 No.2570404 File: 6 KB, 262x294, action52-cheetahmen.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2570378 Yeah, it's been dumped long ago: http://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Action_52_(USA)_(Unl)/54686-download

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:42:04 2015 No.2570468
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>>2570320
the difference between a mint Hagane and a Hagane in that condition is about 200-300 dollars, and 99% of the price is Mike Matei hype, glad I purchased this beauty here instead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:45:52 2015 No.2570481 >>2570115 Ad hominem. You don't even troll well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:52:24 2015 No.2570508 For my birthday I was given Pirates of Dark Water on SNES. I'm pretty sure it's quite an uncommon game, as it's pretty much impossible to find for less than $40 now. I'm certain if some big eceleb covered it, it would suddenly become a $100+ game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 23:08:43 2015 No.2570580 >>2570372 He says in the video that it happens whether he's playing it in the Nintoaster or his top-loader, so odds are he just got a bum cart.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 23:18:35 2015 No.2570621

>>2569764
Haha, the game is kinda crap for sure, and even though I have protos of more popular games, I really like this one for some reason. The game intrigued me many years ago for being a Garfield Famicom game that never made it to the west so it is cool to have a cartridge used in the development of the game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 23:41:14 2015 No.2570697 >>2570580 Oh fuck me, you're totally right, I forgot about that. Yeah, it's probably the shitty carts that don't have Jigsaw/Alfredo that smell burned.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 09:23:19 2015 No.2571502 >>2569237 I have a GB tetris cart with my name on it. It's the only one like it in the world! L@@K RARE!!!!!1!!!!1!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 09:25:10 2015 No.2571505 StarCraft 64. I don't have many rare games. I do own a Pokemon Gold/Silver Chinese bootleg though.

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 10:05:25 2015 No.2571574
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Has this thread collapsed into "rarity vs value" yet?

I have both rarer and more valuable items in my collection and a lot of it is hardware not "games" but Panzer Dragoon Saga nicely represents both value and rarity, unlike Earthbound which is not at all rare and I'm glad I sold off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 10:08:37 2015 No.2571580 >>2569643 Implying earthbound is rare at all

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 10:11:51 2015 No.2571587 I own Magical Chase

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 10:32:29 2015 No.2571618 >>2569379 yup... you sure SOUND like a record collector. no doubt there. don't forget to enjoy the fucking music, dickhead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 10:38:43 2015 No.2571628 >>2569596 Katamari is $15.00 new on Amazon.

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 12:19:21 2015 No.2571783

>>2569597
What's cute is you don't even know the definition of the word you're arguing about. You might want to educate yourself. Thin distribution over an area where demand is high is precisely what he's talking about which is a textbook definition of what rare means.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 13:10:02 2015 No.2571891 >>2569237 I've got Gold Ocarina of Time with packaging. It's not rare, but people will pay $50 for it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 13:31:33 2015 No.2571926 >>2570320 >Panic Restaurant damn nice, that game kicks ass

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 19:35:06 2015 No.2572659 >>2569382 Like 12 bucks when it wasn't well known. It was in 2008

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 19:47:45 2015 No.2572679 >>2569364 dammit I played the demo when I was a kid and now I want it but dem shekels

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 20:20:45 2015 No.2572743 File: 97 KB, 1080x1920, 1438062565153.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What do I win?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 21:45:14 2015 No.2572927 >>2572743 An upset stomach and permanent blindness.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 21:47:03 2015 No.2572932 File: 49 KB, 450x600, 6-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's rare, but not too expensive.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 21:55:58 2015 No.2572949 >>2569379 Something with one or more copies is hardly rare when compared to something that has been wiped off the face of the earth. My rarest game is probably Panzer Dragoon Saga or a CIB X3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 22:03:07 2015 No.2572963 >>2572949 Also a CIB mint Crusader of Centy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 22:14:57 2015 No.2572993 >>2569557 Rare: (of a thing) not found in large numbers and so of interest or value. Nothing to do with demand.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 22:25:21 2015 No.2573018 File: 575 KB, 1070x1152, 1438136721683.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hold onto your asses, ass holders.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 22:36:16 2015 No.2573038 File: 257 KB, 723x644, .png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2573018 >implying that isnt rare as fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 23:12:35 2015 No.2573120 I own an ultra rare Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt hybrid cartridge. Apparently only a handful were ever produced.

Waterworld Box-Chan Tue Jul 28 23:32:02 2015 No.2573168
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Rarity-wise, would have to be Swordquest Waterworld, LSD, or Misadventures of Tron Bonne

Not retro would be both Rule of Rose (only 150,000 NA copies) and .Hack Quarantine

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 01:59:13 2015 No.2573492 >>2573038 Good god, why would you post so much personal information I could criticize you with?

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 09:05:37 2015 No.2574038
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I purchased this for $1 at a local antique store two years ago. It is a software cartridge for 8bit atari computers. The krieg list says it is extremely rare, which I believe since I have never seen it on ebay. An old forum post says it once sold for over $200 but I can't verify that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 09:15:46 2015 No.2574056 >>2572743 please take a better quality photo, because that's actually a little bit funny.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 10:26:18 2015 No.2574174 panzer dragoon saga, my brother bought it back then, it was already hard as fuck to find it on the day of its release. i feel a bit guilty that i never got far in the game and now i'm too lazy to play it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 10:40:27 2015 No.2574192 Gleylancer for Megadrive CiB. Got it with the console for 12$ about a year ago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:22:35 2015 No.2574946 >>2569667 >implying i didn't start the auction at 0.99$

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:49:32 2015 No.2575004 sure is five knuckle shuffle in here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:57:08 2015 No.2575016 I wish there was a site that listed the production numbers of all games. That would sure make a thread like this easier.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:05:10 2015 No.2575036 >>2574946 Point is, Earthbound is not rare

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:07:08 2015 No.2575042 >>2575036 It's uncommon at least.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 22:21:50 2015 No.2575728 >>2572679 It's on the PSN

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:07:40 2015 No.2575805 >>2569578 That's exactly what it is and we know it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:21:59 2015 No.2575847 >>2572993 Not true. The inability to meet the need or demand is called scarcity. Scarcity just so happens to mean the same thing as rare. Why? Because it's a synonym of rare. Synonyms are words that have the same meaning.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:31:10 2015 No.2575860 Got Suikoden 2. Bought it new as a kid from Target.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 01:55:10 2015 No.2576082 File: 55 KB, 337x400, $_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2574056 http://www.ebay.com/itm/271942033598

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 02:01:14 2015 No.2576087 >>2576082 XDDDD so funneh!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 02:13:20 2015 No.2576108 File: 93 KB, 640x645, 1694231-cvlegendseuro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dunno how rare it is, but I've seen some high prices on Ebay.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 02:26:20 2015 No.2576121 >>2576087 fcuk u this is srs bsns

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 02:38:18 2015 No.2576135 >>2576108 It's a bit rarer than the average game boy game, but it's no Shantae/Trip World/Gun ZAS/Robopon: Special Edition

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 02:47:18 2015 No.2576142

>>2569523
>Is it really that great?
I really liked it. It'll probably end up as one of those cult classic RPGs with really inflated prices 10 years from now.

As for topic, I do own a CIB copy of Secret of Mana. Not that "rare" I guess. I might have some other stuff, but I don't follow prices or rarity that much.

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 05:09:54 2015 No.2576237
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Hi /vr/. Just the Mega Drive / Genesis rarities I own. I don't think these are the rarest in my collection, but I had this photo on my hard drive so I figured why the hell not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 05:23:43 2015 No.2576246 >>2576237 Very nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 05:31:25 2015 No.2576253 >>2575847 Synonyms are similar words not the same retard. Stop extrapolating

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 05:34:16 2015 No.2576257 File: 100 KB, 800x600, ms2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Earthbound "rare," or Stadium Events rare, I don't know.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 06:17:05 2015 No.2576295 File: 262 KB, 960x720, super starfox weekend2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Super Starfox Weekend After that, I'm not too sure. It might be my Fire Emblem Thracia 776 Deluxe Edition

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 09:10:55 2015 No.2576482 >>2576237 >repros >rare Autist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 09:25:22 2015 No.2576503 File: 1.37 MB, 2592x1944, IMG_20150730_152322085.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 09:28:45 2015 No.2576507 >>2576482 >Legit copies >Immediately assuming they're repros Takes one to know one, huh?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:03:46 2015 No.2576548 File: 4 KB, 250x231, 3426523623.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2576507 >playing 50hz versions >playing non english translated monster world

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:08:24 2015 No.2576558 Hey anybody help me naming an old rpg? You start of as blue monster or dragon where you came from a well and you roam around a village killing people even children and old folk in their homes as an intro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:13:17 2015 No.2576571 >>2576548 there's no european game in that picture you dumb fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:14:18 2015 No.2576575 >>2576558 Dragon Quest 3, it's one of the dreams you can get at the beginning, after answering the personality test.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:25:32 2015 No.2576587 File: 19 KB, 413x395, 1418079260883.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2576571 >mega drive >not yurotrash Keep digging yourself deeper m8.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:14:11 2015 No.2576640 >>2576253 Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:15:08 2015 No.2576641 >>2576587 That's... never mind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:17:31 2015 No.2576645 >>2576253 So what's the difference between scarce and rare? This ought to be good.

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 15:10:27 2015 No.2576943

>>2569237
I have 2 sort of rare games.

- Power Blade 2 cart for the NES
I found it at a Value Village for $5 a couple of years ago.

- Glacier Patrol CIB for the Atari 2600
One of my aunt's dropped off a bunch of boxed Atari games for me because she heard I was "collecting computer games".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 15:18:49 2015 No.2576958 >>2576587 You're just trolling now, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 17:47:30 2015 No.2577207 >>2569689 So far the only real rare thing in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 18:03:06 2015 No.2577236 >>2576943 pic?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 19:51:05 2015 No.2577396 >>2576645 It's not my job to help you argue that games in high demand should automatically be labelled as rare. Scarcity is typically used in economics terms, which incorporates supply and demand Sigh

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 19:58:35 2015 No.2577412 >>2577396 b-b-but everyone on ebay says maro is rare and I believe them because I'm an ignorant child.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:05:48 2015 No.2577426 I got a near complete NES collection I got shit like Flintstones Suprissed at Dino, little samson, honks adv other than that I got everything except cheetahmen II and stadium events

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:08:24 2015 No.2577430 >>2577426 Congratz on building a museum rather than a library of games you'll actualy play fuck face.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:14:45 2015 No.2577440 File: 706 KB, 1080x1920, Snapchat--8008730455338288440.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2577430 I've played all of them and still play them. I don't just have them all there just to look at they're fun to play

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:14:46 2015 No.2577441 File: 2.57 MB, 1528x2100, 2361163-nes_batmanreturnofthejoker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2569237 ummm, maybe this or monster party? I'm not sure

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:16:10 2015 No.2577442 >>2577441 Monster party is the shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:16:54 2015 No.2577446 >>2572743 do the world a favor and either kill yourself or just don't breed

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:23:54 2015 No.2577464
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>>2577441
actually, now that I think about it, this is probably the rarest game I own, though it's the type of rare game that's not worth much because no one gives a fuck about it. It was released as part of an MTV contest. The contest was instantly forgotten about because at the time MTV was always having a million contests and the games is crap but not in a way that is ridiculous like say cheetah men 2.

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:32:21 2015 No.2577481

>>2573492
where is the personal info, because I'm not seeing it. if you mean the sites he visits, who gives a fuck, it's not like you are going to pick him out of the other users here in the future, he's not using a trip or anything, and even if he was it's not like the opinion of some no body that probably lives in their parent's basement really matters anyhow. get over yourself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:33:53 2015 No.2577482 >>2573492 >I'm autistic

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:44:29 2015 No.2577508 >>2576503 rare and didn't sell very well isn't the same thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:48:12 2015 No.2577515 >>2576507 Legit copies of Genesis games don't have fucking ESRB ratings on them...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:52:41 2015 No.2577524 >>2577515 The ESRB was founded in 1994, the same year Crusader of Centy came out. Next time check your facts so you don't hurt yourself when you jump to conclusions.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:56:30 2015 No.2577530 >>2577524 lol that little bitch got pwned so bad he had to delete the post

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:10:16 2015 No.2577554 File: 15 KB, 557x458, 1438305016651.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2576645 >>2577396

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:13:05 2015 No.2577559 >>2577481 >>2577482 >being a samefagging, weed smoking Vancouverite who plays xbox Yeah, you can show yourself out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:26:32 2015 No.2577603 File: 1.86 MB, 3264x1836, DSC_0379[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2577236

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:30:02 2015 No.2577615 >>2577530 I deleted my post well before he made his because I realized I was being stupid by myself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:30:37 2015 No.2577617 >>2576507 Right, it would take one to know one, but unlike you who is passing off repros as real in this thread, he is not. This makes your comeback ineffective. >git gut at correct argumentation.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:32:05 2015 No.2577626 >>2577559 I don't see what is wrong with any of those things. Lots of people smoke weed and own xboxes, and at least he isn't from montreal or something.

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 22:03:00 2015 No.2577680

>>2570468
Mint Haganes barely exist; the labels are low quality, and most copies were held by video rental stores, which means most were subjected to carelessness. Compared to a lot of copies I've seen, the one in that picture is one of the better ones I've seen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 22:06:57 2015 No.2577687 >>2577603 >DAT VELVET RED NES RENTAL CASE! OK, you got me there. I own one of those rental cases, mine is yellow green but is rusted!, i actually keep that one from one of my rentals by accident.

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 22:11:22 2015 No.2577695
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Years ago I was buying industrial shelving for my garage off a toy store that was going out of business. Behind some of the shelving were the dustiest 4 sealed copies of battletoads for nes you've ever seen. I bought them for a buck a piece in 2004. Wiped the dust off. Perfect factory sealed sealed boxes. They sit in my closet these days collecting dust.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 02:47:54 2015 No.2578154
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>>2577695
That's awesome. Funny to think that the store owner probably wondered why anyone would want games that old.

Here's another L@@K from my collection. I find this game to be incredibly irritating.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 02:53:06 2015 No.2578163 >>2578154 That's impressive. What game is on it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 02:54:00 2015 No.2578165 >>2578154 Very cool. Castlevania: The Adventure, right? That game's not great, honestly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 02:55:15 2015 No.2578168 >>2578165 Even still it's a fantastic piece of history game play aside.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 02:57:22 2015 No.2578171 >>2578168 Oh yeah, for sure. I love prototypes and stuff. Or a review copy, by the looks of that one. Do you know if the rom's any different from the retail one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 03:00:38 2015 No.2578176 >>2578171 No idea.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 03:10:57 2015 No.2578185

>>2578165
Yeah, you're correct.

>>2578165
I suck at it and do not like the seemingly pixel-perfect movement that it occasionally requires.

>>2578171
It is. I know it has stage select through pressing (or holding) certain button combinations at the title screen. I recall there being a moderate difference in the game's code, but while actually playing it (I don't think I beat it or the retail release yet) I don't recall seeing anything else different.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 04:24:10 2015 No.2578257 >>2576295 Oh whoops, I forgot about MUSHA. Missing the instructions for it though.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 04:40:28 2015 No.2578270

It's upsetting to think I owned a SNES and Megadrive, and didn't even have a lot of games, but took really good care which games to buy. So even though I had a relatively small collection then, in hindsight I had ataste for the games that would really get retro value. But I practically gave it all away.
(Secret of Mana, Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage 1 & 2, Ecco the Dolphin, Chrono Trigger w. converter to play the US version on a PAL machine).
I'm not a collecter at all, and rarest thing I own now probably is a copy of Suikoden or Azure Dreams, but emulating aside, I'd sure be nice if I had still owned them, even if I'm not a collector.
OW,
Sorry for blogging.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 14:09:43 2015 No.2579050

>>2577396
I'm not saying that games in high demand should be automatically be labeled as rare. I'm saying that games that are in high demand but are limited in supply can be scarce/rare. Hence, supply vs demand. If the game is still being made and it's in high demand, then obviously it's initial availability may make it scarce but will increase with time as more are released. But for a game that is no longer being made, availability that will only decrease with time, and has a high demand, then yes. It can and will become rare/scarce as price, availability, and demand dictate. Trying to argue that it's not is preposterous.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 14:11:50 2015 No.2579058 >>2577440 Your Nintendo is showing. Nice collection btw.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 14:16:13 2015 No.2579062 File: 17 KB, 528x432, 1438366573958.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2577554 I got one of those too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:34:08 2015 No.2579310 >>2579050 By your logic every game or object is rare once it stops being in production. If you really want to think your Earthbound cart is rare, keep thinking that, no one else cares.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:42:47 2015 No.2579323 >>2579058 Thanks :)

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:55:26 2015 No.2579339

How would you guys define rarity when it comes to games? What is the upper limit on production run before you move something from uncommon into rare? Or does the fact that it was produced and widely available automatically make it not rare?

Some are clearly rare, the things that are hard to confirm even exist beyond assumption and seeing one sold every year or two (or even less frequently) or knowing that someone does indeed have one or two (prototypes and unreleased games and the like), things that were only available in strictly limited quantities (limited prize giveaways), and things that were recalled (like Stadium Events) or otherwise had their availability drastically reduced for one reason or another. Beyond those, what would you consider rare? Or would you only consider the things I previously mentioned to be rare, and the rest as simply uncommon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:40:42 2015 No.2579681 >>2579310 No. Logic would dictate that if the demand is higher than the supply when it's out of production, then it can become rare. And I'm not the Earthbound guy,. But I do agree, I don't care.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 20:09:04 2015 No.2579724

>>2579339

Anything that had extremely low print runs in your region (<= 15,000 or so, for the entirety of USA and Canada in NTSC-UC for instance) is pretty "rare" in that you were probably lucky if your local store even got a copy, let alone a few. Games like Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Little Samson, Mr Gimmick and Rule of Rose usually fit this category. There can also be extraneous circumstances, like they were released late in the consoles lifespan and basically had no interest since people had moved onto the next one.

Then there is stuff that would be considered legitimately rare, things that are virtually unobtainable to the public. Developer prototypes, Giveaways/Rewards like Nintendo World Championships carts, stuff that got pulled from store shelves and destroyed (like Stadium Events (which can simply be played as World Class Track meet)) are genuinely rare, and quite obviously, command ludicrous prices.

But, basically, if theres one available on eBay, its not exactly rare, but it does teeter that Uncommon/Rare boundary.

I think again, if its print run was less then 20,000 its pretty rare. You have to assume some were destroyed due to negligence or generally just lost to the ages.

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:20:04 2015 No.2580141
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Guys, was the US version of super adventure island II a legit uncommon/rare title?

It is fucking 80-120 USD loose now on fucking shitbay!

And it used to be $20 there when i bought it!

As for how i got my copy, true story:

Back in 2011, i bought a nice looking SNES, with no cables because it was the only way i could got one for $12, then i went to a local store with some guys which i bought games before, and told them about my SNES, and guess what, they told me i can choose a game i want from the shelf, and those games were at 60-80 pesos (basically 5-6 USD), and guess what game they just happen to had there!?

Fun fact, it took me a long time to get the cables of that snes, and it didn't fucking work, most games had glitches and some of them didn't even booted, and no, it wasnt because of the titles themselves, per example, every time i booted super mario kart on that snes, it crashed as long as the mode 7 effects started, and so on, aladdin refused to pass the first cut-scene of the intro, among other shit!

so i took the snes back and had to fight tooth and nail to get my money back, and then i got another SNES, which also didn't work either!

finally i got this humble snes mini, which worked, thank fucking lord!

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:20:32 2015 No.2580143
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>>2579724
Yeah, and with some things it can be hard to determine what is available. If people do not treat their common things with care and they get destroyed or otherwise lost over time, they could conceivably become more scarce down the road than their currently less common brothers.

Pic is not mine, but I'd fucking love to get those Rockman protos.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:41:58 2015 No.2580197 File: 2.23 MB, 4128x3096, 20150621_175357.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2570468 Yours is a lot better condition than mine, but I'm still glad I got it for 99 cents at a garage sale.

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 01:16:42 2015 No.2580283

>>2578270
You and me both. I had a small collection, but most were must-have titles. If I'd just stuck them in the closet to gather dust, instead of liquidating them for dimes on the dollar...

My local gaming (/v/ and /tg/) shops have display cases with old cartridges in them. Even the crap titles have unreal sticker prices on them, but I've seen people come in looking for these 3rd-rate titles, and pay that price.

I don't know if that's they've just never heard of emulation, they're intimidated by the l33t haX0r skills required to load a ROM vs push a console switch, or they're hipster fucks and this their version of vinyl records.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 01:39:53 2015 No.2580328 Is North and South on NES rare? I've only ever seen it once, and I bought it for $30.

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 16:20:16 2015 No.2581717

>>2569448
he obviously meant, readily avaiable and priced around the average value for that kind of product

so yeah Klonoa is uncommon, but Wild Guns isnt rare at all, its just sought after, but always readily avaiable for little over the average for nontrash, unlike the $15 games that ppl just buy to fill up shelves

since even a hypothetical single produced copy of mother3(U) could still be readily avaible for whoever wants to pay $3000 for it, but still rare by definition, since its unique.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 16:28:00 2015 No.2581730 >>2580328 >and I bought it for $30. rare doesn't always equal worth a ton of money, >>2577464 is a good example of this. If no one is interested in the game than it really doesn't have that much value.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 16:34:10 2015 No.2581747 >>2581717 > but always readily avaiable for little over the average for nontrash, unlike the $15 games that ppl just buy to fill up shelves you just had to get in a "poorfags can't play good games" troll in there, didn't you?

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 16:49:22 2015 No.2581783
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Do systems count? Here's my Heavy Sixer.

A friend of a friend bought a boxed Atari 2600 at a convention a few weeks ago, and it just so happened to contain a Heavy Sixer, even though the box showed a 4-switch model.

When he got home he claimed it "didn't work", so I offered to trade my 4-switch Atari (with RCA to coax adapter) for his. He got that one working so I keep this one, which actually works fine.

He was trying to plug the RF jack into the composite port on the TV.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 19:08:29 2015 No.2582076 >>2570481 That's not Ad Hominem, you troglodyte. Him calling you a faggot is just an insult. Ad Hominem is me calling you unqualified to speak on the matter because you don't actually know what Ad Hominem is.

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 19:25:48 2015 No.2582105

I don;t really have anything particularly rare. Got a copy of mine sweeper for the gameboy, looking on ebay I'm not seeing any for sale and there doesn't seem to be a lot about it online so I'm guessing it must be fairly uncommon. Doubt it's actually worth anything though.

Anonymous Sat Aug 1 22:02:21 2015 No.2582372

>>2582076
It's better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

Ad hominem is attacking the person instead of the position of their argument. Like you just did. It literally means "to the person".

Rather than counter their position in the discusstion you attack their character which is generally a sign of desperation when losing an argument because you can't support your own position.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 22:09:44 2015 No.2582390 >>2582372 shut up fagotron I bet you kiss girls

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 22:29:07 2015 No.2582423 >>2582390 no u

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