Rare shit

[Anonymous No.401275]

How rare is the 1st Tetris version? Just got if from a guy who didn't even knew it was in his stock. 4€

Show me your rarest item vr.

[Anonymous No.401454]

This isn't rare, but it is in more or less brand new condition, and I got it for free.

[Anonymous No.401467]

>>401454

[Anonymous No.402114]

A mr. Gimmick cart

[Anonymous No.402146]

by the following days, when i get my Banjo Kazooie with case/manual and Mario Paint in mint condition, i guess thats going to be my "rarest" got some yapon cases with games (Castlevania 4, Megaman X, Super Metroid, F-Zero, Donkey Kong Country 2)
nothing really "rare" but i consider it abit more valuable then the rest i have

[Anonymous No.402163]

I have a game & watch

[Anonymous No.402203]

I have a copy of Snake's Revenge for the NES,

[Anonymous No.402213]

Super Starfox Weekend

I'd love to get my hands on the Donkey Kong Competition cart one day.

They are friends and it is wrong to keep them apart~

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402215]

>>402203
That shit ain't rare, it was even released in Europe

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402228]

>>401275
Not sure how rare or how much it goes for these days but Koudelka is my most prized video game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUcqCSHPNs

[Anonymous No.402227]

>dat feel wen no rares
This is the closes thing to rare I have, only because it was on a shit system that bombed faster than the stock market.

[Anonymous No.402229]

Why did they change the Tetris music anyway?

[Anonymous No.402239]

What's the difference between rare, and just being ridiculously expensive?

[Buffalo !XcLQaMCkA. No.402250]

>>402228
Man, I liked Koudelka. I never beat it, but it was a really interesting game. Dark, Gothic survival horror RPG. Plus, dat battle music.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402268]

>>402239
There should be a difference between rare and over priced. Think of it like how Earthbound has too many copies compared to most "rare" games but the over pricing makes people think it is "rare"

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402275]

>>402250
The music was composed by Hiroki Kikuta who did the music for Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3. The only way the music could be better than it already is, is it was by Kenji Ito

[Anonymous No.402281]

>>402239
Earthbound vs. Nintendo World Championships

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402320]

>>402227
>have all but Waterworld and Jack Bros on VB
>can never consider them rare because the system sucked
>VB Wario Land will never get a remake

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402326]

>>402324
Fuck forgot pic

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402324]

Meh steel battalion

[Anonymous No.402325]

I think this is my rarest item at the moment.

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402329]

>>402213
I've always been interested in getting my hands on Clay Fighters: Sculptor's Cut, but that will never happen. Not that it's really expensive, but that I'd end up with a horribly abused copy of one with tons of stickers on it.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402336]

>>402326
The X-Files game is worth having if you are or were a fan of the series. Whole game is good fanservice to the viewer. I want to own the PS2 game that was like Resident Evil but less good

[Anonymous No.402340]

>>402326
>>402336
What board is this?

[Anonymous No.402341]

In terms of legit rarity, probably one of my boxed PC games. I have no idea the print runs on those things, but its got to be lower than even console RPGs. There isn't really a market for PC games, so its hard to tell.

In terms of value, nothing exciting. Got the Lunar collection editions and Popful mail.

[Anonymous No.402348]

>>402325
Oh wow, I had no idea this game was rare.

I got a copy of it in a big box of games my dad bought a few years ago.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402352]

>>402340
Hey man, the PC X-Files game came out in 1998 and that is the one in the picture in the post I had replied to. I posted a screen of the PS2 game as no one seems to have heard of it.

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402362]

>>402340
Fucks given: 0

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402369]

>>402336
I'll check it out if I can find it, thanks

[Anonymous No.402381]

>>402239
Rare is hard to find. Expensive is expensive.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402378]

>>402369
No prob, it shouldn't be that expensive for a licensed PS2 game. I just have never seen it being sold in the wild.

[Anonymous No.402387]

What is the difference between rare and valuable?

[Anonymous No.402392]

>>402320
I still have hope they'll make a 3DS version of Wario Land. It's the PERFECT opportunity

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402435]

No real rares, but I have several uncommons. Here is my CBFD I paid $4 at Savers.

[Anonymous No.402449]

>>402362
Then go back to /v/ and make a "tfw no girlfriend" topic

This board is for retro games only. Fuck off if you can't handle it.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402452]

>>402435

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402454]

>>402392
Agreed.

>>402381
Overpriced is $50+ for a game everyone owns/owned and you could probably get it from your neighbor for free. Looking at you Super Smash Brothers.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402469]

>>402449
The mindset that we can ONLY BE gen 4 and older is fucking stupid and will get you nowhere. PS2 should and can be here, and your autism is getting in a wad.

[Anonymous No.402462]

>>402454
>Looking at you Super Smash Brothers
Wait, what?

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402463]

>>402449
You're the only one being an asshole here, btw, I did have an original gameboy box in the picture, so it's allowed.

[Anonymous No.402479]

>>402469
>PS2
No.

>Boxed original gameboy
Yes.

[Anonymous No.402474]

This is probably my rarest item. I also have a Pocket Station which might be rarer in North America, but the Nomad is cooler by far.

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.402478]

>>402469
Don't acknowledge the retards, it only eggs them on further, ignore him and he'll go away.

[Anonymous No.402489]

>>402463
>Meh steel battalion
>oh i had a gameboy in the picture so it's okay

10/10 perfect logic

>>402469
So? Too fucking bad. Those are the rules.

[Anonymous No.402498]

>>402387
Something is rare when it's hard to find. Valuable means that it has good value, that it is seek for various reasons.

Something that is rare to find isn't necessarily valuable, but normally it is, because
>bragging rights

[NeoGeo Collector No.402501]

Rare in terms of not finding them sealed very often.

[Anonymous No.402507]

>>402498
Good example is MIckey's Speedway USA. It's a relatively rare N64 game.

But it's just a Mario Kart knockoff, so most people don't care about it, causing it to not be very valuable.

[Anonymous No.402512]

>>402489
>So? Too fucking bad. Those are the rules.

This, pretty much. The rules for this board pretty clearly states what it's meant for. Just because you would like it to be otherwise is not a good reason.

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402514]

>>402462
SSB(64) is overpriced because of it's popularity, despite the fact everyone should own a copy.

Also talking about copies that are in great condition. You don't really want to buy a game and the stickers are faded, game is dirty or has writing on it.

[Anonymous No.402524]

>>402213
Holy shit. I got mine from a friend for free. I didn't know these were rare.

[Anonymous No.402534]

>>402507
Likewise you will have a hell of a time finding a copy of Army Men: Toys in Space because it's quite rare. However it's not valuable at all.

[Anonymous No.402525]

>>402514
That kind of makes sense, I guess.

[Anonymous No.402542]

>>402524
They're $500+ at the very minimum rare.

[Anonymous No.402549]

>>402469
>PS2 should and can be here
rules say 2000 and back. go to /v/

[Anonymous No.402550]

>>402524
Fuck, you're lucky.

I've read that there are an estimated 4000 copies, but that's an estimation so there could be a bit more or a bit less, but it's still very rare.

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402554]

>Mega Man Legends has gone down in price

>Mega Man Legends 2 has gone up in price

[Anonymous No.402561]

rarest of my games that i can think of on the top of my head would be Spider-Man:Web of Fire for the Sega 32X and Mermaids of Atlantis for the NES.

Though not as rare as the original, Mermaids is the clean version of Bubble Bath Babes. I also have the box with it. Spider-Man however is crazy rare.

[Anonymous No.402560]

Probably my rarest game. I'm willing to assume that my older sister likely found it back when she combed goodwill stores for collectible NES games.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402565]

>>402560
A good game in its own right, as far as licensed games go. Pity it wasn't released in Japan, Taito must really think Japan hates The Flintstones

[Anonymous No.402572]

>>402565
That it is. It was one of my favorite NES games(beside Pinball Quest) back when I was younger. I used to be able to beat it regularly, and the boss fights were awesome.

[Anonymous No.402582]

>>402549
>/vr/ - Retro Games
>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other games on platforms launched in 1999 or earlier. Sixth generation and later consoles are not considered retro.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402585]

>>402549
Well, I would be fine with the rule if it advanced every 2 gens. So, upon the release of the 3DS, we should be able to talk about PS2 and GCN for example.

Not trying to force anything, just saying that would be better. PS2 was a great system and deserves to be here now that it is 2 gens out.

[Anonymous No.402590]

The rarest thing I have is a cart of CBFD, which isnt much.

[Anonymous No.402602]

>>402524
There's a few on eBay right now, one with two days left currently at $425, another is a buy it now at $750. One more with a BIN $1800, but it's not even worth half that.

[Anonymous No.402604]

>>402585
Fuck no. Keep retro gaming in the '70s, 80's, and '90s. '00s and onwards is when it gets shitty

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402615]

>>402549
No they don't.

The only exception to the rule that should ever be made is the Dreamcast. It falls into that void of being out prior to 2000, but being of the next generation.

PS2, GC, Xbox and above don't belong here.

>>402560
Shitty story? Called my cousin up shortly after /vr/ went up and someone mentioned the rarity of those games. She had both and a gameboy one, she claims, but doesn't know where any of them are.

[Anonymous No.402618]

>>402585
you can just talk about it on /v/ though. the beauty of /vr/ is that we have fewer kids. talking about ps2 will bring a thousand pre-pubescent d-bags making threads like "omg titties in gow fucking win."

[Anonymous No.402612]

>>402560
Oh dang, $800 minimum. Nice.

[Scott !mKAOAzsohg No.402636]

I've got a misprint black-label Final Fantasy 7; missing the booklet, though. I know it's not "rare," but it's uncommon at least.

[Anonymous No.402630]

>>402615
>no they don't
Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.Sixth generation and later consoles are not considered retro.

[Anonymous No.402631]

Rarest thing I can think of is Skies of Arcadia for the Dreamcast, it goes as high as £50 online.

Still can't believe about 6 years ago, my mum found a Yellow Gameboy, that was bundled with Super Mario Land, in a Charity shop, with everything in perfect condition, and I just threw away everything that wasn't the game and gameboy.

I hear boxed gameboys are expensive, so imagine a bundled one.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402634]

>>402604
I would say it gets bad in '06 but to each his own. I just know that a lot of people here would like to discuss GCN and PS2. And I think that is fair. Keep Micro$hit out of this though.

And on a side note, if by "retro" you are referring to things that aren't shit, you might as well wipe anything pre NES off that list too. That is just an opinion though. most of the 80's were shit. 2600 can come along if he wants, I guess.

[Anonymous No.402642]

>>402634
>most of the 80's were shit
>confirmed for underage

[Anonymous No.402657]

>>402560

I have The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy same gameplay and graphics but total different price.

[Anonymous No.402658]

This is probably my most expensive retro game, it is in mont condition too.

[Anonymous No.402669]

Probably one of my rarest game is Rodland for NES

[Anonymous No.402672]

>>402585
Stop trying to make up your own rules you little shit. No one cares what you think. PS2 does not belong here and the guidelines for /vr/ are clear about that. There is no discussion to be had.

[Anonymous No.402675]

>>402634
>I just know that a lot of people here would like to discuss GCN and PS2
>But not Xbox because I don't want to talk about it

Just...stop.

[Anonymous No.402668]

>>402657
That one came out in Japan. If Kinaman's videos are to be believed, some Chinese pirated hacked Mario's face on Fred and released the same game as a Mario game

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.402663]

>>402630
Think we're misinterpreting each other. I quoted a poster claiming the rules said 2000 and older, which it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.402683]

>>402657
Surprise at Dinosaur Peak! is so rare because it was only ever distributed to Blockbuster. It's actually the 2nd rarest retail NES game behind Stadium Events.

[Anonymous No.402680]

>>402663
>. I quoted a poster claiming the rules said 2000 and older
yea that was me. and thats what the rules say. i was slightly off since it says 1999 and not 2000. my bad.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402689]

>>402642
I'm fucking serious. Gaming got better with the NES. Everything on the 5200, ColecoVision, fucking Intellevision, and most of 2600 were shit.

Gen 2 was the absolute worst gen after gen 6. Can't really speak to the quality of Vectrex or fucking channel F, but gen 2 was shit.

Vectrex looks fucking tight though.

[Anonymous No.402696]

>>402585
No one cares what the fuck you think, the rules are fine as it is.

[Anonymous No.402701]

>>402689
Vectrex was amazing looking. Didn't have the best library, but there were some solid games. And I'll hopefully be getting a Channel F tomorrow, so hoping it plays ok.

[Anonymous No.402704]

>>402689
>gets told
>opens numerous wikipedia pages to save his ass

[Anonymous No.402708]

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy I suppose.

[Anonymous No.402721]

>>402683

I wonder in what position is Rodland on the list of rare nes games.

[ParkerPeters !K/SBi83mqI No.402732]

>>402704
Just the one to make sure 5200 landed in gen 2 and not 3.

And the Vectrex does look fucking cool, I learned about it a few weeks ago in a video of rare garage sale finds. A guy picked it up for $5. Is it fuckign vector based? Thats the shit. Probably the best thing I have seen out of Gen 2.

This is my 5200 by the way. It is absolute shit.

[Anonymous No.402738]

>>402732
stop trying to save face. you're a douchey underage trip fag. lose the name and pretend you weren't in this thread.

[Anonymous No.402743]

>>402689
Half of the '80s is still better than all of the '00s

[Anonymous No.402747]

>>402732
>Is it fuckign vector based?
Yeah, that's the whole gimmick. It looks amazing, but it's severely limited as to how detailed it can be by very nature of being a vector display.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402753]

>>402683
And the most playable one out the two. Most rare NES games are boring

[Anonymous No.402757]

>>402743
I dunno man, nineties got Super Metroid.

[Anonymous No.402758]

>>402738
Seconding this.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402763]

>>402757
He argued '00s not '90s. The '90s are my favorite period in gaming, that nice bridge between 2D consoles and early 3D consoles combined with DOS and CD-Rom games

[Anonymous No.402764]

>>402757
>Half of the '80s is still better than all of the '00s
>I dunno man, nineties got Super Metroid.

Can you even read?

[Anonymous No.402765]

>>402757
fuck i'm retarded

[Anonymous No.402769]

>>402689
yeh console gaming wasn't good before the NES. Everything worth playing <1985 is on computers.

[Anonymous No.402773]

tripfag getting told lol

you wanna discuss GC and PS2?
go to /v/


I am happy that this place is strictly retro or else we would get swarmed with little plebs

[Anonymous No.402787]

I have a copy of Uniracers for SNES, i guess thats the closest thing to "rare" I have. Although im still kinda fresh to this whole collecting thing so im not sure if 300,000 is enough to put something in the "rare" catagory

[Anonymous No.402790]

>>402773
>I am happy that this place is strictly retro

That's not gonna keep /v/ out of here

[Anonymous No.402798]

>>402732
5200 has best Pac-Man aside from the NES port

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402801]

>>402787
It is not awfully rare, it was made by Rare and released in Europe as "Unirally"

[Anonymous No.402794]

My most uncommon game is a PAL Terranigma with english screentext. There are a lot of german copies around, but the english ones are a pain in the ass to find.

I also have Pocky & Rocky 1/2 plus Harvest Moon CiB. Not sure how rare/uncommon the PAL versions are though, since those are the ones I have.

As for NTSC stuff, Earthbound is probably my most expensive game, and Mega Man X2 my most uncommon one if vgchartz is to be believed.

Also have a crate full of CiB SFC games, but those go for pretty cheap in Japan.

[Anonymous No.402813]

>>402790
>That's not gonna keep /v/ out of here

Not entirely, but it cuts down on them a lot.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402821]

>>402794
I would love to own a German copy. My dream is to one day own every officially translated German console game (with some PC games) made until 2000. Swedish games will be easy, there are like 8 max officially

[Anonymous No.402816]

>>402787
Uniracers isn't really rare, but could have done a lot better if they didn't get sued by Pixar. It's a pretty good game and a nice conversation piece though.

[Anonymous No.402828]

>>402618
From how you're talking, it sounds like we have plenty of kids on /vr/, except these kids have a supremacy complex.

[Anonymous No.402825]

>>402790


I still hope all the plebs wont grasp the retro hype and, upon realizing the lack of boobs and female traps, will leave in boredom.

[Anonymous No.402827]

>>402813
the only thing keeping this board from becoming /v/ is the mods

[Anonymous No.402832]

>>402825
And then again...

[Anonymous No.402839]

>>402828
the average age of /v/ is like 16 while here it's maybe 20. that's a little better but not by much.

[Anonymous No.402840]

>>402832

haha!

[Anonymous No.402848]

>>402839
First few survey threads had the average age at like, 30.

[Anonymous No.402853]

>>402848
Do you actually trust online surveys? There's only like 2-3 30 yo guys here and they're all unemployed wizards.

[Anonymous No.402871]

>>402853
It was nearly 200 image posts in a with people mentioning mostly older games.

One of those "Favorite game as a kid, favorite game as a teen" threads.

[Anonymous No.402873]

>>402865
Come now there were plenty of terrible games years ago that were like that as well

[Anonymous No.402865]

>>402853


I doubt that all the young kids have a long enough attention span to follow a game that does not have "Press X for AWESOME" in it

[Anonymous No.402867]

>>402853
just three?

[Anonymous No.402879]

>>402853

I run a video game booth at a flea market on weekends...that's not unemployed right?

[Anonymous No.402876]

>>402867
About that much. The average age of 4chan as a whole is like 17-18, so...

[Anonymous No.402889]

>>402871
And...?

[Anonymous No.402895]

>>402889
I trust people who spend more than five minutes faking a poll answer.

[Anonymous No.402903]

>thread starts off nice on-topic
>some faggots have to bring "hurr ps2 should be here and derail"
First of all you're taking it up with the wrong people, see: >>>/q/
Secondly, this is a thread about rarest games, not about what should and shouldn't be allowed here and certainly not this devolved mess of arguing bullshit statistics about age.

[Anonymous No.402907]

>>402853
>>402848
there were probably more oldfags when the board first opened, but they left because they couldn't stand the /v/ shitposters

[Anonymous No.402916]

>>402907
Actually it is kind of funny how they get POed when you point out that you'd have to be a wizard to still be using 4chan at 30.

"Nuh huh I'm a total normalfag with a job wife and kids and I don't jack it to MLP"

>believing normal, socially-adjusted people use a website like this

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.402924]

>>402865
You mean like this one?

[Anonymous No.402926]

>>401275
I don't have a picture of me but I suppose my rarest items would be the seven .hack games.

[Anonymous No.402932]

>>402924


lol

[Anonymous No.402978]

>>402903
this is why we can't have nice things

[Anonymous No.402981]

>>402853
I don't think you're correct. I am 35, fully employed and browse here most days. I suspect there are more older people here than you realize. The thing is, when you get into your 30's and 40's people tend to get more secure and cushier jobs. Most of my friends who are around the same age as me also have pretty free net access from work. The difference is that we don't tend to throw our ages around because it's not important.

[Anonymous No.402987]

The rarest thing I own is probably my Vectrex. Its in a box in my closet of doom so I don't really feel like getting it out and showing it to you guys.

[Anonymous No.402983]

NWC gold cardridge

[Anonymous No.402994]

>>402981
>I am 35, fully employed
Does working at McDonalds because your mom forced you to get a job count as employment?
>I suspect there are more older people here than you realize
If there are, it's pretty sad
>The thing is, when you get into your 30's and 40's people tend to get more secure and cushier jobs
And those kind of people don't browse this shithole
>The difference is that we don't tend to throw our ages around because it's not important
IOW, you don't want people to know how badly you failed at life

[Anonymous No.403003]

>>402994
>And those kind of people don't browse this shithole
You seem to think this site is worse than it really is.

[Anonymous No.403005]

>>402981
not same guy, but I sure wouldn't browse 4chan at work unless I was asking to be fired and probably have my office computer searched for CP

[Anonymous No.403008]

>>403003
One quick visit to /b/, /v/, or /pol/ would cause anyone to lose their faith in humanity

[Anonymous No.403009]

>>402994


so edgy so cool!

shouldnt you be outside with your bitches?

or are you one of those "WE ARE LEGION" fags?

[Anonymous No.403015]

>>403008
And /b/, /v/ and /pol/ aren't the entirety of the site.

[Anonymous No.403019]

>>403003
>You seem to think this site is worse than it really is

I tell you the following:

Take away all the mods and janitors for one day and you'll see just how bad this site actually is

[Anonymous No.403021]

>>403015
no but they're a huge percentage of it

[Anonymous No.403023]

I have Mega Man 5 100% complete in the box, and i don't just mean the manual, game and box, i have all those stupid extra things that capcom put in there, and that nintendo power subscription thing too, so it really is 100% complete. got it for a great deal too

[Anonymous No.403031]

>>403019
>Take away all the mods and janitors for one day and you'll see just how bad this site actually is
Take away all the cops and lawmakers in a city, and tell people there will be no consequences for anything they do that day, and you'll have absolute chaos.

Why is this worth pointing out?

[Anonymous No.403027]

>>403019


can't be worse than child porn sites on TOR.

so no - posting some gore pics is what we did when we were 14. now it just appears silly.

[Anonymous No.403038]

Flintstones 2 on NES. Paid something like 10 bucks for it a few years back, completely unaware of its rarity.

[Anonymous No.403032]

>>403027
>>403019
Ha ha just imagine if Moot gave the mods a day off. I would rather not think about it.

[Anonymous No.403041]

>>403032


we had that when bots spammed the site with Scout pictures from TF2.

there were about 10% more CP pics and that's it.....grant you that is already too much to handle for 90% of /b/'s visitors

[Anonymous No.403043]

I got a dual analogue controller (left in pic) for £8 from a retro game shop. I prefer it to the dualshock, it's bigger and has concave sticks.

Pretty uncommon because they had a shelf life of around 2-3 months, but when you find one it's usually cheap because people don't tell the difference and their existence isn't widely known. Cool collector's item though.

[Anonymous No.403039]

>>403031
It depends on the neighborhood of course. Obviously Detroit =/= some gated WASP community in Vermont.

[Anonymous No.403048]

>>402994
Wow, you are trying WAY too hard. But to answer you earnestly, no I have quite a respectable job (quality control for a coatings manufacturer) and the typical normalfag trappings of a wife and house.

I feel no shame browsing 4chan during my free time. It's far from the only website I visit while at work. But I've been coming to this site for a long time and have always liked it. Is it a shithole? Yes. But it's my little shit hole. Also, there aren't many places left on the internet that are like this anymore.

So from my perspective I haven't failed at life at all. I have a job I enjoy, hobbies I enjoy and the freedom to chat about them. You're the one trying to convince me that the website we're both on is so shitty that no one should want to visit it. If anything it's worse to be wasting your precious youth trolling image boards, than a 30 something killing time because he has an easy job.

[Anonymous No.403051]

>>403041
>there were about 10% more CP pics and that's it

you do realize we also have captchas and anti-spam filters

[Anonymous No.403062]

>>403051


you new here? cause back then we didnt have that. hence the spam attacks.
they were the reason moot introduced Captcha to this site

[Anonymous No.403059]

>>403048
i think this guy is trying too hard by writing an entire graduate thesis on why he browses a site with gore, CP, and 14 yos everywhere

[Anonymous No.403061]

>>403005
You missed my point about this being one of the perks of being a certain age. No one here cares what we do with our down time. We're all grown ups. So long as the work gets done, that's all that matters.

I obviously don't do anything illegal, so other than that it's never a big deal.

[Anonymous No.403065]

>>403048
Oh you can post here all right, just don't pretend you're a normal, socially-adjusted person because we know the truth.

[Anonymous No.403076]

Welp, this thread has turned into /v/

Even worse, we can't get rid of it because I'm neither a janitor nor the OP

[Anonymous No.403073]

>>403059
>3 paragraphs = a graduate thesis

Ohh please, if you can't read more than a sentence without losing track that's not my problem.

[Anonymous No.403081]

>>403073
Wall of text, whatever. sameshit.

[Anonymous No.403086]

The worst I ever saw was /sp/ last summer before moderation returned. Words cannot describe how bad that place was.

[Anonymous No.403093]

Tron Bonne
I also have a sealed copy of Rockman Power & Fighters, a limited release of the arcade games for PS2

[Anonymous No.403095]

>>403048
Err, does Rainbow Dash count as a wife?

[Anonymous No.403101]

>>403095
1/10

Not him, but I'm a 300-pound Iraq vet who's had more sex than you teenagers ever will

[Anonymous No.403106]

>>403062
"i cum on cat she hiss at penis", anyone?

[Anonymous No.403107]

>>403101
Sup, baby killer

[Anonymous No.403139]

>>403081
You're such an idiot.

>>403095
The thing that always makes me laugh about the "no one on 4chan can get a girlfriend/wife" comments is that all it really means is the person saying that thinks they're completely incapable of finding someone.

BTW, I'm not saying I'm not a creepy old perv. I am saying we're not unusual around here.

[Anonymous No.403148]

>>403043
Cool, I didn't know that was a thing. Was it PAL-region only? If not, I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

[Anonymous No.403149]

I agree that the anonymity of the Internet does allow you to pretend to be anything you want, and sometimes you can never be sure that someone is what they claim.

[Anonymous No.403167]

>>403149
used to go on this site antiqueradios.com because of a project I was working on. pretty crappy site with a horribly antiquated 90s-era design and generally unfriendly userbase. they came off as a bunch of crusty old men who didn't like anything, although I still wonder how many weren't just younger guys rankling my chain.

[Anonymous No.403175]

>>403149
yeah it's kind of like religion. you have to accept people's claims about themselves on blind faith.

[Anonymous No.403184]

>>403167
Any specific stuff you didn't like about this place?

[Anonymous No.403219]

>>403184
Like I said. They were generally very unfriendly. Well not everyone, but two guys for whatever reason decided they didn't like me and made it their goal to annoy the fuck out of me.

Forums are a shitty method of online discussion anyway

>no anonymity
>post counters where the higher your count, the greater respect you carry
>usually only circlejerks are permitted

[Anonymous No.403227]

I have a copy of Demon's Crest. I'm not sure how rare it is, but apparently it goes on eBay for $80-$100.

>mfw I got it for $25

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403270]

>>403227
It is a good game, had no idea it was that pricy. Are Gargoyle's Quest 1 and 2 fetching as much?

[Anonymous No.403287]

ITT: One delusional 30 yo virgin

[Anonymous No.403350]

>>403270
Doesn't look like it. Gargoyle's Quest 2 still fetches a decent price, about $40-$60, but the original Gargoyle's Quest only goes for $8-$15. I'm only talking about cart-only prices here, of course.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403409]

>>403350
Damn. I got my Gargoyle's Quest II for $5 back when Gamestop carried NES games

[Anonymous No.403431]

>>401275

i have a copy of stadium events somewhere, and the matt for it

[Anonymous No.403519]

Probably not my rarest, but I always thought the old school PS1 boxes were cool.

[Anonymous No.403525]

>>403519

[Forte SWN-001 No.403548]

>>402474
>sega nomad

oh gosh someone actually has one

[Anonymous No.403546]

Harlequin soundtrack is possibly the rarest thing in existence. It doesn't exist on or off the Internet.

[Anonymous No.403560]

>>402585
>sonybrony wants to discuss PS2

fuck off back to >>>/v/

[Anonymous No.403553]

>>402582
this rule sorta fluctuates because there WERE games made for 5th gen consoles made post 99 that weren't shovel ware or disney games

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403576]

>>403553
How about games that started their development as PS1 games like Shadow Hearts or ICO?

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.403586]

>>402554
>MATB is $150
What the fuck?
Though, should I get Legends or 64?

[Anonymous No.403606]

>>402994
>be a board for retro games, 70's 80's 90-99.
>thinks that there shouldn't be too many people in their mid 20's-30's
>mfw

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.403609]

>>402615
>The only exception to the rule that should ever be made is the Dreamcast. It falls into that void of being out prior to 2000, but being of the next generation.
Not even that.
The time rule prioritizes over the gen rule.

[Anonymous No.403610]

>>401454
>>401467
>not rare
you are misinformed sir, that was given away to prize winners of a nintendo contest

rare as fuck actually

[Anonymous No.403616]

Is a PAL copy of Space Station Silicon Valley rare? I've had it a while, great game.

[Anonymous No.403617]

>>403546
are you saying you own it, or just know that it's rare?

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.403626]

>>402983
pics ur shooped

[Anonymous No.403630]

>>402474
What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.403642]

>>403606
yes except you forget that 4chan as a whole barely has anyone older than HS age. not more than 5% of the whole userbase is like 30 and those few are probably forever virgin.

[Anonymous No.403645]

>>403106

Was that line actually real?

I remember the spam with that pale chick with the big titties, but I don't remember that line.

[Anonymous No.403648]

Not too sure if either are considered rare, but every thing else that I have is pretty easy to find.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403657]

>>403648
What is the book, a strategy guide or a comic?

[Anonymous No.403659]

>>403525
>>403519

The cover art for those games are beautiful.

Not a lot attention paid to the art now that IGN does all the advertising for you.

[Anonymous No.403661]

>>403606
>>403642
I dunno about you but I'm 20 and I assume most of us are more what they call retrogaming hipsters than people who actually played the stuff back in the day

[Anonymous No.403669]

>>403661
depends. if we're talking SNES or N64 stuff, we can assume a fair number of those guys were playing them as kids. as for 8-bit stuff probably not.

[Anonymous No.403670]

>>403657
It's the a link to the past comic.

[Anonymous No.403683]

>>403617
Just that it is so rare it doesn't exist anywhere.

>i will never have a Harlequin soundtrack in my possession to listen to
shit

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403691]

>>403670
The one drawn by Shotaro Ishinomori?

[Anonymous No.403694]

>>403661
you mean like the vidya equivalent of 13 yos who listen to dadrock

[Anonymous No.403704]

>>403694
kind of but not that edgy. I mean, we don't try to claim that E.T. is better than Black Ops

[Anonymous No.403712]

>>403642
Again, you people have zero basis for this. There are far more of us old timers here than you imagine.

[Anonymous No.403717]

>>403712
Your claim has as much basis as his

[Anonymous No.403713]

>>403704
Oh but you apparently missed all the edgy hipsters who now claim that E.T. wasn't really such a bad game

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.403725]

>>403713
At least it was playable

[Anonymous No.403736]

>>403717
Meaning...?

[Anonymous No.403737]

>>403661
28 here. Played NES on up. That's what I collect. I have an Atari 7800 and 1 game (Pitfall). I don't really collect stuff before NES because I'm not familiar with it.

[Anonymous No.403731]

Ok let's settle this:

Youngest boards: /b/, /v/, /sp/ (until moderation returned), /mu/, /r9k/, /pol/

Oldest boards: /o/, /g/, /k/

[Anonymous No.403759]

>>403736
People project massively. They assume the userbase is either what they are or what they want it to be.

In this case, some 30 yo loser desperately wants to believe there's normalfags here to justify posting on a shithole with CP and 9th graders.

>I don't really collect stuff before NES because I'm not familiar with it

What specifically are you unfamiliar with?

[Anonymous No.403768]

>>403759
>What specifically are you unfamiliar with?
You know...just the Atari era in general

[Anonymous No.403776]

>>403768
you can't use Wikipedia?

[Anonymous No.403780]

>>403776
Well I can, I suppose but...

[Anonymous No.403785]

>>403717
Well his claim is based on god knows what, probably just blind guessing.

My claim is based on the knowledge that I am in my 30s and personally know of a number of people my age who browse this site regularly.

I think there is generally an assumption by most people who come to 4chan that they are among the oldest people here. 20 somethings seem to think that the mid 20's is the cut off and teenagers are convinced it's all teenagers.

What you fail to realize is that people in their 30's and 40's have at least as much if not more access to the internet and on top of it we generally have cushier jobs with more free time.

[Anonymous No.403787]

>>403780
>>403768
Ok. What would you like to know?

[Anonymous No.403789]

i have ninja gaiden 2 mint in box and other uncommons. i have an mvs as well. and a gen 1 digimon from 1997 which sell for like 200 USD on ebay. i guess my mvs is my rarest and most expensive piece in my collection.

***for plebes an mvs is an snk arcade cabinet (i have 3 games for it metal slug x and 4 and fatal fury special)

[Anonymous No.403802]

>>403785
>My claim is based on the knowledge that I am in my 30s and personally know of a number of people my age who browse this site regularly
Who's betting they're all registered sex offenders who come to /b/ for the cheese pizza?

>What you fail to realize is that people in their 30's and 40's have at least as much if not more access to the internet and on top of it we generally have cushier jobs with more free time

People that age have the least free time because they all have kids/jobs/whatever

[Anonymous No.403809]

>>403785
>20 somethings seem to think that the mid 20's is the cut off and teenagers are convinced it's all teenagers.


this man speaks troof

[Anonymous No.403813]

>>403787
I don't get the impression based on my limited knowledge that the Atari era had very good games

[Anonymous No.403829]

>>402325
Are the Pocky & Rocky Games REALLLY Rare?

Fuck, and that means i can get them, unless i put a fortune with the Rippers of Ebay,

Fuck My Life, i want help.

[Anonymous No.403842]

>>403836
Okay, where do we start?

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403848]

>>403789
Ninja Gaiden 2 is rare?

[Anonymous No.403836]

>>403813
alrightalrightalright. If you want to know about the 2nd gen (because you're unfamiliar with it), I will tell you

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403854]

>>403829
I hope the GBA game is a lot cheaper

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403867]

>>403842
Play tons of fucking MSX games, there are lots of good ones, and the computer is at least 1982 old

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.403873]

>>403867
1983, actually. I goofed by typing the key before it

[Anonymous No.403884]

>>403802
My entire point is that myself and the others I know tend to browse here while we are at work. It is because we're in our 30's and 40's that we have jobs that afford us this free time.

Let me explain it to you in terms you may understand. The teenage perception of what working life is like is about as accurate as a Gamespot review.

[Anonymous No.403889]

>>403842
Since the Atari 2600 was the defining system of the 2nd gen, let's begin there.

The Fairchild Channel F (1976) was the first microprocessor-based console to use removable cartridges, so Atari moved to answer it. In late 1977, they released the VCS (Video Computer System). It proved a modest success over the next year, but lacked a killer app until Space Invaders became an arcade hit, prompting Atari to secure a license to port it for the VCS. This game proved an enormous sales success and put the console on the map.

[Anonymous No.403897]

>>403842
Btw, that's not >>403737
but >>403768 is right. I'm not familiar with the Atari era. I don't know, I don't really want to collect it as much as the games I grew up with. I know collecting is collecting, but meh. Atari is just something I don't have much interest in collecting.

[Anonymous No.403910]

>>403884
Somehow I doubt you'd have any free time to be browsing here unless you work for the government and if you got caught on 4chan of all places, you'd get fired pretty fast.

[Anonymous No.403919]

>>403897
Collecting something purely because you had it as a kid is so entry level and pleb

[Anonymous No.403932]

>>403910
Well you can believe me or not. I browse here every day from work and have been doing so for years. I work in a small company and no one really cares about the net traffic.

I'm also the one with the Nomad btw. With that though, this is my last post for the day. Peace kiddies, I'll be back when I'm at work tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.403952]

>>403889
So then Mattel released the Intellivision in 1979 which started the first great console war. By this point, the popularity of electronic games was skyrocketing.

In 1982, Coleco released the Colecovision which was much more powerful than either the VCS or Intellivision and also had as a pack-in a high quality port of Donkey Kong that looked like the arcade game. Atari was caught with their pants down and had to hastily reply with the 5200, a hacked-up Atari 800 computer with shit analog controllers (the VCS was renamed the 2600 at this time)

[Anonymous No.403960]

>>403910
>Somehow I doubt you'd have any free time to be browsing here unless you work for the government

>yfw you realized he's an FBI agent checking for that sweet, sweet Captain Planet

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.403965]

I have Polybius

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.403976]

>>403965
Sure you do, champ.

[Anonymous No.403990]

>>403986
>>403952
Morgan Freeman, plz

[Anonymous No.403986]

>>403952
While Space Invaders proved a huge success, Atari's next high-profile arcade conversion was one of the worst console disasters ever.

Namco had created Pac-Man in 1980 and when it reached the US, the game became a bigger success in the arcades than anything before it. Atari scooped up the license for home versions and with great fanfare announced that the yellow pizza guy was coming to the 2600.

But when thousands of children unwrapped their copies of Pac-Man on Christmas morning, 1981, their expressions weren't one of joy.

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.404005]

>>403976
B-but I really do!
In all seriousness, the Illuminati are assholes.
Making a game that pretty much serves as a reason to shut people up about itself.

[Anonymous No.404017]

>>403919
I started a little less than a year ago. I've had some games, maybe 20-30 total about 3-5 years ago. It's gotten a lot bigger within the last year though.

[Anonymous No.404013]

My rarest game?

The Famicom version of Bionic Commando, going for $40 on ebay, $100 boxed. Managed to snatch it for only $7.

Honestly, neither the seller nor myself knew about the game's rarity. I guess I just got really lucky.

[Anonymous No.404023]

>>404013
My copy is loose, BTW.

[Anonymous No.404028]

>>403986
The Pac-Man "conversion" for the 2600 only vaguely resembled the arcade game, with Pac looking like an orange with an eye. In place of the opening level tune, it played something that sounded like a person mashing the buttons on a phone. It flickered horribly, along with Pac-Man facing only two directions and the maze inexplicably being orange on a blue background.

Certainly it could be argued that Pac-Man was a more complicated game to port than Space Invaders. In the latter, the aliens don't need much programming other than to go left, right, and down. With Pac-Man, each ghost needed a proper AI. Atari wasn't immediately harmed by this disaster, but it would help tarnish their image. For the time being, the company had blue-chip stocks and video games were golden.

[Anonymous No.404031]

>>403691
If that's the guy who did cyborg009, then yes

[Anonymous No.404039]

>>404017
typically you start with stuff you had as a kid and then work your way from there

[Anonymous No.404043]

I've got Zelda's Adventure for my cd-i. I guess that's pretty rare. Too bad it's a shit game though...

[Anonymous No.404050]

>>404028
I'll never understand why Namco brought the US version only in 1990.

It was way after the Golden Age of Arcades had past.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.404073]

>>404031
That is right. He was a swell guy, pity he died

[Anonymous No.404124]

>>404028
During 1982, anything video game-related was golden and sales of both consoles and personal computers were booming. The biggest arcade games (Pac-Man, Ms. Pac, Donkey Kong, and Q*Bert) all got extensive merchandising with toys, TV shows, and cereals.

Another disaster was in the works though when Atari got the license to produce a game based on E.T., one of the year's biggest box-office draws. For the second Christmas in a row, children were left crushed and in tears from this terrible game cobbled together in three weeks to meet deadlines. Confidence in Atari started eroding after E.T.

Also various problems were accumulating in the industry. Dozens of fly-by-night companies eager to cash in on the video game craze were producing terrible games on mostly the 2600. Even outfits like Quaker Oats opened video game divisions. There were not only a lot of console and clones of consoles, but an excessive amount of peripherals along with X-rated adult games and just generally bad, unplayable shit.

There was also not a whole lot of innovation going on. Nobody produced anything new or trend-setting by 1983 and instead contented themselves with second-rate clones of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Galaxian. Arcades also were the bane of many parents and widely seen as seedy places where teenagers sold drugs.

As the middle of the year approached, video game sales began suddenly dropping. The Christmas 83 season wasn't dominated by electronic games, but instead a more traditional sort of toy, Cabbage Patch Kids.

[Anonymous No.404137]

>>404050
US version of what?

[Anonymous No.404154]

>>404073
He even added a new character in the story that looks exactly like 002

[Anonymous No.404167]

>>404124
The personal computer may have also played a role in the video game crash as parents were widely sold on the idea that a PC was better and more educational for your child than a console.

In any case, the game market went from 100 to zero in a little more than a year and by early 1984, Atari cartridges were being sold at fire sale prices to get rid of them. Companies involved in video games either went bankrupt, were bought out by someone else, or (in the case of Coleco, Mattel, and Parker Bros) went back to simply making traditional toys.

[Anonymous No.404193]

Supposedly only 10,000 units of this version of the Genesis were made 5,000 NTSC and 5,000 PAL, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are far more common considering the frequency that they appear on ebay.

Also have a copy of Umihara Kawase with box and manual for the SFC but I don't know if that's really rare, just know it was never released outside Japan.

[spirasen !!Uklv8Hyzr7G No.404198]

>>404193
If Umihara Kawase had been sold in the US, it would still be a rare game given it is from 1995

[Anonymous No.404203]

>>404167
you forgot to mention how he rides in on a white horse and saves video games

[Anonymous No.404216]

>>404203
No because we were only discussing <1985 stuff since that's what anon didn't know about.

I could go into more technical details, but I've typed a lot and my hands are tired.

[Anonymous No.404262]

>>403785
hell, maybe he's 16 and knows lots of 16 yos who browse here

[Anonymous No.404268]

>>404262
Just remember:

4chan is for HSers. College and up use a more sophisticated adult site like Raddat.

[Anonymous No.404348]

>Mfw my Uncle found a copy of Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash

My uncle works in a city dump so whenever he finds anything interesting he saves it. Some 50 something guy dumped a pile of electronics off at the dump about two years ago with a Commodore Datasette and some cassettes in it. Unfortunately it was just the cassette without a case but still, to have seen a glorious rarity like that was just amazing.

[Anonymous No.404471]

>>404137
The NES version of Pac-Man, I mean.

1990. What the hell. Well, better late than never.

[Anonymous No.404547]

>>404471
Actually you're wrong. This is what happened

>Namco releases Pac-Man for the Famicom in 1985
>Atari (under the Tengen label) signs up as a NES dev
>because Namco has no North American operations at this time, they get Atari to bring Pac-Man over here (this is in 1987)
>initially they produce licensed NES carts in the standard gray shells
>but then Atari makes bootleg lockout chips and goes unlicensed (these carts have black shells)
>they get caught and sued
>eventually Namco opens a US branch and releases Pac-Man themselves in 1993 when the NES is almost dead

[Anonymous No.404618]

>>404547
Sad, people probably weren't interested in it anymore at the time.

But Im glad it at least got a western release in some form.

[Anonymous No.405338]

>>402738
Thirding this