Topic: Collector's Corner: The Rare and Expensive Video Games Topic

nope, i actually never got into that game, thought about it though

@Tasuki
yes, Taito kept cranking out games for the nes while the snes was the biggest thing. they were putting out games for nes while we were waiting for the snes. most taito games around that time were released in very small amount. like little samson. it was one of the last nes games.

All I have is Nintendo World Championships for the NES. It's an ok game. I like how the cartridge is all gold though!

nice. you have one of 26 carts

Does Conker count? That game only sold like 1 million copies, so its kinda rare

So did you end up ever getting Ninja Gaiden Trilogy?

Your EVO story is just to depressing...

Said NGT cart was the one I bought.

Now I wish I bought Snow Bros. NES from the same store for like $30.
If I was buying solely for collection purposes, I'd have definitely bought the boxed NES Bonk's Adventure they had for $60, but I decided I was fine with my ~$15 Famicom cart. (I know some will say I should've then bought it to flip on ebay, and someone else probably already did. But I'm not that kind of guy.)
I ended up having to settle for the Game Boy version, since when I bought it last year, $25 was about the going rate, I only imagine that's going to go up, too.

Too bad I lost the Kid Dracula manual I had when I was a kid (and I tried to keep those), that's probably expensive now.

The hard part about collecting games is that sometimes you have to pass up on the good deals for financial reasons, then you kick yourself years later haha! The problem with passing them up is that the values typically don't get any lower as time goes on for the rare games. I've been trying to get Mega Man X2 and X3 in a brick and mortar store (for the sport) and the price keeps getting higher, even after the Anniversary Collection came out.

So true, I don't think I will pass up on a good deal when I see one anymore. Retro games are becoming harder and harder to find (other than sports games) at flea market's, garage/estate sales and such where you used to be able to score good deals regularly. The retro video game stores around me have prices that I think are pretty high and can find them cheaper on Ebay.

Get your copy of Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur's Peak, it's only at $420 for the cartridge!

According to Wikipedia, it was only a Blockbuster-rental only game and is the second rarest commercially-released licensed title for the NES. Who knew?

would game and watch collection 1 and 2 be rare?but the old game and watchs are rare

also clay fighter sluptures cut is rare

The collecting community has determined it's not Blockbuster-only. I know one guy listed a sealed copy on ebay with a BIN over 10 grand (if I remember right), said it was bought from a different rental store. Though they still haven't determined if it was only released to rental stores. I'd suspect low production run and many were bought by rental stores.
(seems typical of late Taito games. Jetsons seems to have been made in larger numbers, but even that game has shot up in value in the last few years.)
I have to wonder if Hagane for SNES was the same situation, it seems suspicious that one of Hudson Soft USA's last releases would have been intentionally rental-only.
I believe the intentionally rental-games SNES games were mostly just mediocrity. The publishers supporting that I remember including Sony and Ocean, not exactly the most fondly-remembered names in 16-bit games. I know Sony published a couple good games by other developers, but I remember Sony's games were mostly just cross-promotion for Sony movies
And Ocean's first SNES Addams Family was pretty good, outside of being incredibly hard due to levels being flooded with enemies (though if you know where the hidden room with around 20 extra lives is, it becomes manageable. Geez, Addamses, I know you love your death implements, but even you must have your limits. ).
But anyways, Final Fight Guy is probably the only hotly-desired rental-only game because it was the only one that was actually good (but Capcom probably felt there weren't enough people that would buy the game again JUST to play as Guy.)

there were nib's of hagane on ebay a while back

I remember a friend of mine had a copy of Final Fight Guy. His older brother worked at Blockbuster so he got him a copy for his birthday when Blockbuster sold off their copies to make room for PS games and such. Sadly I didnt know how rare it was till years later.

Who here has a copy of Little Samson?

If you got some extra Benjamin's laying around there is a copy with a box currently at $405 with 2 days left!

I'm cheap so I only I got a copy of the Famicom version (which was worth about $25-30 cart only at the time).

i have a mint copy.
i may get an extra copy one day

theres nothing wrong with Lickle

I realized one other kind of sorta maybe a little rare game I got.
A Magical Doropie cart. If anyone remembers the Mega Man ripoff Krion Conquest for the NES, it got censored and butchered in the "translation" (they actually deleted all cutscenes except the intro from the ROM). Possibly because Doropie was too sexy, and also a very good chance Vic Tokai just didn't want to make NES games anymore and so they rushed it out. (it was the last FC game they published, and they killed at least three more that were scheduled to come out after it. Including the third Golgo 13 game, and from what I saw of the leaked ROM it might've actually been a decent game if it came out.)