Fatone1927 Conkers isn't really rare, just extremely popular. Just like Super Smash Bros, its one of the must have games on the N64. I remember when I was in middle school seeing advertisements for CBFD all the time, was a really hyped up game. Definitely not a rare game but a Rare game ;)
Hey AlphaOmegaSin Im gonna be going off topic here, do you think Bloodborne is just a Nightmare Creatures reboot that never came to be? Seeing as you are big on horror games, I'd like to see your opinion on the "rehashed"(even though unintentional by the devs) setting and gameplay that actually already existed 16 years ago. What if someone decided to pull Nightmare Creatures out the IP grave and give it a reboot, will it be the one copying Bloodborne or is it still the original even though its quite underwhelmingly received when it comes to popularity?
I'm currently playing Snatcher on my android tablet after years of wanting to play it, I'm really impressed so far! Certainly cheaper/easier than getting an official copy + system
best thing about snatcher is that you play it with a control pad and a light gun both plugged in at the same time, cant really get that feel any other way but with the Sega CD system
Floydthefuckbag Ever heard of a straw man argument? I never said all game collectors are hipsters, I was saying hipsters are creating more market demand and thus increasing prices.
EarthBound is my all-time favorite game.. I was lucky enough to get EarthBound, Super Mario RPG, and Breath of Fire I & II for around $250 off ebay back in 2010.
Rare should not be defined by price, as the word rare has more to do with being scarce or hard to find. For example, Earthbound IS NOT rare. Anyone with a credit card and the expendable cash can pay $120+ loose or $400+ for the complete in box set. Earthbound is expensive. Not rare.
Rare games are often pricey because there are less in circulation compared to other games. Its easy to find any game online as long as at least 1 person in the country is selling it. If you look at a video game price chart, the cost problem has been made worse by people controlling the market. Game prices were relatively steady for hard to find games at about 60-100$ at most for game only. Since 2011/2012ish the price on everything has shot up by double or triple. The less common a game is the easier it is for assholes to buy and then resell games to shape the market in their favor.
Mitcellie Sales have a lot to do with it's "rarity" as well, and there are plenty of people who go on about how they saw "piles of Earthbound boxes" in their stores back in the day, and how they wished they had bought them so they could sell them online. Earthbound didn't sell well, so it's hard to find USED copies at random stores and/or online. There ARE a lot of "new" copies in existence, the game just sold significantly less than what NoA had hoped.
Rare games I have: Snatcher, EVO, Pocky and Rocky, Ducktales 2, Chip n dales rewcue rangers 2, Earthbound, Shantae, Castlevania dracula x, mega man 5, Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Suikoden II, Demons Crest, Castlevania Legends, Parasite Eve II, Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre, Final Fight CD, Mega Man X3, The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest, Fire n ice, Gargoyle's Quest II,
I think my rarest game would be Mega Man: The Wily Wars for the Sega Mega Drive. They only released this game here in Europe and it goes for 400-500 Euro (625 Dollar, round about) now. its absolutely crazy. I bought it back in 1993 if im not wrong and its still in almost mint shape. i really want a copy of earthbound too though! they never released earthbound here in europe :(
You own the entire 64DD collection! LOL My "rarest" would be Conker's Bad Fur Day, if you want to count that as "rare", because it's one of the few M games on the 64.
samuel kidwell, not really. I remember a few specific parts, but it has never hindered my experience with the game. It will soon be on the Virtual Console, along with Gargoyle's Quest II, so I'm glad more people will get to try them out.
Matthew J. Boone That's great. But I'm sure you know as well as me that there is nothing like playing the game on the original console with the aged yellowing controller on a box tv. One day I'll be able to afford the physical version, but I'll get the digital in the mean time.
samuel kidwell Oh, I agree! I have close to 1700 physical games (just about all of them are complete, in box), and I just prefer that format; I've been collecting since the mid 90's.
Matthew J. Boone My goodness, well congratulations to you. I'm not dedicated enough to devote that sort of money. But considering the span of time you did it over, it may be more manageable.
I remember when I found a copy of Earthbound at a pawn shop and bought for like 10 bucks in 2000 or 2001 I believe. It's not boxed, but the copy itself goes for 200+. Of course that doesn't matter much to me because I know I'll never sell it! Love it too much!
I have a few rare items in my stash of games, but was in for a shock when I found Zombie Nation for the NES. I grabbed it up for 2 dollars. I was not only surprised by what people want for it today, but that you are a severed head leveling buildings and shooting fire at enemies. I knew nothing about it but was happy to see it is a collectors favorite. Thanks for the video, stay happy.
How is star wars battlefront 1 and 2 rare? They where the best selling star wars games of all time and I don't think that they have gained much value over the years (unless you live in a country where they are difficult to find which is possible)
Michael Sriqui I'm from Ireland which is PAL like UK and I've got 2 copies of Battlefront 2 and I am at least certain that I know about 10 people that own the game. So it really isn't rare.
DUDE i've been watching your channel for so long and must have missed this. but that's so crazy you have Darius Alpha! I love that series, but don't think i'll be picking that up anytime soon lol.
The games I own that I consider "Rare" don't worth a lot of money . However , I think they're because not a lot of copies were sold . The best seller barely got 600K copies . I'm talking about Mad World , Sin and Punishment , No More Heroes 1 & 2 and Metroid Prime : Trilogy . Except the last one , one can find these games for less than 20 USD . Even the trilogy has dropped in price since Nintendo released it digitally . I know the Wii , and Wii U , aren't the cool consoles to own , but these are great game , and it's a huge shame that not a lot of people got to experience them ...
The Treacherous Disciplin Terranigma isn't rare in German, only the English version. Never came out in the US, any US copies you see are either repros or fake or you know, both. lol The English version is worth quite a lot. 270 bucks + boxed. Just checked.
The Treacherous Disciplin And i allways wonder why Here in Germany Terranigma is one of the best SNES games in US RU-vidr like never speak about it. . . .
My friend says he remembers going into game stores in around 2006, and in the bargain bins all he saw were copies of Gotcha Force for the GameCube for like, $20. Now that game goes for around $80. Thank goodness he got it!
Entity1037 I got the gold holographic Majora's Mask for $20, but the corner is broken. Still plays just fine though. Megaman X3 is supposed to be one of the rarest SNES games, since it was one of the last made for the system.
+HappyConsoleGamer Cubic Ninja for the 3DS. It was a good deal, 48,00 Euros including shipping. The only good reason to own this game is the exploit because actually it is kinda bad. @4:22 Nope, I recently saw it on Ebay in the €100.00 prize range. It goes from collectors item insanity to the no prize depreciation prize range. @7:04 That's why imports are important.
Cool vid, Johnny! I was pretty surprised at your rarest game being Darius Alpha. Crazy! The rarest, most expensive game I own is Hyper Duel for the Saturn. It's gone up in value quite a bit in just the last couple of years due to it's obscurity and low print run. Pretty awesome shmup too. $350+ according to eBay. Honorable mentions can be Blast Wind for the Saturn, and a sealed copy of Border Down for the Dreamcast.
Mine are not that rare: Resident Evil Remake for Gamecube (Not a lot of people knew it existed until they heard of the ps4 HD port announcement) I guess it's rare now, I don't know. Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for the Gamecube (I heard that it's rare but I found a couple in different stores) and this is not a game but I have a Gameboy Advance SP Classic NES edition.
markasscop Arev Yeah, I just checked on ebay and the remake is around the 20s. I thought it would cost more but whatever. Code Veronica is like from 30 up to 45.
For me, rarest would probably be between Earthbound and Castlevania Dracula X for SNES. But I don't know if those could be considered "rare"...more like just valuable.
I would have to say the original Dark souls was rare to me not because of how common it is but because it offered a rare experience in todays age. Dark souls is one of the few games that doesn't hold your hand.
At one point I had a MASSIVE game collection, with a whole host of hard to find or just coveted games. Sadly I had to sell the entire collection about eight years ago to fund a move, but probably my RAREST item wasn't even a game itself, but a console. A lot of people forget that the Atari 7800 wasn't only released in 1987, but had a short run a couple of years before that, right on the tail of the 5200 and before Atari's big sell-out. There were only about 5000 consoles manufactured during that first run, with the rainbow logo the opposite direction from later ones and the expansion port fully intact. I managed to find one, not knowing what I had, at a yard sale for five bucks. As far as games? I've always collected because I wanted to play a game rather than collected for rarity itself, so I've made some pretty boneheaded deals in my day, like trading my original black label Final Fantasy VII for Riven and Masters of Tera Kassi on the PS1. ...Don't judge me. Frankly, I find the prices on retro games right now rather ridiculous. Yes, the hardware and cartridges/CDs are a lot rarer now than they ever were back in the day, but it's a really strange market where the contents of the cartridge is only a very small part of the item's actual value. Games like Earthbound are a perfect example of this: even the most die-hard fan of the series would have to admit the game itself isn't worth 800 dollars. If it were, Nintendo would be charging that on the VC. And it isn't even really the contents of the box, either: Infocom had far cooler boxes and contents back in the day, and you don't see their games going ridiculous like this. It's just... strange. I do wish I still had my vintage copy of FInal Fantasy now, though. That thing's overpriced too.
Some of the rare games that I have are Dark Cloud 2, Shining Wisdom, Shining the Holy Arc, and Shining Force lll Scenario 1. I used to have Azure Dreams but my parents sold it while I was off in the army. Kind of miss that game.
Probably the rarest games I own are the boxed, complete amiga games I own. Its difficult to determine the exact value of each game, but they seem to go from anywhere from 40-100 dollars. One game called Archon: the Light and the Dark I have been told is worth over 200 dollars but I have not been able to confirm this. I got all of them at a flea market last week for 5 bucks each.
I don't own these but some of the rarer games I know of are: Nintendo World Championships 1990 (NES) Was released as a grey plastic version (90 total) and a gold version (26 total). In 2005, a grey plastic version sold on eBay for over $6000.00. In 2009, a gold version sold for over $17,000.00. Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 (NES) One copy sold on eBay in 2009 for over $20,000.00 Air Raid (Atari 2600) The cartridge, alone, has sold for over $3,000.00. While the cartridge is rare, the box is extremely rare. Only one has come up for sale in a twenty-five year span. In 2010, the game with box sold for over $31,000.00. I don't have values for these but Atari 2600 games like Chase the Chuck Wagon and Tooth Protectors are also rare and, often, pricey.
This is why I stopped collecting video games. When i first started collecting I could get a complete majors mask mint for $60 and now its like $150. Hell Clayfighters sculptors cut complete was only like $250 or $300 now you'd be lucky if you could find the cart for that game. Part of the charm of retro gaming is the fact we could get a bunch of awesome games for a decent price but now its cheaper for me to go to gamestop and get a stack of xbox 360 games then it is to collect for some of these systems. I'm hoping soon that things will get back to normal, but honestly it's getting to the point where I just feel like giving up on this hobby it's just way to expensive now a days.
The rarest games I own is Clay Fighter: Sculptor's Cut for the N64 which was a block buster exclusive and Panic Restaurant for NES. Great Video, I enjoyed the games you showed!
Nice video Jonny,the nice thing about your collection is that you play your games I do the same thing with my rarest games,that are mostly neo geo aes.
I found out a few months ago that complete copies of Gotcha Force on the Gamecube were going for over $100, which is crazy. My dad got it for me for like $10 sealed in 2008.
I don't have a lot of my old games, but the ones I did hold on to, and am now glad I did are Suikoden I and II. I didn't know when I got them they'd be as rare as they are, but I still have my copies from 1995/1997 respectively and am very happy that I never got rid of them.
When GameStop was phasing out their used cartridge based games around 2003-2004, I bought every NES and SNES game I could afford, no matter what it was. The most I paid for NES games was around 10-12 bucks. I ended up with several HTF games including every Mega Man game for NES, Dragon Warrior IV and a ton of classic SNES titles. The real gem was Bonks Adventure for NES, and it wasn’t until maybe 10-12 years later that it was brought to my attention that it was worth a lot of money. Since I had no real sentimental attachment to it, I sold it to a kid on eBay and bought myself a Nintendo Switch and a few games for it, and it also paid a good amount towards my Yamaha LL 16. That was a good find that paid off well.
My rarest games are: Phantasy Star 1, 2, 3 and 4, Golden Axe Warrior, Ys: the Vanished Omen, Shining in the Darkness and Suikoden 1 and 2. The funny thing is that most of these were ex-rentals so I got them for dirt cheap.
Holy shit! I knew you had a lot of rare titles but I never would of dreamed you would own Darius alpha, incredible to say the least. I'm quite jealous :P.
The rarest game I own is a sealed copy of Tiny Toon Adventures: Scary Dreams, which is an alternate title for Buster's Bad Dreams. Apparently, it wasn't even officially released under this title, but some copies accidentally got sent to retailers.
nothing over 100 $ for 1 game, i guess the shinning point of my collection is i at least have every platform represented by games or consoles with everything all hooked up at same time. Thats worth more to me than a handful of rare games.
You ever pick up a game that you thought would be very rare, but it's not? I had that happen to me with some PS2 games lol. I don't know what the rarest game I own is, I am sure if I actually looked into it I might have a few. I seen some videos on Soul Blazer, looks like a really good game. Great video Johnny.
Valkyrie Profile, I never imagined it was going to be worth so much. I also got my hands on the JP version of the game recently, it is nice having both of them on display next to eachother.
I think the rarest game in my collection is Power Stone 2 for the Dreamcast. Honorable mentions for Contra Hard Corps and Ghostbusters on the Genesis. Although if you count non-games, I also have the PlanetWeb 3.0 browser for the Dreamcast which I've seen go for close to $100.
My "rare" game for me would have to be Namco X Capcom for the Japanese PS2. It cost me 80 dollars when it came out new and it never came out in English. The game took me 108 hours to finish and I remember having 4 hour play sessions. I've played all the big games since the NES, but I feel that the experiences are the most valuable. A game is nice to look at and to own, but the memories and the feelings these games evoked are just priceless.
Rarest Game? Simple. GoldenSun and GoldenSun: The Lost Age. Almost nobody knows them, but they are the most awesome games I've ever played. Thank you, Game Boy Advance!
Outlaws for the PC. Recently found out that there weren't many sold copies and that it's a more obscure title. Pretty fun game, recommend it to any 90s FPS fan. It's also not very expensive from what I've heard.
Hey man, you should consider putting you factory sealed games in plastic boxes, or at least into those plastic baggies. I use 14mm DVD bags on all of my NES games. They aren't bullet proof, but they will protect them from scratching and scuffing when bookshelved.
One of the rarest games I know of, and an odd one at that is Outback Joey for the Genesis/MD. Only about 1,000 are believed to have been made, even better you can't even play the game with a normal controller, only the special one made for it. It was part of some kind of wellness health thing. Special looking console for it too but that is just its outer shell, its still a normal Genesis/MD underneath. There are only two videos of it on here too, they pretty much never appear on eBay or places like that from what I have read. You have some really special games here I have to say, pretty cool.
0:25 Tough Question... Rarest Game would be either *(cib) Bound High for Virtual Boy [US]* but that is a non-official production run of approx not more than 150 copies! Otherwise it would be *(cib) StarCraft 64 for N64 [PAL]* with an official limited print of 5000 copies worldwide. And lastly would probably be *(cib) Mega Man X3 for SNES [PAL]* also a quite limited run here especially to get it in my local language (German) but I have no official numbers for this :( Financialy I would list up also (all cib and at least 300€ each): • Mega Man 7 [PAL] for SNES • Mega Man X2 [PAL] for SNES • Chrono Trigger [NTSC] for SNES • Conker's Bad Fur Day [PAL] for N64 • Mega Man IV [PAL] for GB • Mega Man V [PAL] for GB • Mega Man - The Wily Wars [PAL] for MegaDrive • Blackthorne [NTSC] for 32X • Panzer Dragoon Saga [PAL] for Saturn • Mega Man [NTSC] for GameGear • Rockman Collection [NTSC-J] for PS1 • Harmful Park [NTSC-J] for PS1 • Judgement Silversword - Rebirth Edition [NTSC-J] for WonderSwan • Rockman Battle & Fighters [NTSC-J] for NeoGeo Pocket Color
Wow the sealed Metroid is a beauty. That game got me into "hard core" gaming. I owned an Atari 2600 and used to play a decent amount, but I never played any game for 8-10 hours straight like I did Metroid.
Games that i have which have become valuable HCG.Panzer Dragon Saga,Dragon Force,Saturn Bomberman,Sengoku 2,Exile Wicked Phenomenon and Suikoden II.Though i feel like a fool,when i gave snatcher away to a friend and this was right after i sold the sega-cd.Back then i didn't know snatcher would have become a rare one.Oh well "i'm just content" with having the sega saturn and pc-engine version of snatcher.
I managed to build a complete copy of Earthbound earlier this year after 2-3 years of searching for a box, manual and inserts at decent prices.... I also happen to own Suikoden II as well after I found it in a shop nearby a few Christmases ago, and my parents were cool and bought it for me as an xmas present :). I do also have Rodland and Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, two of the rarest NES games here in Europe. However the rarest games I probably own are Metal Slug X and Metal Slug 5 for the Neo Geo AES (both English versions, and if you are aware of Neo Geo collecting, English versions are ALWAYS harder to find). Bought them many years ago and I shudder to think what they would go for now.
I found a Sega CD game at SAVERS Thrift Store complete in great condition for 2 bucks. Its called "Vay", a JRPG localized by our beloved Working Designs. What a fluke that it was just hanging there amongst random electronic items in the store for $1.99. Crazy.
A couple rare ones I still have despite the move, Deluxe Box for Thracia 776 for the Super Famicom, Ys V Expert, Rudra no Hihou, and my Kiseki (Trails in the...) series.
My rarest game that I own is Conker's Bad Fur Day (PAL Version). Got it 2 years ago and I got lucky on an auction on Ebay, haha! :) These versions are EXTREMELY rare and always cost over about 150 dollars.
I happened upon a big box PC version of Star Wars X-Wing Trilogy. X-Wing and TIE Fighter is a box set that's pretty common, and X-Wing Alliance is even more common, but the full trilogy in a single box is pretty rare. $2 at Goodwill ($70 on Ebay - if you can find it)! ALWAYS check the board games, lots of big box PC ends up there.
I don't have many games I would consider rare. If I had to pick 3 I'd go with; 1. Metal Slug 3 AES (Official USA release) brand new/mint 2. Sengoku 3 (Official USA) brand new/mint 3. Complete NES Black Box set (These are the very first 30 games to come out here in the USA. They are the ones with the pixelated image on the black background. I'd say Donkey Kong JR. Math cib/mint could go as high as $2500 to a collector, the Stack-Up in the larger box with R.O.B. attachments could go for $1000+ as well. Not super rare, but as new collectors are coming onto the scene trying to get all 30 these are sure to become harder to locate.
Great episodes. Way cool having Darius Alpha for the PC Engine, yes it goes for quite silly prices. My rarest titles would have to be some of my MSX titles, I am lucky to have Zanac Ex, Aleste and Aleste 2, they are all worth a few hundred each at a minimum. I also have complete copies of some of the MSX Bee Card titles, they are actually rarer number wise, but don't go for as much as the titles above.
I found a Caltron 6 in 1 cartridge at my flea market. Bought it for $2 not even knowing it was worth anything. The funny thing is the dude initially wanted $3 for it and I started to walk away. He then said OK $2 so I bought it. It sat on my shelf for about 6 months until I decided to look it up xP
The rarest games I own are probably the original RYB Pokemon Games, however I do own a Super Nintendo with quite a few games, and a bunch of very old PC games that may be a little collectible. It may not be all that rare, but I always thought Super Street Puzzle Fighter II Turbo was such a great under appreciated game for its time. You can play it now on various things like the XBL arcade or playstation arcade, but I remember setting up a super old Dell PC just to get it to run, and to show my friends. If you have not played it I HIGHLY suggest looking it up on youtube.
