What most rare games you own?

Spiky

I am one of those who wanted to collect every single game from my childhood I could remember. One thing that helped me was that I copied my games (sadly, only few of them) every time my parents bought new computer, so I managed to save some of them for more than 20 years. Now I have a complete list with game files stored in several places. As I was browsing them, I though how many of them would I be able to find on the internet and which ones would be impossible to replace...

I have several rare games, mostly because they have been made in my country (Slovakia) and they probably never made it abroad. From the rest of them, I just want to mention Zurk's Learning Safari, DOS game for little kids. It is nowhere to find on the internet (as far as I know), so I find it being quite rare.

What are your most rare games?

sirhenrythe5th

@Spiky Great Giana Sisters for the CBM Amiga, complete with Box and Sheets. Got it as a present from my Granny back in 1988. A couple of weeks later it was taken from the stores because Nintendo saw too many Super Mario Bros in the Game and went to the Courtyard :)

backstander

@sirhenrythe5th
Back in the day, my friend from high school had Crüe Ball for the Genesis! Mötley Crüe was his favorite band back then!

BuZz

Xenon 2 for the CDTV (I think it's reasonable sought after anyway). Not as rare as Great giana Sisters though! :)

sirhenrythe5th

@BuZz Xenon II was one of my favourite Games on the good old Amiga! BitmapBrothers Games were state of the art anyway back in those days, but Xenon II was remarkable for its great soundtrack. Pushed me even to buy the Bomb-the-Bass LP "Megablast" which i also own still today :)

BuZz

@sirhenrythe5th I saw Xenon 2 for CDTV first at an event in London (world of commodore I think). Was very impressive!

mediamogul

The guy over at RetroUSB, who is now somewhat famous for creating the Retro AVS system, develops a NES cartridge-based Christmas card every year. At first it was just a snow field screen saver, but now each one has a unique holiday themed game and he puts a lot of thought into them. Some work with the four player multitap and there's even one that will make ROB the video robot dance to 8-bit holiday chiptunes. You can also request a personal greeting be programmed into the title screen. To top everything off, the cartridge is clear and lights up with flashing colored lights, which is quite a sight on a top loader model NES.

Any of them before 2012 are very rare and are getting to be pretty expensive as more and more people discover them and are looking to get a complete set. A friend sent me the 2010 edition at the time and it's one that I've never seen up for sale until coincidentally just now. It features a game called 'Jolly Joyride', where you are tasked with delivering as many presents as possible to unlit chimneys before the moon moves from the left side of the screen to the right. It can also be played as a simultaneous two player competition which is even better due to the ability to ram your opponent's sleigh. It's a lot of fun.

Below is a video of one of the cartridges all lit up.

backstander

@mediamogul
This is really cool! How much does he sale them for when their new (like Christmas 2017)? I also wonder if there's any dumps of these? You wouldn't get the cool flashing lights on the cart though :-(

edmaul69

@mediamogul i used to have an atar 2600 i homebrew game (might have a rom of it still) that lets you control r.o.b. The robot with the joystick and button.

As far as rare, i bought a stack of sealed rare nes games for $30. One of the them was a sealed tengen tetris. I ended up selling it for $500 on ebay.

mediamogul

@backstander

How much does he sale them for when their new

He sells them for $44.00, with the optional message being an additional $9.00.

I also wonder if there's any dumps of these?

On the RetroUSB website, he has traditionally made the ROMs freely downloadable every year so that you can try them out before you buy them. The lone exception is last year. If this was not an oversight and the beginning of a trend, I would guess that it might be due to the rise of easy to use console emulation systems that have dramatically shot up recently.

@edmaul69

One of the them was a sealed tengen tetris.

Wow... I have a small selection of titles that I would like to have a physical copy of and that's right near the top. Was it in good condition?

drake999

Probably to most rare game I own is the original black case Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, still in excellent condition. I only play the disk using emulation since I no-longer posses an original Playstation. I imagine this game is not particularly rare though, but could be wrong. To be honest, I don't even know all the games I own anymore. I could have a rare collectors item and not even know it, as I have a stockpile of games for many different systems.

mediamogul

@drake999 said in What most rare games you own?:

I imagine this game is not particularly rare though, but could be wrong.

It's an uncommon game, but highly sought after. It won't ever be spending much shelf time at a retro-gaming store before it walks out with some happy customer. It's the same with some common games too. 'Contra' for the NES is unbelievably common, but you're not likely to see it in the wild often, as most everyone who owns it is going to keep it and anytime a copy does pop up, it's almost immediately sold. The only place you can find games like that reliably at a decent price are a retro-gaming conventions, but then you have to leave your house and talk to people through your face hole... yuck!

drake999

@mediamogul Lol. Yeah I still have some Sega CD games even though my Sega CD died years ago, plus a whole shwack of original Xbox games. I buy games digitally now, except for games that I just love and never want to lose, then I buy a physical copy. Saves shelf space, and I like being able to just launch them. Of course digital media has its disadvantages to. I never played Contra as a kid, but I hear lots about it so I'm wishing I did. I only got serious about gaming after I upgraded from the NES to the Sega Genesis CDX. At that point it became my obsession, lol.

edmaul69

@mediamogul it looked like it came out right out of the factory. They were all kept in sealed containers and the collector who owned them died in iraq and his mom sold them to me.