Does anyone own any super rare games

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Warmsignal:

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--- Quote from: Warmsignal on March 09, 2016, 11:39:19 am ---I think that always being on eBay or Amazon doesn't necessary mean that the item is not rare. That's just a marketplace through which rare items can be exchanged by anyone from anywhere. Try to go out on the town and find a "rare" game, or the next town over, or the next town over. It won't happen, because it's rare. A lot of games are pretty rare. If your local retro shop only has one copy, or often times has none. It's probably a rare item technically speaking.

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I never see James Bond Jr., is that game rare?

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In my experience, games vary in rarity from region to region. I can't find a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's not rare, but I've seen more copies of Stadium Events than Star Trek.

Just because a copy of Little Samson can be bought at any time on eBay, doesn't make it a common game. How many folks can claim they found it in the wild?

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This was my point. Availability on eBay doesn't tell how rare or common it is, usually. It's a pool of everyone's findings from near and far and with all things considered, there still aren't very many available. As for James Bond Jr, I can't recall seeing the game anywhere before. Maybe I've overlooked it, but I know it's not something I scan passed a lot when reading labels.

I also believe regional distribution is a factor in a lot of older games. Certain regions didn't have some of the chains that sold video games, which makes me wonder if certain titles had more specific distribution than others. The biggest source of NES games around here in the late 80s would have been Hills, Ames, Kmart, K&K Toys and Circus World. I've even heard that Lowe's sold NES games for a while. I'm not sure when Blockbuster came around these parts. But different areas have different stores with greater or lesser volume, and I doubt that games were evenly distributed back in the day.

ignition365:

--- Quote from: Warmsignal on March 09, 2016, 07:34:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: turf on March 09, 2016, 01:05:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: ctracy87 on March 09, 2016, 11:44:28 am ---
--- Quote from: Warmsignal on March 09, 2016, 11:39:19 am ---I think that always being on eBay or Amazon doesn't necessary mean that the item is not rare. That's just a marketplace through which rare items can be exchanged by anyone from anywhere. Try to go out on the town and find a "rare" game, or the next town over, or the next town over. It won't happen, because it's rare. A lot of games are pretty rare. If your local retro shop only has one copy, or often times has none. It's probably a rare item technically speaking.

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I never see James Bond Jr., is that game rare?

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In my experience, games vary in rarity from region to region. I can't find a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's not rare, but I've seen more copies of Stadium Events than Star Trek.

Just because a copy of Little Samson can be bought at any time on eBay, doesn't make it a common game. How many folks can claim they found it in the wild?

--- End quote ---

This was my point. Availability on eBay doesn't tell how rare or common it is, usually. It's a pool of everyone's findings from near and far and with all things considered, there still aren't very many available. As for James Bond Jr, I can't recall seeing the game anywhere before. Maybe I've overlooked it, but I know it's not something I scan passed a lot when reading labels.

I also believe regional distribution is a factor in a lot of older games. Certain regions didn't have some of the chains that sold video games, which makes me wonder if certain titles had more specific distribution than others. The biggest source of NES games around here in the late 80s would have been Hills, Ames, Kmart, K&K Toys and Circus World. I've even heard that Lowe's sold NES games for a while. I'm not sure when Blockbuster came around these parts. But different areas have different stores with greater or lesser volume, and I doubt that games were evenly distributed back in the day.

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I had to buy my copy of James bond jr. online. My NES copy, I don't remember where I got it from, but my SNES copy I had to get online.

Horrible game, but I loved the cartoon as a kid.

topspot123:
Well I have a few higher priced games, but nothing crazy expensive. As for just rare, I mostly have oddball demo or promotional discs that would probably be considered pretty rare. For instance, I'm the only member on this site with the Muramasa: The Demon Blade Demo Disc for the Wii listed in their collection, although there seems to be two listed on ebay right now so maybe it isn't that rare after all.

Some of my favorite parts of my collection aren't necessarily rare individually, but possibly rare to see a complete collection of. For example, I have the every Official U. S. Playstation magazine demo disc, Official Xbox magazine demo disc, Game Wave game, and Xavix Port game.

ignition365:

--- Quote from: topspot123 on March 09, 2016, 11:34:14 pm ---Well I have a few higher priced games, but nothing crazy expensive. As for just rare, I mostly have oddball demo or promotional discs that would probably be considered pretty rare. For instance, I'm the only member on this site with the Muramasa: The Demon Blade Demo Disc for the Wii listed in their collection, although there seems to be two listed on ebay right now so maybe it isn't that rare after all.

Some of my favorite parts of my collection aren't necessarily rare individually, but possibly rare to see a complete collection of. For example, I have the every Official U. S. Playstation magazine demo disc, Official Xbox magazine demo disc, Game Wave game, and Xavix Port game.

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I didn't think about that, I know for sure that at one point I went and looked up some of my demo discs and I couldn't find info on them anywhere.

rayne315:

--- Quote from: topspot123 on March 09, 2016, 11:34:14 pm ---Well I have a few higher priced games, but nothing crazy expensive. As for just rare, I mostly have oddball demo or promotional discs that would probably be considered pretty rare. For instance, I'm the only member on this site with the Muramasa: The Demon Blade Demo Disc for the Wii listed in their collection, although there seems to be two listed on ebay right now so maybe it isn't that rare after all.

Some of my favorite parts of my collection aren't necessarily rare individually, but possibly rare to see a complete collection of. For example, I have the every Official U. S. Playstation magazine demo disc, Official Xbox magazine demo disc, Game Wave game, and Xavix Port game.

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If I am not mistaken I have a Playstation magazine demo disc that is not on this site currently. im rather lazy when it comes to adding in games and have a pretty big stack of games that aren't categorized/ are variations not listed.

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