Your Personal Videogaming Holy Grail

[Cirrus]

What is your unattained Holy Grail?

It doesn't have to be a game. For me, it used to be getting an arcade cabinet in my basement, but now I have one, so now it is going to be the Nintendo World Championship Cart. Gold.

[Dimitri]

Tetris for the Megadrive. I'd also love to have a basement. ;) Stupid California...

[drewbrim]

Most of you will laugh since there are plenty of these to be had (if you're willing to shell out some cash). But I am still waiting for the day I see a Turbo Duo in the hands of an unsuspecting thrift shop.

[shvnsth]

prob the elemental gearbolt assassin case edition

[Dangerboy]

I second the Assassin Case...


Right now, it's Blue Chicago Blues Complete for Laseractive US.

It's the last $@%$#@! piece I need for a complete set.

Jason

[Emily]

Tetris for the Megadrive. I'd also love to have a basement. ;) Stupid California...

Are U in Northern or Southern CA? If North=Cool.

Oh yeah...Holy grails....

European Vectrex Display; looks sorta like a space helmet or something 8-)

[Garry Silljo]

NES
World Championship Gold

SMS
Slap Shot US

SNES

Any competition cart

Obtained grails include 32x Spiderman, Tengen Tetris, and Panzer Dragoon Saga.

[Emily]

Most of you will laugh since there are plenty of these to be had (if you're willing to shell out some cash). But I am still waiting for the day I see a Turbo Duo in the hands of an unsuspecting thrift shop.

Yeah. Finding stuff in the wind is so much more satisfying than Evil-Bay.
Cheaper too!

[Crush Crawfish]

I actually acquired one of my holy grails recently: EVO for SNES. Other things I consider personal holy grails are a Turbo Duo, Snow Bros. for NES, the Japanese versions of Smart Ball and Spanky's Quest for Super Famicom, Megaman Battle & Chase for PS1 (euro version), and Rockman X3 for Sega Saturn.

[Cirrus]

I love EVO. I used to be very into that game... I never knew it was all that rare. I'll have to look it up.

[stuffedmonkey]

Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silver gun... today at least. I'm sure I will find something new to obsess about.[/img]

[Big Papa Husker]

Probably a Complete LSSSC w/ guide along with the Lunar 2 guide, Valkyrie Profile as well.

[Dimitri]

Tetris for the Megadrive. I'd also love to have a basement. ;) Stupid California...

Are U in Northern or Southern CA? If North=Cool.

Right smack in the middle -- east bay area, Livermore in particular. I just so happen to live about as far away from any good game stores as possible, guess I'm repenting for having a freaking awesome one about a block from my house for several years (before I started collecting, though). :frustrated:

[Iron Draggon]

Well, there's alot of things that would qualify, but the most expensive is a Roller Coaster Tycoon pinball table. I wish there was a way that I could own one.

[imanerd0011]

My holy grails would be:

Stadium Events (only rare licensed games I need for the NES)
All 3 Panesians


Also, any NES era sign that I don't already have would be really nice.

[SuperGunGuru]

Atari Star Wars cockpit :D

[maxlords]

I"ll also vote for the Elemental Gearbolt Assasin's Case.

But I'd also go for an English Poliicenauts Beta for the Saturn or an English proto or review copy of Star Odyssey for the Genesis. Both exist....

[Jumpman Jr.]

For some reason I'm really drawn to own a Magical Chase... I don't know what it is.. I only have 2 TurboGrafx games, but for some reason, I really want that. :/

[Nesmaster]

currently flintstones 2 and dragon warrior 4....

[Crush Crawfish]

I love EVO. I used to be very into that game... I never knew it was all that rare. I'll have to look it up.

It's really not that rare, only and R4 or 5 I beleive. But I had been looking for it in the wild for ten years, and I just broke down and bought it on ebay. Truly brilliant and worth every penny. :D

[downfall]

Currently that E3 Windwaker Poster that I've been trying to track down for about a year now.

I'll be so happy to not have to hunt for that anymore.

[Cirrus]

For some reason I'm really drawn to own a Magical Chase... I don't know what it is.. I only have 2 TurboGrafx games, but for some reason, I really want that. :/

Magical Chase is the rarest U.S. released TurboGrafx-16 game, as far as I can tell. It's a goofy shooter, not bad, not great. (You play a witch on a broom.) Very Japanese. Sort of like Parodius, in style, but not quite as good.

[Dr. Morbis]

A dual monitor Playchoice-10 with the same 10 games that the corner store by my house had 17 years ago.

[Atarian75]

At the moment, my grail would have to be Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD.

-Atarian75

[slip81]

An original OutRun cab

[mcgrail0007@netzero.net]

For me it has been Spiker Volleyball for the Intellivision. It is the last game that I need to complete my Intellivision collection (original releases). I have been looking for it for the last 2 plus years. I have owned at least 7 Congo Bongo's and Stadium Mud Buggies. The rarity guides are wrong. Spiker is without a doubt the toughest Intellivision game to find. It should be a rarity 10 but don't change it until I can find one (so that I can afford to buy it).

[neuropolitique]

Right now my grail is a wideboy. Preferably one older than the N64, if they exist, but a WideBoy64 would do.

Also up there are Game Boy store displays, devs, protos, promos...
You get the idea.

[Xantan the Foul]

Fire Emblem : Thracia 776 Deluxe Box set...

So expensive :bawling:

[Sniderman]

Heh. My "Holy Grail" wasn't a videogame at all. There's really no specific system or game I feel *that* attached to or obsessed by. But the one item my game room had to have - that *I* had to have - was an original poster from the movie "Tron." Spent many years before I finally found just the one I was looking for.
http://tinypic.com/1gr7yb
Ahhhhhhhhhhh.... :)

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Have yet to find Harvest Moon snes

[jhm1987]

Mine would have to be to own the arcade cabinet of all of the metal slugs and have them in my house one in each room so that i can always play one no matter where i am

[Mayhem]

Fire Emblem : Thracia 776 Deluxe Box set...

So expensive :bawling:

What's the current going price for one? I got mine for $130 about... well it was a fair while ago.

[Cirrus]

Fire Emblem : Thracia 776 Deluxe Box set...

So expensive :bawling:

What's the current going price for one? I got mine for $130 about... well it was a fair while ago.

Here is one on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8164343366&rd=1

Starting bid $220.

[wberdan]

hmm....

i would have to say the unreleased super game module for the colecovision


willie

[Ed Oscuro]

Here is one on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8164343366&rd=1

Starting bid $220.
Yeah, and Jetrag wants $99 for a boxed Elevator action for the Famicom (though that'd be neat to have just for the box design...both games actually...)

[SkiDragon]

Probably Radiant Silvergun.

[Cauterize]

either:

An Original Bubble Bobble Cab or a Rainbow Islands Cab!

[NESaholic]

My NES grails:

- M82 unit
- Cheetahmen 2 compl.
- Rodland compl.
- The Bard's Tale proto

[Spottedkitty]

either:

An Original Bubble Bobble Cab or a Rainbow Islands Cab!

Ditto. Or a The New Zealand Story cab....

[Lord Contaminous]

Let's see several notable Konami games:
Snatcher (Sega CD, Saturn)
Sexy Parodius (Saturn)
Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (Turbo Duo)

Final Fantasy 2,3, 5 (all JP)
Rockman & Forte (Super Famicom)
All my Saturn RPG's
Rockman/Megaman X3 (SNES, import Saturn)

[importaku]

either:

An Original Bubble Bobble Cab or a Rainbow Islands Cab!

Eeeeeeee you mentioned rainbow islands one of my most fave arcade games ever.

I have still yet to see a real original cabinet with the artwork. all the ones i have seen have been generic jamma cabs. I would sell a kidney for a mint rainbow islands cab. :D

[CasualCoreGamer]

hmmm...

Saturn:

-Burning Rangers
-Psychic Killer (assasin?) Torumaru
-Radiant Silvergun

PSX:

-Persona 2

Genesis:

-MUSHA Aleste

N64:

-Sin & Punishment

Sega CD:

-Popful Mail (which would complete my Working Designs Sega CD set)

[le geek]

Bounty Bob Strikes Back (5200)
Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (PCE)
Neo Mr. DO! (MVS)

Cheers,
Ben

[TurboGenesis]

Things I'd like to find would be

SNES- Soul Blazer

Jaguar- Battleshpere?(heard it was REALLY good)

PSX- Persona 2, Raiden Project

Saturn- Hyper Dual, Cotton 2, Guardian Heroes

Turbo- Magical Chase, Chew Man Fu

PS2- Rez

and......a Neo Geo AES!

[goatdan]

Oooo...

Unfortunately, before I can pursue most of these I need a house first, so that's probably my first grail ;)

First and foremost, a Space Shuttle Pinball machine. I adore this pin, and I need it.

Secondly, a Jurassic Park pinball machine. This is my favorite modern era pin, and I love the movie and book too.

JAMMA arcade cabinet. I need to put Battle Balls (which I have the board for) into it :)

Crystal Castles arcade cab. I keep returning to this game and it is easily one of my favorite old-school games. It would be great to have that with my Kangaroo and Ms. Pac-Man.

While I'm at it, cabs for Rush 2049, OutRun, Sega Super GT, HydroThunder and lots and lots of different pinball machines.

[FooFighter]

A Sinistar arcade cab to sit next to my Robotron 2084.

Sinistar was always my favorite arcade machine.

[TheRedEye]

A Fun House pinball cab. And Tim Arnold, to keep it running. I swear I'd never stop playing.

[NE146]

This has been my personal grail for a while, and I finally got it. First a little backstory, I used to have this. I bought in Japan when I was a kid. But.. it got lost. Long story. I don't throw away ANYTHING.. so missing this was a big hole for a while.. unfortunately, they're hard to replenish as you can imagine.. especially in the 80's a year or two after originally buying it.

Anyway, now I have it again.. my personal Holy Grail. :) It's minty fresh, complete and unused in box w/ instructions, warranty card, styrofoam, the works. Works great too. And plays just like I remember it. In a way it's a little better I bought it now because if I still had my original it'd be boxless and instructionless (I'd thrown them away.. right away LOL).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/b2stoys/125-2592_IMG.jpg

PLAYFIELD WITH FLASH
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/b2stoys/125-2595_IMG.jpg

WITHOUT..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/b2stoys/125-2594_IMG.jpg


Yep :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/b2stoys/125-2529_IMG.jpg

[lurpak]

Anything "Sherlock holmes" for the odyssey2

I set my sights high.

[WanganRunner]

Mine is probably the Working Designs Elemental Gearbolt Assassin's Case Edition for PS1. I think I'd part with a ton of money to own that, I've never seen one on ebay, ever. You can't say that about many things.

[robotriot]

Radiant Silvergun and any arcade cabinet, but I don't have the room for one, so it will always stay a dream :/

[AtariBuff]

hmm, maybe my complete VideoPac collection or the Lunar Lander, Tempest and Asteroids cab in my room of doom :D

[Amy Rose]

A complete minty fresh Knuckles' Chaotix for the PAL 32X.

Then I need a 32X to play it, but then again, I'd probably never take it out, just stare at it with love hearts coming out of my eyes... forever... LOL

I NEED THAT GAME!

[Crazycarl]

i would say the crazy taxi aracade cabinet, man i loved that game when i was in LV. its only good in the arcade.

[hdnine]

My holy grail is easy to say, harder to achieve:

A complete, all 60 of them, MIMB Nintendo Game & Watch collection!! :-P

I don't even wanna know how much that will cost me

[AdamAnt316]

My personal holy grail would have to be a Vectrex. Am still sore over 'the one that got away'.....
-Adam

[ozyr]

That is easy - and Odyssey3! I know there are so few out there, and those that have one will probably never sell the one they have!

:(

[Cirrus]

I think that my new holy grail is a complete Virtual Boy collection. I see a few people have noted this as the centerpiece of their collection, and I really dig the idea, considering there is no very good way to emulate.

Same reason I am seriously collecting for the DS.

[LocalH]

Right now, my holy grails are prototypes. Either the SMW build with SMB3-style graphics, or the Sonic 1 proto with a standing pose that looks an awful lot like the way Mario stands in SMB1 (this is also the build with the 'Welcome' sign in Green Hill).

[Humanoid]

i would have to say the unreleased super game module for the colecovision


Not if I get it first! :evil:

[Rugal]

FrontMission History Collection

Squaresoft Millenium Edition's (Front Mission, Xenogears and Parasite eve ones)

Star Ocean (SFC)

Rhapsody A Musical Adventure

[Mark III]

Mine would be an original Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder arcade cab. Best beat 'em up EVER.

Also looking for a greenhouse game & watch in the wild to replace the one that got stolen from me when I was a kid.

[Daria]

Dragon Hopper for VB- in english.

(:

It's unlikely I'll ever see one, but I believe "grails" should be pretty unobtainable.

[link1110]

I see several people want Turbo Duos here. www.japangamestock.com got 2 in a few months ago. I bought one of them, so there's one left. It comes to about $170 with the connections (sold seperately) and shipping (Shipping is like $60 to the US.) But it's still cheaper than the $300+ they go for on EBay.

If you get one, though, you're going to want a controller extension cable. That controller cord is SHORT, like the original TG16 or a Japanese PS1.

As for my grails, probably a compleyte Sega CD US set. Sega CD was one of those systems I always wanted as a child (That and a duo) but never got, so I bought recently.