THE rarest GameBoy and GameBoy Color games [Archive]

snes_collector

10-04-2005, 08:28 PM

I searched for this and couldn't find anything on this. Anyway on to the topic.....

As on late I've been thinking about expanding my small GB & GBC collections. I looked through the guide on which titiles that are the hardest to get and lots on titles are R5 and R6 but I couldn't find what are the hardest to get titles for the systems. So what are the hardest US released GB & GBC titles to get? A list would be helpful when looking for games at game stores and flea markets. Thanks in advance.

udisi

10-04-2005, 08:48 PM

this is a very hard question to answer. For one there isn't a huge crowd into collecting handheld games like these and second there are a ton or rare games for these systems. many games had smaller print runs. GB and GBC seem to have been a test market for game ideas and such.

Jumpman Jr.

10-04-2005, 08:51 PM

Tough call because nobody really collects for it.
I don't think there is anybody who has complete Gameboy or Gameboy Color collections, so nobody would be able to say "this game was the hardest for me to find."
DreamTR might know a bit about this.

Muscelli

10-04-2005, 09:02 PM

The Izec sewing cartridge went for like 60 on ebay once, so i would guess that is the grail of GBC games

dojosky

10-04-2005, 09:40 PM

member here ... "DREAM TR" knows the answer to this ! :D ask him or hopefully he will post in here ...

Richter Belmount

10-04-2005, 11:13 PM

Shaq fu , i dare you to find it , just try

Truffle

10-04-2005, 11:14 PM

The NIV bible is the rarest I believe
Beast fighter is also pretty rare.....

added: they are both R6

mills

10-05-2005, 01:17 AM

ebgames.com had the bible game for gameboy in like last week.

Kroogah

10-05-2005, 01:22 AM

Try the rarity guide, searching for U.S. releases with scarcity >= 5.

Gemini-Phoenix

10-05-2005, 02:13 AM

Cannon Fodder is (Or was) rather rare if I recall. Resident Evil Gaiden is fairly hard to come by too, and Pokemon Crystal is fairly *Rare* (Read: Sought after, not technically a rare though)

Then you have the Final Fantasy Legend games and FF: Adventure which are also fairly sought after too.

Obviously, if you have certain common games but in sealed condition, it could increase the rarity value tenfold. Ie, Tetris... A sealed Tetris would surely be worth a mint these days...

XianXi

10-05-2005, 10:35 AM

Buck Futter is hard to find as well.

Then you have the Final Fantasy Legend games and FF: Adventure which are also fairly sought after too.

Final Fantasy Legends is hard to find, in fact they were selling a prototype on ebay for Final Fantasy Legends II, the auction may still be up.

CocoVG

10-05-2005, 11:43 AM

The original print runs of the FF Legend series are relatively hard to find and are considered 'collector's items', but not the second print run - the reprint that happened at some point in the GBC lifespan.

DreamTR

10-05-2005, 12:01 PM

The rarity of these games goes up very high when you take into consideration if the game has a BOX or not.

I would say Mike Etler would know much more about said rarity on some of this stuff than I would. I am trying to go for a complete BOXED set, but some games seem to be much harder to find than others. I don't really count the "Sachen" Games for Game Boy, nor do I count the Interact unlicensed GBC games. Those could be had in the very beginning if you contacted the company, but their "US" release status is pretty skewed. To put rarity in perspective, I have had complete copies of those games before I even started collecting GB/GBC games, but I am STILL looking for the Spud's Adventure box, and we are still trying to find out the existence of Hercules, Robocop, and ISS '99 as official USA GBC releases.

I would say the hardest Game Boy game to find in the USA LOOSE would be Amaz'n Tater. You can regularly obtain all of the GB releases from ebgames.com at decent prices, but this, Toxic Crusaders, Gear Works, and a handful of others never show...

sirhansirhan

10-05-2005, 12:33 PM

I would say the hardest Game Boy game to find in the USA LOOSE would be Amaz'n Tater. You can regularly obtain all of the GB releases from ebgames.com at decent prices, but this, Toxic Crusaders, Gear Works, and a handful of others never show...

Not to wander off topic too far, but the Toxic Crusaders game on Gameboy is actually really fun; way better than the NES or Genesis incarnations. It's a fairly blatant knockoff of TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan, but maybe that's why it is fun.

Cauterize

10-05-2005, 01:01 PM

Toxic Crusaders, Gear Works, and a handful of others never show...

Yay! Good to hear a game i owned for all these years is a tough one to find :)

rbudrick

10-05-2005, 01:56 PM

The Izec sewing cartridge went for like 60 on ebay once, so i would guess that is the grail of GBC games

The cart is no longer available through the manufacturer, nor the sewing machine itself, but I was able to buy the instruction manual from them for about $15. Pretty interesting item in itself, really...there's all kinds of screenshots and such in the instructions on how to execute different patterns and sewing techniques.

I also recall there being a rare sonar fishing cartridge, not a game, but a tool to find fish in the water.

-Rob

mills

10-05-2005, 02:05 PM

I have the og pressing of ff adventure and legend II, but legend 3 i THINK is a reprint becuase of the white border around the sticker

tonyvortex

10-05-2005, 02:15 PM

this is reminding me of the time i bought a second boxed copy of megaman for gameboy .i was at a pawnshop and they had a perfect copy of it so i shelled out $20 for it and my best friend thought it was stupid.i think its near impossible to really talk rares on gameboy.being that most games were owned by young kids im sure most were destroyed or look like garbage.at the used place i work at we get so few games in per week.over the years ive lucked out finding mint in box games but i cant imagine its that easy of a thing to come by.

Aussie2B

10-05-2005, 02:22 PM

Obviously, if you have certain common games but in sealed condition, it could increase the rarity value tenfold.

This goes without saying. You don't need to post this in every single topic about rarity. NOBODY CARES. o_o

DreamTR

10-05-2005, 02:49 PM

Let me clarify, Toxic Crusaders USA version is hard to find, not the European version.

Cauterize

10-05-2005, 02:52 PM

Let me clarify, Toxic Crusaders USA version is hard to find, not the European version.

I could see this coming :-P
However mine IS the USA one :P

DMG-XL-USA :P

Gemini-Phoenix

10-05-2005, 03:58 PM

I also believe the Castlevania and Konami Classics compilation carts are hard to find too, as are a few other Konami games (As usual) ~ Especially in boxed condition!

chrisbid

10-05-2005, 05:04 PM

i was about to say the sewing cart, but that has been mentioned. i would probably add the InfoGenius collection, specifically the organizer with the keyboard

outsider

10-05-2005, 05:07 PM

I think Cosmo Tank(GB) is a pretty hard game to find.

DreamTR

10-05-2005, 05:16 PM

Cauterize, more clarification, with an original box ;) If you have THAT, I want it.

Cosmo Tank is NOT hard to find at all.

The Personal Organizer games, are you referring to the Infogenius stuff, or the unlicensed Game Boy cart by Innovation?

THe boxed Konami games in the UK are "wanted" but not necessarily hard to find. It's like saying the Final Fantasy games are tough to find, boxed first party games, etc. It's safe to say this thread is about US releases only.

Buyatari

10-05-2005, 05:18 PM

Just look at DreamTRs want list.

hehe.

Cauterize

10-05-2005, 05:31 PM

Cauterize, more clarification, with an original box ;) If you have THAT, I want it.

Heh I nearly had one over one of the biggest games collectors ever there :P unfortunately its cart only im afraid :P

By Personal Organizer games i think he means the ones that also have French Dictonaries etc...
I have a boxed Personal Organiser Cart if you need a pic...

Jagasian

10-05-2005, 05:35 PM

The Bung GBX carts are hard to find :)

DreamTR

10-05-2005, 05:39 PM

Hahahah, yeah, my want list has some doozies, but for GB, I really only need boxes. The GBC list actually has complete games I need.

Cauterize

10-05-2005, 05:48 PM

the Personal Organiser Cart is this one.. found a pic on eBay

http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/14/f7/91_1_b.JPG

snes_collector

10-05-2005, 05:52 PM

the Personal Organiser Cart is this one.. found a pic on eBay

http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/14/f7/91_1_b.JPG

Wo, thats rare? A GameStop has had one of those(I think it's the same cart, it says Personal Organizer") for 4.99 for along time. If they have it I'm definatly picking it up the next time I go.

DreamTR

10-05-2005, 05:56 PM

No, that one is very easy to find.

hegyak

10-05-2005, 06:12 PM

I have resident evil gaiden and for some odd reason it has the euro spellings for certan words even though it is a US only release. Go figure.

jajaja

10-05-2005, 06:41 PM

Buck Futter is hard to find as well.

For a secound there I thought you said Butt Fucker LOL

Gemini-Phoenix

10-06-2005, 03:43 AM

the Personal Organiser Cart is this one.. found a pic on eBay

http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/14/f7/91_1_b.JPG

Damn, I used to have a boxed version of that. I remember it was only �8.99 and at the time it was state of the art where personal organisers go!

I also had a load of other GameBoy games I traded back in 199x for a silly amount of money. I regret ever getting rid of my GameBoy classic now, as I had some damn nice games that are now rare. Boxed as well.

Was Resident Gaiden release donly in America? I swear I remember seeing it for sale here in the uK...

Jagasian

10-06-2005, 08:48 AM

The Game Boy is the longest running video game console system, as it is still included in the GBASP2. Why would anybody get rid of their Game Boy games or hardware?

rbudrick

10-06-2005, 10:35 AM

The Bung GBX carts are hard to find \

Bung anything is hard to find (all right, no Bunghole jokes now). I Have their GB Exchanger, but no flash cart for it. Anyone wanna sell me a 64m one? :D

-Rob

Jagasian

10-06-2005, 01:41 PM

The Bung GBX carts are hard to find \

Bung anything is hard to find (all right, no Bunghole jokes now). I Have their GB Exchanger, but no flash cart for it. Anyone wanna sell me a 64m one? :D

-Rob

I have 4 version 2.0 64M GBX carts. I will never sell them though. You can still buy the EMS GB Transferer kit new from here:
http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/shop/copiers/copiers.htm

It has even better game compatibility than the GBX kit.

CartCollector

10-06-2005, 01:59 PM

chrisbid

10-06-2005, 02:00 PM

im not sure if it was the infogenius or another game, but there was a keyboard released for the original gameboy that worked with one of those carts. im sure that is tough to find, as i never saw one outside of a pic in nintendo power (it may even just be a proto)

snes_collector

10-06-2005, 04:54 PM

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I would say the hardest Game Boy game to find in the USA LOOSE would be Amaz'n Tater. You can regularly obtain all of the GB releases from ebgames.com at decent prices, but this, Toxic Crusaders, Gear Works, and a handful of others never show...

I was looking at Eb last night at GB games, are there prices good or could I get the same games for less here?

DreamTR

10-06-2005, 07:44 PM

Those Game Boy prices at EB are CRAZY cheap. It's easy to get loose games. Boxes make me want to cry ;(

Sothy

10-06-2005, 07:57 PM

I have resident evil gaiden and for some odd reason it has the euro spellings for certan words even though it is a US only release. Go figure.

For some reason I recall this being developed by a French company unrelated to Capcom....

Jagasian

10-07-2005, 11:25 AM

I Have their GB Exchanger, but no flash cart for it. Anyone wanna sell me a 64m one?

You can get double that for only $18.99 at Crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.Asp?IMODULE=CT128MBC1).

You can't use compact flash cards with the GBX. The GBX cards are Game Boy Color carts with flash chips instead of ROM chips inside.

DreamTR

10-07-2005, 12:16 PM

Resident Evil Gaiden came out in Europe first, so it makes sense. I got one of the rarest Game Boy Color releases on eBay yesterday, XENA by Titus. THat's a toughie....

rbudrick

10-07-2005, 12:51 PM

I have 4 version 2.0 64M GBX carts. I will never sell them though. You can still buy the EMS GB Transferer kit new from here:
http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/shop/copiers/copiers.htm

It has even better game compatibility than the GBX kit.

Yeah, I've seen that on Webb's site before. I hear it is the same as the GB Xchanger, but different...of course I've never had any real clarification on that. I've often wondered about that, but never really asked anyone...

I guess I've wondered these things: Are the flash carts compatible between the two units? How is the EMS unit more compatible? Do they use the same sotware?

Thanks!

-Rob

Jagasian

10-07-2005, 01:39 PM

I guess I've wondered these things: Are the flash carts compatible between the two units? How is the EMS unit more compatible? Do they use the same sotware?

The EMS supports more of the Game Boy cart types than the GBX. There are quite a few different types, some include special mappers, sram, etc. Anyway, the EMS cart supports no more than a handful additional games compared to the GBX cart.

Compatibility:
GBX Linker is only compatible with GBX carts, but the EMS linker is compatible with both. However, the GBX PC-side software is incompatible with the EMS linker and visa versa, as far as I know.

rbudrick

10-07-2005, 01:42 PM

Thanks, Jagasian! That perfect!

I owe you beer or something.

-Rob

Poofta!

10-08-2005, 07:40 PM

mills

10-09-2005, 12:32 AM

I just saw robocop at ebgames.

Also I noticed 2 tetris GB carts and they were both very different from eachother, one of them, the word TETRIS was in pink, the one next to it was red. Also they both had compeltely different pictures of what blocks were falling.

THEN I came home to check out MY tetris cart for gameboy, and to my surprise it was even different then the two I saw in the store. Mine said "dmg-tr-eur" meaning it's a european release right? Also the nintendo seal of quality was round rather than oval and said "ORIGINAL seal of quality" rather than "OFFICIAL seal of qualiity".

DreamTR

10-09-2005, 12:51 AM

Robocop for GAME BOY COLOR.

Not Game Boy.

The one I am referring to is by Titus.

mills

10-09-2005, 03:20 PM

I thought it was Atlus that made that title not Titus?

mikeetler

10-09-2005, 04:43 PM

I thought it was Atlus that made that title not Titus?

Nope, Titus released Robocop and Hercules in Europe and both were supposedly released in the US but none have surfaced yet.

Xhizors

04-01-2009, 09:49 AM

I've heard that Faceball 2000 and Mr Do! are pretty rare. But the rarest? No idea. I guess that Toxic Crusaders USA version is the rarest GB game, since DreamTR said that.

GrandAmChandler

04-01-2009, 11:01 AM

I've heard that Faceball 2000 and Mr Do! are pretty rare. But the rarest? No idea. I guess that Toxic Crusaders USA version is the rarest GB game, since DreamTR said that.

No, the Toxic Crusaders cart is easy to find. It's the boxes that are a problem. Also, just because someone can't find a box, cart, manual, etc at a particular time, doesn't mean it's rare. Uncommon maybe, but not rare.

Swamperon

04-01-2009, 11:16 AM

I also believe the Castlevania and Konami Classics compilation carts are hard to find too, as are a few other Konami games (As usual) ~ Especially in boxed condition!

Yes they are! I'm still looking for Azure Dreams: Other life for the GBC. Finding the cart is easy, a boxed version not so much!

joedick

04-01-2009, 12:32 PM

No, the Toxic Crusaders cart is easy to find. It's the boxes that are a problem. Also, just because someone can't find a box, cart, manual, etc at a particular time, doesn't mean it's rare. Uncommon maybe, but not rare.

I dunno about that. I've only seen the TC cart once or twice in the past year or two. I would say it's rare.