Who owns a single game or system worth $1000 or more?

[coreycorey2000]

I don't think I own one unless you count prototypes. But I thought this would be an interesting topic. It is easy for anyone to own games worth $100 or more but the thousand dollar mark is much more of an accomplishment.

So what $1000+ games do you own? Is there an interesting story that goes with it? Did you pick it up cheap or pay the hefty price? Do you play it or does it sit on a shelf?

Thanks everybody!

[DreamTR]

There's a lot of games that are less than $1000 without a box, and over $1000 with a box...I'm not sure how many I have including protos/contest carts, but it's got to be pretty high...

Off the top of head..

CIB NTSC Stadium Events NES
CIB River Patrol 2600
CIB Out of Control 2600
CIB Video Reflex boxed with both games 2600
CIB Quadrun (this used to be 1K boxed)
Various Neo Geo games (Metal Slug 1, Ninja Masters, Neo Turf Masters, etc)
I know I have a few more, Darxide 32x CIB? Can't think this second...

There's not too many released in store non NWC/proto items worth 1K....

[suckerpunch5]

Well, my SNES MACS M16 light gun has got to be pretty close to that number. It probably is, though I've seen a few go for less than that. I dunno, that is the best I've got.

[Trebuken]

There's a lot of games that are less than $1000 without a box, and over $1000 with a box...I'm not sure how many I have including protos/contest carts, but it's got to be pretty high...

Off the top of head..

CIB NTSC Stadium Events NES
CIB River Patrol 2600
CIB Out of Control 2600
CIB Video Reflex boxed with both games 2600
CIB Quadrun (this used to be 1K boxed)
Various Neo Geo games (Metal Slug 1, Ninja Masters, Neo Turf Masters, etc)
I know I have a few more, Darxide 32x CIB? Can't think this second...

There's not too many released in store non NWC/proto items worth 1K....

That's just unfair to everyone else...

[Ed Oscuro]

Well, my SNES MACS M16 light gun has got to be pretty close to that number. It probably is, though I've seen a few go for less than that. I dunno, that is the best I've got.

Have you got the cartridge as well?

[Buyatari]

prototype systems seem to always sell for more than 1k

[Haoie]

Prototype games too. Rather priceless [the good kind of priceless].

[PapaStu]

Prototype games too. Rather priceless [the good kind of priceless].

Actually that really depends on the type of proto it is (single level vs whole game), if its been dumped, and how different it is from possible released versions, not to mention what system its for. None of my proto's (including 2 that are unreleased) are worth anything close to that. But I digress...

I've got nothing that comes close to being worth that (1k). My US Yaroze can get me to about half that on a good day.

@ suckerpunch5;
The guy keeps selling more and more of them on ebay, so their value keeps coming down. The last one sold in the 500 range, not that i'm trying to take away from what it is, because its badass thats for sure (since I got see 98pacecar's at CGE).

[suckerpunch5]

Have you got the cartridge as well?

Yeah.

PapaStu: Yeah, I know, every couple months, it seems like dheader will put another one up on ebay, and I've noticed the prices are going down. But there can't be THAT many (I think) and I'm thinking it will only increase in value. Of course, I could be totally wrong! It is really cool to play with though, and it is the only thing I have that even comes close to having anything that belongs in this thread!

[CosmicMonkey]

Depends on what you count as a 'system'; you including [Candy] Cabs in that?

My rather lovely Naomi Universal upright cab with a full Sanwa 2L12B CP and a Naomi MoBo w/ GD Rom drive is worth well over a Monkey. The JoyRo 21s are up to about 500quid each too, once the tri-sync monitors are installed.

Oh, and I have a Japanese AES game called Metal Slug......

[98PaceCar]

Just a boxed Adventurevision and a complete RDI Halcyon. I don't think I have any actual games that would break that price point, but the complete Halcyon games might (not the disks that come up from time to time, but the disk and cartridge for them).

If you add in arcade machines, I have a South Park pin, Edot, and a Star Wars cockpit that all fall into this category. A couple others that come close, but unless the prices have spiked lately they would be below the 1k mark.

[roushimsx]

I don't have much of anything that's been released that's worth remotely near the 1k mark. CIB Final Fight Guy and a new Border Down LE are about as pricey as I go. All of the protos that I've had that were worth anything have been pretty much completely devalued by this point.

DreamTR's collection scares me, btw.

[Tron 2.0]

Hmm speaking of games that worth a $1000.00

Does any body own Darius Alpha for the PCE ?

I know that game can reach that amount beside, MetalSlug for the neogeo aes.

Still can't say i own any thing worth that much.Well maybe my neogeo cmvs plus games could reach that amount.

[bust3dstr8]

I don't think Darius Alpha is worth that much.A complete one was marked down from 999Eu to 699Eu last November and it still ain't sold.

[smork]

Yeah, I think Darius Alpha is worth alot closer to $500 than $1000 these days. At least last time I saw it it was.

Only valuable piece of hardware I own is a PDO Xbox, which is a bit over $400 on a good day. I've got a couple of games over $200, but that's about it.

[Retsudo]

Metal Slug- NeoGeo

[scallen]

i used to own: CIB Video Reflex boxed with both games 2600 and the Foot Craz controller

i purchased it from a post in a usenet punk newsgroup. the seller was liquidating stuff aquired in an estate and that item obviously caught my eye. like most of my atari finds, i sold it off prior to ebay, but still got a decent price for it at the time.


i currently own: CIB Mr. Boston Vectrex

i purchased it in an Ebay auction (along with a dead CIB Vectrex, which didn't help keep the price down). both are in pristine condition. the sellers again were liquidators, not videogamers. my theory is that the game and unit were shipped as part of the Mr. Boston promotional campaign, the unit was DOA, so they both went into storage. luckily there weren't as many rabid "high roller" vectrex collectors around back then and i managed to get it for a "reasonable" price.


if you want to count "hardware" my CIB Vectrex US store display and "loose" Vectrex Dutch bubble stand probably fit into this category as well...

the crated US store display was purchased direct from an ebay seller. he had one unit on ebay and 2-3 more in his garage. i purchased one mid-auction and got a deal. the best part was that he lived within an hour of me and was able to deliver in person. the shitty part is that *maybe* i could have found that stash if i had been more dilligent in my searching :O

the dutch stand purchase was facilitated by a fellow collector from the Netherlands (who i owe several beers to) who alerted me to the sale. he then attempted to check on the item once on my behalf, to no avail due to a miscommunicato between the seller and his father who had the item. he went again and purchased it on my behalf with live negotiation (thank god for cheap international texting and disassembled it (a bit of a task), boxed it (another huge task) and sent it to me. okay, i owe him a keg of beer!

here is a photo of our two bubble stands together prior to shipping, mine is the one on the right: http://www.vectrex.nl/gfx/misc/PICT0880.JPG

and the rest of my vectrex collection are definately "priceless"

[Iron Draggon]

I own a board game worth $1000... it's called Supremacy... it's basically Risk with biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons... they made about a dozen expansion sets for it... and if you own them all, as I do, it's worth $1000... the game was only in print for 10 years, from 1984 - 1994... I paid about $300 to get a copy of it and all the expansion sets for it... now it's the single most valuable item that I own... so it was well worth the $300 investment!

[Mayhem]

i currently own: CIB Mr. Boston Vectrex

Ah you're the fabled other complete owner

Still if you ever decide to let go of it, look me up heh...

As for myself, I used to have a few but decided oh so recently to parse down parts of my collection and let others have them who would appreciate them as much as I had before. So today this is the only one in four figures still left I own...

[tom]

Anyone own Virtual Bowling for VB? A few years back a sealed game sold for GBP 2000, which would be $4000 by todays money.

Also Atari's Cosmos sold for GBP 9000 a while back, which is like $18.000 (souce: RG (some older issue)).

and this A8 cart came pretty close:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=260145333593