What is the Single RAREST Item In Your Collection?

[miaandjohnrule]

I would say it's my Final Fantasy NES proto.

[mb7241]

Quick update:

My rarest:

Final Fantasy (MSX, complete) (thanks, Adol!)
Action 52 (NES, complete) (thanks, wberdan!)
Caltron 6-in-1 (black back label) (NES, cart + sleeve) (thanks, jeffg!)
Caltron 6-in-1 (blue (!) back label) (NES, cart-only) (thanks, justabum!)
Darkman proto (late beta/final) (NES) (thanks, DreamTR!)
Flintstones: The Surprise at Dino Peak (NES, cart-only) (thanks, jeffg!)
King Neptune's Adventure (black variant) (NES, cart-only) (thanks, jeffg!)
Ninja Gaiden III review copy (NES) (thanks, DreamTR!)
NTF2 test cart (NES)
Stadium Events (NTSC NES, cart-only) (thanks, DreamTR!)
Sudoku (gray version) (NES, cart-only) (thanks, Retrogamer72!)[/b]
Super Turrican NTSC NES proto (thanks, Vixenkit!)
Legend of Zelda Collection (Japanese Gamecube, complete)
Team Buddies (PS1, disc-only)

[Nimrodil]

Radiant Silver Gun(PSX & DC)

If that´s true (guess you just wrote wrong title of mistake) that must be the rarest game in the thread so far:-)

[FAMOUS]

Conkers bad fur day-N64 cart only, my rarest

[davepesc]

Nothing too super rare, 7 is tops:

SMS Castle of Illusion
SMS Power Strike
2600 Artillery Duel/Spike's Peak
2600 Demolition Herby
2600 Robin Hood/Sir Lancelot
2600 Rubik's Cube
2600 Springer

The only one found in the wild was Springer.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

"rarest" item?

Hmmm, I've got a lot of neat rare games and such ... but my rarest single item is probably my Atari 2600 Flashback V.2 which I had modified by Benjamin Heckendorn (of "Portable VCS" fame) to accept actual 2600 cartridges.

It's sweet. A 2600 smaller than a JR. that has beautiful AV output.

He said he's only done one other. So, one of two ... that's pretty rare.

[zikuta]

My two PAL - Primal Rage for 32X And my Darxide & T-Mek of course

[-_-Nintendo-_-]

I won a NES auction the other day for $60 AUD came with a couple of complete HES games and common NES carts, but he said he found two more games, which he threw in for free

Any way he gave me a CIB Death Race for the NES (H.E.S) cart for free which was nice, and is probably my rarest item right now

[livingfora1up]

To date, the rarest I've found is chuck norris/artillery duel for coleco. My one and only R9. A few R8s Sammy Lightfoot and qbert's qubes both coleco, fox hunt and team buddies (sealed) for psx, fun and games, aero fighters, and chavez II for snes. All of which were found in the wild which is very satisfying. I've been looking for spiderman web of fire for the past 8 months or so but it hasn't come across my path yet

[Startyde]

Hi all,

I'm quite new here so please forgive the newbishness.

I have been an avid fan of gaming since 8 years old (27 now) and started collecting gems that I thought represented the best the inductry had to offer. So though not numerous, I go for what I feel is truly great.

Some highlights include: (All Factory Sealed Original)

Radiant Silvergun
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Castlevania SotN and Dracula X for Saturn
Orta Xbox Console
Biohazard 5th Anniversary Briefcase
FFIII SNES
Arcana SNES
Resident Evil Long Box PSX
ZOE 2 Giftset
A lenticular (sp?) prototype Poster of NiGHTS that came from a Sega Office.

I'll have to post pics sometime, but these are just sme of what I think are some of the greatest games of all time.

If only someone would sell their golden Elemental Gearboly Gun set >.<

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Chavez II (boxed)- R8 for SNES.

[otoko]

Would you call a Prototype San Fransisco Rush: 2049 for Dreamcast Rare?

lol

[Natty Bumppo]

A few of the better gems from my collection are:

Blue Chicago Blues laseractive disc
All seven of the Lunar Silver Star artwork discs
All four of the Dragon Force artwork discs
Brigandine Grand Edition (minus the map - but as rare as this game is not a biggie)

[Natty Bumppo]

I have two really really unusual things in my collection.

1) A Battlestation II controller. It has two controller positons with six buttons and one joystick each with turbo cabability It can control a SNES, a Genesis, a SMS, a commodore or an amiga. It is about 18 inches wide and about 8 inches deep. Unless you have a left handed and a right handed person playing though someone is going to be at a disadvantage. I have no documentation for it and I don't know who made it. It looks pretty impressive though since the joysticks are different colors and the buttons are all oversize and are different colors also.

2) An ASCII gameboy display case - it holds 16 games in a 4 x 4 grid with a storage compartment for the manuals on the side and sits upright on two legs. It has a paper insert that shows pictures of gameboy games and one of them shows the artwork for a game called "Doomsayer" which as far as I can tell was never actually released.

I keep the following games in it:

Beetlejuice
FF Adventure
FF Legend
FF Legend II
Mysterium
Rolan's Curse II
Gauntlet II
Kingdom Crusade
Knight's Quest
FF Legend III
Prophecy
Gargoyle's Quest
Spud's Adventure
Sword of Hope
Ultima Runes of Virtue
Ultima Runes of Virtue II

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Well i guess it could be any of these:

Action 52 - Genesis - (r7) - cart only
Aero The Acrobat 2 - Genesis - (R7) - complete
Spot Goes To Hollywood - ps1 - r7 - complete

and i may have a few other r7's around, have to check.

[pooch]

Very interesting read and game. Care to share the story behind how you acquired the game?

The Getaway (100 Million Discs Limited Edition version) ~ PAL PlayStation 2:



Here we have an example of "The Getaway" ~ Sony produced 1,000 special versions to commemorate 100,000,000 (One hundred million) PlayStation 2 discs. As far as I know, these were only given away to employees at Sony, and have "Not To Be Sold Separately" in place of the barcode. The whole cover, back and front, is a silver coloured rendition of the standard game cover, with minor differences unique to this edition.

On the front in small writing, it says "Limited Edition of 1,000", plus a small white sticker beneath the cellophane which has the edition number printed on it (In this case, mine is 100.000.476) ~ The game is wrapped in the usual thick cellophane with a clear tear strip in the usual place about an inch from the bottom, plus the "Y" style folded ends.

As far as I know, this edition also holds the original game code which the first release had, which was later withdrawn from sale and replaced due to legal issues between Sony and BT (British Telecommunications) because of a certain in-game mission which involved blowing up BT branded service vans, or something similar

I also believe The Getaway was a UK only game in the first place. Set in London, it's a GTA style modern gangster themed game much alike the film "Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels"


A game such as this is the true definition of "RARE", as it is clearly limited in numbers and sought after by collector's. Sealed examples are even rarer. This particular game is obscure to start with, which adds to the obscurity of this particular Limited Edition version

[Nistle]

Some of my rarest games include

NES
caltron 6 in 1 cib
flintstones surprise at dino peak cib
bubble bobble 2 cib
chubby cherub cib
stack-up sealed
metal fighter (black cart)

[pasteofanchovie]

my rarest items would probably be...

Suikoden II (Complete) (PSX) R4 [I paid $4]
Dr. Seuss' Fix-Up the Mix-Up Puzzler (with controller insert) (Coleco) R4
Pac-Man (Namco) (NES) R6

I may have more, but I'm not sure. I think thats pretty good for just starting collecting about a year ago.

[LOL]

my rarest:

suikoden II
chase the chuck wagon
bounty bob strikes back
castlevania x: rondo of blood
quadrun

[LOL]

suikoden II
chase the chuck wagon
bount bob strikes back
castlevania x: rondo of blood
quadrun