What is the Rarest Item You Have Found in the Wild?

[jerkov]

I've found a couple of R7s and R8s in the wild. These are off the top of my head:

Psychic Detective (PSX - R8 - complete, $5.99 at EB)
Streets of Rage 2 (SMS - R8 - boxed, $10 at PC5)
Flintstones: SADP (NES- R7 - loose, $4.99 at GS)
Namco Ms. Pac-Man (NES - R7 - boxed, $14.99 at GS)
Namco Pac-Man (NES - R7 - complete, $12.99 at GS)

I may have one or two more, but not sure at the moment. I've also found a ton of great R5 and R6 stuff for NES in the wild (Bubble Bobble 2, Bonk's Adventure, Cowboy Kid boxed, all the Dragon Warriors a few complete, Jungle Book complete, Little Samson, Mario's Time Machine, Panic Restuarant, Race America, Snow Brothers, etc.).

[sisko]

I've found several R6's in the wild for various systems, which really aren't rare.

My rarest "what the hell is this doing here" find was both a Famicom multi-cart and a complete import Pilot Wings 64 at a local thrift.

[Funkenstein]

I have a few R6, which aren't stellar, but they're the rarest I have. I found a loose Genesis Double Dragon in a thrit for the for $2, The City Of Lost Children (psx) in a rental store for $5, and Liberty or Death (Genny) loose in Funcoland for $12.

[TNTPLUST]

Well I haven't been so lucky but I have had a few rare wild captures.

A real beat up loose Gas Hog for the 2600 / R8 for $5 Garage Sale

Snoopy and the Red Baron 2600 / R4 mint in sealed box $.99 Kaybee Toys

Demon Attack Oddysey II / R5 complete $3 Garage Sale

[Kroogah]

Found in the wild:

Zoop (PSX)
Guilty Gear (PSX)
Color a Dinosaur (NES) twice
Gremlins (2600)
Double Dragon (Genesis)
Action 52 (Genesis)

[Crush Crawfish]

Mine would be NES Qix sealed R7- $10 at funcoland, of all places, and NES Namco pac-man w/ instructions R7 for $3 at a garage sale.

[DigitalSpace]

I found a loose Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel for SNES (R7) for $5 at a CD/Game Exchange a few months ago. I got a loose Dino City for SNES (R6) at a Gamestop for $2.99 back in February. Last month, I found a loose Joshua: The Battle Of Jericho for Genesis (R7) at a Software Etc. for 63 cents. It was mismarked as "Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball" for 89 cents. Hurray for 30% discounts.

Another favorite of mine was finding Mr. Do! loose for SNES for $1. It's only an R4, but according to DP, it's worth $15.

[PapaStu]

Almost all of my games have come from the wild, minus a few eBay ones here and there. Id say that 95%+ were plucked from the wild, and a fair share of them have been new too. Only thing thats kinda sucky is that many of the rares even though they are like an R6 or R7 are still not all that expensive, thye are just impossible to find.

Favorite PSX in the wild rares include:

Adventures of Lomax (R6)
Bust-A-Groove 2 (R6)
Caesars Palace (R6)
Fox Hunt (R8)
Guilty Gear (R7)
Intelligent Qube (R5+)
Micro Machines V3 (R7+)
MotorTune Grand Prix (R7+)
Psychic Force (R7)
RayStorm (R7)
Silent Bomber (R5+) A personal favorite
Speed Racer (R7)
Spot Goes to Hollywood (R7)
Street Fighter Collection 2 (R6)
Tail Of The Sun (R7)
True Pinball (R7)
X-Com UFO defense (R7)

[Sanriostar]

My rarest Wild finds have been Condor Attack, Boing! a SW'ed Stack-up, CV Q*Bert Qubes, 2 SW'ed Gameline modems, (still have one) and a mint CIB Famicom.

[jwl]

This year I got a sealed Alex Kid In Shinobi World for $5 Canadian and a Star Fox Super Weekend Competition Cart, with 20 other games and 2 systems (one was complet in box) for $30 Canadian.

I've gotten lots of other rare stuff this year but those are the main things that come to my mind.

[kai123]

StarFox Super Weekend Cartridge R9, I bought it for $9.95 from a game store.
No, it is not for sale. :P

[anagrama]

I've found the following Euro SMS games in the wild, all rated R8 in the DP list (for the time being, at least ):

Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Micro Machines
Zool

[DDCecil]

Atlantis and Demon Attack (both cart only) for O2 on the same day, for .50 each.

[chadtower]

Hrm...

The 1951 United shuffle bowler I bought in the fall at an antique shop. There can't be more than a couple hundred working units of that age left and there may be a lot less.

The Gottleib Rack 'Em Up pinball machine I just bought on saturday at a yard sale. Less than 1700 manufactured and I'd bet only a quarter of them still exist.

Four NIB LaserActive TG16 modules at a Building 19.

I've found quite a few lab hardware protos for the TI99 as well as tons of homebrewed or TI internal games/software. Things like mocked up switchable power supplies that power multiple TI99s from a single outlet. I live right near a TI facility. I also have a big stack of internal memos/catalogs for TI employees like price lists for TI employees, internal TI TI99 newsletters, hell I even have some guy's benefits statement that was in a TI99 box I bought.

[autobotracing]

nes stuff


flintstones 2 $4
action 52 $2
Complete maxi 15 $15 {even had the sticker}
Namco Pac-Man
Namco Ms. Pac-Man


I sure I had plenty more I just cant remember

[Cav]

NTSC Asterix Proto for the 2600. Two bucks.

[Oobgarm]

Brain Dead 13 (R7)--3 copies within a week's time, all from GameStop.
Fox Hunt (R8)
Guilty Gear (R7)
Intelligent Qube (R5+)
MotorToon Grand Prix (R7+)
Tail Of The Sun (R7)

Also got a few Tengen Tetris carts from Funco back in the day.

[captain nintendo]

Dragon Ball GT Final Bout ( R6 )

I know I have found more , but I cant think of them at the moment.

[rpepper9]

Damn I really want a complete zapper gun, actually. I also want a complete NES advantage if anyone wants to sell either of those items....

Recently on eBay there was a complete NES action set with Zapper and everything, pretty mint in box. Everyting was even still in the bags. It went with a BIN or 99.99. What is something like that worth?

[captain nintendo]

Depends on what NES set your talking about. If you are talking about the Action set with zapper , it normally goes for about 50 - 60 dollars.

If you are talking about individual pricing it goes around this normally..


Boxed zapper 18 dollars
Boxed Advantage 15 dollars
boxed controllers 12 - 15 dollars
boxed NES sets go for different prices depending on the set.

control deck set...... 40 dollars
Challenge set ....... 45 - 60 dollars
action set ........ 50 - 60 dollars
power set ....... 60 - 80 dollars
deluxe set ...... 70 - 110 dollars
I have not seen that many sport sets on ebay


Of course those are all ebay prices I have seen them go up and down alot.
But that is a rough estimate for you.