10 Holy Grails of Collecting

[Jumpman Jr.]

Hey everybody.
I wasn't sure if this has been a topic previously. I did a quick search, and found nothing.
I was reading alot of old posts, and saw one where Joe states: "one of the 10 holy grails of video games." (He was referring to Air Raid for the 2600.)
I am curious to know what the other 9 'Holy Grials" would be.
Anybody know? I guess it is sort of subjective, but lets hear what you have to say..
Off the top of my head, I can only think of
Air Raid (if Joe says it... then I say it.)
NWC Gold NES cart.

what else.
thanks
Later

[unbroken]

the yellow legend of zelda tester cart is one of my holy grails

[imanerd0011]

There are many Holy Grails in the Video Game collecting world, it really depends what you collect for.

Here are the answers you will see most often however:

NWC 1990 Gold Cart
Air Raid
Video Life
Metal Slug
I also know there is some Neo Geo game that sold for $10,000+ , but I foget the name of it right now.

Here are my Holy Grails though:

Stadium Events
Myraid 6 in 1
Cheetahmen 2
All of the Panesian Games
Caltron 6 in 1
And of course the NWC cart

[Bronty-2]

ehh... totally depends on what you collect. I could pretty much care less about atari and really only collect sealed nes, whereas some people couldn't care less about what I collect. Collect what you like and don't get sucked in by hype and top-ten lists IMO. It's all just a big dick-swinging contest after a while anyway.

[Ed Oscuro]

the yellow legend of zelda tester cart is one of my holy grails

Yeah.

It DOES depend on what you mean by a "grail." Personally I could care less about many of these so-called grails; I tend to look for stuff that I want and which will be hard or expensive to procure. IMO anything that's coming up on eBay once every two years or worth over $200 is pretty close to a grail, yes?

That said, I'm also curious as to what Joe says are the 10 grails. I suppose this means items that have high desireability - and hence more than a few were made - if it can be called a grail.

I'd also put the Euro Kizuna Encounter in there. It's not possible for most folks to get one, as the apparent rarity and record-setting price tag are too big a barrier to surmount, plus a "Euro Kizuna Encounter Owner's Club" would be very small...yet this one's had enough coverage thanks to said ridiculous price (I don't even think Neo Geo AES *prototypes* had gone for that much) to be considered a potential Holy Grail.

For myself...hmm, the use of "Holy Grail" seems odd. My holy grail would have to be something that is only rumored or hoped to exist

[dbiersdorf]

Beyond Good and Evil




Yeah, it's that good.

[Jumpman Jr.]

That said, I'm also curious as to what Joe says are the 10 grails

yeah.. I'm really looking forward to when he stumbles accross this.

[stuffedmonkey]

Is Magical Chase rare enough? Probably not...... It at least can be the grail of US Turbo collectors.

[Promophile]

Personally I'm interested in a few NES games and anything SNES and up. When I say a few NES I mean the ones over 100 dollars in value.

[scooterb23]

#1 on my list right now is Ninja Golf
#2 is the Japanese bowling ame for the Virtual Boy (close to a real grail)
#3 on my list is just about anything on a disk that works from the C64 (I miss my old system )

[XxMe2NiKxX]

Select-a-game and any Genesis protype does it for me, particularilly Beyond Zero Tolerance, and a Sega Genesis dev unit would make me go ballistic.

[Jibbajaba]

Starfox Super Weekend Competition cart and the DK competition cart would have to go in there too I think.

Chris

[Dimitri]

I also know there is some Neo Geo game that sold for $10,000+ , but I foget the name of it right now.

Kizuna Encounter, I believe. Hell if I know any more about it, though. Anyone actually know how many of these were made?

My personal "holy grail" would have to be Tetris for the Megadrive. Think Tengen Tetris, only nearly every copy was destroyed before they even shipped. Something like four copies are known...

[Dr. Morbis]

Look for the scans of Joe's column "Collector's Closet". Most of the older ones are somewhere on this site. One of them features the 10 Holy Grails.

[Famidrive-16]

Usually, if I ever see any used N64 games for sale, I always check to see if there's a Clayfighter 1/3 Sculptor's Cut. Yeah, I guess that's one of mine.

[max 330 mega]

I also know there is some Neo Geo game that sold for $10,000+ , but I foget the name of it right now.

Kizuna Encounter, I believe. Hell if I know any more about it, though. Anyone actually know how many of these were made?

My personal "holy grail" would have to be Tetris for the Megadrive. Think Tengen Tetris, only nearly every copy was destroyed before they even shipped. Something like four copies are known...

4 copies of Kizuna known to exist,
and its worth a considerable amount more than $10,000, last copy sold for $12,500, but i would suspect that it could go near $15,000 next time one is sold off.

[Emily]

The Grail of collecting for me would be the blue/black bubble type displays for the vectrex that were sold in europe(?)

That and the Vectrex 3D Imager....God I want one soooo bad x_x

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Ive only been collecting 2 years this May and my collection isnt that huge so im sure theres people on this board that have all my "holy grails" well i dont really consider them holy grails just stuff im looking for but here it goes.

Atari Jaguar
wolfestein *Jaguar*
sonic adventure limited edition
panasonic 3do

im sure none of this stuffs terribly rare but its what ive been looking for and cant seem to find.

[christianscott27]

an adventurevision

tempest cocktail

in store console demos sets

i could go on but any one of those finds would make my year in collecting

[swlovinist]

Here are the ones I want to go after in my lifetime


Nes Stadium Events

Neo Geo Cabinet(4 slot)

Any Nes Proto

Astrocade Multicart

Qberts Cubes(Colecovision)

Outback Joey Heartbeat system for Sega Genesis

Vectrex Multicart

Myriad 6 in 1(I have the box and instructions)

Warlords Cocktail

Flinstones Suprise at Dino Peak



....................gosh I hate being so close to completeing my Nes set, yet so financially far away!