Well, after months of making payments on it, a brand new factory sealed copy of this game is finally on it's way to me now! So, I'm rolling out the red carpet and preparing a Very Important Plaything (V.I.P.) party for it's arrival. It will be the rarest and most valuable game in my entire collection, until I can finally afford to buy myself a brand new factory sealed copy of Radiant Silvergun. And at $300, it's only about $200 less expensive than RS, which isn't even really rare. It's just a legend, so HD will still be the rarest game in my collection, even if I do end up spending more money on another game.
Now the next major challenge in my saga with it awaits. The waiting! The first major challenge was finding a brand new factory sealed copy of it. That took me 10 years. The second major challenge was getting it all paid off. That took me 3 months. It should only take about a week or two for it to arrive, and then the final challenge will arrive at last. Removing $150 worth of cellophane from it so I can play it! I'm really not sure how long that will take. Normally I never even hesitate to open a new classic game, but normally I don't have to pay $150 more for a factory sealed copy than I would have to pay for a used copy! I've never had to face a challenge of this magnitude before, and I really don't know if I can do it. I really want to play it, but...
So place your bets. Can I resist the temptation the remove $150 worth of cellophane from what may very well be the only factory sealed copy of this game left in existence, or will I eventually succumb to my urge to play it? If you could afford it, what would you do? Keep in mind that I already own many other rarities which were all bought factory sealed and quickly opened so they could be played, but those were all bought long before it was ever known that they were rarities. So this is basically like traveling back in time to 10 years ago, with full knowledge and awareness that if I ever open it, I'm opening a game that I will probably never even see factory sealed again. I don't know if it's R6 or R7 or R8, but I assume that it's one of the three.
However, considering how difficult it was to find a factory sealed copy, and how long it took to do so, I would assume that it's actually an R9 or R10 in this condition. It's definitely not like finding a factory sealed Radiant Silvergun and opening it, because you can find one of those just about anytime, if you know where to look. There will always be another one that someone has preserved unopened, because it's a legend. But a factory sealed Hyper Duel is a completely different story. There will probably never be another one in a lifetime of searching for it, and if there ever is, it would probably cost twice as much. So the consequences of opening it when it arrives are massive. And I just don't know if I'm up to the task, or to resisting the temptation. I'm not really worried about reducing its value in half by opening it, because I'll never sell it anyway. It's just that $150 is an awful lot of money for just a little bit of cellophane. And if I ever do open it, suddenly all that high grade cellophane will no longer be worth $150. So it's all about the cellophane...
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!?!?!?! decisions, decisions, decisions !?!?!?!