Stuff you bought not knowing was rare until Later?

[Slate]

If you have ever bought something, Not knowing it was rare until AFTER you bought it, This is the topic to post it at.

As for me, I bought a copy of Tank brigade for the Atari 2600 - Sealed and with a Kaybee toys price sticker on it. It wasn't until at least a week later that i found out that it is an R7.

Anyone else do this?

Moderators: I have sarched for a topic like this but have not found one.

[youruglyclone]

well before it was reissued, gitaroo man, valkyrie profile...because I did want to play it (incidentally...still haven't)

[NE146]

Star Fox Tournament Edition. When I bought it for 2 bucks I had no idea it was rare or desirable. I just thought it was cool and I loved Starfox

[Retsudo]

I bought a Sega CD with a Genny and 9 CD games from a guy at EB games and one of the games happen to be Snatcher. I didnt know the game was rare until I looked it up. I got all this for 10 bucks.


I didnt actually buy this. It was giving to me from a friend who was closing up his video store for good. He gave me the only Neo Geo game he had. He told me nobody ever rented it. The game he gave me was Metal Slug complete and never played. Yes, the USA version.

[Ed Oscuro]

The only thing I can think of is the Ultima Collection. Kinda scratched up disc, but hey, I've got the box and everything

[Fuyukaze]

Mostly Koei and Atlus stuff for me. Once I found out it was rare, it didnt stop me from going after more from the two companies either.

[Porksta]

Bought my Xenogears and SOtN guides for $2 each. See on ebay they are worth $40 each.

[Fighter17]

Heart of the Alien: Out of This World Parts I and II for the Sega CD. I pruchased the game about three weeks ago at the flea market. I purchase it with Dark Wizard and three other Sega CD games for $28 (all of them complete BTW). I knew I've gotten a great deal on Dark Wizard (the game is becomming harder to find now and days), but I wasn't too sure about the price of Heart of the Alien. Well I checked on ebay and I saw an auction of Heart of the Alien (complete) about to end for $56!

I got too luckly that day in the flea market.

[heybtbm]

Pokemon Box for Gamecube. Nintendo.com was selling it for $19.99, it easily goes for $160 - $200 on ebay. Crazy. I wish I would've bought more than one.

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES). I got it mint and complete for $5.99 at a local used video game store. I had no idea what this was going for until months later.

[Doonzmore]

Boxed Ardy Lightfoot (snes) from a video store for 5 bucks six years ago and a complete mint copy of Namco Pacman (nes) from a garage sale for one dollar.

[XianXi]

Heart of the Alien: Out of This World Parts I and II for the Sega CD. I pruchased the game about three weeks ago at the flea market. I purchase it with Dark Wizard and three other Sega CD games for $28 (all of them complete BTW). I knew I've gotten a great deal on Dark Wizard (the game is becomming harder to find now and days), but I wasn't too sure about the price of Heart of the Alien. Well I checked on ebay and I saw an auction of Heart of the Alien (complete) about to end for $56!

I got too luckly that day in the flea market.

I got 2 sealed copies of Heart of the Alien and a couple other selaed Sega CD games. My friend was clearing out her OLD stock and sold them to me for just $5 each. Among them were Heart of the alien, Snatcher, Lunar 1 & 2 and Time Gal. Those are in my little "vault" with my other sealed games.

[heyricochet]

Dragon Warrior I-IV boxed and partly complete at a garage sale for 5 bucks (plus 5 other common boxed nes games) I knew they were worth a little bit, but not the 200 that I sold them for.

[Sailorneorune]

heybtbm got the Pokemon Box thing right on the dot. Just for shits and giggles (and because my stepbrothers wanted one too) I checked ebay for Pokemon Box. After looking at the listings, I apologized to them, explaining that for some reason completely alien to me, their would-be Christmas present septupled in value, and asked them if they would like something else.

So so sad that the rarest thing in my Room of Doom is fucking POKEMON BOX.

-sailorneorune

[Octane06]

Well, a few years ago my local video store was getting rid of all their PS1 games. I noticed this game that they were selling called Roll Away by Psygnosis, and it looked kind of cool to me. It was only $9.99, so I took it.

Anyway, today I got really bored, so I decided to look up words in DP's rarity guide. I looked up the word "quest" and found this game, for it's Japanese name is Kula Quest. Well, I found it quite surpirsing to be a 5. Yeah, I know, it's only a five, but still, I though it was more common than that.

What I should of bought also was their Speed Racer. I found out today that it's a 7, and thus would have been my rarest game, which right now is Tengen Tetris. I only starting to collect games recently and don't have the money to buy expensive rare stuff, though I will once I get a lot of common games. Unless, of course, I find a great deal.

[pacmanhat]

I bought NCAA College Basketball 2K3 for GameCube when it first came out. I had a hell of a timing finding it, but there was a store in the Mall of America that had a pile of about 20 of them. If I had known how hard to find it would end up being, I would've snagged them all. In fact, by the time I found out how rare it was I had already gotten rid of the copy I had.

[Hammy]

radient silvergun on saturn, got it for a couple of quid at a bootfair about 5 years ago. now it's worth 10X that at least! and a bloody good game to boot!

[MegaDrive20XX]

Mega Man V for GameBoy (Complete) I got the game, figuring it would be easier to find again later on down the road after I purchased it back in 1994...

Bad move...

[jajaja]

Earthbound proto for NES
Seriously tho, I dont think this have happend to me.

[Bronty-2]

flintstones 2 for $10 cdn. First nes cart I ever bought and had no clue it was worth a damn thing as it was at the very beginning of my collecting.

[blissfulnoise]

Myriad 6 in 1 for $1.00.

I thought it was a pirate or something. Then I found DP.

That cart was the subject of my second post on here:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/view...627&highlight=