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    Quote Originally Posted by maxlords View Post
    Here in Ontario, Ping Pals is quite common, got clearanced out at TRU.
    He was joking around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by esquire View Post
    I believe the rarest US game is Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship. While there are tons of the UK version for sale on ebay, there are rarely only 1 or 2 US versions, and I have never seen them in the stores.
    I didn't know this game was rare (I bought it for something like $20 very shortly after it came out), but I can vouch for it actually being very good. It's probably one of my three favorite DS games, and I own at least 30.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cyberfluxor View Post
    There are a few board game collections on the DS and they seem to be scattered around in my area. I want to say I've seen that one on TRU shelves just the other week, but then I could be wrong.
    Quote Originally Posted by Snapple View Post
    I've seen that game all over the place. Haven't given it much of a second look, because it doesn't really interest me, but I never thought about it possibly being rare.
    Don't get this confused with the GBA version whose artwork looks just like the DS version's artwork.

    If you guys can find one, by all means pick one up for me and I'll buy it from you. Otherwise you might want to sell that on Ebay. One going right now at $61 with 18 hours to go:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Monopoly-Boggle-...QQcmdZViewItem

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    Quote Originally Posted by esquire View Post
    If you guys can find one, by all means pick one up for me and I'll buy it from you. Otherwise you might want to sell that on Ebay. One going right now at $61 with 18 hours to go:
    Guess I'm going shopping tomorrow since I've seen several around here.

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    Lost in Blue has seemed to dried up and fetches $40-50... so much so that UK version are being sold on ebay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sirhansirhan View Post
    I didn't know this game was rare (I bought it for something like $20 very shortly after it came out), but I can vouch for it actually being very good. It's probably one of my three favorite DS games, and I own at least 30.
    I think that's the thing... No one is reselling this one... It seemed fairly common at release, but then vanished entirely.

    I'm with esquire; anyone sees one (new, $30 or less -- I'm cheap, and that's high for me :-), let me know!
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    I'll toss in my vote for Micro Machines V4 for "rare with demand".... but aren't all Micro Machines games like that?

    I've seen one copy, and have been kicking myself ever since for not buying it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sisko View Post
    I'll toss in my vote for Micro Machines V4 for "rare with demand".... but aren't all Micro Machines games like that?

    I've seen one copy, and have been kicking myself ever since for not buying it.
    This one just came out though and its still all over the place online at least. I've only seen it in TRU's so far though.
    Because it makes no attempt to be great, it is therefore extremely great.
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    It seems as if Micro Machines v4 has seen a re-release within the past couple of weeks.

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    Electroplankton and Monopoly / Battleship / etc DS are keeping their values, while Lost in Blue is back down, most likely because LiB 2 was so similar. In the last few months Advance Wars DS has been going for higher than retail, but it seems to have dropped down to more reasonable levels, although it still sometimes passes $40 on ebay. Monopoly / etc seems to have had a very very short shelf-life, and the more recent boardgame compilation released for the DS isn't liscensed by Atari, so I have a feeling that contract problems may be why this one is hard to find.
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