Rare Xbox Games

[Spartacus]

no. it's like a bad driving sim with volvos. there are only like 3 cars and maybe a couple tracks, I don't remember. they had them at volvo car dealers for a while.

The Volvo dealerships gave them away for free. It's like a demo advertisement for Volvo products. There usually always some sealed ones for sale on ebay.

Methinks you meant Project Gotham Racing 2 instead of OutRun 2 in the last sentence.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x...rterkit3month/

And just to throw fuel on the variant fire, nearly all of the xbox games have a NFR version for sale to microsoft employees:

I'm curious about these. Did they just reprint the covers or did they go the extra mile and reprint the DVD labels as being NFR?

spartacus, thanks for the comprehensive list, great job!

Two notes:

"Outlaw Golf Holiday Golf" listed under 'Blockbuster exclusives' is actually a ToysRUs exclusive (it is the same game as the Blockbuster "9 Holes of X-Mas")

I've always wondered about Outlaw Holiday Golf because doesn't actually say anywhere on the case, manual or disc who's exclusive it was. It just seemed to fit as being a Blockbuster exclusive because of all the other Outlaw Golf exclusives they had. It may indeed be a TRUS exclusive, even though the other TRUS exclusive, Sneakers, is clearly identified as such on it's cover. As for Outlaw Holiday Golf being the same game as 9 Holes of X-Mas, I'd like to point out some differences.

From the main menu of Holiday Golf your options are:
9 Holes of X-mas - interactive demo
Seablade trailer - non-interactive demo

From the main menu of 9 More of X-Mas your options are:
9 Holes of X-Mas Holiday Mini Game
Outlaw Golf demo - interactive demo
Outlaw Golf on G4 - courtesy of G4 Network
Seablade trailer - non-interactive Movie

It looks like we have:
9 Holes of X-mas - identified as Blockbuster exclusive on the case, manual and disc.
9 More Holes of X-Mas - identified as Blockbuster exclusive on the case and manual, but not the disc.
Outlaw Volleyball Red Hot - identified as Blockbuster exclusive on the case, manual, but not the disc.
Freestyle Street Soccer - identified as Blockbuster exclusive on the case, but not on the manual or disc.
Sneakers - identified as TRUS exclusive on the case, but not on the manual or disc.
Holiday Golf - unidentified on the case, manual or disc!