The Most Common Games Found In The Wild

[Cambot]

Oh, NFL Quarterback Club '99. Good call.


NES:
Double Dribble, SuperC
Sega Genesis:

GameBoy: Tetris

SNES: Killer Instinct

Sega CD: Texas ground Zero (down here), Mickey Mouse

Saturn: Croc

PlayStation:
GameBoy Color:
Nintendo64:
Dreamcast:
Playstation 2:
GameCube:
GameBoy Advance:
XBOX:

[Sosage]

Yes. I also keep bumping into the loose super scope cart pack-in, but not one super scope. Same with Battleclash.

I'm gonna stray away from the obvious choices and go with carts that just happen to pop up a lot recently. Two NES games I keep running into this season are Lee Travino's Fighting Golf and Jeopardy 25th Anniversary Edition. I've got around 3 copies of each and I still run into these carts every weekend. World Class Track Meet is another (yeesh...some times they are over taking the SMB/Duckhunt carts). One of these days I'm gonna find a Stadium Events amongst these damn WCTM carts.

The stock usually shuffles around out here every couple of months. I remember one period where Track n' Field was everywhere. Now no one has it. One period everyone had a copy of Dynamite Headdy. Same thing, now no one has it.

[colicub]

First off, ryborg, your SDRE userpic makes me bow down and worship you.

And in terms of common games....

NES: Mario/DH, Pinbot
Mega Drive: Sonic, Sonic 2, Rise Of The Robots, Ballz
N64: F1 World Grand Prix, Pokemon Snap
Saturn: Tomb Raider, Wipeout, Virtua Fighter 2
PSX: too many to list, but the Army Men games and any crappy racing game are at the front of the pack.
PS2: GTA San Andreas (and the others), Enter The Matrix, Ultimate Spiderman, and FIFA or Pro Evo game.

[ryborg]

First off, ryborg, your SDRE userpic makes me bow down and worship you.

Haha, good to know that one of my favorite bands still has fans out there.

Saturn: Tomb Raider, Wipeout, Virtua Fighter 2

I haven't seen ANY Saturn games in the wild over the last few years. I think my definition of "the wild" is a little bit different than some. I don't consider a used game store or ebay "the wild," while I do consider it thrift stores, pawn shops, flea markets and garage sales. I mean, it's a game store/internet, it's supposed to have thousands of games.

[8bitgamer]

What's interesting to me is that the most common Atari 2600 cartridges (Ms Pac-Man, Combat, Asteroids) are some of the best games in the library while the best games in the Odyssey2 library are some the rarest (Turtles, Killer Bees).

Classic Home Video Games 1972-1984

[diskoboy]

What's interesting to me is that the most common Atari 2600 cartridges (Ms Pac-Man, Combat, Asteroids) are some of the best games in the library while the best games in the Odyssey2 library are some the rarest (Turtles, Killer Bees).

Classic Home Video Games 1972-1984

Remember - O2 was the red-headed step child of the Atari VCS/Inty generation - Odyssey was even uncommon, back in those days. I was the only person I ever knew, that had one. Before I got my Atari in 1981, I was treated like a freak for even having one (that changed when it turned out that the O2 had the better version of "Pac-Man").

And as with most consoles, most of the rarest games on any system, come out at the end of the system's shelf life. Killer Bees and Turtles were both at the end of the O2's lifesapn. Turtles was the last new Odyssey game I remember buying, back in 1983. I wanted Power Lords, but I never saw it at any store. Even our local Magnavox store never had it.

And speaking of Odyssey 2 - I'll add Monkeyshines to my list. Every time I see a bunch of O2 games for sale, in the wild, or on Ebay, Monkeyshines is always in there.