Figured I'd revive this thread to see if there's any new insight on rare Gamecube games. I've been going for a complete set for almost 3 years now and I'm currently at 261. I've only purchased 2 games online, not because they were rare but because at the time the prices were much lower than Gamestop. Here have been some of my observations.
Titles that I literally never see:
NCAA Basketball 2k3-No surprise there
Pokemon Box-Obviously
Hide and Sneak-I actually enjoyed Magical Mirror so I would have interest in playing this one if I found it
Evolution Snowboarding-Probably that last Gamecube game that I found out existed
Road Kill-Nothing really unique about this one, except I don't recall having seen it yet and it's a 3 dollar title at Gamestop so I'm sure I would have noticed.
Trigger Man-Reviews for the game sucked
Groove Rider Slot Car Thunder
Tube Slider-Probably saw it at release, but now have yet to see it in my travels
City Racer-Only found one copy-disc only. Go figure.
Muppets Party Cruise
Then there are those games you aren't very interested in playing so you don't keep an eye out for them initially, normally sports games. Then as the hunting starts to wind down you notice that some are actually quite elusive:
Zoo Cube
WTA Tour Tennis
Serious Sam
Summoner: Goddess Reborn
Puyo Pop Fever
Other just flat out rare or uncommon:
Freaky Flyers-Seen one copy, naturally in awful condition. Boo.
Darkened Skye-I've actually seen the combo version with Outlaw Golf, but never the stand alone version.
Future Tactics: The Uprising-every copy I've come across has been disc only.
Legacy of Kain:Blood Omen 2
Road Trip: Arcade Edition-Once found a mint copy at GS but they couldn't find the disc. Should have asked to keep the contents since every copy I've come across thereafter has been disc only.
Auto Modellista-Should have bought this one back when it was 5.99 because it's 2.99 now and I haven't scene it since.
Dinotopia
SX Superstar-Maybe it's just me but I just don't see this one that much.
Kao Round 2-Would people stop losing their manual to this game please?
Hunter: The Reckoning
Dr. Muto
Freedom Fighters-A lot rarer than the Xbox version
Goblin Commander
Virtua Quest
Disney Sports Basketball-Seen this about 3 times in the wild, never at a decent price though. I remember back in 2003 thinking it never came out until seeing an auction on Ebay.
Top Angler-Rarer than the Mark Davis game.
Monster 4x4: Masters of Metal
Shrek Super Party
Rarest games in my collection so far:
Intellivision Lives!
Disney Sports Football-Bought brand new back in 03 for 10 dollars at EB.
Disney Sports Stakeboarding-payed 4.50 and that was enough. Appalling.
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death-Got lucky on this one.
Beach Spikers-Finally picked this one up today for 2 bucks. Actually pretty good
Bloodrayne
F1 2002: Found this and Pro Rally at the same GS. Badda-Bing.
Pro Rally
Rally Championship-Easily one of the rarest Gamecube games
XIII-Kinda one of those games you don't realize is rare until you really start to look for it
Frogger Beyond
Powerpuff Girls
Phantasy Star Card Revolution
Mark Davis Pro Bass Challenge
EVO 2
Dakar 2
Donald Duck Goin Quackers-Rarest version of the game. Even rarer than the N64 version.
Puyo Pop Fever
OTHER NOTES
The Frogger games aren't easy to find either, at least in good condition. I finally found a copy of Frogger's Adventures that was not faded and had a manual and guess what? The game doesn't work.
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex- hard to track down a non player's choice copy after it dropped from 9.99 to 4.99 back in december. Happy to finally have it, it's a pretty decent title.
Dragon's Lair 3D-Very hard to find. Anyone know anything about this yellow blurp shown on the box art here? http://www.gamestop.com/gc/games/dragons-lair-3d/21404
That's all for now, kinda burned myself out.
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