How rare?

Joe-Bloggs

Ok flicking through the sky stations today I came across a station called xleague.tv (291). I hadn't seen this before so watched it for awhile. One of the shows had a retro section and today's game on it was "Twister" on the 3DO. I'd completely forgotten about this console, probably cos I've never seen one outside of a shop, but it got me thinking what's the rarest piece of gaming history that people own?

I've got nothing pre mega drive anymore but I'm interested in seeing what's out there.

jhegarty

Not very , € 37.50 here http://cgi.ebay.ie/Panasonic-3DO-Games-Console-FZ-1-E-Full-Working-Order_W0QQitemZ120132139458QQihZ002QQcategoryZ72497QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

o1s1n

There's a big confusion at the moment on ebay between rare and desirable. Most things people label as rare aren't.

Some rare(ish) Sega Stuff I have;

Sega Nomad
Sega Master system converter II
Sega Genesis 3 (Rare over here I guess )

Few Rareish megadrive games.

M.U.S.H.A
Super Fantazy Zone
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
Asian Golden Axe 3
The Story of Thor
Samurai Showdown

I have a lot of games that aren't rare but are sought after and would be considered such. Like Dune 2, Gunstar Heroes, Golden axe games, streets of rage games, Marvel games, Boxed 32x games...etc.

Same with my other consoles actually. Have a decent copy of Zelda boxed for the nes. Final fight guy and Chrono Trigger for the snes. Some other "rare" snes rpgs. Vib ribbon and Devil Dice for the ps1. Meh. Nothing I'd really consider truly rare. I suppose Final Fight Guy may be as it was only released as a rental.

I'm not really into the whole rare thing. I see so many people buying games simply because they are rare. A lot of which are actually rubbish.

KdjaCL

i have a 3do , doesnt work tho but i have all the games ever made for it.
All 37 or so


return fire/road rash worth buying that thing for.

kdjac

Hygro

I'm buying a Neo Geo Pocket Color tomorrow which itself is not too rare, but some of the games I'm getting are hard to come by (though they may not be the type that i might play too much).

The other thing is that the guy who's selling it to me also has 2 Wonderswans for sale (which seem really hard to come by) and he's bringing one of them to for me to look at.

Haven't an idea about the price, but I'll bring along a bit of extra cash just in case ...

Azza

KdjaCL I be tempted to make you a offer for the 3D0 games. I had the console when it was first out and I thought any games ported from it to the playstation where better on the 3D0. Return fire was savage, Road Rash was great too. But my favourite was need for speed. The first and greatest need for speed of them all. Star fighter was excellent too


And you can't forget Night Trap or Wing Commander III or....

CiDeRmAn

I have couple of things,
An MB Vectrex, with multicart
A Virtual Boy with 7 games,
A CDX, combined megadrive and Mega cd,
A 6 switch woody 2600 and a black 4 switch Vader 2600 and a copies of Pitfall and Defender II, nice!
An atari 7800 with games
Vagrant Story, Kurushi, Castlevania, all rare playstation games.
Steel Battalion for my lovely Xbox.

Regarding the NeoGeoColor, European games are worth more than any other terrritory because they came in mini versions of the fullsize NeoGeo cart boxes, much sought after in Japan, above the cardboard standard boxes they come in there and in the states, try to get Pacman, metal slug and the beatemups for it, they're great, Last Blade is lovely.
Tons of stuff overall, I'd love an Amiga CD32 though!

I too have a 3DO, the big Panasonic, its a pal machine though, not as good as the NTSC one. Best things on it are Star Control 2, RR, Need 4 Speed, Return Fire and I quite like Incredible Machine and its version of Samurai Showdown.
The daisy chained controllers were genius though, a clever solution to a still current problem.

logic

I got a

Atari Jaguar
Neo Geo pocket color
Philips CDI (with VCD Cart, Mad Dog + gun)
Snes
Amiga 600
Dreamcast

All gathering dust in the press at home. Don't want to sell but have no where to put them really.

Retr0gamer

Have a few very rare games.

Suikoden 2 PAL verion

Panzer Dragoon Saga unboxed Pal version

Vandal Hearts 1 + 2: Have a promo copy of Vandal Hearts 2. PAL versions as well. I'm almost sure that the promo of VH2 is an uncut review code copy.

Castlevania SOTN PAL promo

Panzer Dragoon Orta promo

Nights with the analogue controller. Stupid mother threw away the box :mad:

2 copies of Xenogears.

Have a chipped V-Saturn as well at home, gets an awful lot of play time.

Have some other games, usually rare shmups and RPGs but they aren't springing to mind after last nights festivities.

Duggy747

Eh, don't really have anything in the terms of rare but more sentimental. Brother won a SNES & 14 games (7 at the time and another 7 came half a year later) before it was released here and it still works, our pride and joy.

Have a pong console going back 30 odd years thats still mint condition though the box is crushed to shìt and stinks to high heaven.

TinCool

Only real rare thing I have is still boxed tape of Zaxxon on the C64. Oh, and also the Jeff Minter Game Meta Galactic Llamas Battle At The Edge Of Time boxed Vic20 tape

Good man Jeff: http://www.c64gg.com/GameInfo/MetaLlamas.html

LoGiE

I've got a lot of C64 and Amiga stuff in the attic that i must really go through some day! I had a nasty habit of trading up when it came to consoles....

Azza

If you guys ever consider selling off some of your old consoles I would be interested in taking them off your hands.

Just starting a retro collection.

Would be interested in the likes of 3D0's, Philip CDI, hell nearly all the stuff you say you have Logic...if I can tempt you:rolleyes: .

littlejp

I have an old MSX at home. It was made by Sony and was home to the first ever Metal Gear game, though I don't have it. I've only got Track & Field and some weird Japanese old-Zelda type games. I spent many an hour bashing away at the keyboard playing track and field.
Not sure if they are rare or not but I never knew anyone else that had (or wanted) one.:D

CiDeRmAn

It's a pity we can't get more folk to come forward and tell us the contents of their attics, there are so many classic consoles languishing up there while people like us could give those machines a great home. Ah well.

And as I said, anyone with an Amiga CD32 or a Colecovision, please step forward, you know who you are!

Myrddin

If its attic collections then here goes:

Gameboy (boxed)
Gameboy Colour (boxed, mint)
Gameboy Advance (boxed, mint)
Gameboy Advance SP Tribal (boxed, mint)
Nes (boxed, mint)
Snes (boxed, mint)
N64 (boxed, mint)
Nintendo Gamecube Platinum (boxed, mint)
Sega Mastersystem 2 (boxed, mint) also with flashcart
Sega Megadrive x2 (both boxed & mint, 1 modified with region/language switch) - also with flash cart
Sega Mega CD 1 (boxed, mint, modified with arakons multi region bios chip)
Sega Mega CD 2 (boxed, mint)
Sega 32X (boxed, mint)
Sega Saturn x2 (1 boxed & mint, 1 standalone, both modified with mod chips for backups, both modified with region switches)
Sega Dreamcast (boxed but no box innards, mint)
Atari Jaguar (boxed & brand new, mint)
Commodore 64 (boxed, mint)
Sony Playstation (boxed, mint, modified to play backups)
Sony Playstation 2 Silver Edition (boxed, mint & brand new (not slimline))
Sony PSP (unboxed, mint, modifed 1.5 firmware - devhook etc)
X Box (boxed, mint, modified with Xecuter3 for backups etc)
X Box Crystal Edition (boxed, brand new & mint)
Homemade Jamma Test Rig with Streetfighter 2, Champion edition & Hyper Fighting
(i think thats everything...also have a lot of games for each system)

Not sure which/if any of this is rare but i like knowing its all upstairs! Bad news is none of it is for sale guys.

Peyton Manning

Was rooting through the attic the other day, found my old Commodore 64 and all the games. Flimbo's Quest, The Simpsons, Golden Axe and about a dozen more. Is there much interest in it these days?

daedalus2097

Have a Sega Game Gear with TV tuner, power supply (cos it ate batteries!) and maybe 10 games. Still worked fine last time I looked at it, but that was years ago... Also have 2 or 3 Atari 800XL machines, a huge box of tapes both original and *cough*backed up on a twin deck stereo (aah, them were the days) - not a single working tape player amongst them unfortunately though, and all attempts to record and convert the tapes for emulation have failed Slightly newer stuff: SNES with a handful of games, N64 with loads of games and accessories, Original-style Game Boy advance which I fitted a backlight to, and a whole heap of Amiga stuff which is getting gradually used up for making interesting custom hardware like MP3 player decks etc... Sorry, no CD32s I'm afraid...

Dr Bob

daedalus2097 wrote:

. Also have 2 or 3 Atari 800XL machines, a huge box of tapes both original and *cough*backed up on a twin deck stereo (aah, them were the days) - not a single working tape player amongst them unfortunately though, and all attempts to record and convert the tapes for emulation have failed

heh , I just bought an 800xl from a guy in the uk (fingers crossed it arrives soon)
, I was looking to buy one locally for ages , but didnt see hide nore hair of one!
hopefully be able to convert xex and .cas files off the net to wavs , and from there onto tape.(been able to do this pretty well with c64 ones)

Dr Bob

luas_dublin wrote:

heh , I just bought an 800xl from a guy in the uk (fingers crossed it arrives soon)
, I was looking to buy one locally for ages , but didnt see hide nore hair of one!
hopefully be able to convert xex and .cas files off the net to wavs , and from there onto tape.(been able to do this pretty well with c64 ones)

as for the amiga , dont suppose you've a spare workbench disk lying around?:)
I've a a500 , but no disks for it..

daedalus2097

@luas
Interesting... Any wanting for a big box of original tapes? Will trade for beer Is it an A500? Or an A500+? Cos you eed to match the workbench version with the kickstart version. Either way I should be able to sort you out, yeah. I have archives of all my old system disks... Floppy drive still working on it?

Dr Bob

heya , PM sent

bubonicus

CiDeRmAn wrote:

It's a pity we can't get more folk to come forward and tell us the contents of their attics, there are so many classic consoles languishing up there while people like us could give those machines a great home. Ah well.

And as I said, anyone with an Amiga CD32 or a Colecovision, please step forward, you know who you are!

I have a CD32 in my collection. (not for sale)

Along with an Atari 2600, with "thrash compactor" 50 cartridge jukebox kinda a thing.

I Also have some bare fab cartridge's for the 2600 from when they where prototype games brought into Ireland by Atari for demonstration purposes. (Dad worked for Atari and Commodaor back in the day.)

Also have old amiga's and ST's lying around with 3DO and snes with a UfO.

SeantheMan

Ive an atari 2600 up in the attic :rolleyes:

I used to love 'Crystal Castles' where you had this little bear runnin round

Ahhh

And there was some bxing game aswell..where you could pick fromk 4 chars..cant remember the name....but it used to give me apins in the arms whackin the joystick about

(that last sentence could be taken outta context )

I also had Superman for it...but could never figure out wtf i was doing #

Oh oh...and wasnt there some skateboard game ? where you had to get home in time or something...that was deadly

daedalus2097

Yeah, that skateboarding game was cool, as was Bump n Jump on the 2600... Quality!

By the way, if anyone has old Amiga stuff they don't want any more I might be interested in taking it off your hands - depending on what it is...

CyberWaste

EnterNow wrote:

If its attic collections then here goes:

Gameboy (boxed)
Gameboy Colour (boxed, mint)
Gameboy Advance (boxed, mint)
Gameboy Advance SP Tribal (boxed, mint)
Nes (boxed, mint)
Snes (boxed, mint)
N64 (boxed, mint)
Nintendo Gamecube Platinum (boxed, mint)
Sega Mastersystem 2 (boxed, mint) also with flashcart
Sega Megadrive x2 (both boxed & mint, 1 modified with region/language switch) - also with flash cart
Sega Mega CD 1 (boxed, mint, modified with arakons multi region bios chip)
Sega Mega CD 2 (boxed, mint)
Sega 32X (boxed, mint)
Sega Saturn x2 (1 boxed & mint, 1 standalone, both modified with mod chips for backups, both modified with region switches)
Sega Dreamcast (boxed but no box innards, mint)
Atari Jaguar (boxed & brand new, mint)
Commodore 64 (boxed, mint)
Sony Playstation (boxed, mint, modified to play backups)
Sony Playstation 2 Silver Edition (boxed, mint & brand new (not slimline))
Sony PSP (unboxed, mint, modifed 1.5 firmware - devhook etc)
X Box (boxed, mint, modified with Xecuter3 for backups etc)
X Box Crystal Edition (boxed, brand new & mint)
Homemade Jamma Test Rig with Streetfighter 2, Champion edition & Hyper Fighting
(i think thats everything...also have a lot of games for each system)

Not sure which/if any of this is rare but i like knowing its all upstairs! Bad news is none of it is for sale guys.

Dont mean to be rude but i find that hard to believe, take a pic will you and post it because thats some collection if its real.:p
Anyway, my colletion isnt great but here goes;
2 Dreamcasts, 1 white and 1 black with Shenmue 1+2 and aload of other stuff.
N64 with a load of games and junk.
Gameboy colour.
Nintendo DS.
Nintendo Silver gamecube.
Sega Megadrive.
Xbox + Xbox 360.
PS1 + PS2.
Snes.
Not in great condition apart from Black Dreamcast which was never opened, the Gamecube, Xbox 360 and Xbox.

Myrddin

Hey cyber - yes its real dude. Has taken me a fair bit of time and money to track down most of this stuff as its all boxed and mostly mint. Ill try grab a few pics over the weekend maybe and post them up. The gas part is none of it ever gets used.....

SeantheMan

CyberWaste wrote:

Dont mean to be rude but i find that hard to believe, take a pic will you and post it because thats some collection if its real.:p

Yeah have to agree, give us a pic and show us

Who would but a Sega Mega CD 2 after already having 1...they were fecking sh*t !!!
Also why would ye buy another Gameboy Advance for a different skin ?
It seems your just rattling off every console ever made, but...i could be wrong

And would LIKE to be proved to be wrong by seeing this awesome collection in a lovely picture

Myrddin

ok guys - you have thrown down the gauntlet.....watch this space (although 1 pic may not be enough so ill get as many as it takes)
I got a mega cd2 because i have a megadrive 2 (which i forgot to add to let list), i guess im just a collecting freak!

Myrddin

Some of my stuff is tightly buried so may not be properly in the pictures, but if im missing anything there let me know and ill grab a few more pics maybe. Enjoy

CyberWaste

:eek: ^^ WOW! Awesome is the only word!

Just a question? What do you plan to do with all that stuff anyway?

Myrddin

Cheers cyber - I guess Ill pass it on to my son when he gets to the "gaming age" - im almost 26 but had such fond memories playing a lot of this stuff (not these actual machines because I only started collecing a few years ago, I think when i was young I just used to sell what I had in order to upgrade etc). I do play the jamma rig a fair bit (huge streetfighter fan), and hope to pick up most of the streetfighter cps2 boards over the next year or so. But again to answer the question I'll just pass it onto my son and hopefully the magic is still retained for him.

Joe-Bloggs

:eek: That is unbe-fecking-lievable!!!!!

Truly a collection to be proud of, well done

um7y1h83ge06nx

True gaming porn!

Would be amazing if you had the space to set them all up. It would be like a little retro gaming museum.

plissken

Now thats what i call a collection, fair dues man have mucho respect for anyone who can spend as much time and money on their collection as you so obviously have.

logic

Good God :eek:

Myrddin

Ha Gaming Porn - I like that!
Yeah my plan is ultimately to convert a spare room/attic or something into a place where they can be all set up and ready for action. Thanks for the comments

However its far from complete, I wanna get:

Atari Lynx
Atari 2600 (non woody)
Sega Mastersystem 1
Sega Gamegear
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Lite
Xbox 360
PS2
Nintendo Wii
Panasonic 3D0 (the fz10, i think thats the one with the drawer cd mech)
A few more which I cant think of

SeantheMan

Wow enternow :eek:

One of the first times ..if not THE first ive been happy to be proved wrong :rolleyes:

Im sure if some console fanboys seen that they'd let one off

Wheres the respect button so i can give him some ??:cool:

Snark

at last count...not strictly gaming but anyway...

BBC Micro B (3)
Spectrum +
ZX81
Apple II (2)
Atari 2600 woody (mint)
C64C (2 boxed, 3 unboxed)
PS1
Dragon32, Atari 130XE (no power supply)
Acorn Electron
Apple SE30
Commodore +4, Amiga 600 (?not working)

the start of a nice collection - always looking for swaps 8)

plissken

My collection consists of

nes with about 50 games none boxed unfortunately
snes with about 20 games all boxed
n64 with 8 games all boxed
atari jaguar with 3 games (never used)
xbox with 45 games
360 with 16 games
and finally my pride and glory my
3do with over 110 games all mint (will put up pics if anyone is interested but your probably not are ya )

Joe-Bloggs

plissken wrote:

3do with over 110 games all mint (will put up pics if anyone is interested but your probably not are ya )

This thread started cos of the 3do so go on put up the pic

Duggy747

I'd like to see a pic of yer 3DO.

plissken

Cool i'll put some pics up later on tonight, thread has gone sort of off topic though hasnt it, sorry to the original poster

ShowUsYourXbox

I have an Xbox360 that hasn't needed repair.. that's pretty rare :P

plissken

Here ya go 60 ish games and my fz10 console, I have 40 odd more up in the attic with my nes and n64 that need to be taken down and dusted

djsim

I didnt know that 100 games came out for the 3DO:eek:

the only game I remember playing was Road Rash, any other good games for it?

Duggy747

Oh dear, Rise Of The Robots I see on that collection?

plissken

Duggy747 wrote:

Oh dear, Rise Of The Robots I see on that collection?

yes it is but i have to admit it isnt the worst game in my collection

My favourites on the console are need for speed (the first and arguable best version on any machine) , road rash,foes of ali, alone in the dark, another world and street fighter 2 turbo.

LoGiE

Thats a very impressive collection. Three games that stood out for me were The Horde, Space Hulk and Another World... God I haven't played those games in years!

SeantheMan

Lmao..nice collection, was lookin at it and noticed primal Rage

I remember expecting such good things...clay modelled dinosaurs gonna tear heads off each other and a monkey n stuff

But alas it was utter crap...and i threw it at the wall and broke it after 2 days :rolleyes: ..... the most enjoyment i got from that crappy game