A Rare Purchase

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I managed to buy a rare game yesterday. The game is "Marvel Vs. Capcom 2" for the Xbox. When I brought it up to the counter, the clerk told me I was extremely lucky to find it marked up $60 (and used) at their store. I asked him what the normal price was and he said that he saw it normally go up to $90 or so on eBay and he said it's even higher when new and unused. So..does anybody else here own and uncommon or rare games?

I've bought around a dozen linux games. I hope that someday they will be worth something, since they are from the early years of linux gaming. I plan on playing the more common ones though.

I once owned the Pazer Dragoon Saga RPG games for the Sega Saturn. It was around 5-6 disks long and totally awesome. Very few of them were made as it was right at the end of the Saturn's life. I ended up selling it for $120 on ebay.

Damn it, I want that game!

You should.

When I first heard about Disgaea for PS2 I went out to buy it, only thing was I could only find a copy at EB Games for $200 preowned. They justified the price, saying that it was a rare game. That night I went on ebay and bought it for $60. EB Games are such weasels.

I actually own a lot of the better Atlus-published titles, all of which are quite difficult to acquire.

I'm also one of the few PAL gamers who has the Xenogears/Xenosaga games, Final Fantasy Tactics and Chrono Cross. And before anyone asks, I play them legally with my imported PS2 and not with modchips or emulation.

I own Tombi (Tomba in North-America), which - at least here in Finland - is impossible hard to find nowdays. Price at eBay is about 30-60 $.

Yeah, wow, I never thought about Tomba being rare. It's going for upwards of sixty bucks, used, on Amazon. I actually just recently pulled it out and played through it too. : P

Dunno about the big world out there, but here, in distant Northern Lands, I haven't seen that game anywhere since '90s.

Yeah, well, now that you bring it up, I'm the only person I know with a copy and I haven't seen a copy in stores in a long time. I guess it must be a pretty tough find here, too.

Wow! I had no idea these things were already getting expensive. I happen to own some beta copies of original NES and SNES games, used by NOA developers--including one English translation which was never released. They're so cool. They consist of a cartridge sliced open and you can use the same cartridge for different games by replacing the chips. I know they'll be worth a lot someday, but I don't think my sister and I could ever part with them.

When I was first hunting for the GameCube version of [/i]Twilight Princess[i], I saw quite a few of them on the shelf. When I went back to the same store to finally buy it, I bought the VERY LAST ONE ON THE SHELF! It was only two days after I saw all those games on the shelf!

I had the exact same experience trying to buy this game for my sister's birthday back in January. There were a whole bunch until I needed to buy it. Then I went to, like, five different stores and then I finally gave up. The next day I was walking past the display at Target, and there it was on the shelf all alone! Then I embarrassed myself, asking the clerk, "Is that box for real?"

I have the Gamecube version of Lego StarWars two. It's really common on other formats but extremely rare on the Gamecube.

I have that too. It's a phenomenal game. Complete let down that the next and so far last game in the series was just a shooter. I think I actually started understanding the language a bit by the end of the game.

I had Dragon Force, but unfortunately sold it. It was astounding too, and I really regret that.

There was supposed to be a Playstation 2 port, but unfortunately it was never released in the United States, and wouldn't have used the fantastic Working Designs translation even if it had.



I don't own the first one unfortunately, but I do have and love the sequal. Wish they'd do a third. That was the last great 2D platformer on a "big" console, that I can think of.



Neat! What games?