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dallaspattern

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Most elusive game?
« on: May 30, 2013, 02:00:22 PM »
I'm new to the board, but already I really appreciate a TG16 community. I've had a console ever since Xmas '90, and I remember when the company was going out of business there were always a couple of games out there that were nearly impossible to get. You know, before the Magical Chase and DE2 phenomenon. So I'm wondering, what game have you always been on the hunt for but never come across? I'm not talking ebay, I'm talking about the chase at good ol' game stores, garage sales and places like this I guess. I have two:

The first was a Turbo Duo. I never had enough money in the day to buy one and working ones were hard to come by in the 2000's. By total fluke, I found a boxed one on kijiji with redone capacitors last winter. I live in a Northern Canadian town, something like this is super rare to see on there and I got it for an incredibly modest price and still feel very fortunate to have finally added it to my collection.

The game that still evades me is Bonk 3. I missed it two summers ago by a day at my local vintage game store. Learned a lesson about following my gut on that one :)

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2013, 02:10:46 PM »
I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2013, 02:11:32 PM »
Welcome to the forum!

Only game that has been eluding me has been coryoon.... Since I've been looking for one, all the copies are either stupidly overpriced or I get outbid. Ebay and the internet have really made game hunting too easy and I miss finding stuff locally and scouring pawn shops and thrifts for games. I still look regularly but haven't found anything good for a very long time. It took me a while to find a nice working model one sega cd. Turbo games I just took what I could get my hands on around town but got pretty lucky.
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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2013, 02:15:15 PM »
Welcome to the boards,

Mine would have to be the Turbo Duo. (I have one now) But I still remember seeing it sitting on the shelf boxed when the day it came out until they sent it back to TZD. $299 wasn't a bad price considering everything it came with. Also Backwards compatible gaming before its time......AWESOME!!!
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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2013, 02:19:29 PM »
Galam: Dragon Slayer is such a rad game. I got a copy for my 13th birthday, and I remember actually being bummed because I'd never heard of it. Of course it turned out to totally rule!

PC: Remember the Sega CDX? I remember picking one up when they were on sale for $99 at Radio Shack back in the day. Sold it in university for grocery money. Still kicking myself for that one...

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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2013, 03:31:17 PM »
Galam: Dragon Slayer is such a rad game. I got a copy for my 13th birthday, and I remember actually being bummed because I'd never heard of it. Of course it turned out to totally rule!

PC: Remember the Sega CDX? I remember picking one up when they were on sale for $99 at Radio Shack back in the day. Sold it in university for grocery money. Still kicking myself for that one...

I picked up a cdx on eBay for just over $100 about 6 months ago. The cart port takes a little jiggering and some EA and Accolade games have compatibility issues, but I love it. Mine came with sonic CD, final fight CD and a few other "also rans".

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2013, 04:11:25 PM »
I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.


I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it. :(


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galam

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2013, 04:14:11 PM »
I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.


I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it. :(

Hell no. I want it under 50

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2013, 04:26:47 PM »
The most elusive game for me so far has been trying to get Exile 2 for a decent price. Seriously, as soon as it goes on ebay it either goes for insane prices or gets insta sold out! I'm almost tempted to just trade my Winds of Thunder disk for the PCE version as the Turbo version is out of my price range...

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2013, 05:46:31 PM »
I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.


I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it. :(

Hell no. I want it under 50

You can definitely still find it for under $50.

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2013, 07:50:05 PM »
I'm going to talk past tense because brick-and-mortar stores are all overpriced and there are so many damn youtube "game chasers" that thrifting is a waste of time. If you don't use the internet to buy a game these days, then you don't really want it.

In the Nineties, Dynastic Hero was absolutely impossible to find. I saw it once it '97 and never came across it again.
For other systems, Phantasy Star and SMS Ultima IV were impossible to find pre-internet. The search for Ultima Black Gate always confounded me on the SNES.
  
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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2013, 08:54:46 PM »
It depends, to me it's pretty much impossible to find TG-16 games in the wild. As for Ebay and such places, Bonk 3 as you said and Dynastic Hero are probably the hardest to find, not counting Turbo Duo releases.

Welcome to the forums. As someone noted, good for you for participating here. It's shameful when you find users with 10-20 messages and all of them are in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2013, 02:15:34 AM »
I'm going to talk past tense because brick-and-mortar stores are all overpriced and there are so many damn youtube "game chasers" that thrifting is a waste of time. If you don't use the internet to buy a game these days, then you don't really want it.

In the Nineties, Dynastic Hero was absolutely impossible to find. I saw it once it '97 and never came across it again.
For other systems, Phantasy Star and SMS Ultima IV were impossible to find pre-internet. The search for Ultima Black Gate always confounded me on the SNES.
 

Funny that you mentioned Phantasy Star for the SMS.  There was a discount toy store in my town and they had a bunch of new SMS games around 1990 or so discounted for under $10.  At that time Toys R Us still had SMS games and they still had Phantasy Star for something like $69.  I know that several copies of $7 Phantasy Star made their way from the discount store to Toys R Us and were "returned" for store credits....

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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2013, 09:43:22 AM »

The US System Card 3.0...I tried to purchase that as soon as TTI sent out the flyer. I called them on the phone all the time
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Re: Most elusive game?
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2013, 10:00:59 AM »
The RPG-starved U.S. gamers without CD systems gobbled Neutopia 2 up pretty fast.

Funny that you mentioned Phantasy Star for the SMS.  There was a discount toy store in my town and they had a bunch of new SMS games around 1990 or so discounted for under $10.  At that time Toys R Us still had SMS games and they still had Phantasy Star for something like $69.  I know that several copies of $7 Phantasy Star made their way from the discount store to Toys R Us and were "returned" for store credits....
That's pretty funny. A friend reported PS on clearance for $10 at KB Toys in '92, but I couldn't talk my parents into a ride up to the suburbs.
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