What TG16 Collectors Need Only Magical Chase?

[TheClash603]

I just purchased Bonk 3 yesterday, which officially leaves me with only one game on my list of unowned TG16 Hu-Cards...  Magical Chase.  This game is near impossible to find, for less than $1,000 anyway, and I have a feeling that leaves many collectors in the same boat of owning every game except one.  It is quite disheartening to be in this position, but I wonder, how many others on this site are in the same boat?

I looked through previous forums, and I don't think this has ever been asked before.  So, if you are a collector in the same boat as me, with a TG library minus 1, let me know!  Also, what price would you pay to complete your collection if you had the chance?  I can't justify more than $200 for a game, and I'd pay that for a loose copy, but I couldn't get crazy and spend a grand.

For me, the hunt continues.  Too bad Buffalo, NY is far from a hotbed of rare and hard to find games!

[geise]

While not technically TG16 you could get a pc-engine copy.  Yeah it doesn't have the updates but you can get a loose of that for under 100 and probably even under 80.  Yeah it's not the TG16 version with the updates but it's still a good game.  I wouldn't say really say a $80 game to me but I'm cheap!  There's far better games out there and it's sad that this way overpriced game is the only one you have left to complete your US collection.  Congrats on the rest of the games!   

[nat]

It's only been within the past year that the game skyrocketed to the ridiculous price it now fetches. Certain people (they know who they are) can be thanked for playing a part in that.

In 2008 I bought a US copy of the game, with manual, for $165.

[SignOfZeta]

When this game hit $100 (like, probably a decade ago) I thought the sky was going to fall. It certainly seemed like a sign of the apocalypse. I know a guy then who did have every game except MC. He was the first person I knew to actually try to get all the US games. At the time it seemed like such a reasonable goal. Like collecting Star Wars glasses from Burger King. Sort of a joke, and how hard could it be? Who collects US games? The TG-16 version doesn't even come with a case, does it? There was basically no demand for them at all compared to PCE releases.

He never did get that game...

Now things are much different the nouveau hardcore have basically f*cked everything up. You can actually get a PC Engine LT for less than a US copy of Magical Chase which is...INSANE. There is no other word for it.

IMO, just be patient. These people will eventually have a hard time making the minimum payments on the credit card debt that bought their collections, and/or they will just get bored, dump their junk, and the "values" will drop back to something realistic. Given the genuine rarity of Magical Chase (US) it may never drop back below $100, but there aren't enough Crazy Dions in the world to keep the value in the $1000 category forever.

[BlackandBlue]

Thats my plan.  There's no way in hell I'm paying that much for a game.  I figure in a year or two I'll be able to find a copy with manual for around $300 (which is still high, but most I want to pay).  Doesn't help that retro games are "all the rage" right now.

[Sparky]

Thats my plan.  There's no way in hell I'm paying that much for a game.  I figure in a year or two I'll be able to find a copy with manual for around $300 (which is still high, but most I want to pay).  Doesn't help that retro games are "all the rage" right now.

Thats the most i would have paid my friend when i was looking a couple years back and i still think its a fair price now, but like nat said theres a big f*ckery going on in the market, and with the majority only turning to ebay for the game it is just getting silly!!!.

All i can say is don't give up an be patient, and keep asking on those forums as much as it has been asked before, hells i even listed most of my collection other than Tg16 stuff in hopes for an even partial trade for the game back in the day. Just realize ebay is your last place to go looking and get your hopes up, guys that sell there magical chase on there are helping themselves not you.

My story is i traded with a guy over on digitpress, i gave him a rare but empty Atari prototype box (The Incredable hulk) i found at a fleamarket for next to nothing and i got in return a complete minty copy (even has the plastic wrap on it ) of MC.  Some times the good guys do win.

EDIT: this would have been good to add a poll to

[TheClash603]

Well I guess I am part of the problem then, not the solution unfortunately...  I only started to collect TG16 games 2 years ago, and it was by chance someone had one dirt cheap on Buffalo Craigslist... but I fell in love with the black box.

I have been a game collector since I was in high school and tried for a complete sega saturn us collection, using my pizza delivery money to buy clearance games once saturn went out of style.  Funny I still don't own panzer dragoon saga either...  but about 150 other games.

Anyway, I will keep keeping on, and will hope MC gets in the hands of some good people and dare I say... someone that would even play the game!  If I found one sealed at a flea market on the cheap, I would open that sucker right up.

[BlackandBlue]

Unless you bought every copy you could to hoard them and then sell them off one by one for an astronimical profit, then you aren't really part of them problem.  I don't know the whole story, but do know the gist of it. 

[TheClash603]

Unless you bought every copy you could to hoard them and then sell them off one by one for an astronimical profit, then you aren't really part of them problem.  I don't know the whole story, but do know the gist of it. 

Hah!  I thought that was only a TG16 urban legend...  well I am all for solving this problem via torch and pitchfork w/ an angry mob...  who's with me?

[exodus]

I bought mine for $6. incomplete though.

[esteban]

I bought mine for $6. incomplete though.

I'll take it off your hands. I'll even let you squeeze 1000% profit out of me. To what paypal account can I send $66?
 

[exodus]

haha. I have no desire to sell it. it's a good game! but I presumed that was a joke
also unless I forget how math works (which I very well may) that's not 1000%

[mrhaboobi]

Well add my name to the list, i am however very luck to have the hu, after many many years of looking im just after the outer box.. I managed to find a loose manual and a loose hu ( from japan of all places ).. but now the box, ive been looking for a few years now. i'm of course kicking myself for passing up complete copies of the game for under $300 years ago.. i figured that was insane!.. still is.. but i guess some people are prepared to pay a minor fortune..   And of course not living in teh US makes it just that bit harder to find.. give up on ebay really, the few times ive had a chance a finding the game hidden in an auction with no mention of the game, somoene else came along and bid huge..  still cant get over that one guy who bought every game i ever bid on.. inflated the prices no end.. he tried to do the same thing with bonk 3 cd aswell..  So if someone has a loose box by all means come send me a pm

i should also point out this is the last box i need, and aside from one or two hu cards ive done the complete us collection.  was a mission again because im not in the us

[TheClash603]

Well I am not a box guy, but I feel your pain.  At least you get to play the game!

[mrhaboobi]

ahh boxes.. i cant understand why i spend so much money on some coloured cardboard