Originally posted by: guitarzombie
Yeah, but heres an idea of rarity:
Mega Man
MTPO
Star Force
Those three are over $300 if you buy them individually
Gotcha
Jaws
These are worth about $100 I think
Alpha Mission
Goonies II
Super Pitfall
These are about $20.
After that, none of the 5 screw variants add any extra value. So keep a keen eye but as you get towards the end, you'll probably have to drop some big coin. Also Stadium Events also comes in a 5 screw version, only 2 known so good luck on that haha.
Yeah, I thought it would be cool to collect all the 5-screw games since I have about 7 of them already. Then I found out there are 80-some of them but I thought, "OK, it will be fun spending several years piecing it together." But then I saw Mega Man was really hard to find. I literally have not seen one for sale or seen a price on a price list to get a sense of how much it would cost to buy. I was willing to maybe pay a couple hundred for a good one but can't even locate one. Then someone pointed out the bullet points on the MTPO labels and I realized there might be variants of variants! Then I found out some of those super rare, tens-of-thousands of dollars, games are 5-screw as well and I know there's no way I'll ever own those.
So now the shine is definitely off that idea. I want a collection that I can actually complete. I don't like the idea of a collection that perpetually has holes in it. I'm too OC for that. Now I'm starting to think how much stuff for Switch I could get for dumping them.