Originally posted by: bootload

This is why I say there aren't any rare licensed NES games because you can buy any of them any time you want if you had unlimited money. With some of these games it doesn't matter how much money you have, they're so rare that you'll never find one for sale.

Prior to licensing for games existing, companies were free to make however many copies of a game they wanted so there could be print runs of just a few hundred or even fewer. Air Raid was a great one to watch unfold, it's a light blue cartridge with no title on it and no title in the game itself. It only got the name Air Raid from a guy that vaguely remembered being a part of the marketing when it was released and remembered the name as Air Raid but nobody could ever confirm it. One day out of nowhere a guy posts on AtariAge that he has a complete copy of this game and nobody believes him, a box for the game has never been uncovered before. He delays, saying it's in a storage locker and it drags on but then one day after visiting the locker, boom, he posts it. There was the game, tray inlay and box but no instructions so it was assumed to be complete. Someone else watching a news article on it remembers having one of those himself and records himself opening his storage bins full of games until he comes across his complete copy, opens it up and it has the instructions. As far as I know it's the only known copy of the instructions for this game.

There's a collector, I think he's named Jose, I read somewhere that be bought the first complete copy since he's going for the full set and then immediately bought the second complete copy with instructions once he found out his first one wasn't complete. I love reading about this stuff.

Another one was Red Sea Crossing, someone posted a video about a game they got at a yard sale and from the video, nobody could identify it. It turns out it was a newly discovered game that nobody knew existed and sold for over $10,000, no box is known to exist. I believe a second copy was also found after that.

Another Atari 2600 cartridge was (I think) Birthday Mania and I think there's only 1-2 copies of that one, much like Gamma Attack which only has 1 known copy is existence.

There was also another one which isn't as rare named Music Machine which people have sort of deduced was available as mail-order from a religious magazine from the threads I've read. I could have all of this wrong but it's what I read which is all I can go on.

So that's why I insist that Little Samson and Stadium Events aren't rare, I can find one for sale in 5 minutes and buy it. Try and find a Red Sea Crossing or a complete Air Raid.

Originally posted by: bootload

This is why I say there aren't any rare licensed NES games because you can buy any of them any time you want if you had unlimited money. With some of these games it doesn't matter how much money you have, they're so rare that you'll never find one for sale.

Prior to licensing for games existing, companies were free to make however many copies of a game they wanted so there could be print runs of just a few hundred or even fewer. Air Raid was a great one to watch unfold, it's a light blue cartridge with no title on it and no title in the game itself. It only got the name Air Raid from a guy that vaguely remembered being a part of the marketing when it was released and remembered the name as Air Raid but nobody could ever confirm it. One day out of nowhere a guy posts on AtariAge that he has a complete copy of this game and nobody believes him, a box for the game has never been uncovered before. He delays, saying it's in a storage locker and it drags on but then one day after visiting the locker, boom, he posts it. There was the game, tray inlay and box but no instructions so it was assumed to be complete. Someone else watching a news article on it remembers having one of those himself and records himself opening his storage bins full of games until he comes across his complete copy, opens it up and it has the instructions. As far as I know it's the only known copy of the instructions for this game.

There's a collector, I think he's named Jose, I read somewhere that be bought the first complete copy since he's going for the full set and then immediately bought the second complete copy with instructions once he found out his first one wasn't complete. I love reading about this stuff.

Another one was Red Sea Crossing, someone posted a video about a game they got at a yard sale and from the video, nobody could identify it. It turns out it was a newly discovered game that nobody knew existed and sold for over $10,000, no box is known to exist. I believe a second copy was also found after that.

Another Atari 2600 cartridge was (I think) Birthday Mania and I think there's only 1-2 copies of that one, much like Gamma Attack which only has 1 known copy is existence.

There was also another one which isn't as rare named Music Machine which people have sort of deduced was available as mail-order from a religious magazine from the threads I've read. I could have all of this wrong but it's what I read which is all I can go on.

So that's why I insist that Little Samson and Stadium Events aren't rare, I can find one for sale in 5 minutes and buy it. Try and find a Red Sea Crossing or a complete Air Raid.

Originally posted by: Lonsta

I wonder which game on the list truly has the least known copies out there. I can tell you with certainty, there are less than 20 known copies of NBA Elite 11 in existence.

Originally posted by: DarkKobold
  I can't imagine that anyone ever will have Gamma Attack, Birthday Mania, Extraterrestrial, and Red Sea Crossing under one roof.

 

Originally posted by: captmorgandrinker
 


100 percent sure nobody will, at least not in this century. It's gonna take a collector that likely isn't born yet to hit some heavy hitters' estate sales to do it.

Originally posted by: ulasamosa
 


Don't give up hope Dave. One day you'll find them. ;-)