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Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Gamespy has a new article up on the Top Ten All Time Rarest Video Games. This wacky list includes such gems as Chase the Chuck Wagon and Bubble Bath Babes, the only NES game with nudity (square nipples, anyone?). Makes me wonder what the top ten rarest PC games are..."
The original 2-D Castle Wolfenstein, and others from the 8-bit famed Apple/Commodore/Atari machines.
The Zork series on 5 1/4 disks.
Original Ultima series games.
Those are the true collectables.
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"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
Police Quest I, Kings Quest I, Space Quest I, and Leisure Suit Larry!
Original EGA versions, not that mouse-controlled VGA shit! I'm talking about typing commands at the ] prompt.
Oh wait, they haven't changed since then, so I guess they don't qualify as rare. Unless you are talking about the number of people who play them. :)
...on cassette tape, for a TI 994a!
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I'll just stick to ones I know. First, Space War on the old Fairchild Channel 1 (remember that one?). Second, maybe Battle Tank??? Third, that one game where you play the colonizers, trade, and profit!
No, not Colonization, the Civ-related game, the Commodore 64 game.
I can see collecting vintage video games becoming a hobby much the same as people who collect vinyl and record players.
Sure, you can always get the emulated version of the game or the mp3 version of the album.. but it's just not the same.
My favorite rare game was written by a now dead transsexual for the Apple ][. And I am not trolling, Cytron Masters rocked and transsexuals wrote a lot of games during the 80s! Weird but true...
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I read over the list at Gamespy (I know, this is slashdot, but I wanted to see the list).
... sad, I know, but true.
Quite frankly I didn't see a game there that looked worth playing. Is that why they're rare?
As far as the 2600 goes, I'd have to say Pitfall and Dragster where the best there.
Rare games for the PC: I have, in my posession, the full boxed version [with manual] of "Solo Flight" on 5 1/4" disk written by none other than Sid Meier!
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The article isn't so much about the 10 rarest games, as it is the 10 most collectible/sought after games. And considering "Prototypes" is #2, it's not even much of a top 10 list at that
Oh, and for anyone interested in that Gold NES cart - yes, it's been dumped. I know I won't be shelling out $6k+ anytime soon to play the real thing.
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Loved it on the old Apple ][+
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I just sold my copy last week for $.25 at a yard sale... I thought it was funny the guy took off laughing after I took his money.
With geek items like this, the half-life is even shorter. Magic The Gathering cards are already past their prime in terms of collectable value; once the people who played the NES in their youth are past the age of buying this stuff, watch the prices plummet.
-BbT
if you would pay $6500.00 for that #1 on their list.. I actually played that game it sucked, and just to get your hands on one of the gold-plated ones someone paid more than the cost of a Kia Rio!
Holy cow, I though I was wacked for wanting my home computer automated... I dont feel bad now for spending 1/2 that and actually having something I can use!
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'Chase the Chuckwagon?' WTF I would have thrown that game away with other favorites like 'Avoid the Noid' and '7-up Spot'. Seriously...
Top Ten Games that Don't Suck and I'd still willingly pay money for:
Doom - PC - FPS Grandaddy.
Battlezone - 2600 or any other platform since.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES, SNES - Miyamoto's best work, IMHO.
Metroid - NES. I once saw a prototype/display cartridge at Sears Roebuck in which Samus had a heart meter instead of a power meter.
Burgertime - Colecovision? Arcade classic, at any rate. I can still play Burgertime for hours at a time on Mame.
Galaga - Ditto.
Legend of Zelda - NES - Excellent game design by Miyamoto before there really was such a thing.
ChronoTrigger - SNes - All kinds of RPG Goodness from Square.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis. The first 'Twitch' game I ever played. Sonic rocked my world.
Excitebike - NES - One of the first games you could truly edit. My friends and I would spend hours making nasty, yet well designed tracks to race through. We went so far as to write the letter/number track parts down because the save feature never worked quite right. I always assumed it was for the floppy-endabled Famicom.
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But the real find would be the European version, called Another World.
I would want to collect these :
- Unreal Tournament 2044
- Doom CXVII
- Ultima Online '72
- Grand Theft Aircar 16
- Age of Empires 13 - the 20th Century
- Quake IIIIIIIIII
- LOTR 12 - The return of the grandson of the guy who heard about the king (Live 5-d action)
- Wolfenstein 16-d (Now with time-travel gameplay)
- Medal of Honor 9 : Assault the Allies
Oh...and Starcraft 2, for crying out loud.
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That's because they distributed something like 50 million of them.
I had a box FULL of those.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
If it is, I've got the original XCOM and well as TFTD. Maybe its time to hit up ebay.
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I think ive go those!!
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More info on the Nintendo World Championship ROM available here.
Anyone got a copy of the ROM?
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NES and SNES before PC gaming? Are you crazy? The NES came around about, oh, I don't know, about 10-15 years after games first appeared on PC's.
Does anyone actually have a copy of Zero Wing? THat would be quite a holy grail of gaming. How about the E.T. Game that they buried thousands of in the desert? Does anybody have that one?
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It has always been crap, and even it's creator has stated that it's not a good game. Just because something is rare doesn't mean it's worth collecting.
I have a metal-boxed copy of Quake III for Linux! I guess it can't be that rare, about 2 months ago i actually (i'm 100% serious about this) bought it at the Dollar Store, for a dollar!!! They had all the usual crappy $1 Store games there, and a stack of Q3A for Linux sitting on the bottom shelf. I should have bought 5 and kept them shrink wrapped!
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Activision recently released Activision Anthology for PS2. In addition to almost all the Activision line, some Imagic, and an Atari game or two, it has a couple games called Kabobber and Thwacker that were either not USA releases, as they don't sound American, or they were prototypes.
This shows that: 1) there is a market for crappy old games, 2) there is a way to get crappy old unreleased games, 3) the rarest games are still out there, and 4) I'm dumb enough to buy it.
I can't say I'm not enjoying the old stuff, but Laser Blast is way too boring to go for the !!!!!!! score. I can't believe I ever did that.
I guess I am getting old.
Anyone know where I can get a copy of King's Quest? This was one of the first EGA colored games I ever played, and one of the very early adventure games. You had free reign to do anything you wanted (to a certain extent), so this one felt really ground breaking to me. Anyone have a copy of this sucker? I've long since lost the box (actually, this one was distributed in a plastic case for the IBM PCjr by IBM themselves).
anyone remeber a series of games for the 2600 all with world at the end of the title ? 'waterworld, fireworld, earthworld' etc? i had these as a kid and loved them.. i remeber them as being mostly puzzles of some kind.. can someone help me out with the name of these?
They were part of Atari's "SwordQuest" challenge. The idea was to hide Easter Eggs in the four games that gave you hints towards winning a $25k "treasure." It was (at least initially) a great marketing gimmick, and each game came with a mini DC comic furthering the plot. Alas, despite all the excitement, the games sucked rather hard, as they were purposely inscrutable (like the Atari 2600 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" game) and sales of the last couple games in the series were dismal.
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This site here has a lot of links to old games that aren't published anymore. Not the same as owning the orginal but if your dying to play an old game of Jumpman this is a place you can find it and a lot of other old games.
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not to mention all the hacks.
my favorite: nude super mario brothers
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I wasted _many_ an hour playing this game as a kid...
Anyone remeber the porn games vivid made for the 3do back in the day
No, but I *DO* remember ascii porn that you could print on daisywheel or dot-matrix printers.
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I still have Wolf3D installed and I play it now and then. The graphics are obviously lousy compared to newer games, but it still feels good. "I am Death Incarnate" using just a gun in any night mission is still a hell of a good game. :)
A text based game called 'Kabul Spy' for the Apple II. Suddenly it seems amazingly ahead of it's time. I don't remember much from it except that you spent a lot of time in a jeep up in the mountains looking for caves.
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How about The Texas chainsaw massacre game for Atari 2600. Apparently this game was banned from a lot of retailers for violence (pixelated blood!) I've seen it go for well over $100 on ebay. Not sure if its worthy of making that top-10 list, but certainly a worthy mention.
There was a game out around 1993/4-ish that was one of the best of its time. It was a top-down scrolling space shooter where you'd compete in various levels.
Each level began by a big set of "doors" opening across the screen and they'd close again at the end of the level. It was highly addictive and had a great SoundBlaster (and Gravis) soundtrack of techno music.
Anyone remember the name?
X-Com UFO Defense for the Playstation is worth good money, in the range of $30-$50 US last time I sold one on ebay. Target unloaded a ton of the PC version a year or so ago and I bought multiple copies to share with my friends for $5 each, which seems to be about the current market value as well...
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Actually, you're not quite right, either. The real FPS grandaddy is actually Hovertank, with Catacomb 3D coming shortly after that. Catacomb 3D evolved from Hovertank's engine, and Wolf3D evolved from Catacomb's.
Now, I'm sure you can find some other first-person shooting game prior to 1991 if you really dig (Battlezone, perhaps?), but that's the history of the FPS and id.
also what about Dev kits, im supriseed theyre not rare. id love a xbox dev kit or a ps2 dev kit. rare in 20, hell yeah.
I want 2D games back.
Duke Nukem Forever...
That was relased what, 3 years ago, or, wait, its still "When its done!"
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Geezzz, what a pervert.... Is that all you ever think about?
Oh wait a minute....
This is NineNine that made that comment.
Never mind.....
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Police Quest was so cool. Even though the story line was linear, the text command interface and real-life duties and police situations made it feel like you were in a living world.
Also, walking in on someone in the shower in the locker room and listening to them complain was my first experience of virtual sexual harassment.
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I would imagine that the original disks and packaging would be worth something. Just because you can get ROMs for old Atari games doesn't mean that the games themselves are worthless; I would imagine that things are similar with classic PC games.
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And they say Nintendo doesn't aim for the adult crowd...
Um, sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. The first Castle Wolfenstein game was made by id Software and was called "Wolfenstein-3D."
Don't shoot your mouth off if you don't know what you are talking about.
Wolfenstein 3D (1992) was the THIRD Wolfenstein game, following Castle Wolfenstein (1983) and and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (1984). Those games were indeed 2D.
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It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
GenX falls into the category of Colecovision AND Nintendo .. GenY is after Nintendo...
"Um, sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. The first Castle Wolfenstein game was made by id Software and was called "Wolfenstein-3D."
Um, sorry, but maybe you're just not as old as the rest of us. There was a 2-d Wolfenstien, It shipped in a clear plastic bag, and featured German soldiers shouting at you in German. In fact, the instruction manual even had a translation guide (like you could understand what was coming out of the Apple ]['s crappy little speaker.) This was the real precursor to W3D, and allowed you to pick up bulletproof vests, shoot nazi's, and steal gold. The objective was to find the secret war plans and escape from the castle.
The best thing about that game was the flame wars on usenet between the creator and all the suckers that shelled out for it. Ah, Derek Smart, where art thou?
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These are, of course, the rarest/most "collectable" games, rather than the best. Despite being the only porno NES game, Bubble Bath Babes is CRAP. It's just another derivative 'line up the colored ___s' game with pr0n in the background. Of the lot, Phantasy Star was one of the few that stood out as actually being a GOOD game.
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If you don't mind, I'll go back to playing all the FUN classics now (all the Marios, Zeldas, Guardian Legend & the good RPGs) somewhere that supports our right to fair use (consoleclassix.com)
This is true! My goofy neighbor bought Quake III for Linux at the dollar store only to discover that the game did not run on windows. When he asked me why laptop looked all funny, I said it ran Linux. Subsequently, he gave me the game, but he lost the tin. I was amazed that any retail outlet carried Linux games, let alone the dollar store.
my suggestion is find who purchased it. These will have teh most value to someone who has a set or best yet all of these cartagies. e-mail the person who wrote the article, and follow the lead to who purchased it. more than likely they have teh same cash to pay for yours. Having two of a set of collector item definately raises the individual value of each.
If you ask me there is no competition:
;) ) and they have BOXES of 'em.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the 2600
A local electronics shop is selling them for PENNIES ($CDN!
Anyone else remember how unfun, and unlike the movie that game was? You would fall down a hole and just get stuck with that stupid flower - god I hated that game!!!
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I would ebay it if someone wants to make an offer.
Apparently 'ebay' is now a verb. (The infinitive form must be 'to ebay'.) I guess enough precedent was set with 'leverage', 'antique'*, and 'blog', and I know all nouns can be verbed, but still... Oh, well.
('To antique' means to go looking/shopping for antiques.)
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You wouldn't care to put money on that, would you? I can remember the surreptitious Wolfenstein games being played on the Apple ][ machines in my high school's computer lab back in 1983. I never could understand what the horrible noise emanating from the little speaker was saying.
Did that ever come out? Back in university I had a friend who would play Wing Commander incessantly. We kept seeing the ads for Strike Commander in magazines, but I wasn't a big gamer so I never went looking for it (not that it would have run on my 386SX at the time anyway ;)
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
There's a new Master Blaster game, Master Blaster: Blasting Again for the PSX. It's cheap and worth a look.
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Has recreated the VGA version of KQ1. They also had the person who voice acted Graham in KQ5 & 6 do the voice for him.
Overall it's a great free game. It's not a nostalgic as playing the 16 color AGI version; however, it's the same game in a prettier package.
As for an original copy of King's Quest, your going to need to use eBay. Sierra has unfortantely stopped selling the Collector's Editions that included all these classics. You should be able to get just KQ1 for a few buck; however, a Collector's Edition can easily hit $50 or more.
Yeah, it was good for single player.
Playing online sucked, though. Gotta be the only game in the world where high ping/packet loss increased your chances of winning.
When someone's connection started to go sour, everyone else saw their tank jittering and disappearing, and it was impossible to hit.
Then, the rampant cheating began...
I quit playing after that.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
That has got to be one of the rarities out there, at least in terms of finding an original boxed version. I remember being absolutely engrossed by that game back in 1986 when it firsrt game out. Even though it had to run on primitive hardware of the time (CGA graphics, PC speaker sound), it was still a both a design and a technical masterpiece (they fit a whole universe of 300+ star systems, 20 sentinent alien races, 1000+ planets, each individually mapped, with unique terrain, artifacts, economies, etc.) on two 360K floppy discs. It was amazingly open ended and non linear, and yet had a completely fleshed out history, storyline, and universe.
I remember many happy hours spent mining, trying to get the most money, upgrade my ship, find out all the secrets, make alliances with alien races, etc. Very fun, and almost impossible to find now (not counting downloading it from a abandonwarez site, of course.)
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Terminals is what he's talking about.
Think "Hunt the wumpus"
Silpheed?
I believe I still *have* my Colecovision. If I do, I have a bunch of games for it, and the expansion box that lets you play Atari 2600 games on it.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
Knew about Catacomb 3D, didn't know about Hovertank. But, at least around CMU campus back then, nobody really knew about any of these until Wolf3D. That was the one that popularized the genre, at least here.
What an aptly named device to send it to.
I too remember the ASCII porn. Then I remember the programs that came later that coverted GIFs into ASCII. Then I remember the programs that converted ASCII pictures into greyscale pics.
That's when I felt it got rediculous.
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""Chasing the Chuck Wagon" has become a synonym for hunting for rare games in thrift stores, pawn shops and other such locations."
oh...i had ANOTHER meaning for that...
There is a store in Nebraska that still has old games like this on the shelf for $10 a pop. Instruction manual and everything. They are classics, but rare, lord no.
There was this company called Active Enterprises. It basically amounted to a guy in his garage making games. They had a cart called Action 52 for the NES which had 52 games on it. Of course to call these things "games" was a stretch - most were like quick coding excercises. The idea was that they would make up for in quantity what they lacked in quantity. At an asking price of $199.99 its unclear if his target audience was Blockbuster (which is used to getting hosed with rental pricing) or parents who figured that 52 games at the price of four was a deal.
One of the games on Action 52 was The Cheetahmen. Apparently Active Enterprises also wrote a game called Cheetahmen II . I say apparently because Active never released it. It appears that what happened was Active ordered 1,000 copies of Cheetahmen II and then couldn't pay the manufacturer for the carts, so after a year or two the manufacturer just sold them to people (which is legal).
So, Cheetahmen II is probably one of the rarest cartridges ever made.
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If you mean Blaster Master, I agree. My god, the music in that game was actually enjoyable! And it was for the NES!
Not to mention the pure evil thrill of getting your gun up to level 8 and mowing down anything that moved. Oh god, I want to play it again now. Good thing there's that nice NES emulator for the Dreamcast.
Until they reissued it, Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation was quite the collectors item too. I remember I bought it used twice for about $10 at my local blockbuster, and both times sold it for $40-50 on eBay. I remember seeing auctions for new versions of it go as high as $120. And of course now you can buy it at pretty much any Wal-Mart for about $14.99.
http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
This is not an emulator. Those old Sierra games were developed with a system called AGI. Pretty much the same data files were used on all supported systems with an AGI interpreter tweaked to run the data files. Sarien is a GENERAL AGI interpreter and works quite well. As a matter of fact, I finished Leisure Suit Larry on my Debian box last week. I also tried out but haven't seriously played Kings Quest I and Space Quest with it as well. If you still have some old IBM PC versions of these games laying around (or aren't above some abandonware digging...) then Sarien will take care of you.
One pisser is that it only has one save game slot but there is a workaround. The saved games can be copied and renamed elsewhere allowing arbitrarily many games to be saved albeit in a PITA fashion.
Oh yeah, If you try this be sure to get the ID database file. It is a separate download for some reason and Sarien won't correctly run most games without it.
Cheers!
I had a copy of Tengen's port of Gauntlet for the NES. It's probably worth even more than the Tetris game now.
Defense command - it actually played sounds out the cassette port ("PREPARE TO DIE, HUMAN").
SpaceWar - ran in 4K total memory.
Paddle Pinball - Not only was this a fairly cool little game, but I have a fond memory of playing it with a couple of friends. Bit was ahead, Darren was behind, but catching up. In the heat of the game, Darren says:
I'm coming up on your ass.
Bit, for once not being a bastard, decides to let him have a second chance
Excuse me?
Darren repeats his mistake:
I'm coming up on your ass!
Bit reverted to normal form:
I know, and it's getting sticky
By some strange co-incidence, Darren lost the ball shortly thereafter....
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Excitebike was one of my favorite NES games, I wasted many an hour designing tracks and then slaghtering the computer players
I remember spending a couple of hours with a friend on Mr. Robot (Atari 8-bit computers) to design a level that would use conveyer belts, magnets and trampolines to move Mr. Robot automatically around the screen collecting everything without human intervernsion.
What other games had great editing abilities? I remember the pinball construction set (Remember the BBS area full of CGA pinball games, all alike?)
OK there was a NES game that I played called Solomon's Key or something like that.
Did anyone else play this game, it turned out to be one of my favorites.
Ever even hear of it?
Doom made two huge improvements that created the FPS genre we know now, non-grid based maps, and the DeathMatch (and put that term into our vocabularies). Those two things really paved the way for the mainstream popularity of the hundreds of FPS games released since.
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Um, sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. The first Castle Wolfenstein game was made by id Software and was called "Wolfenstein-3D."
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Man! You had me laughing so hard I spit out of my nose. (Ewww!) I've got a copy of the original "Castle Wolfensten", written by Silas S. Warner, and published by MUSE. Your statement quoted above was a joke, right, or are you really that ignorant?
I just booted it on my IIgs (it still works) and it says Copyright 1981. This is interesting, because all the screenshots and docs I find say Copyright 1983.
Come a little closer so that I can smack you around with a clue-by-four.
Oh, and look here if you want to see it for the Commodore 64: http://www.desktopgames.co.uk/wolf/castlewolfenst
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
Silpheed did indeed rock. But it was produced by Sierra and only had Adlib & Roland MT-32 support (albeit beautiful sound...used on the MT-32 demo tape even), but no...
The game I'm remembering came out a while later and had better graphics and I *think* was a shareware game by one of the bigger players at the time.
I've tried a couple times to buy M.U.L.E. with the original packaging, manual, disk, etc. on eBay and see it regularly surpass $35. When accounting for inflation it's still lost some value, but I can't imagine an E.T. VCS cartridge doing better, what with 10 million or so of them disposed of. ("Just when did Earth get that second moon?")
I've still got a stack of Apple magazines from 80-81 and a couple promotional posters, one for Sneakers and the other, IIRC, for Beer Run. Rest assured, they're safely stowed.
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Egads, I remember long nights in front of my Apple //e playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on my green monitor.
*sigh*...the memories. I recall having to take out Nazi soldiers with your pistol (only weapon, IIRC) and steal their pass ("ANCE PASS!") to get around. If you weren't careful, they'd sound the alarm and all hell would break lose. I remember one night finally reaching Hitler and his crew sitting at a banquet table where I had to place a load of dynamite. I remember how triumphant I felt finally getting there.
Incidently, a few years ago one of the more popular gaming web pages had a sound-byte trivia contest, and the sound byte of "HAIL!" from this very game was amoungst them.
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Quite frankly I didn't see a game there that looked worth playing.
Phantasy Star is a great rpg series by Sega. Phantasy Star 2, 3, and 4 were made for the Genesis (PS3 had you play characters and their children over three generations; PS4 was the largest game cartridge (96megs?) of its time and quite expensive when it came out - $99.99 anyone?). Phantasy Star Online was made for the Dreamcast. Phantasy Star Online 2 is out now for the Gamecube, and I think its also coming for the PS2 and Xbox as well. It was Sega's "answer" to the Final Fantasy Series and I always found it to be more entralling than the FFs.
I have also heard nothing but great things about Radiant Silvergun. Never got the chance to try it out myself since I didn't have "connections" in Japan like many of those people on a BBS I frequented.
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My mother is still addicted to Teddy Boy on the Sega Genesis. One of the only card-cartridge games I ever saw...
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I was cleaning up my folks' basement earlier this year and found my Atari 2600, complete with joysticks and tons of carts. I have to wonder if this thing's worth anything out there.
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I own a copy of "Street Cop" an A+ rare Nintendo game, that people don't believe existed. Its not listed at Funco Land, its rarely listed anywhere. Here's why, its a powerpad game, you're a fat cop, and you have to chase the bad guys, with Uban Champ graphics...
Only like a few hundred were made, and my mother drove 3 hours to get it...
I still love that game...
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Same thing with some of the early games. Star Con 2 went opensource recently and the original PC source is gone. Fortunately there is a workable base to use but I'm not sure that's the case with the early Sierra games and the early Epix games. Sierra is out of business, they aren't doing games any more. The legend will live on for ages. Too bad the games won't. There was some real craft to games back in the day, in retrospect I'm amazed that TestDrive one fit on a floppy disk.
Look at what Doom and Quake did. The availability of that code changed the gaming world, the benchmark got raised alot and you can get Doom or quake on just about any platform around.
It's not just games either. There have been times when I'd kill to have Bank Street Writer or Dr. Halo on Linux. I know there are better things today but damn if it wasn't simple and fast. Maybe I'm just rememeber the past in too good of terms but BSW fit on 2 disks (you only needed the first, it had a 60,000 word dictionary and all the basic editing and word processing you could use. Or 1-2-3...
Actually, your are describing "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", the second one in the series. Although both were awesome games. BTW, the original wolfenstein game had grenades, which were the only defense against the SS guards that wore bulletproof vests. (And the SS guys also chased you, while the regular Nazis just stayed in their room.
i remember that. played it at woolworth's (must have been about 3 or 4 years before they went out of business). was it really the top 10 of each store that got t-shirts? me and two of my brothers each got shirts..damn that was a good game
Raptor. It was huge in the BBS world.
http://www.3drealms.com/raptor/index.html
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Does "Stellar 7" qualify as a FPS? Methinks it must, and was certainly around before 1991.
It doesn't help that I'm commingling the video characters and Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. Oh, that's bad.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure that Midimaze for the Atari ST preceded Hovertank and Catacomb 3d. If not the first FPS it was probably the first networked multiplayer FPS (using the built in MIDI ports on the ST (hence the name)).
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Leaps in Logic
should not be confused with
Jumping to Conclusions.
Herzog Zwei is one of my favorite games of old times. I believe the real time strategy aspect of the game was the first of it's genre.
One time (no not in band camp) I played a game head to head with a friend for four hours with neither of us doing much damage to each other's main base. Had to quit the game.
Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
Raptor was nice, but that's a scroller (and it came out later I think)
In this game, your ship was on the bottom of the screen and big gray "blast doors" would open to reveal the enemies upcoming. It was also purely set in space, no ground scenery.
Nope, but looks interesting. Same idea, but there were no ground targets, etc.
Ok, so it was only briefly, but if you finished Metroid quickly enough, the dude would strip and turn into a chick. I'm pretty sure I saw some nipples in the process too.
Want to see it yourself? Enter "justin bailey" in passcode area (use 12 spaces to fill in the last 12 spaces) and you will start in very good shape. Just get the freeze gun, the power tank (the one closest to the start of the game) and go kill Mother Brain.
I loved a lot of things about that game, how you'd have to randomly discover what controls would do for you in certain situations - like kicking a gaurd in "a most effective spot" to put it politley, or even better when you are trapped inside of the vehicle in the arena! Few moments in gaming have brought me such glee as that, though Half-Life came pretty close. I also loved the ending, possibly the best ending I've ever experienced in a game.
I played it on an Atari ST though, not a PC... and it was still called "Another World" at that point as I remember.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Damn, Tomarc The Barbarian is one hell of a sucky game! Those stupid controllers just make it so much worse. Give me a Wico with leaf switches any day.
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There were actually a fair number of games for the Famicom (the real name of the NES before the name was changed for the American market) in Japan that had nudity -- and even sex. The trick was that they were all for the Famicom Disk System, the floppy disk add-on, that wasn't released in the States.
:-) you can find quite a few adult games for the FDS for download.
These games were sold without Nintendo's approval, but they are full, original games, not simple ROM hacks with changed graphics.
If you do some searching (searching in Japanese helps
Anyway the article's list seems kind of U.S.-centric... It does list a couple of Japanese games, but there are in fact much harder games to find (that constitute a much greater prize) than those. ^_^ Well, aside from Phantasy Star for the Megadrive, which really IS rather hard to find.
Quite a few ArcadeCD (as opposed to SuperCD) PCEngine games are rather rare. The Arcade Card games were among the best ports of many arcade games, (very notably among them, the best version of Strider).
No matter what the origin though, rare games are expensive. ^_^ It's fun to find all the great hard-to-find classics (like Suchie Pai Remix for the Saturn, which undid the censorship of the original Suchie Pai port -- Suchie Pai Special, but was produced in far smaller numbers).
I thought the "dude" in Metroid was always assumed to be a woman?
Besides, most guys I know have nipples, too.
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Right, but beating the game wasn't all there was to it.
There was the search for the secret message, the Yar, and of course the desire to get your "Adventure Points" as high as possible.
As it turns out, the Yar is in fact in the game, and uncovering it gives you a higher rating. But I think I read one time that the secret signature was removed from production cartridges, so some parts of the game were cut out to prevent the player from ever being able to reach the score needed to unlock the "message".
Still, there is a lot of little hidden crap in that game that most people don't know about since none of it is required to beat the game.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
I think the coolest, rarest game I ever saw an advert for was Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens From Mars (starring Zippo the Dog) for the old Spectrum (Timex-Sinclair 1000). The vapourware advert cassette cover art was amazing -- anyone who somehow still has a copy please scan it!
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My uncle used to work for Magnovox, and somehow got a prototype of this game for me... wonder what it is worth/how much it would fetch on the open market... this article can't hurt the situation! hehe
Samus Aran is a chick.
There were no nipples.
JUSTIN BAILEY
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It starts one off in BRINSTAR with Ice Beam and leaves the Energy Tank three sections to the right and hidden in the ceiling just before the large wall that can only be passed using Maru Mari. Getting this tank will refill Samus's energy allowing the player go to straight up in Brinstar to Tourin and defeat Mother Brain. (The Zeebetites are already destroyed).
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
I hate to reply to myself -- but I should clear one bit up...
Samus Aran --IS-- a Chick, as I said.
Defeating the game once in a set amount of time will have her remove her power suit.
Defeating it again without the power suit will end the game with her in a Bikini.
Using the codes provided will allow one to play her without the Power Suit and start the game with enough time remaining for the player to get the final energy tank, trek up to mother-brain, and still see the Bikini ending.
There are no nipples.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
They didn't even mention the vectrex - best console of all time! I have one and almost all the carts, and the light pen and 3d imager. Them puppies bring in decent $$ if you sell them.
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There was nothing more fun than smacking the computer players into an oil patch or off the track.
:-)
Spoken like someone who's never played the later games in the Road Rash series (on Genesis, or even better, 3DO). Don't get me wrong, I liked Excitebike a lot at one time-- but taking a pipe, chain, or nunchucks to the head of one of your fellow riders, or kicking him/her into the path of an oncoming car, is much more enjoyable.
~Philly
I surely hope you played the original Jumpman (try it on a C64 emulator for best experience), to which Jumpman Jr. was sort of a less-inspired sequel. Amazing game.
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
Anyone remember this game??? I think it was on the Apple ][e, and it rocked! I used to love playing it, esp the part where if you cursed it brought you to a mirrored-room that said "You shouldn't've said that - there are mirrors all around!"
This was available for the Atari 2600, and called "Circus Atari." The Sears-branded version was called simply "Circus." It was a paddle game, kind of fun.
I'm sure there's a 2600 emulator floating around the net somewhere, and a ROM dump of every cart ever made for the Atari wouldn't make a dent in a Zip disk's capacity.
~Philly
Holy crap that game ruled! It had a sequel - didn't it?
All your collectibles are belong to zero wing!
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
And there's the auction I won it in. I'm not sure where it ranks with some of those, but this is "rarest" games in the article, not "most valuable"... This one is a mix... one of the most valuable famicom games, one of the rarest official famicom games, and definitely one of the best. It had a production run that was cut short by the death of the 8 bit systems and possibly money trouble at technos. Cost me a bit over $100 (cart only) to get it in, and even more to ship, but it was definitely worth it.
;) ...
As far as value goes, in the Famicom department, it is beat out by the gold Punch-Out cart, a few RPGs, Metal Slader Glory, handful of others.
As far as some of those "rare" non-Nintendo-authorized games... my opinion is that all of them sucked, and I don't care how rare they are, I wouldn't want to play or own them.
BTW, the Nekketsu games are the same line that "River City Ransom" and "Super Dodge Ball" came from. This was the last NES Nekketsu game.
Here's a javascript thingy I made for the passwords in the game. Also, check my site for Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu info, and stuff you can use to rewire your Four Score to make it Famicom compatible
I remember that guy! Wow! I even remember him advertising those non-NES-sanctioned games! I remember wondering why the hell he'd endorse those crappy games. Oh well...
First of all, "Spot" was quite a nice version of Attaxx for the NES. If you are talking about the other 7-up games, though, I'm with ya! :)
On Excitebike, though... we got hosed. I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a battery feature save, because the Famicom Disk System version is almost completely different. "Vs. Excitebike" (the name is only an homage to Vs. unisystem, I'm not talking about an arcade rom) featured a 2 player mode and the ability to save up to, if I recall, 10 tracks, each one with thier own spot on the disk.
Games are software.
Software is bits.
Bits are infinitely copyable.
Why is any game rare? If it is rare, it must mean few people are copying it. If few people are copying it, it must mean it's not popular. If it's not popular, chances are better than fair that it sucks.
I could give a ratfuck about the original packaging.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
So which one was Escape from Castle Wolfenstein, for the apple? I can still hear the digitised speech, crackling away :)
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
Ok, you're "sorrrrrrry" (but in all caps). Doesn't sound so apologetic, does it? You've got lots of reasons why you're not actually wrong, despite clearly being wrong factually.
I had no idea that this many Slashdot readers were so old. :P
Reason #1: Those who pointed out your mistake are "old".
After looking at some of those links though, it looks like those first two games were not id Software games? So why should they be considered "official" Wolfenstein games then?
Reason #2: The original game was made by Br0derbund, and since you don't really believe you're wrong (despite clear factual evidence), you'll now attempt to substitute the word "official" for "original". Yes, it's a desparate attempt, as the parent posts spoke of "original", but maybe, just maybe you can avoid being wrong.
I guess I'll always consider the first one to be Wolf 3D, since it's from id Software and is the one I played as a little kid.
Reason #3: It doesn't matter what the facts really are. It doesn't matter that the plain, undeniable truth might be. Because you played id's 3D version as a "little kid", you'll always consider it the first one. Truth and undisputable facts be damned.
But there are apparently two that are older, whether they are "real" Wolfenstein games depends on your point of view I guess!
Reason #4: If all else failes, as in reason #2, attempt to re-write history, this time subsitution the word "real" for "original".
As you said in the beginning "stop jumping all over me"... perhaps you should step back and look at yourself. I'm "jumping all over" you, not because you were wrong, but because even after being proven wrong, you post this crap claiming that even though you are factually wrong, it's somehow not so wrong, and you're "sorrrrrrry", yet not actually in the least bit sorry.
Since you're too young to remember 8-bit computers, you're probably also too young to have watched the old television sitcom "Happy Days". Briefly, "Fonzie" was one of the main characters who was ultra "cool". He road a bike, had girls hanging all over him, etc. In one famous episode, Fonzie was wrong about something, and he couldn't admit it. Every time he tried to, he'd say "I was wr, wr, wrrr" and couldn't say the word "wrong". It was quite humorous. Here's a page with a brief summary in the first paragraph, and then transitions onto a very christian-oriented sermon, which could do you some good.
Next time, when you respond, rather than telling people to get off your back, and then make a feable attempt to deny that you could have been wrong, try something like this:
Had you posted something along those line, many people including me would not be "jumping all over" you. I hope you can learn to understand this... if not today, perhaps when you grow older and have an opportunity to mature a bit.
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I'm surprised this article doesn't mention Tengen's Tetris.
This game represents the legal battles Nintendo fought with Atari, and it's better than Nintendo's version. "Game Over" by David Scheff explains it in depth, but basically, Atari thought they got the rights to make Tetris for the NES, but Nintendo actually got it, so although Atari's version (published under the Tengen label) was superior (various two player modes, better difficulty curve), Nintendo's version was legal. Before the court decision, Atari managed to sell about 100,000 copies. Afterwards, they had to recall the other several hundred thousand and destroy them.
About the same time, Nintendo and Atari were also fighting over the legality of the NES's "lockout chip", which let Nintendo create artificial regions, fee and censor 3rd parties. Atari stole Nintendo's "10NES" (lockout chip) patent from the patent office and made their own unlicensed NES games that circumvented it. Nintendo sued and I believe won, not because Atari was making unlicensed games but because they stole a patent to do it. Other companies, such as Camerica and Color Dreams made games with reverse engineered lockout disablers.
There's far more Nintendo games with nudity than that. First thing that comes to mind is a nudity hack for SMB.
I haven't even gotten started, though. Here's more.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, the Alpha Centauri expansion pack is exceedingly rare and it's only 3 or so years old. I have never played it but only because I can't get my hands on a copy of it. Ebay always comes up dry and local video game stores never have used copies of it. I don't know why there were so few copies made, but demand for the game still far outstrips supply.
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You have to be talking about Xenon...and probably Xenon 2, at that. It scrolled vertically, and had a shop where you could buy upgrades. A truly great shmup :)
Bitmap brothers, I beleive. They also did the great Speedball 2 (they seem to be good at sequals) and are working on Speedball Arena...which I'm really looking forward to, but there hasn't been any news on it for a year or so.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
There was this special promotion. I believe it was called "The Star Fox Weekend" where Nintendo set up booths all over the US to see if gamers could beat Star Fox in 15 minutes. After this contest was over the game carts, with the special timers, were available to Nintendo Power subscribers for purchase. I, sadly, was unable to get my hands on one.
Same concept as the number 1 cart in this article, just different platform and a little more recent.
I beat E.T. plenty of times. It's not impossible.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Barney Splat! all the way. That was the only door game I had on my system. That game fucking ruled.
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Got the save games around somewhere...
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May not be a good game, but it took years for the fairly massive ultima community to find one, and Sierra even released it!
when Push Comes to Shove
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TheFrood
If you say "I'll probably get modded down for this..." then I will mod you down.
The Underdogs is an indispensible resource for those who enjoy retro PC gaming. Highly recommended.
If you say "I'll probably get modded down for this..." then I will mod you down.
I actually liked the 7-up Spot game, but I'm a bit weird, and wish they would make a 3D version.
You're right, the data itself can be copied indefinitely, but that has no bearing on its rarity, since most of these games have distinct physical aspects that can't be duplicated, or at least not quite so easily. Sure, you can MAME Pitfall all day long, but you'll never have the physical cartrige, box or manual that came with it. You got that CD-R of Metal Gear Orta, but you don't have the gold etched art CDROM it was original pressed to. It's not the data itself that determines rarity or how much/little it's played. It's the stuff you can't duplicate. You could give a ratfuck about the original packaging, but that's what makes it unique from the thousands of ROMs being played. For everybody else, it's just nostalgia.
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he was made to drink hemlock tea. Hemlock, when ingested, causes the body to go into spasms so violent that eventually the spine snaps, killing the victim
I can't think of a more thorough way of banishing an individual from society. Look it up, it's effectively what they considered it.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Tengen Tetris isn't nearly as rare as some other NES games. While it's a cornerstone for a good NES collection, it really isn't that rare, but does sell well because everyone thinks it's really rare and it really is the best version of Tetris for the NES. The Panesian games mentioned in the article are significantly harder to find.
Learn to Play Go
Tengen Gauntlet is pretty common, both licensed and unlicensed versions. To find out just how rare the games in your collection are, check the NES Rarity List.
Learn to Play Go
You, sir, rock my world. That is indeed the game I was referring to, and trust me the music/effects rocked (for the time) if you had the right card. Thanks for all the help.
Aaaahhhhhhh.... I still have 1 and 3 (I never got 2, I just never had money at the right time).
I should go find them and play them again. Damn they were fun. And no, I won't sell either of them to you : )
I think they are right next to my old "Sam & Max Hit the Road" disks...
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
I think that was the first one. And how scary was it when the SS guy would storm on screen and scream at you to stop?! Much more fun than Wolf 3D.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
written by Steve Capps - a nice 3D figure of alice moves around on a chessboard being chased by chess pieces. make a wrong move, and she falls through a hole in the board. the 'menubar' is a 'cheshire cat'.
came out in 1983 for the original macintosh, in a nice little 'book volume' which contained the floppy disk.
cheers
john
I know... there's already 600 comments on here, and no one is going to read this. BUT. I have spent a better part of the workday trying to play this game. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was a 13 year old kid at the time and has wanted to play it ever since. Hopefully someone will come back and read this and it will help them play the game.
The rom is available online. I'm not going to help you. Use google, you'll find it.
Once you do, use FCE Ultra, it seems to be the only emulator that is capable of dealing with this ROM.
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