im pretty sure there is a handful of peeps with a rodland. I still yet to get my hands on one

Hardest NTSC game to find is Myriad. Hardest PAL game is probably one of the HES games. Other than that, I would say Devil World. Hardest complete game to find is NTSC Stadium Events. For PAL it's probably either Devil World or Rodland.

And I agree with Dain. That version of Athletic World is extremely tough to find. I've been looking for one since qixmaster sold his and have not seen one for sale anywhere. Dain has got his hands on a very rare gaming piece

piteta wrote on 12. Aug 2006 at 23:30:


The 3-in-1 box is indeed incredible hard to find, but belive me, Rodland box is also insane hard to find. It might be "easier" to find it if you live in Spain or Italy (if you want PAL-A hehe ), but if not, the only source you have is basicly Ebay. If you're lucky you might know some Spanish or Italian collector, but this doesnt make things any easier actually.

About the Devil World box, it is more doable tha 3-in-1 and Rodland for sure, but i hardly turns up around here, unfortunatly :\

personally, I don't think you can use any one method of finding games to justify a game as being 'the rarest'. I've been collecting for various systems for years, and I've found 'rare' games on ebay, in games shops, car boot sales, charity shops, been given by friends, from forums etc. etc. To me - calling a game the rarest when you have a select few that are very rare is kinda dumb - in my experience what tends to happen is a game that's thought to be ultra-rare goes on ebay for example and is bid up to a high level, then others who see that, have the game and didn't realise how 'rare' it was take note and usually within a week 3 or 4 come out of the woodwork either on ebay or on forums, with people trying to cash in. It all goes in cycles coz then you might not see that game mentioned as the rarest for a while, and the same happens to another one of the games in the group. I've seen it sooo many times for sooo many systems! To say any one game is the 'rarest' - unless it is CLEARLY the rarest by a long way - is a bit of a pointless argument. Even Myriad has been mentioned as being purchased by buyers 2 or 3 times in the last 6 weeks or so!

Yeah, I agree with both of you guys -- it's hard to truly gauge how rare some of these games are, especially the Spanish titles, simply because there are few means for people outside of Spain to obtain them other than ebay. I wish I had known the 3-in-1 was hard to find -- the first time I saw it, I said to myself, "Wow, that's pretty cool! I wonder how many other Spanish variations exist?!?" Then I saw the Spanish version of Willow and Goal! 2, both totally different labels than other regions. But it was interesting to me because I've been "patroling" PAL games for years and hadn't seen those variations yet. I think it's only now that we're seeing them (people outside of Spain) because more Spanish sellers are arriving on ebay.

Let's just say that the ones mentioned are all pretty "uncommon" -- if you live in Spain, any of them are going to be easier to obtain of course.

-Dain

I agree completely, and I'm really glad there are people here from that area to talk about it. It's amazing to me that after having collected for as long as I have, that I still see new items from time to time. The Spanish and Hong Kong markets have been the ones that seem to keep surprising me -- new games keep popping up that I'd never seen before, such as Mah-jong and the Spanish variations I mentioned.

-Dain

There are no proof (afaik) that defenders of dynatron city PAL really excist. A friend said he read an preview about the game in a magazine, but i have never seen or heard of anyone who owns a copy. Robocod for NES was also previewed in a magazine, but it was never released. Hell, the magazine even mentioned the retail price for the game

Ye thats true. Im pretty sure Holland imported the game from Spain.

EDIT: Fixed missing word hehe.