Holy Grails?

xD

 

I would realy like to see one of those film/projector shooting game in action.

I'm wondering If one those first nintendo game still exist in working condition...

 

Yeah, it doesn't get much more holier than that. Although there are technically 3 in existence that are known of. One owned by NAL (and not leant to any arcades currently, AFAIK) and two that Cave have... although those could very well have been written over already.

 

Trust me, you really don't want it. I had a chance to play with it once, and all I can say is UGH! The whole thing felt really cheaply made too (although it was just a prototype).

I guess I'm one of the lucky few people who have actually found their holy grail. In my case it was the Atari 8-bit version of Cloak & Dagger (prototype): http://www.atariprotos.com/8bit/software/cloakdagger/cloakdaggerproto.htm

Still looking for that 5200 Elevator Action prototype tough. Sigh...

Tempest

 

Tetris for the Md.

 

I remember someone on the board earlier saying there was a sealed Metal Slug for Neo Geo on eBay and he called it a Holy Grail. Since then I started to think of it more in subjective terms.

For me...hardware from Japan...

Nintendo: Othello Computer TV-Game
Sega: SF-7000
Pioneer: Palcom
Casio: None
Bandai: Super Vision 8000
Epoch: ElectroTennis
Fujitsu: None
NEC: PC Engine LT
Sony: None
Tomy: None
Microsoft: None

Other nominees:

Takara: Sord M5
Bandai: RX-78 Gundam PC, Kosokusen Vectrex
Sega: Any of the hyper rare Dreamcasts

Not all of these are rare, but I think if you're a Nintendo fan and you see a Othello Computer TV-Game in someone's collection then it's a symbol of how far he's willing to go and it makes him a top tier collector, however you want to define that. Same with something like a Swatch Dreamcast or a full Palcom set.

If only 2-3 of something exist then I'm not sure you can say it's in circulation enough to really be something someone can obtain. If it's off limits then there's really no point in going for it. That's just my opinion, I'm sure others will disagree.

 

havent been in years but the amusement park "Liseberg" here in Gothenburg has two setups sounding very much like what you described there, they might still be there, pretty fun if by chance it happens to work (both setups are old and the park doesnt give a shit about servicing their machines )

 

I remeber them
And I agree on the service on the machines.. thought I havn't been there for like +5 years, so it might have changed?

 

Oh yeah, I've played it too... I know it's a crap game. :110: I just want it because of it's rare/prototype status (and my main focus is handheld games...)

 

Castlevania for the Dreamcast, also.

The graphics artist says it was in playable burnt form, screenshots exist. A GDRom was originally offered up for sale all those years ago on a French site...

The problem is that the more people express an inerest in it then the less likely collectors of such things will want to share it.

Maybe moderators could ban the use of the word 'Castlevania' in the forums then, give it 10 years or so...and some collector will browse the boards here and think "Hey, nobody ever mentions this game here? Heck, I'll just give it away..."

Well....we can dream can't we?

 

Anymore info on this unit Japan-Games?

Do we have another contender for the rarest dreamcast of all? Rivalling perhaps the 'all gold' model given away in a Pro-Yakyu competition...(did that one ever exist?)

I am intrigued!

 

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Has there ever been one for sale? I thought the Swatch DC was canceled as there is only one image known to me on the net from it being placed a showcase of Swatch (on a fair or something).

MY personal holy grails are also hardware-related as I have a faible for hardware.
The HiSaturn Navi with LCD is the best collector's item I could imagine to get my hands on b/c I like to collect jpn saturn very much. Pretty close comes the Maziora Dreamcast and the Crystal Chronicles GameCube due to their wonderful colors. There are 3 limited consoles with beautiful colors, the last one is the Gundam GC which I already own as its not too expensive, so I wouldn't call it a "Holy Grail".

 

Elemental Gearbolt Assassins case
Stranglehold promotional gun set in wooden box.
10 million model PS1
360 HDMI dev kit

 

Hardware:
NPDP-WIF PCI card
Bill Gates 'Partner' Xbox
64mb Tuscany Xblade Xbox Debug Kit

Software:
Lamborghini (Pressed disc, full game)
May 2000 - May 2001 (Alpha Xbox Dev disc set)

Misc:
XFest 2000 (Alpha) Xbox Developer folder presentation, mouse mat and fridge magnet set.

 

I bet OE owns some of what he mentioned.:thumbsup:


But I would say hardware wise.
Xbox 360 Alpha Kit

 

-Saturn Sonic X-treme 1996 e3 proto (was this playable ever??)
-Saturn Shenmue
-Saturn Virtua Fighter 3
-Saturn Sonic The Fighters
-Resident Evil 1.5
-Dreamcast Castelvania
-Dreamcast Black & White
-Dreamcast Max Payne

 

Saturn Shenmue
Biohazard 1.5
Biohazard 0 N64
Super Mario World Proto where you could still use the racoon tail.

 

A Sega AI Computer could possibly be my holy grail. And Sonic XTreme 1996 E3 proto for the software...

 

One of those ST-V devkits that assembler had a few pics of on the old site would be nice...

 

I wonder how much that differs from a sega saturn devkit that had a Jamma harness on it (maybe it's the same?). I saw one on ebay and almost got it. **** me for not because I wanted to buy a xb360 at launch (the same thing i'm now trying to sell before it breaks on me).