It's deemed a rare game, the same way people spend $500+ on basically what is an estate agents promotional material disc just because it is on the Saturn. The price does sound about right though. http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=lsd&auccat=2084007305&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8&tab_ex=commerce
It's not expensive, it's even below what it sometimes goes for. I got mine for 9800yen on YAJ, but I saw them go for 15000. Some sellers even try their luck with tags of 22000yen, but these don't sell. So I'd say anything between 10000 and 15000 is adequate. LSD is a psychedelic adventure kind of game with no real aim. It's highly experimental and sometimes scary. A worthy addition to any collection of the obscure.
I've heard of this game. It is indeed an experimental software kind of thing. I think it had a companion soundtrack or a companion book, or something. It's what people called trippy, back in the time when the words "interactive" and "multimedia" were cutting edge. It is probably very rare.
It is a fun game, but incredibly rare and expensive, the only reason I've played it is because I found a Bleemed image online
There's at least one copy of it on Yahoo almost all the time, it's not THAT rare. Although I've never seen it on ebay, so that might make it rarer than most *sought after* PSX games (like Harmful Park, Geppy X, Rakugaki Showtime)....
This game must be one of those with the most unequal bootleg disc<->legit copy balance amongst its consumers. So many people play and like it on Youtube (and here), but nobody wants to buy it. Come on people, revitalize your collector's spirit Lol.
This user on Youtube has links to the companion book & soundtrack, "Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites" and "LSD Remixes". http://www.youtube.com/user/MikeNnemonic (Look in the channel description) The book is interesting, it pertains to the dreams the creator based the game off of and the art is experimental.
IIRC, some Japanese company recruited a man to take high doses of acid daily for over a year. During his long, long trip, he recorded the events he saw in some diary or journal. When he was finished, the company would make a mindfuck book/game/movie?/soundtrack called LSD. The game itself is pretty creepy. It's on a day-to-day basis, there's only a handful of levels, but the levels themselves change as time goes on. From what I've heard, anything generated in those levels is totally random, and some very dark and bizarre things can pop up. I think some of the people that ended up working on the Rez soundtrack were behind this game's track as well.
