Rarest thing you own thread

Hmm, fancy creating a topic like this and not even starting the ball rolling! I think Kev's on the rob, after finding out who has something worth nicking! :lol: :lol:

Babu: That's a great example of a rare item. Valuable, no - it has been devalued by the grafitti ;-) hehe j/k!

Ahh, congratulations on misinterpreting the meaning of the word rare! True enough, expensive doesn't necessarily equal rare, but neither does rare necessarily equal expensive.

Rare means hard to find, and has little to do with the value. If a rare item is sought after by a lot of people, their desire for it may push up the price (especially in a bidding war), or of course, a seller's greed may.

If you ever played M:TG or Pokemon TCG, you'd know there were rare, uncommon and common cards. Cards were printed on sheets, 11 cards by 11 cards (so 121 cards). There were several sheets per set, and rarity was worked out as follows: Rare cards were printed once per set, uncommon cards twice, and common cards 3 times (these are sample, but common, print values). Rare cards that were good were popular (e.g. Charizard) and therefore commanded a high value. You also had rare cards that weren't quite as good, and these were often as cheap as, or cheaper than, a good uncommon.

In gaming terms, you could have something scarce, say a white label version of Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast. It would probably only go for about £5, but they were only made for preview purposes, not in a large quantity like the retail game. Then you could have a beta (say a late, maybe final beta). This is very rare - only a few copies will have been made, perhaps this is the only one. However, it still only goes for what, £20-40? Rare yes, expensive no.

So I would say exactly the opposite of what you said. Games that are hard to find ARE rare, regardless of whether they command a high price or not

 

might be.. who knows ;-)

Well there is a connector for a lcd.. just never had the time to try to connect one.. so I've been looking for a WIDE-BOY64 AGB. The othe problem I have is that I don't know what voltage it expects.. been asking around but none have been able to answer.

Well it got those fancy push buttons too

 

Sure, it looks like this (a ordinary game with the special card...):

http://loading.se/user_file.php?39aacdc29699557f2be7dcb58a3d3373

 

I have GBC prototype board (as seen here:
http://roshi.mooshuu.com/ebay/GBC_PROTO_TurnedOn.JPG

It uses a SNES power supply... Might be the same on the GBA one?

 

hmmm

My stuff (not all that rare, but here it is):
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess preview trailer (DS cartridge): Given out at Nintendo's E3 2005 press conference to the attending media. I'll assume that less than a thousand of these were made.


World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade B-Roll demo footage on a Digital Betacam tape. (Given to me by head of QA at Blizzard.... yet I do not own a Digital Betacam player nor the $15,000 to purchase one). Limited to probably 60 or so. Its probably not that special.


Dual-Screen Zelda Game&Watch: Complete with box and all documentation. Box is slightly damaged though


Gamecube Interactive Display Unit: While working at EB we were told to destroy our old Display units. I enjoyed destroying the N-Gage display we had... but the gamecube one I... "destroyed" didn't included controllers or a system. But that wasn't hard to add back in.



So those are the rarities/treasures currently in my possession. I also ahve numerous trade sample/review copies of games and tons of standees for various games. But you get the idea.

 

Hey, where are you located? I work at a facility that prepares content for use on DVDs, thus we have a few Digi-Beta decks around... If you want, I can capture and encode the video from this onto a DVD...

I'm kind of curious to see what's on it...

 

if that warcraft footage was from the adventure that would be really cool but wow and betacam is also very nice =)

 

nice. is it the one that was up on eBay some month(s) ago? was going to bid on it.. but didn't have any cash (as always)
I was kind of suspecting that it might be a SNES power supply.. but I havn't dared try yet

 

hmmmm

- SNSYS boxed GBA Devkit.
- Maestro Music Baton Controller (was frickin harder to find than i thought)

tubo

 

It was? Maybe I was lucky but I picked up 3 Maestro Music box sets for 500 Yen each.

 

I know some folks who would probably kill for that..

 

Probably my copy of the Starsiege: Tribes sourcecode...

 

rarest thing I own. Don't have anything else deemed very "rare"

 

That's one of the coolest things ever. So...cool...

 

Reminds me of a N-gage display that was on ebay a while back $40.00 porbably less. Wanted to buy it but was broke at the time. Can't have 'em all I guess.

 

I guess it would have to be my arcade stuff. The rarest find being a brand new Thunder Hoop PCB. I got it few years ago. Back then it was on the "unMamed" list. It's emulated nowdays though. I still have TH Strikes Back though. Emulated partially, protection still going strong - unplayable on any emu.

 

Mainly SMS stuff for me:icon_bigg. Smurfs 2, Mah-jong, Mak-jong and a few others. I'm having a real hard time finding Ultimate Soccer and it only sells for a couple of quid normally, proof that it doesn't have to be expensive to be rare.

I've also got a nice Metal Gear Solid Box set with T-Shirt, dog tags and soundtrack CD, not very rare but still V.nice.

 

no i didnt lol o well rare to me

 

If you consider a KatzMedia Pippin something rare I think this is the rarest thing I own...

 

I have some artwork that was made for the cover of the gameboxes, they are obviously rare as they are on of a kind:icon_bigg