Rarest Videogame system

In your opinion, what is the rarest videogame system. (NO Prototypes or Dev Kits) I would have to say it is the Super A'Can. I only know of 2 web sites that have any information on the system. Here is one of them

http://www.vanillaicemedia.com/acan/acan.htm

Can't remember the other one. The Super A'Can is a 16-bit system released in 1995, and while at first it looks like a SNES clone, it is actually not. The system is more powerful than the SNES, and it has its own "unique" games.

 

Love the sonic clone!

 

Yes, posts about this baby turn up every now and then but noone actually seems to own it... anyone with knowledge of Korean care to look on some Korean auction sites?
However, I think the Sega AI also ranks pretty high, some people even doubt if it was ever released! :smt017

 

I have actually played that fighting game before on one of my computers, but i can't remember which one, and i can't rememeber where i got the game from. I don't even know if i still have it.

 

On the web site, the owner said the system was from Taiwan. I have tried to find more information about it , but i can't seem to find anyting. Can_Dude has an A'Can system, and he is about the only person on ASSEMbler that does. Wonder where he got it :smt017

 

*sigh* how quickly people forget.....

can_dude owns one! (click)

another site posted recently.....

http://hawanja.com/super_acan.htm

 

Yeah, generally anything from Korea/Taiwan is super hard to get hold of.

The Korean NeoGeo AES must be damn hard to find (lost my piccie, anyone got one?).

And the funky Korean PCEngine/Turbo

 

I've said this a few times already. The emugo.com site is the person who sold the A'Can. The person that bought it I assume was Can_dude. They are extremely rare and are from Taiwan, you will not find this anywhere outside of Taiwan. They were scarce when they were made in the mid 90s, now probably near-impossible. This console was not cheap, if you find one, you wont be able to obtain it for beans. The seller of the A'Can is a money-loving greymarket HK dealer. All info/pictures on this console elsewhere on the net have been taken from the emugo.com description. Can_dude most likely is the only "western" collector to have one. If you want to know more about the system, you'll have to ask Can_dude.

Unlicensed Samsung Neo Geos are really not that hard to find. They aren't worth a fortune either, maybe around $175-200. Someone on http://www.neo-geo.com surely will have a picture.

The Korean Turbo Grafx (which plays PC Engine?) on the otherhand deserves the title "rare."

 

The Neo Geo MVS Hotel Unit i'd stab at, probably due to the prohibative price.

 

The Intellivision Keyboard Component has to rank up there. Only 4000 were made and then recalled. If you wanted to keep it you had to sign a waiver absolving Mattel of all future support.

http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/hardware/keyboard_tech.html

 

I guess everyone would like to know about my A'Can, and here's the story.

I was perusing a retro gaming message board when I came across a topic of a system that they considered an SNES clone. Inside was the A'Can, and the owner didn't know what to do with the "clone" that had no games with it. I said, I could get an A'Can game and test it out if he sold it to me so the mystery would be solved...I knew I could get the game since I knew the emugaming.com guy with the complete A'Can and he had sold me one of the games (interesting fact here, he had the only complete collection of A'Can games and sold me 1 breaking up the collection). The game cost me more the system. How's that you ask? I purchased the game for 70 USD plus shipping and the "clone" cost me 35 dollars Canadian INCLUDING shipping. I later talk to the emugaming.com guy and he sold his A'Can to a private buyer (in asia I believe) for over 800 british pounds. So there you have it, 2 known working A'Can Funtechs, and by the way, this thing really has some horsepower. The games are incredibly fluid with amazing animation and graphics...they also are no fun to play which is too bad. an FYI, it is believed that there are only 5 A'cans to have escaped Taiwan, 1 is mine, the rest are private collectors'. I don't know how many were produced either but I've heard rumors of the 1,000 mark...really really low.

 

I love the little history lesson and everything, but this topic is about the rarest videogame system, not Can_Dude's Super A'Can. I want some of the other people's opinions on what they think is the rarest system.

 

This system really looks like Super Famicom-ish. Even if the cartridge are not compatible, I would guess that they ripped the Super Famicom technology for it.

 

i really dont think its the rarest video game console but someone know if a radio shack trs-80 is rare ? if yes , what is her value?

a bought one for 2 bucks with is box , 7 games, three controlers , 2 books all hook up plus a mario \ dunk hunt nes game ( damn ! i have now 7 of them! lol)


i saw this console only three times in my life ...maybe im unlucky

:smt017

 

The Tandy TRS-80 is a home micro, not a console. It isn't incredibly rare, but getting uncommon I guess

 

If it's true that production ceased after one month then the HiSaturn Navi is one of the rarest consoles around with only 2,000 units ever made (And 1,000 screens). Here's something you don't see every day!

As for the Super A'Can, it was sold surplus through a bulk dealer in the states for $2 each, if you were at the right place at the right time you could have bought 200 of 'em. I know someone who bought a handful for $beans.

Also, the Samsung Saturn is hugely rare, as are Daewoo PC Engines and Hyundai SuperNES systems and of course the Vistar. Here's the Vic-A Neo Geo...

 

Would you happen to know how to get a Supe A'Can?

 

Wait, so NFG (It's Lawrence, isn't it) You're saying that there are at least 200 A'Cans lurking around the US?

 

One of the 6 games (lower right-hand corner) is Sangokushi. Any chance it's made by Koei?

 

I know only that a large qty (I don't know the total) were available through a surplus dealer and someone I know bought a half dozen or so for $2 each. Unboxed, no accessories, but this indicates there's a good possibility the system was dumped on the US market at one point.