Rare? Define rare! Your help please :)

[michael]

Ummm... Mail Plane for Vectrex? A couple of copies sneaked in the last days of the system's life, I think. And when I say a couple of copies, I really do mean it. I think that only 2 have actually had their existence verified.

oh, and Rakugaki Showtime on PS1 - you want a hard to find Treasure game? Here it is. Pulled about a week after going on sale thanks to the Japanese authorities not exactly keen stance on the promotion of delinquency...

[anephric]

Those Mail Plane carts are prototypes... do they count?

[michael]

You know what - they were only proto's (just been looking them up on the interweb). However, there are a few Vectrex carts that are super-rare, especially the home-brew things still being made. We had a little retro-meet recently and one guy brought a lovely Defender-type game, beautiful packaging, and well put together. Think it was limited to 100 copies, so pretty rare.

edit - had a look around - it's called Protector. And it's aces.

[Mayhem]

Yep Protector. I have #46 of the limited run myself

Mail Plane is essentially a proto as it wasn't commercially sold or packaged. And I know one of the people with a copy of it. Would like to see it someday however.

Protector may go in, even though it is a homebrew, and even though there is an unlimited version out there. People know it, people want it. I've seen three copies sell on eBay and all have gone for over $200 (whereas the actual price to buy at the time was ?25).

[michael]

It's a cracking game - and the built-in bonus game isn't too shabby either Well worth inclusion on your list, I think.

[112]

Rare in that its so hard to come by that you didnt even know it existed! Your gonna hafta be a bit carful about this and avoid goin for the obvious so called rare titles like PD saga and Silvergun. Still i await your article should be interesting finding out about stuff i aint heard of - oh the irony.............. (i think?)

good Luck m8, you tend to churn out decent quality stuff!

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[Tetsuo]

How about this baby then?



Only a thousand units were ever produced by NOJ and they were only avaible via getting a special willy wonka gold ticket if you like, by buying certain GBA games. I have seen these going for well over ?1000 now.

What a load of bull****. Where DO you get your facts from?

[Mayhem]

I believe 2,000 were actually made. And they have gone for fairly high prices on eBay (around the ?500 mark). But it's far from being the rarest SP now