Originally posted by J0e Musashi
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Stadium Events / Track and Field is similar (no, I am not saying 'the same' .. just similar). The lines that are drawn are fairly arbitrary. Is Stadium Events actually a different game than Track and Field? Not in any way that relates to the actual playing of it. Just like a first edition book does not read any differently than the 16th printing; or perhaps a better example would be "Northern Lights" and "The Golden Compass" (UK and US titles for the same book). Does the book read any differently? No - so if you were buying the book just to read the series, it wouldn't make any difference which title/imprint you bought.
Nor does 'rare' necessarily correlate with 'desirable' or 'valuable'. If I handwrote a copy of the Divine Comedy right now, it would be extremely rare variant of the book - one of a kind, in fact. However you wouldn't find many book collectors looking for it, nor would anyone be likely to pay me more than a quid or so for it. Nor would it be grounds for saying that the Divine Comedy is one of the rarest books in existence. I think what James is arguing above is somewhat similar - a Portuguese cover variant for a Megadrive game might well be very rare, but unless you draw some very arbitrary lines then it's hard to say that you can count this variation as making it one of the "rarest PAL Megadrive games".
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