euro kizuna
This article appears on page 8 of Issue 5 of Retro Gamer magazine titled "Retro Auction Watch...Richard Burton monitors the wonderful world of online auctions ".
"It's not every day that you see a computer or console game sell for the price of a brand new Eastern European car . In an e-Bay auction on the 5th of April , one did just that . The lucky seller situated in Sydney Australia , closed the auction early and sold the item for an outstanding price of $10000 US .The game in question was the extremely rare Kizuna Encounter on the always overpriced Neo Geo AES console . Kizuna Encounter : Super Tag Battle , to give the game its full title , was released in 1996 and only in very , very limited quantities across Europe . Games on the Neo Geo AES have a reputation of pulling in some quite amazing prices . Metal Slug 1 regularly sells for around the 1000 pound mark and Twinkle Star Sprites fetches even more . According to the auction listing , Kizuna Encounter is the Holy Grail of Neo Geo collecting , with apparently just 5 known copies in existence . OK , so it's a rarity , we'll grant you that , but a $10000 rarity ? With that much cash to throw at one game , we thought we'd grab a word or two with the Kizuna owning gamester .
This game was the most expensive I have ever bought , says the winning bidder who lives in the US . I've wanted this game for a while , ever since I found out it existed when I started collecting Neo Geo games . I figured I would never be able to obtain the game , but I also at one time assumed I would never get a USA Metal Slug 1 .Once I bought that game , I started realising most game titles are obtainable , even though the rare ones cost insane amounts of money . I consider Euro Kizuna Encounter to be the most valuable of all games on any gaming system .This is why I was willing to pay the amount I did . "