What's the most you've ever spent on a single video game title?

godzilla43 · Mar 5, 2018

Most I spend was close to 700$ for my Neo Geo cabinet(SCB-U4) it came with Magical Drop 3, Neo Turf Masters, Neo World Cup 98 and SNKG Pulstar. Second was my AES that was CIB and had boxed Hori Fighting Stick 2 and bunch of games(LB1(JPN),Spinmasters..) that was like 600$. Other than those maybe Windjammers MVS partial kit or MS3 hologram full kit were like 120-130$. When I buy SFC game for 2$ it makes sense. You are buying something fun for couple dollars but spending hundreds of dollars on collectibles always makes me question my sanity.

enix2093 · Mar 5, 2018

Those aren't bad prices at all, really. Was the AES Japanese or just the one game?

antmavel · Mar 6, 2018

Jon said:
Was it sealed? Last time I looked, they were like $450-500, meaning you overpaid by $400...

Jon

I am talking about the japanese version. If this is the one you were referring to then clearly the last time you looked was several years ago. The japanese version of the game in good condition with spin / reg card / insert is never available below $750. Mine was mint. A sealed one is definitely beyond 2000$ in my view.

godzilla43 · Mar 6, 2018

enix2093 said:
Those aren't bad prices at all, really. Was the AES Japanese or just the one game?

Yeah, the AES was JPN and also King of Monster 2.

Little Samson and Panzer Dragoon Saga falls into same category than Chrono Trigger. Rare games that everyone seems to have in their collections.

This Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru seems rareish with 7500 copies made but even now there is 10 copies in Ebay. If that would be on Playstation and it would be like 10-20 dollars I would buy that. Nice looking kinda bizarre game but several hundreds for cd game.. yeah no!

grendelrt · Mar 6, 2018

699 on Skycurser kit, at least it came with a hardware platform I guess :keke:

aha2940 · Mar 6, 2018

Razion MVS for me, however after paying the import taxes, the NeoSD tops Razion.

NeoSneth · Mar 6, 2018

godzilla43 said:
Yeah, the AES was JPN and also King of Monster 2.

Little Samson and Panzer Dragoon Saga falls into same category than Chrono Trigger. Rare games that everyone seems to have in their collections.

There are 100,000's of copies of Chrono Trigger on SNES. There is nothing rare about Chrono trigger.

2Heed · Mar 6, 2018

$900 on US Garou AES was by far the most I ever spent, but back then I was on a kick to have all the US versions of the Fatal Fury series. In hindsight I'm glad I sold my AES collection and honestly have never looked back. I'd much rather have infinite credits playing it on my 360 than having 4 on AES.

godzilla43 · Mar 6, 2018

NeoSneth said:
There are 100,000's of copies of Chrono Trigger on SNES. There is nothing rare about Chrono trigger.

"Rare games" that everyone seems to have in their collections. Understand now?

NeoSneth · Mar 6, 2018

godzilla43 said:
"Rare games" that everyone seems to have in their collections. Understand now?

By definition, it's not rare.
Highly desirable or highly collectible is not rare.

You can be rare + highly collectible. Like PDS

jro · Mar 6, 2018

Probably KOF XI on Atomiswave. I don't remember the exact price but I think it was about $600.

Flagshiphero · Mar 8, 2018

top 3:

1.Metal Slug 2 JPN AES: $400
2. Metal Slug 3 JPN AES: $350
3. Garou MotW JPN AES: $300

12 years ago? I stopped collecting in 2016.

Flagshiphero · Mar 8, 2018

Flagshiphero said:
top 3:

1.Metal Slug 2 JPN AES: $400
2. Metal Slug 3 JPN AES: $350
3. Garou MotW JPN AES: $300

12 years ago? I stopped collecting in 2016.

I forgot Metal Slug X JPN AES, wasd around $350 as well. Damn I've been out of ths for too long already lolz

NeoSneth · Mar 12, 2018

It's funny how $600 for a Neo Geo game is rather normal, but $600 for Panzer Dragon Saga is ludicrous.

Kid Panda · Mar 12, 2018

tomlee80 said:
Most I've spent on a Neo Geo game was £50 for KOF 2002 MVS (Jap cart only) in January 2014.

The rest of my Neo Games were:

Super Spy AES (Boxed with manual): £38 (2012)
Baseball Stars AES (Boxed with manual): £27 (2013)

Super Sidekicks 2 MVS (Cart only): £16.99 (2013)
Ultimate 11 MVS (Cart only) £30.99 (2013)
Metal Slug MVS (Cart only) £29.00 (2013)
Jockey Grand Prix MVS (Full kit with hopper cable) £20 (2014)
Aero Fighters 2/Sonic Wings 2 MVS (Cart Only) £31 (2016)

Hello, can I get exact dates of when you bought these carts? I'm curious as I'm sure no one else gives a fuck about your other carts.
The thread is for what was the most you paid.

Flagshiphero · Mar 12, 2018

NeoSneth said:
It's funny how $600 for a Neo Geo game is rather normal, but $600 for Panzer Dragon Saga is ludicrous.

oh, it will get normal soon enough.

J-P · Mar 12, 2018

Most I ever spent on a single game (not systems or hardware) would probably be SF III 3rd Strike set which I splurged $350 (can't remember exactly) back in mid-2000's ended up swapping it for a bunch of stuff.

Semi-relatedly; Like probably quite a few people on here; I have a bit of a large CD collection, Mainly on Saturn / PCE / Sega CD -mostly from purchases back in the 90's/early 00's. Kind of scary how much some of it is worth now (SFZ3/Panzer Dragoon Saga/various shmups). I'm getting concerned about disk-rot. My PAL copy of Keio Flying Squadron 2 is already fucked because of it (held up to the light, you can see little pinprick holes corroded through the data layer). Anybody else worried about that?

joala · Mar 13, 2018

J-P said:
My PAL copy of Keio Flying Squadron 2 is already fucked because of it (held up to the light, you can see little pinprick holes corroded through the data layer). Anybody else worried about that?

Hopefully someone releases an SSD3 for the Mega CD....

RAZO · Mar 13, 2018

NeoSneth said:
It's funny how $600 for a Neo Geo game is rather normal, but $600 for Panzer Dragon Saga is ludicrous.

This. I guess it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay. I've spent a good amount of money on Aes games in the past but probably not as much as someone who collects shtmup pcb's.

NeoSneth · Mar 13, 2018

Disc Rot should not be a problem with good pressings. This is more of an issue on CDR's than commercially pressed games.

It's not the same as laserdisc rot as that was mainly due to adhesive between the two layers.

ggallegos1 · Mar 13, 2018

NeoSneth said:
Disc Rot should not be a problem with good pressings. This is more of an issue on CDR's than commercially pressed games.

It's not the same as laserdisc rot as that was mainly due to adhesive between the two layers.

True, but saturn games are apparantly more prone to disc rot from what i hear. a big factor in me not going after those $200+ games like battle garegga and PDS.

Fygee · Mar 13, 2018

If we're looking at a single title overall, probably either Warframe or The Old Republic via monthly subscriptions or microtransations. I'd say about $200 each.

Taiso · Mar 13, 2018

The most I ever spent on any game was during the heyday of the AES. I would drop $325 on the regular for new carts. They were generally between $250-$325 during the system's peak when I ordered through NCS (still one of my favorite online retailers of import goods, but not much reason to use them anymore) and also from a local import store called Cyberzone in Schaumburg, IL.

I wonder what happened to the owner of Cyberzone. One day I went to the store and it was empty and there was a sign taped up to the door that read "Scott, we want our money." I hope they didn't hurt him.

geise · Mar 17, 2018

$125 Metamorphic Force pcb. Big spender lol. Most I've payed and probably will at this point. Early adopter and never really selling my shit has kept me from having to spend crazy money on something.

Psygnosis8 · Mar 19, 2018

$1000 for an outfoxies pcb. Close second would be $600 for Kishin Douji Zenki for the PC-FX. I paid a lot for my sharp x68000 Xvi compact, but it came loaded with a controller, ram expansion, midi card, midi module, and a Jaz Drive (remember those?) that booted a hard disk image.

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