Most elusive game?

[dallaspattern]

I'm new to the board, but already I really appreciate a TG16 community. I've had a console ever since Xmas '90, and I remember when the company was going out of business there were always a couple of games out there that were nearly impossible to get. You know, before the Magical Chase and DE2 phenomenon. So I'm wondering, what game have you always been on the hunt for but never come across? I'm not talking ebay, I'm talking about the chase at good ol' game stores, garage sales and places like this I guess. I have two:

The first was a Turbo Duo. I never had enough money in the day to buy one and working ones were hard to come by in the 2000's. By total fluke, I found a boxed one on kijiji with redone capacitors last winter. I live in a Northern Canadian town, something like this is super rare to see on there and I got it for an incredibly modest price and still feel very fortunate to have finally added it to my collection.

The game that still evades me is Bonk 3. I missed it two summers ago by a day at my local vintage game store. Learned a lesson about following my gut on that one

[bob]

I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.

[PunkCryborg]

Welcome to the forum!

Only game that has been eluding me has been coryoon.... Since I've been looking for one, all the copies are either stupidly overpriced or I get outbid. Ebay and the internet have really made game hunting too easy and I miss finding stuff locally and scouring pawn shops and thrifts for games. I still look regularly but haven't found anything good for a very long time. It took me a while to find a nice working model one sega cd. Turbo games I just took what I could get my hands on around town but got pretty lucky.

[SMF]

Welcome to the boards,

Mine would have to be the Turbo Duo. (I have one now) But I still remember seeing it sitting on the shelf boxed when the day it came out until they sent it back to TZD. $299 wasn't a bad price considering everything it came with. Also Backwards compatible gaming before its time......AWESOME!!!

[dallaspattern]

Galam: Dragon Slayer is such a rad game. I got a copy for my 13th birthday, and I remember actually being bummed because I'd never heard of it. Of course it turned out to totally rule!

PC: Remember the Sega CDX? I remember picking one up when they were on sale for $99 at Radio Shack back in the day. Sold it in university for grocery money. Still kicking myself for that one...

[bob]

Galam: Dragon Slayer is such a rad game. I got a copy for my 13th birthday, and I remember actually being bummed because I'd never heard of it. Of course it turned out to totally rule!

PC: Remember the Sega CDX? I remember picking one up when they were on sale for $99 at Radio Shack back in the day. Sold it in university for grocery money. Still kicking myself for that one...

I picked up a cdx on eBay for just over $100 about 6 months ago. The cart port takes a little jiggering and some EA and Accolade games have compatibility issues, but I love it. Mine came with sonic CD, final fight CD and a few other "also rans".

[EvilEvoIX]

I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.

I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it.

[bob]

I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.

I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it.

Hell no. I want it under 50

[BigusSchmuck]

The most elusive game for me so far has been trying to get Exile 2 for a decent price. Seriously, as soon as it goes on ebay it either goes for insane prices or gets insta sold out! I'm almost tempted to just trade my Winds of Thunder disk for the PCE version as the Turbo version is out of my price range...

[dallaspattern]

I am on the hunt for a good, clean, complete dragon slayer and vasteel. But I refuse to pay the eBay prices.

Welcome to the boards. Discuss, enjoy, laugh.
Too many people just come for the buy/sell/trade/raffle threads and don't contribute to anything.

I almost bought a copy of Vasteel but they wanted $150 for it.

Hell no. I want it under 50

You can definitely still find it for under $50.

[VestCunt]

I'm going to talk past tense because brick-and-mortar stores are all overpriced and there are so many damn youtube "game chasers" that thrifting is a waste of time. If you don't use the internet to buy a game these days, then you don't really want it.

In the Nineties, Dynastic Hero was absolutely impossible to find. I saw it once it '97 and never came across it again.
For other systems, Phantasy Star and SMS Ultima IV were impossible to find pre-internet. The search for Ultima Black Gate always confounded me on the SNES.
  

[Damon Plus]

It depends, to me it's pretty much impossible to find TG-16 games in the wild. As for Ebay and such places, Bonk 3 as you said and Dynastic Hero are probably the hardest to find, not counting Turbo Duo releases.

Welcome to the forums. As someone noted, good for you for participating here. It's shameful when you find users with 10-20 messages and all of them are in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

[jelloslug]

I'm going to talk past tense because brick-and-mortar stores are all overpriced and there are so many damn youtube "game chasers" that thrifting is a waste of time. If you don't use the internet to buy a game these days, then you don't really want it.

In the Nineties, Dynastic Hero was absolutely impossible to find. I saw it once it '97 and never came across it again.
For other systems, Phantasy Star and SMS Ultima IV were impossible to find pre-internet. The search for Ultima Black Gate always confounded me on the SNES.
 

Funny that you mentioned Phantasy Star for the SMS.  There was a discount toy store in my town and they had a bunch of new SMS games around 1990 or so discounted for under $10.  At that time Toys R Us still had SMS games and they still had Phantasy Star for something like $69.  I know that several copies of $7 Phantasy Star made their way from the discount store to Toys R Us and were "returned" for store credits....

[esteban]

The US System Card 3.0...I tried to purchase that as soon as TTI sent out the flyer. I called them on the phone all the time

[VestCunt]

The RPG-starved U.S. gamers without CD systems gobbled Neutopia 2 up pretty fast.

Funny that you mentioned Phantasy Star for the SMS.  There was a discount toy store in my town and they had a bunch of new SMS games around 1990 or so discounted for under $10.  At that time Toys R Us still had SMS games and they still had Phantasy Star for something like $69.  I know that several copies of $7 Phantasy Star made their way from the discount store to Toys R Us and were "returned" for store credits....

That's pretty funny. A friend reported PS on clearance for $10 at KB Toys in '92, but I couldn't talk my parents into a ride up to the suburbs.

[dallaspattern]

Neutopia 2 is such a great game. I dig it more than link to the past.

[VestCunt]

That's a bold statement! Much as I like Neutopia 2, the atmosphere is chintzy. LttP is much more emotionally captivating.

[dallaspattern]

That's a pretty good point. I think for me, it only comes down to the weapons and controller response. You're probably right thought, as much as I'd love to believe my own claims, SNES scored two nearly perfect games with LTTP and SMW.

[stinkoman]

Mine as always been bonk 3. When I was a kid I went to buy it and had a copy in my hand. My brother said it was the duo CD version and not hu card and put it back and never found it in public again. To this day i'm not sure if he was right. Then as I got older I tried to get it off and on either not having enough, or no one willing to sell it for a decent price. I still refuse to pay over $100 for it even then I don't feel like I should pay that.

[allyourblood]

A working CD system, for me. I have a broken add-on as well as a broken Duo. Awesome. At one time, I owned 2 working add-ons. I sold one to a buddy and kept the other for about a year before falling on hard times and ending up selling it. I've had a stack of CD games that I've been slowly amassing locally (yard sales, thrift stores, etc.) including some real gems but they just sit there, for now. I believe this year I'll break down and buy a Duo-RX but I also wanna see if someone can fix up my US Duo, just because it deserves to not be broken. It's too pretty!

As for games, I lack all the usual suspects that go for top dollar, but Bonk 3 is certainly the one I'm most interested in playing of the bunch.

[esadajr]

no TG/PCE games have eluded me, well maybe Crest of Wolf, but is not that great anyways

[MotherGunner]

U.S. Versions of Jackie Chan and Dynastic Hero continue to elude me.

[RoyVegas]

As for games, I lack all the usual suspects that go for top dollar, but Bonk 3 is certainly the one I'm most interested in playing of the bunch.

Unless you get it cheap, dont bother.  It's by far the worst of the 3 of them.

[allyourblood]

As for games, I lack all the usual suspects that go for top dollar, but Bonk 3 is certainly the one I'm most interested in playing of the bunch.

Unless you get it cheap, dont bother.  It's by far the worst of the 3 of them.

That's precisely what I've heard and precisely why I don't own it yet. I could emulate, but blah. I like the real thing, baby.

[TR0N]

Beyond Shadowgate......

[turbofan1]

Dynastic Hero.Might And Magic III,Godzilla to name A few.

[mrhaboobi]

Well given no TG16 was released in NZ almost EVERY game was/is a problem.  Though every now and then a PCE would turn up from one of the many Japanese families who moved over, i once found a stack of empty PC boxes ( controllers boxes etc ) but nothing else...  Thinking of games from other systems that eluded me.. Atari 2600 Raiders of the lost ark.  i had it as a kid and never figured it out.. ( would have helped if i read the manual ).. for some reason i read it recently and realised why i couldnt get very far into it.. doh.. needed a second controller!.  Funnily enough now that i wanted to give it a go, its one of those games that was so crappy i cant find it locally.. .. of course anything atari has a high price ( just cos its old doesnt mean its worth alot !).. I also remember seeing Neo Geo AES in the shops and thinking how cool that was.. ( so was the black and white Game boy next to it ;) ).. but again you never ever see or hear of them locally.. even though they did sell some..

[roflmao]

no TG/PCE games have eluded me, well maybe Crest of Wolf, but is not that great anyways