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 On 07/11/2013 at 06:52 PM by NintendoFanJon See More From This User » |
Well I haven't blogged for a good while, but there's been something bothering me recently. I'm an avid wii game collector. I have no idea why, but I have more wii games than necessary (at 300 right now) You might be saying "Preposterous! Who would have that many games!?" Well I do...and yes they are all up on a row of bookshelves in alphabetical order. But this blog isn't about my recent fascination to scour the discount bins in search of M & M's Adventure or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
No this blog is about rare wii games. Yes they exist, and yes they are real. Most of the wii games that are rare are (Gasp!) Japanese only, but some games have been even released stateside. So sit back in astonishment to find yourself laughing at what some people ask for games...or why they do so...
1. Fritz Chess
Price range online: $30-$80
My Price paid: $20
You might be thinking to yourself...you have to be joking! And no...I'm not. Deep Silver released Fritz Chess in America in limited quantities...which apparently makes this a rare buy...Now I paid $20 for this at Gamestop and honestly anybody willing to fork over $20 for a chess game instead of buying an actual board for the same and playing with your dad or something is truly a sad panda...I'm a sad panda... But I'm not a stupid one who spent $50 or more for a copy...that's just illogical.
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
Price range online: $50-$100
My price paid: $60 (I was impatient and got the PAL region a year earlier)
So blame Nintendo for this. Nintendo released Monolith Soft's highly coveted rpg in a limited run...Now greedy internet video gamers are securing their copies and if you look on ebay...the price just ain't pretty.
3. One Piece Unlimted Adventure/Cruise Games
Prices online: $100-$150 for all 3
My price paid: $60 (unlimited adventure I got as a gift!)
Okay so sometimes anime based games just don't sell well. Dragonball has a nice audience in the states so Namco Bandai can justify bringing games over as they sell well. For One Piece on Wii...nothing doing. Unlimited Adventure Moved it's way silently out just as silently as it came in and Namco Bandai didn't feel justified bringing the Cruise series stateside. Luckily I bought my copies off a nice german fellow...unfortunately the game case and manual are also in German, but the game has the Japanes VA's...with English subtitles...making my one piece games the most multicultural experience I've ever had the privledge to play.
4. Metroid Prime Trilogy
Prices online: $60-100
Price paid: $45...and I got a free t-shirt!(See above)
Another instance of a Nintendo limited run...not much else to say.
5. Super Mario All Stars Anniversary Wii Edition
Prices online- $40-80
Price paid online $15 (And I got the music cd and history booklet)
Remember that anniversary of Mario right? The one no right minded gamer thought was fair or remotely acceptable that they had to rectify with kirby? The one that price sharks have now jacked up the prices for? I mean it's a twenty dollar bill worth of games. Paying anything more is just unacceptable...of course graded copies sell for $250-300
6. Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Prices online: $50-100
Price paid: $47
Ah yes many gamers have clamored for this game, so much prices have been driven up online on ebay or amazon. While fan debate argue that it's not the strongest of the zero titles it certainly drives fan prices along with the 2nd game crimson butterfly wii remake...which I paid $35 for.
7. Zangeki no Reginleiv
Prices online: $70-100
Price paid: $63
Yeah it's impossible to find this game for any reasonable price. I've tried. You're talking to a guy who bought Captain Rainbow for less than $20 and Earth Seeker for $20...two japanese games that can drive double that.
And finally!!!
428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de
Prices online:$40-$70
Price paid: $15 new from a very nice Florida man.
428 is a japanese game that appeals to only the most japanese gamer. It's entirely text based which means reading Japanese at a comprehensible level. And the gameplay consists of you making decisions from a multiple choice perspective. But in the likelihood you have a sheer morbid curiousity to play this game know this...you get to play as a person in a cat costume (see bottom right corner of game cover) and that my friends...is priceless.
Well I gave a list of plenty of games and there are even more that command high prices that I just don't have the space to get into. Otherwise we'd have an unforgivingly long list of Gundam Wii games, odd rhythm based quirky japanese titles (Kiki Trick comes to mind), and much more. So just remember...if you have some wii games you think are rare...just be smart...comparitive shop, adjust for currency conversion, and most of all...don't be that person selling a Chess video game for $80...what's wrong with you!?!?!?!?
Now you've made me all sad. I preordered Xenoblade and loved every minute of it but I sold it for $140 bucks on Amazon. I would have loved to have kept it but I needed money and couldn't resist.
You would think that Nintendo would say "hey look at the demand" and print more instead of letting people sell the thing for a fortune and making nothing off it.
EB Games sent out an eflyer today offering among other things $23 for Xenoblade trades. WTF!
Ah it's all in good fun sir. I can see if you needed to sell a game. I do feel that Nintendo could have released a 2nd run as limited as the first was. Kind of odd with such a high demand, they really didn't give gamers much.
Yeah they could re-release that game and it would continue to sell for years.
Oh man, I want to play that Fatal Frame game with the fan translation!
Oh yeah the fan translation is great. They really did a good job with everything and the fan site is pretty immersive.
It was only till last year that I found out that Metroid Prime Trilogy became a rare collectors item. The good thing is that I got a copy the year it was released. It was worth it.
Yeah I knew it was limted, but I never thought it would be rare later...How wrong I was...Never question fan demand I say.
What's wrong with me? I want money, that's what's wrong with me. Look, I threw in a fleshlight with it when the guy bought it, that's makes us even, or at least makes him ... well, he's still a sad panda, but now he's able to cope with it more easily I imagine.
LOL...yeah that flashlight must've made it all worthwhile. I think we can all cope with our decisions much better if a great deal like that was a regular day occurence!
Its pretty cool to see another fellow game collector on here blogging about it and here i thought i was the only one anyway i collect 360, PS2 and playstation games and you may have seen my blogs on ps2 collecting,
http://www.pixlbit.com/blog/1095/collecting_ps2_games_
Thats the link and thoughs are some gret buys you got there, and glad to see game collectors blog about different systems.
Yeah that's a pretty extensive collection. I can't imagine how much you've spent on on those games. I figured I'd collect wii games, since most bargain bin game buys I find are wii games.
Yea collecting Wii games are alot in bargain bins but the rare ones are the ones you need to hunt lol. Ck these out and i know you showed the Xenoblade but the others are cool.
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