Rare pal nes games

This raunchy title is one of the earliest pornographic video games ever released. This early controversial game is now a must have for any retro game collector. Taito launched this NES title in and it is rumoured that it was launched as an exclusive Blockbuster Video rental game.

The game was released when many people had moved onto the SNES and Mega Drive consoles so the games initial demand was very low. As the game was a rental exclusive it also means getting hold of a box and manual is also very difficult. The game alongside 51 other games on the bumper cart was quickly panned by critics and is now known as being one of the worst video games ever made. Active Enterprises probably expected their multi-game cartridge to be a huge hit, so quickly went about developing their feline characters into their own game.

Sadly Cheetahmen 2 was never officially released. In fact, the game was never fully completed, with only 6 of the 10 levels ever finished. However, in , copies of the incomplete game were discovered and quickly sold online. With such a low supply of this notorious game, Cheetahmen 2 soon became a must have game for any game collector. In other news, Cheetahmen 2 could soon be back!

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Prices for all NES Games, accessories and consoles. Prices are updated daily based upon NES listings that sold on eBay and our marketplace. Read our methodology. Average loose price for all licensed, non-variant games for NES details.

We may earn an affiliate commission if you buy stuff after clicking links on our site to eBay or Amazon. Search Prices Market. Legend of Zelda. Super Mario Bros 3. Nintendo NES Console. Little Samson. Only 2 cartridges are confirmed to exist. This fighting game was created for the Neo Geo back in The Japanese edition isn't too rare but only five copies of the European PAL version are known to be in circulation.

The game is a sequel title to Savage Reign. Players must once again battle their way through King Leo's Battle of the Beast God tournament but this time it has a team mechanic for two-player support. Tetris was developed in the early '80s under the USSR. The game itself was considered the property of the state at the time. International licensing for the title quickly became confusing. Because of the low production numbers, this edition is notoriously rare.

Tetris made our list of the best games from the year you were born. Find out what year! Nintendo's Campus Challenge event was held in Competition versions of the games were put together on a single cartridge created just for the event. After the competition, the cartridges were ordered to be destroyed. Only 3 have been confirmed to exist since the competition. Super Mario Bros. But that didn't stop collectors from losing their collective minds over this factory sealed copy that showed up in If you've got a copy of Super Mario Bros.

Air Raid is well known in the gaming community as the rarest Atari game. It's the only game ever created by Men-A-Vision and was released in The gameplay is simple and involves defending Manhattan from flying saucers.

A copy surfaced in from a man who supposedly received it in the early '80s. He owned a drug store and was given a copy to test by a sales rep. He contacted the rep after deciding the game was a poor fit for his customers. The sales rep told him to hang onto the game since nobody else wanted it either.

This game is so rare, no one knows how much it's even worth. Despite the game being literally one-of-a-kind, there were no bidders. The actual cartridge may be hidden from the public but the ROM has leaked online. It's not hard to find gameplay footage of this unreleased Atari title.

Only 2, copies of Stadium Events were ever produced. Of those 2, copies, only made it to store shelves—even then, it was exclusively sold at Woolworths in the Northeastern United States. The game was recalled and released under a new title: World Class Track Meet. Only 11 copies of Stadium Events have ever been confirmed.

Nintendo held a competition in in search of the greatest NES player, sending a team across the United States to compete using a special championship cartridge. The cartridge contained a single level from each of several games used in the competition, as well a set of physical DIP switches to toggle between them.

The Nintendo World Championships event shared its name with the [gray] cartridges used to compete in the event, as well as the [gold] cartridges given as prizes to the winners. There were originally over 1, cartridges used throughout the competition. Winners were given commemorative cartridges, while the majority of the remainder were repurposed for the upcoming Campus Challenge event. Fun fact: the movie The Wizard , which was basically a giant Nintendo commercial , was the inspiration for the Nintendo World Championships event.

Just check out the final scenes from that film and you can imagine what the actual event was like:. Only 90 gray and 26 gold carts are confirmed to exist. The buyer insists the bid was a mistake, but who wouldn't want the opportunity to get their hands on this piece of Nintendo history?

Each week, check out my latest article for the new hit game or add-on released for free from the Epic Games Store! Console: Nintendo 64 This Rare title is living up to its name as one of the rarest Nintendo 64 titles. Console: Nintendo 64 This cartridge is really hard to come by as only a few were ever produced.

Console: Nintendo 64 Paper Mario is like regular Mario but a little bit flat. Console: Atari Some games are made for learning and Eli's Ladder is one of them.

This special pack included: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves DLC Collectible art book Replica of the Phurba Dagger artifact Autographed case from the Naughty Dog team Winners were randomly chosen from a pool of users who participated in the demo weekend contest. Game Value Now. Price Charting. Used here. Check Price on Amazon. Game Rave. Moby Games. Console: Nintendo 64 If you're a fan of Star Fox , you know what this game has to offer! Console: Nintendo 64 Three guesses what this game is about!

Console: Ultravision This Atari game, known as Karate , saw multiple releases over the years. Note that some of these games are not rare in the sense that there are not many available, but rare relative to demand, which makes the games expensive.

It is also worth nothing that we are not including prototype cartridges. This matter is completely inarguable. Essentially, this copy is the earliest sealed copy one could realistically hope to obtain. We will be keeping tabs on more developments, but things are still really heating up and perhaps getting ahead of themselves.

While the original Super Mario Bros. These are a plastic-sealed copy with a perforated cardboard hang tab. The elite samples have have a matte sticker seal on the outer packaging that was only used during the test market launch of the NES in New York in late and Los Angeles in early For this brief period of time, Nintendo used these matte stickers to seal the flap, but they eventually transitioned to a more secure glossy sticker and then full-box shrink wrap.

Also, even at launch, there were only between 2, and 10, units of these matte-sticker units produced. Of course, most were opened and many even had the boxes discarded completely. In , Nintendo famously held a gaming tournament in Los Angeles, California, not unlike the one in the finale of the cult classic film, The Wizard.

After its promotion in the popular Nintendo Power and through the Powerfest tour, kids everywhere practiced feverishly in hopes of heading to this event, seeing the wonder of light and sound, playing some Rad Racer, and winning it all. The actual game is a timed compilation of three titles Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer, and Tetris , each adjusted for the tournament and containing a unique scoring system. One grand prize winner and twenty-five equally as fortunate runners-up were each sent a single copy which makes 26 copies in the wild.

What gives these competition cartridges an incredible dynamic is that, while so few copies exist, they were distributed to winners throughout all of North America. Successful sales of these cartridges only really seem to happen every few years.

This last decade it has doubled to quadrupled in value. It is still quite difficult to quantify an expected value for this piece, so we have the range based what little info we have. These essentially have the same story behind them as the gold cartridge mentioned above, but the more common grey cartridges were the ones actually used in the tournaments and were then given to each of the finalists.

The grey carts had a print run of 90 and has a monochromatic label and, like a lot of EPROM exposed prototypes, has a hole in its casing for displaying dip-switches. Even though these are cartridge-only releases, condition can be a large factor. Much like the Gold Cartridge, there is a current eBay listing out there to see if they can get a bite at a high price.

The Nintendo Campus cartridge was created by Nintendo for a video game competition like the Nintendo World Championships in , but this one would tour college campuses and spring break hot spots. Mario and a time limit of about 6 minutes. Players attempted to get the most points on all three games within the allotted time. Up until , it was hard to pin down a value for this cartridge as it never really surfaced on the marketplace.

These are the types of difficult discussions that collectors face — similar to putting a value on a game like Gamma Attack for the Atari that only has one known copy after being sold via mail order. Ultimately, a game is only worth what somebody will pay. The NES is leading the trend in increased nostalgia collecting and we are seeing a strong increase in complete and mint values. Loose cartridges are also increasing significantly, but there are comparatively fewer complete games are entering the resale market.

Even rarer are those units that have manual and all the inserts that came in the retail box. Despite being less than a full year since our last guide revision, I noticed a lot of ranking shifting with the North American retail releases.

So our of curiosity, I decided to chart out the major movers. In the chart below I compared the average pricing between the different the average loose price levels for a game and their highest mint copy sale during the time frame. I compared those averages between our October guide and this July guide to calculate the value growth percentage.

While the World Championship cartridges had much of the attention of the NES collectors up until , Stadium Events has been covered in much of the hype over the last seven years. What makes this otherwise standard game so rare, is that just after its release, it was recalled. It required the player s to run or step rapidly in order to complete each event. Upon its release, Nintendo decided to grant the game a first party production, recalling the scant initial cartridges that had been sent out.

Both became very common and were boxed-in with many NES consoles. But Stadium Events, the original anomaly, had snuck out in ever so limited numbers.

It should be noted that PAL versions were not recalled and are not worth as much even though many eBay sellers try to pass them off as rarities or jump on the hype of the rare North American version. Loose copies seem to have increased over time, but there are still relatively frequent.

In , we saw one more sealed copy surface. She also knows that I like video games and I would be happy with this if it had no value.

So it does show that Stadium Events does still have legs on the marketplace — especially if the condition is top-notch. However, all this easily makes it the most valuable un-recalled retail NES game in the collector market.

With all that being said, Little Samson is a gem of a action shooter developed by Taito in to jump into the platforming trend. As the NES era drew to a close, publishers like Taito released many of their games exclusively to game rental companies while bypassing the traditional retail market. Of course, since it was primarily a rental game, finding a complete copy in good condition is especially challenging.

The combination of the rarity element and a fun pop-culture tie-in helped The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak to see a similar trajectory to Little Samson on the NES collectors charts. In , it was an affordable gem to keep a look out for. This action platformer developed by Natsume is yet another Taito publication that has been climbing this list.

Interestingly enough, this title was actually released in North America before it was released in Japan under the name Captain Saver. While this original Power Blade was adapted from a Mega Man rip-off that ended up being pretty good, Power Blade 2 was watered down from the original other than the addition of some additional power suits. Loose cartridges have almost doubled since then if they are in good condition and mint complete copies have tripled. It has a fun style and theme to it that would feel right at home in the better third-party NES platformers.

The NES port obviously had the colors downgraded due to hardware limitations, but it looks like a pretty decent presentation considering the circumstances. However, since the cartridge space was bigger of a limitation on the NES than color palette, some levels were cut from the original, and the remaining levels have some edits to them. However, in the last 5 years, it was multiplied 5 to 6 times.

Kid Klown remained in obscurity in both name and collectibility until it started ascending from tens of dollars pre to hundreds of dollars in the last few years. Even loose cartridges have seen some rapid increases. Despite it being a follow-up to an arcade classic, it languished on the store shelves, overshadowed by shiny, new Super Nintendo games. For those that are into the series, Part 2 is mostly unchanged from the original game, but the player can float up to higher platforms and over walls by holding down the B button.

One disappointment with this NES releases, however is that two-player mode only lets you take turns instead of play cooperatively. I wish I could have experienced seeing this one in the stores during its North American release. The game was originally developed for Japanese personal computers in before being ported to the Famicom in and surprisingly localized and sold in North America in The rush for Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom did really kick in the Spring and Summer of , causing cartridges to nearly double and complete copies appreciate nearly tenfold in less than a year especially help to this gorgeous specimen with all the inserts.

This move not only moves it strongly into the top 25 NES value ranking for the first time, but it is the biggest gainer on this last in the past year. Much like the scenario of Duck Tales and Duck Tales 2, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 2 is a solid follow up to the original and will make fans happy, but when arrived in , the NES was all but dead, and the novelty of the cartoon franchise was already in limited syndication.