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So as you search your attics, garages and basements lets dive into todays list of the
Top 10 Rarest Video Games That You Might Own - Although many of these only have a few copies
in existence, so you may not own them, but the worlds a big place so maybe you do.
Either way pay close attention because the number one spot on this list may make you
rich!
Lets get to it
#10 Tetris for Sega I'm sure you're sitting there saying Tetris
is a rare game!
Yea right.
Well despite how easy they are to find in our now wide selection of tetris games one
in particular stands above the rest.
If you own a working copy of Tetris for the Sega Genesis Mega-Drive you may be rolling
in dough fairly soon.
The reason for Tetris game in particular becoming so valuable is due to the fact that Nintendo
had only produced 10 copies of it due to the very restricted ownership agreement they had
at the time for the rights to the game.
Due to the fact that only a limited amount of these games were produced, they never were
commercially sold.
Only the development team that ported the game would be the ones to have gotten their
hands on it.
So instead of searching your house, Id look through some garage sales and or ebay to find
one.
Its base value depending on how well it works can be sold for as little as 2800 dollars
US with a max value of nearly 16,000 dollars US.
One autographed copy for this game by Russian developer Alexey Pajitnov actually sold for
a million dollars in 2011.
#9 Red Sea Crossing If this game sounds biblical to you, it is!
When the game Red Sea Crossing came out for the Atari 2600 most people believed it was
a hoax.
The reason why this game is so unbelievably rare is due to the fact that only 2 known
copies of the game exist right now.
Even with so few in existence, we do know that the games programer Steve Schustack said
that 500 cartridges were produced so there is still the possibility that one of them
still is out there in the wild.
It was a video game that was marketed towards religious publications and followed the story
of Moses crossing the red sea.
During an auction for one of the copies it ended up selling for over 10,000 dollars.
However its been valued for upwards of 14,000 dollars.
#8 Air Raid If you own a lot of Atari 2600 games you'll
be laughing your way to the bank pretty soon.
Air Raid is another one of those extremely rare video games developed by Men-A-Vision
for the Atari 2600.
Its just like the game Space Invaders where you are defending while attacking.
In this game its defending a building from a bombing raid.
Much like the other games on this list there was a limited number of copies ever produced
making it become an instant collectible.
Two copies of the game that were found ended up being sold for a ridiculous amount of money.
One sold for 31,600 dollars and the other sold for 33,433 dollars with the bidding starting
at just 1 dollar.
The game also comes in this really unique blue t-shape casing thats used as a handle
for playing the game itself
#7 Superman Atari We wanted to show you a video of actual gameplay,
but the sound effects for this game are so brutal that you'll think youre having a stroke.
Regardless Superman for the Atari 2600 is another one of those games that's got some
value.
That is if you own the copy with the words Sears Telegames in yellow writing.
This game was pretty popular back in the day so you may actually find a copy of it quite
easily, but if you find the one with yellow printing like I mentioned then you have your
hands on something special.
If the game still for some reason has its factory-sealing and the box is in-tact it
can sell for tens of thousands.
Although even if the game is unboxed the version with Sears Telegames on it can still get you
300 dollars.
At top value you can get upwards of 34,000 dollars.
#6 Super Mario Bros Now before you get too excited on this one
just remember that there are always certain conditions that apply to make the game rare
or valuable.
So pay close attention.
If you have the NES version of Super Mario Bros 2 that contains both chinese lettering
and english lettering well then you are one very lucky gamer.
Back in the day a limited number of these games were produced for the Hong Kong market.
Due to the area being mostly English and Cantonese speaking the game was adjusted to be bilingual.
They're so rare that they've been able to sell at auctions for no less than 25,000 dollars.
#5 Nintendo Campus Challenge This is one of those retro games that becomes
more valuable as it gets passed around.
Back in the 1990s Nintendo did one of the coolest things weve ever heard of.
They put on competitions at different college campuses where students would have 6 minutes
to get the highest scores they could in the demo versions of Super Mario Bros 3, Pin Bot
and Dr. Mario.
Following the competition ending most copies of the cartridge were destroyed.
Im guessing either from rage quits or because it was just a singular cartridge that held
3 demos.
Either way one Nintendo employee actually kept one and at a garage sale in 2006 sold
it to a man named Rob Walters.
Rob would buy all kinds of retro games for close to a thousand dollars a piece.
When he resold campus challenge he got a cool 14,000 dollars.
The collector that purchased that game was JJ Hendricks who did a quick turnaround on
it and ended up auctioning the game for 20,100 dollars on ebay.
Legend has it, that one copy is the only copy left on the planet.
#4 Birthday Mania This game just like the Red Sea Crossing made
us laugh a little too much, but Birthday Mania is actually one of the rarest games of all
time.
The game features birthday activities if you're not partial to having y'know a birthday party.
You can blow out candles, pop balloons and show disappointment for bad gifts, okay I
made that last one up, but there are more birthday mini games then you would believe.
The casing is even left open to personalize it as a birthday gift.
Sounds like something a lousy parent buys their child when they don't want to throw
them a party.
Amazingly the game sold 10 copies, although very few of them have actually surfaced.
Its estimated worth is upwards of 35,000 dollars.
#3 Stadium Events This is one of those NES games released in
1987 that popular at first but soon forgotten and replaced by successors such as World Class
Track Meet.
Even still, the box alone for this game can sell for 10,000 dollars.
That's some expensive cardboard.
The reasoning for it becoming so valuable is due to the fact that when Nintendo purchased
the rights to the game they re-released it as the World Class Track Meet, so to make
sure people weren't confused they took all of the Stadium Events games off the shelves.
Although before those copies were removed and destroyed 200 copies had already been
sold.
Out of the 200, only 20 of those actually have the gaming mat accessory which just adds
to the value.
Stadium Events even made news headlines in 2010 when a woman in North Carolina cleaned
out her garage where she found an old copy.
She put the game on eBay and watched as the bidding climbed to just over 13,000 dollars.
The rarest copy ever sold was a shrink-wrapped version in the original box with the manual
and it sold to a private buyer for nearly 42,000 dollars.
#2 Nintendo World Championships Its a common joke that this gaming cartridge
may be made up of actual gold based on how much it has sold for.
Again back in the early 1990s, Nintendo was doing some rad stuff, they actually organized
an international video game tournament called the Nintendo World Championships and as such
specifically designed this NES cartridge for that in mind.
90 copies were produced in the standards grey color and another 26 were made with that slick
gold color.
A lot of them were given away as prizes for winning the Nintendo Power contest.
However if you're lucky enough to find one of those gold cartridges they are by far the
rarest NES cartridges out there and in 2014 one actually sold on eBay for just over 100,000
dollars.
#1 Gamma Attack The rarest of the rare has to go to the game
Gamma Attack for which there is without a shadow of a doubt only one copy ever made
and its owned by big time collector Anthony DeNardo.
Back in the day a company called Gammation who usually created controller mods produced
this game for the Atari 2600.
When it was sold to Anthony on eBay back in 2008 he paid a whopping 500,000 dollars making
Gamma Attack one of the most valuable games on the retro-market.
And that has been the Top 10 Rarest Video Games
That You Might Own.
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