Rare game and watch nintendo

In fact, both games are in the franchise known as Puzzle Boy in Japan. Amazing Tater is a reasonably fun little game, but it's not one that anyone would've thought about much after if it weren't for how rare and valuable it would become to Game Boy collectors a decade later. Another game in that series just might show up later in this list Not to say that the TurboGrafx didn't have some great games, but for the most part, NES owners didn't really have much reason to be jealous of its library beyond the added graphical horsepower.

Bonk's Adventure was one of the few games that made NES kids feel like they were missing something by not having a TG Again, this meant a low print run and a high resell value for future collectors of the technically-impressive port. Nintendo existed as a company for almost 90 years before it tried its hand at electronic gaming. Only given away to participants of a contest in Japan, this rare variant of Super Mario Bros.

Though it has settled a bit after its outrageous peak a few years ago, collectors are currently paying top-dollar for complete-in-box N64 games, making it perhaps the most overall expensive to collect for mass-market console at the moment. Among the games that are hardest on the wallets of those looking for complete PAL N64 sets is Snowboard Kids 2 , which can set you back over a thousand bucks. All for a game that isn't half as good as Snowboarding.

Nobody seemed to care much for Shantae until the Game Boy Color original began fetching four figures on eBay from retro collectors trying to complete their libraries. The renewed interest caused WayForward to revive the series and its purple-haired protagonist in , and its now on its fourth installment and going strong.

It's always sketchy to include unreleased games on a list like this, but there are a few reasons why we felt Cheetahmen II should be an exception.

For one, the copies that collectors cough up almost fifteen hundred bucks for were found in a warehouse for eventual sale and aren't just aftermarket cartridges built around downloaded ROMs. The other is that it is a spin-off to the infamous Action 52 , a mini-game collection for the NES and Genesis that was legendarily terrible and, at times, literally unplayable— but in and of itself, is a prize for hardcore collectors.

Once again, this is the kind of game that would've just blurred into the background of a million other forgettable C-tier action titles of the era had it not shot up in price years later. A lot of the people who have paid hundreds— if not thousands— for Hagane in recent years have felt the need to sell it as some underrated gem. We would too if we paid that much for it. We mostly stuck with Western releases for this list as things get complicated when trying to determine the rarity and value of Asian titles, but Virtual Bowling is worth discussing for a few important reasons.

The game is often mistaken for Nestor's Funky Bowling , also for Virtual Boy, but the two titles are completely separate. Virtual Bowling 's cost also makes it an especially expensive proposition to get a complete worldwide Virtual Boy collection, which many collectors attempt thinking it an easy pursuit given its small library.

Small, yes Zelda games have so many variations that some collectors go for a "complete set" of a single title. When you start getting into different colored cartridges, versions that are part of combo packs, "Not For Resale" versions, Player's Choice versions, and so on, it can prove surprisingly difficult. The specific set of variables for this version of the N64's Majora's Mask — grey cartridge and marked "Not For Resale" as it was part of N64 store kiosk displays— makes it currently the most valuable version of any single Zelda game.

In the earlys, a company called Panesian released a trio of unlicensed NES games of a, let's say, salacious nature. Because they weren't approved by Nintendo and due to their content, the games weren't available through normal means.

Sold primarily through mail order and retail stores of ill repute, Peek A Boo Poker didn't have a huge print run and wasn't available for very long. The combination of a small number of copies plus the novelty of this type of game available for NES make Peek A Boo Poker one of the platform's most valuable games. Most famously associated with Blockbuster Video's second World Video Game Championship, this competition cart of Donkey Kong Country was also used in several other similar types of competitions over a period of a couple of years.

Despite printed warnings all over the packaging that the cart was not to be made available to the public, a number of DKC competition carts made it into the wild and they remain the most valuable competition cart that features a single game instead of multiple titles formed into a competition gauntlet.

Another renamed Puzzle Boy game release for Game Boy, Spud's Adventure is the most valuable title in that franchise as well as the most expensive on the original Game Boy as a whole. Oddly, it was released the same year as Amazing Tater in the U.

That would definitely explain how the games got so rare and valuable later on. At least a poker game featuring ladies in various states of undress makes a little contextual sense— a puzzle game that arbitrarily includes those elements, less so. Of course, the "attractive girl as reward for completing puzzles" genre has been popular in Japan for years and remains so to this day, so what do we know?

Beginning in when it primarily made and sold playing cards, it was in the late s that it actually started to dabble in electronic entertainment. Given the sheer number of years the Japanese conglomerate has been dominating the video game market, it's not surprising that some items become extremely rare treasures.

For example, a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. Now, however, there is something that's gone on sale which is considered even rarer. According to a recent YouTube video hosted by super-fan Florent Gorges, one of the rarest Nintendo items to ever be found has been making headlines in Japan.

Appearing on Yahoo! Auctions, the item in question is the Nintendo Game and Watch handheld system, originally developed in Given how rare of a find it is, the presenter in the video has expressed uncertainties as to whether or not it's genuine, but, the host and author of the History of Nintendo series of books believes it could be real. One of the interesting things about this particular Nintendo Game and Watch is the image of three men drawn on, with the name Donkey Kong written underneath, as well as a note saying that the company had sold 20,, units as of December The three men in question have been identified as Gunpei Yokoi, K.

Momose and T. While Yokoi is something of a Nintendo legend, having been instrumental in creating the Game Boy , the other two names appear to be more of a mystery. For this reason, many have doubted the validity of the Game and Watch being sold at auction.