James Buster Douglas SMS for $5!
Went to my local retro game store and was rooting through a stack of $5 loose Master System games, and on the bottom of the stack was James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing AKA the second rarest Master System games for 5 bucks. I'm still in shock that I got it for that much from a guy that often overcharges on games.
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SMS is probably the only system that has a lot bigger and a lot harder to complete PAL set compared to the NTSC set. I wish James Buster would be the hardest for the PAL set would make everything a lot easier and cheaper but we ended up with tons of rare games
Originally posted by: coffeewithmrsaturn
That's amazing, man. I've been looking to do this exact thing. Glad to hear it worked for you! ps. What is the rarest? (JBD is the only thing I know about SMS, haha)
According to SegaAge the rarest are:
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Alf
Disck Tracy
According to RarityGuide though, the rarest are:
Jame's Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing
Sonic the Hedgehog
Alf
Power Strike
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Castle of Illusion is listed as the 12th rarest on that site. Either way JBD Knockout Boxing is one of the rarest games so awesome find Nick!
Originally posted by: TheOne
Nice. What's the going rate for that one is a days?
It fluctuates quite a bit, but a loose cart runs from around $80-125.
Originally posted by: Toshabi
Pics please!
Here ya go!
Originally posted by: uiengineer
Sonic the Hedgehog with the US box is the rarest. The box simply has a UPC sticker, I believe.
You are correct, had one a year ago not in the best of shape but it was legit. It's sick what people pay for that in dead mint shape on the sticker, case and art flap if all the guts (papers and game) are intact and spotless as it can be like $500-1000 range depending on the location of the seller to the buyer.
Crazy you got that for $5, and totally an overlooked mispricing I imagine if that guy is one of those types. I love it when retail blows stuff like that and I'm the one to spot it. A few months ago a place that would have put a $40 sticker on it I got the SNES Official Nintendo Players Guide for Super Metroid for $5 too and that was a fine moment. It's all about right place, right time, right foul up.
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: coffeewithmrsaturn
That's amazing, man. I've been looking to do this exact thing. Glad to hear it worked for you! ps. What is the rarest? (JBD is the only thing I know about SMS, haha)
According to SegaAge the rarest are:
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Alf
Disck Tracy
According to RarityGuide though, the rarest are:
Jame's Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing
Sonic the Hedgehog
Alf
Power Strike
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Castle of Illusion is listed as the 12th rarest on that site. Either way JBD Knockout Boxing is one of the rarest games so awesome find Nick!
Does anyone know if it's just the NTSC version of CoI that's rare? Checking Ebay, looks like there are more SMS versions than MD ones.
Congrats on the JBD find!
Originally posted by: tonberry2k
From what I hear, Earthbound isn't even excessively rare. Just highly sought-after. Is that true?
Somewhere I read that about 140,000 copies of Earthbound were sold in the US. Would make it 40 times more common than Sculptor's Cut (3,500 copies out there of what I heard).
After all if you search on eBay just for video games and Earthbound you get 88 results at the moment. I glanced over and I'd say 50 of those are actually the original Earthbound game loose or complete. Seriously this game is not rare it's just one of the most hyped games in history. It's just burned into people's minds that Earthbound is supposed to be expensive. If every eBay seller would list their Earthbound with a 99 cent auction you'd have 50 auctions. The price would drop drastically in that case like it should
Originally posted by: tonberry2k
From what I hear, Earthbound isn't even excessively rare. Just highly sought-after. Is that true?
I work at a game store and we have ran into over 10 of them in a year. I have even seen a good amount of them at flea markets but 99 percent of the time by resellers. It is not really rare at all in my opinion. I see less copies of so many other games then erthbound.
I've bumped into it rarely in the large picture, but I've seen many copies and the last one was less than a month ago at a retail shop for $170 while I can name games I've never seen or seen less.
Originally posted by: MarioMania
I'm still stunned why people pay $1000 just a UPC Sticker on Sonic
I'm stunned that people pay more than that for a label variation of World Class Track Meet
Originally posted by: Beliskner
Originally posted by: MarioMania
I'm still stunned why people pay $1000 just a UPC Sticker on Sonic
I'm stunned that people pay more than that for a label variation of World Class Track Meet
Rofl, well said!
Originally posted by: Beliskner
Originally posted by: MarioMania
I'm still stunned why people pay $1000 just a UPC Sticker on Sonic
I'm stunned that people pay more than that for a label variation of World Class Track Meet
I so totally agree. Ive never understood the interest in variations of anything. SE vs WCTM, Myriad vs Caltron, Action 52 vs CM II, Any upcs, etc. The game is the game. I know some people enjoy variants but its the money part of it that is mind boggling to me.
Originally posted by: Beliskner
Originally posted by: MarioMania
I'm still stunned why people pay $1000 just a UPC Sticker on Sonic
I'm stunned that people pay more than that for a label variation of World Class Track Meet
World Class Track Meet is the variant of Stadium Events though.
As the original, Stadium Events, came first, and the variant World Class Track Meet came after.
So why would you consider Stadium Events to be the variant?
Originally posted by: Paul
World Class Track Meet is the variant of Stadium Events though.
As the original, Stadium Events, came first, and the variant World Class Track Meet came after.
So why would you consider Stadium Events to be the variant?
Sure thing but you get my point. I think 3-screw games would be variants as well then since the 5-screw versions came first
I really don't care about which thing came first but I won't get caught up on this matter