What Was the Hardest Console For You to Track Down?

the sega saturn:cry:

i whanted that realy badly..

i actualy stoped whanting a dreamcast because most of the games are ported..

and the saturn was my new goal...:cry:

it reads the disk like if it were music when its upside down...

and i cant figure out whats whrong with it!!

i opend it up and everything and everything was connected..

the problem seems to be with the gears that spin..

their made up of cheap plastic and and spinns to fast..

o well... im just gona pay more and get the jappanese saturn like panzer-zwie said.

the sega saturn:cry:

i whanted that realy badly..

i actualy stoped whanting a dreamcast because most of the games are ported..

and the saturn was my new goal...:cry:

it reads the disk like if it were music when its upside down...

and i cant figure out whats whrong with it!!

i opend it up and everything and everything was connected..

the problem seems to be with the gears that spin..

their made up of cheap plastic and and spinns to fast..

o well... im just gona pay more and get the jappanese saturn like panzer-zwie said.

kingdavid562

[QUOTE="kingdavid562"]

;the sega saturn:cry:

i whanted that realy badly..

i actualy stoped whanting a dreamcast because most of the games are ported..

and the saturn was my new goal...:cry:

it reads the disk like if it were music when its upside down...

and i cant figure out whats whrong with it!!

i opend it up and everything and everything was connected..

the problem seems to be with the gears that spin..

their made up of cheap plastic and and spinns to fast..

o well... im just gona pay more and get the jappanese saturn like panzer-zwie said.

Emerald_Warrior

im not shure what to do now...

i could go to ebay and just buy a us one...

but i dont whant it to break:cry:

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"][QUOTE="kingdavid562"]

;the sega saturn:cry:

i whanted that realy badly..

i actualy stoped whanting a dreamcast because most of the games are ported..

and the saturn was my new goal...:cry:

it reads the disk like if it were music when its upside down...

and i cant figure out whats whrong with it!!

i opend it up and everything and everything was connected..

the problem seems to be with the gears that spin..

their made up of cheap plastic and and spinns to fast..

o well... im just gona pay more and get the jappanese saturn like panzer-zwie said.

kingdavid562

im not shure what to do now...

i could go to ebay and just buy a us one...

but i dont whant it to break:cry:

for me that im looking for is an Atari 2600 with wood texture that works but ill be spending up to 100$ alone on it for used with all hookups and an extra 30$ to get most of the collection

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"][QUOTE="kingdavid562"]

;the sega saturn:cry:

i whanted that realy badly..

i actualy stoped whanting a dreamcast because most of the games are ported..

and the saturn was my new goal...:cry:

it reads the disk like if it were music when its upside down...

and i cant figure out whats whrong with it!!

i opend it up and everything and everything was connected..

the problem seems to be with the gears that spin..

their made up of cheap plastic and and spinns to fast..

o well... im just gona pay more and get the jappanese saturn like panzer-zwie said.

kingdavid562

im not shure what to do now...

i could go to ebay and just buy a us one...

but i dont whant it to break:cry:

Hmm while I'm 29 years old and have played them all and owned many of them, I had really fond memories of my sega saturn and that one took me a while to track it down with the games that I wanted to play that is.The games cost so much now and I used to have dragon force.....I wish I kept it just so I could sell it to someone for 200$ LOL!!!!!!!!

Turbografx-16, I don't think there was an australian release because I have not seen one locally on eBay. Jaguar and 3DO are also quite hard to find locally.danb0

My old black N64.

Had to dig around in the basement for an hour just to recover the thing! :x

I'm still trying to find a Sega CD and a Dreamcast with VMU's

[QUOTE="danb0"]Turbografx-16, I don't think there was an australian release because I have not seen one locally on eBay. Jaguar and 3DO are also quite hard to find locally.Emerald_Warrior

You might as well spend more and buy a DUO system. My PC-Engine DUO cost me $120 in 1995 brand new and with a game.

Not console but... The NeoGeo cartridges are almost impossible for me to find and If i do find them they want almost a grand for samurai showdown.Fightingfan

The first Samurai Spirits and even the second one are very cheap on the MVS, the most expensive one is the IV one and you can probably find it for $100 or less depending on its condition.

You're basically paying the $450 more for the box and manual (i.e. the collectible value) and few neglible in-game settings. Complete MVS kits (i.e. the cartridge in its original cardboard box with stickers, manuals etc.) are harder to find that AES ones, that's the only downside, but even those are cheaper on the MVS.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Not console but... The NeoGeo cartridges are almost impossible for me to find and If i do find them they want almost a grand for samurai showdown.Panzer_Zwei

The first Samurai Spirits and even the second one are very cheap on the MVS, the most expensive one is the IV one and you can probably find it for $100 or less depending on its condition.

You're basically paying the $450 more for the box and manual (i.e. the collectible value) and few neglible in-game settings. Complete MVS kits (i.e. the cartridge in its original cardboard box with stickers, manuals etc.) are harder to find that AES ones, that's the only downside, but even those are cheaper on the MVS.

[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Not console but... The NeoGeo cartridges are almost impossible for me to find and If i do find them they want almost a grand for samurai showdown.Emerald_Warrior

The first Samurai Spirits and even the second one are very cheap on the MVS, the most expensive one is the IV one and you can probably find it for $100 or less depending on its condition.

You're basically paying the $450 more for the box and manual (i.e. the collectible value) and few neglible in-game settings. Complete MVS kits (i.e. the cartridge in its original cardboard box with stickers, manuals etc.) are harder to find that AES ones, that's the only downside, but even those are cheaper on the MVS.

Nowadays it's understandable your usual retro game store is just not gonna invest $5000 to have only 10 AES games on their store, which wouldn't even be enough to draw the customers attention towards the system.

You also don't go to your usual retro-game store to buy arcade PCBs, you go to arcade dealers. So it's natural for users who aren't into the arcade scene to think that they're hard to find becaus they've never seen them anywwhere, but in reality they aren't hard to find neither.

Sega CD for me but my story is two-fold. I had no problem coming across a Dreamcast and a Saturn but the Sega CD was a **** to track down. When I finally did find one the guy also had a TurboGrafx-16 (PC-Engine) or a variation of. Just my luck I only had money for one....ended up getting the Sega CD.

The guy was a frequent vendor at the San Jose flea market so hopefully he still has it the next time a take a trip to Southern California.

Probably the Wii, even if my did most of the tracking:P

Probably the Wii, even if my did most of the tracking:P

CD-i_ownz

i forgot that thing was hard to find...

luckly i found it:D

[QUOTE="CD-i_ownz"]

Probably the Wii, even if my did most of the tracking:P

kingdavid562

i forgot that thing was hard to find...

luckly i found it:D

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"][QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]I don't think NEO*GEO AES games(most of them anyway) are that hard to find, but their prices are indeed ridiculious. Specially compared to their MVS counterparts. For example a game that cost $500 in the AES format can cost only $50 in MVS format.

The first Samurai Spirits and even the second one are very cheap on the MVS, the most expensive one is the IV one and you can probably find it for $100 or less depending on its condition.

You're basically paying the $450 more for the box and manual (i.e. the collectible value) and few neglible in-game settings. Complete MVS kits (i.e. the cartridge in its original cardboard box with stickers, manuals etc.) are harder to find that AES ones, that's the only downside, but even those are cheaper on the MVS.

Panzer_Zwei

Nowadays it's understandable your usual retro game store is just not gonna invest $5000 to have only 10 AES games on their store, which wouldn't even be enough to draw the customers attention towards the system.

You also don't go to your usual retro-game store to buy arcade PCBs, you go to arcade dealers. So it's natural for users who aren't into the arcade scene to think that they're hard to find becaus they've never seen them anywwhere, but in reality they aren't hard to find neither.

] So then you're saying that few stores carried them, even when they were new. And that you can't find them in retro shops now, either. But you're also saying they aren't rare? How does that work?Emerald_Warrior

Because you were expecting them to be available at your local game stores, which was wrong to begin with since that was never the usual market for those items in the first place.

They were available at specialty retail stores that focused either on Neo*Geo games specially or on a higher end consumer market, such as it's the case with arcade PCBs. The games themselves weren't rare to find, they were just sold in other type of stores. So that you never saw any NEO GEO cartridges on your local game stores wasn't rare at all.

Its a totally different matter than your problem finding PCE games which normally should've been sold at the same game stores than the other more popular systems. So it's very likely in the case of the PCE that the system was never popular in your area, so most likely your local retro game retailers were never able to find a local source to buy PCE games, and probably thought it's just not worthwhile to import them from somewhere else.

So far N64. I had to look all over until I found an ad on craigslist. Pretty good deal too. 45 dollars for a N64, 5 games (4 of them aregood) and 3 controllers.

Sega cd, looked in all of my local video game shops and couldn't find it anywhere. A week later I was walking back from college to get the bus home (this was around 2007) I saw it through the window in a charity shop of all places, got a good price too =P Powersaver3

This is a question more for the collectors: What Was the Hardest Console For You to Track Down? How long did it take you to get a hold of it? How much did you throw down to get it? And where did you finally find it? Did you pay full price through Ebay or something, or was it some buried treasure at Salvation Army or something? The hardest one for me to track down was Sega CD. I had wanted one for years. I finally got one last summer. Just some guy on Craigslist locally was getting rid it. It was a "make an offer" deal. I offered $20, and he took it! It had all the hook-ups and everything and works great! $20! Saturn was a hard one to find too, but not as hard. I found it at a local used games & movies shop called Video Exchange. Picked it up for $50, a model 2, with all hook-ups and a Sega brand controller. She even replaced the memory battery for me! Another great deal. That one also took me years to find, though. I know, your all thinking, "How hard could it be with Ebay and Amazon?" Well, they rip you off most of the time with the large shipping rates. And even then, people are trying to sell they're obviously used systems at collector's prices. It's crazy.Emerald_Warrior

how much is a Sega CD add-on even worth nowadays usually? I have mine laying in a closet somewhere and it works perfectly fine. I rarely ever played it except for Lunar: Silver Star and Sonic CD.I bought it when it first came out back in the day, and you don't even want to know how much I paid for that thing:evil:

SEGA Nomadsavebattery

Nomads are awesome. Does it really get any better than a handheld Sega Genesis?:P

And on a sidenote.... does anyone here have a Nintendo Virtual Boy? I never see those anywhere but then again I'm sure they are all over the place on ebay or amazon.

[QUOTE="savebattery"]SEGA NomadOrlando_Magic

Nomads are awesome. Does it really get any better than a handheld Sega Genesis?:P

And on a sidenote.... does anyone here have a Nintendo Virtual Boy? I never see those anywhere but then again I'm sure they are all over the place on ebay or amazon.

I'm still trying to find a Sega CD and a Dreamcast with VMU's

KillerJuan77

Almost had a Sega CD 2. I should've bought it, because afterwards I bought the Mega Drive 2. I got 3 Dreamcasts by the way :P

On-topic: The hardest to track down yet, probably, was the Atari Jaguar

I've never really had trouble finding consoles. The real challenge was findg the games for those consoles

none got the consoles in their respective generation , the only ones i didnt were ones i really didnt intend i just did for the heck of it , were the dc saturn gg sega genesis and cd as well as the atari 2600 , none of these i was really looking for ,

so ya um but from this gen the 360 was the hardest to get due to shortages ,,