It was an expensive addon, and mainly what Sega advertised was FMV games. The sega cd wasn't a very popular game system, for two reasons. That includes sega cd, sega cd 2, sega mega cd, sega mega cd 2, jvc x`eye, pioneer laseractive, wondermega, cdx, etc. If my calculations are correct, there were less than 4 million sega cd units sold in the world. So, such things as Americans would normally throw away, that's a no no!

There have been cases when just the spine card was missing from a game, and the game only sold for half of what it was worth. If those, or the original cd inserts, are missing, it makes the game less rare, and it could de-value the game significantly. Rareness occasionally has a helping hand in it, but not all of the time.Īlso, remember that almost all Japanese games come with a spine card, some with a map, and some with a cd soundtrack. Usually the price paid for the game has to do more with popularity and what's in demand. One thing that may surprise you in this list is that money paid for some of the games doesn't truly represent how rare a game is. Some of the places I've had to scout and hunt down games have been in Japan, China, Taiwan, England, France, and even the Netherlands, as well as the limited supply in the United States. Believe it or not, Japan isn't the only place to find Japanese games regularly. The only honest way for me to make this list is to only write rare if a game is known to be rare, and only write unrare if a game isn't known as rare.Īs both a collector of video games, including Japanese games, as well as previously being an import scout, I have been able to pretty accurately figure out ways of finding out which games are available, how often they are found, how many are available, and to see fluctuations between the markets.

A few of the games may not have a rarity number, just because I don't know how rare some of them are. So, if you don't see a game you're looking up, look for it by its alternative name. Some may be correct, others may be somewhat off, etc. So, we have to create a fair interpretation of rarity.Īlso, there are several known name variants of Japanese games. Lower numbers are less rare, higher numbers are more rare. The main reason being that there were a very limited number of sega cd games made, compared to say playstation, nes, snes, etc. The reason why it does not go to 10 is because the extra two points would not really be able to be used accurately, for several reasons. The reason that it does not only go to five is because there are so many different levels of rarity between the sega mega cd system games. Not only has this one been updated with a price list, but a lot of the rarity guide has been updated as well. I am releasing this version exclusively to the Good Deal Games message boards, as an early holiday gift. We can only hope the market comes back in the new year! It's unfortunate that the classic video gaming market is in such a slump, as you will see in the pricing below, especially around the holidays, when many people like to sell part of their collections to buy holiday gifts for their friends and families.

I also can not guarantee that there will be a new release each and every month, as it takes a lot of time to keep it updated. There are no guarantees for accuracy or anything like that, as the Video Game markets change often, sometimes every month or two. Note that this is our first attempt to incorporate a price guide in to our rarity list.

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