Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games

Obiwan Kenobi writes "Gamespy has a new article up on the Top Ten All Time Rarest Video Games. This wacky list includes such gems as Chase the Chuck Wagon and Bubble Bath Babes, the only NES game with nudity (square nipples, anyone?). Makes me wonder what the top ten rarest PC games are..."

The games that shipped with Windows 1.0

[JJAnon]

Oh wait, they haven't changed since then, so I guess they don't qualify as rare. Unless you are talking about the number of people who play them. :)

Re:OMG!!!

[Dr Caleb]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to sell this thing?

Send it over to me. I'll take care of it for you. (does evil pinky finger thing).

darn it...

[greechneb]

1. 1990 Nintendo World Championship Cartridge (Nintendo Entertainment System)

I just sold my copy last week for $.25 at a yard sale... I thought it was funny the guy took off laughing after I took his money. ;)

Re:OMG!!!

[Mike Schiraldi]

If only there were some sort of Internet auction site... :)

nostalgia

[tps12]

Boy, I sure miss those old treasures. It was truly a more innocent time, when the young and old alike could gather at the local pizza parlor to swap tales and challenge each other to games like Centerpede and Astroids. Violence didn't exist in those old games, and you could see it in the way people lived and treated each other, in the attitudes of kids towards authority, and in the media. Soon enough games like Donkey Kong (a violent and mean-spirited game with racist undertones) and Ms. Pac-Man (the first video game with an overtly transvestite hero[ine?]) started chipping away at what had until then been a wholesome American activity. These old games are valuable, because they remind us of what we once were, and how quickly we lost it.

Top 10 MOST collectible?

[medscaper]

I would want to collect these :
- Unreal Tournament 2044
- Doom CXVII
- Ultima Online '72
- Grand Theft Aircar 16
- Age of Empires 13 - the 20th Century
- Quake IIIIIIIIII
- LOTR 12 - The return of the grandson of the guy who heard about the king (Live 5-d action)
- Wolfenstein 16-d (Now with time-travel gameplay)
- Medal of Honor 9 : Assault the Allies

Oh...and Starcraft 2, for crying out loud.

Re:nostalgia

[Amarok.Org]

games like Centerpede and Astroids. Violence didn't exist in those old games

I'm betting the Centipede you were blasting to hell and back thought it was pretty violent.

You mean

[Anonymous Coward]

square nipples, anyone

women don't actually have square nipples?

DAMN I need to get out more.

Rarest PC game

[QuantumRiff]

Duke Nukem Forever...
That was relased what, 3 years ago, or, wait, its still "When its done!"

IN SOVIET RUSSIA...

[Anonymous Coward]

Video games collect YOU.

NES game with nudity

[Ryne]

And they say Nintendo doesn't aim for the adult crowd...

Re:Quake III Arena

[512k]

Microcenter in Cambridge was selling QIII for linux for $3-5 (can't remember)..there was a sticker slapped to each one explaining what you needed to download to run it under Windows

from the article

[nege]

""Chasing the Chuck Wagon" has become a synonym for hunting for rare games in thrift stores, pawn shops and other such locations."

oh...i had ANOTHER meaning for that...

Re:Great read

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been sort of acquiring a collection of older computers, trying to get them to work and on the Internet. When I tell people that I collect computers, they often ask "Why?" To which I reply, "Some people collect spoons."

I think that was my favorite game ever

[SuperKendall]

I loved a lot of things about that game, how you'd have to randomly discover what controls would do for you in certain situations - like kicking a gaurd in "a most effective spot" to put it politley, or even better when you are trapped inside of the vehicle in the arena! Few moments in gaming have brought me such glee as that, though Half-Life came pretty close. I also loved the ending, possibly the best ending I've ever experienced in a game.

I played it on an Atari ST though, not a PC... and it was still called "Another World" at that point as I remember.

Re:Sierra games!

[NotAnotherReboot]

I would have read your flame, but I got tired of reading.

Re:Bubble Bath Babes, the only NES game with nudit

[JimRay]

I thought the "dude" in Metroid was always assumed to be a woman?

Besides, most guys I know have nipples, too.