@@virgilthemob1242 Don't give him any ideas, or else we'll get a butchered story mode were Gronk isn't even playable. Unless you get the season pass that has only one dlc: A slightly bigger rock.
Yooo! Really awesome of you to share this treasure with us Mike! It'd actually be really cool maybe if you made this into a series of sorts of other rare gems you have :D
This is one of your best videos ever. I would love to see more stuff like this. It's fast, clean, and shows you something that not many other content creators are doing. Also, I'm so glad we have emulation for poor folk like myself. :)
A game so rare, you can't show footage by itself. You need to show yourself and Erin playing it. If no-one else was going to point out the obvious, then I will!
Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru was, at one time, my most obscure purchase. It was an impulse that was ill-advised considering economics at the time, but I took a chance on an opportunity and was actually surprised. It wasn't the most amazing game, even for the console, but it was an experience that was uniquely singular and still stands apart from the pack. Sometimes there are games that aren't traditionally great and thus garner little attention or imitation, but as game design streamlines and articulates popular trends, it's those weirdo games in history's dustbin where the risks that sank the game at the time are the experiential outliers that make you appreciate them. It's like b-movies; sure they aren't great by Hollywood standards, but they also contain an adventurous recklessness that make them fun because of how they buck the trend.
Man, it amazing to see you have a real copy of this. I have a duo myself, but I need to replace the capacitors on it. Fantastic part of your collection! Hope you do more turbografx/PC-engine games.
2:50 Those mechs are references of Quebley MKII from Gundam, the character designer and creator of this game Mika Akitaka worked on Gundam so its probably a reference to that
This is so bizarre to me. I got this game the day of its release as it was in many stores where I'm from, and to think that this became a very rare game makes me feel super lucky. Great video by the way, would love to see more of those "quick" type of reviews.
Mike, that screen at 1:29 literally translates to "Put in the Arcade Card" but with the way she says it, she is essentially saying "put it in me". What a weird screen! Great vid!
my personal favorite shooter is Ikaruga. Love the strategy involved with switching colors to navigate the bullet hell scenes and I was happy when they brought it back recently.
I know the rarest/uncommon games that I own are: - Pocky and Rocky (SNES) - Contra 4 (DS) - Kirby Superstar Ultra (DS) - The Legend of Zelda Anniversary Collection (Gamecube)
I missed Hudson Soft. Especially the games like Bloody Roar was awesome at a time. Very rare shooting game indeed. Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire（銀河婦警伝説サファイア）in PC Engine.
Thanks for showing this Mike. I was looking into rare shooters on the Wii shop (via Wii U) before it went belly up. Decided on Lords of Thunder (thanks to J&M Mondays) and Psychosis. Both on Turbografx though probably not as rare as "Flying Japanese Anime Girl" or whatever your game was called. Turbografx had some bad ass weird shooters.
"this is a great game to introduce a friend to the shooter genre" I can picture the friend's reaction: *"It's in Japanese, only available on some console nobody makes anymore and it's $1000?! Jesus Christ, how can anyone possibly get interested in the shooter genre?!"*
My rarest game is Shantae for the GBC. What’s funny about it is that I bought it for $7 at a Play N Trade when the game was going on eBay for almost $300. Now just the cartridge is running $650.
My rarest game is probably the Quake 2 expansion pack Juggernaut (PC game). It's so bad one can't believe it made it to stores, but feels like a privilege to still have the CD in its original box. I actually replayed it a couple of years ago and childhood memories flooded back as I progressed.
Possibly the rarest game in my collection is the English language Digimon RPG on WonderSwan Color. It was only released in Hong Kong and Korea, I was lucky to find, for about £100, a WonderSwan Color/game bundle!
I'm trying to figure out whether my most valuable game is Misadventures of Tron Bonne or Earthbound. I picked up both before the nostalgia boom back when Gamestop was closing out their retro games to focus on modern stuff. Picked up Earthbound for $40 and MAoTB for $7
My rarest games could being "Conkers Bad Fur Day", "Earthbound" and "Trip World" for the Gameboy. Also the most PAL-Versions from the old Megaman and Megaman X-Games for NES, SNES and PS1 are really expensive.
Played this game a lot every time I'd go to MAGFest, Animazement or any other convention that Wedoca went to. Sadly the member of Wedoca who owned it passed away, so haven't played it in a long time, but damn it's a fun ass game.
My rarest game is Zelda Adventure for the CDI. Took me over 6 hours to get my Philip's CDI working. Had to drill into the memory chip to solder a new battery into it then fix the CD tray. But I was able to finally beat Zelda's Adventure and the other two Zelda games for the CDI. I can officially say I have beaten every Zelda game now.
Interesting. CAProduction did this title, and they also made Hagane on SNES, which is also one of the rarest SNES titles. These guys seem to be a complete enigma. The most conventionally obtainable title they made was probably Bulk Slash on Saturn, which is still at least a $100. And that game has like zero info on it on the English speaking web.
Definitely an unusual company, Bulk Slash has the Manual glued to inside of the case, every copy is like that. No one knows why it was produced like that. If you look hard enough there are some english reviews and articles for Bulk Slash, Hardcoregaming101 has one, and there are gameplay videos on UA-cam as well. Zenki for Super famicom is the most affordable CAProduction game I've seen
@@JetWolfEX so it wasnt just the copy I ordered. Makes perfect sense. I'd love to talk to the guys at CAProduction, but I can't read kanji, so I have no idea on who all the developers are.
My rarest title is Elemental Gearbolt for PS1. Super cool light gun title published by Working Designs. This definitely reminded me that I even have it. 😂
The Arcade Card Pro works just as well as the Arcade Card Duo in this case, it’s just overkill. It contains the software and ram that the base model pc engine with cd-rom attachment need, but will override the Duo o/s when run on one.
Little disappointed because i thought it was going to James' rarest game... Then again i should have expected as much that it wasn't just based on the anime like thumbnail
looks like an old good shooter i once played as a child that i cannot remember and still have yet to find again , the only clear thing i remember about it was the final level music....
I remember picking this up for my friend when i went to japan back in 2014, and back then it was only 450ish at akiba. I will always remember the look they gave me when i asked to check for counterfeitness like "who the hell does this guy think he is". He still keeps it in a glass case to this day.
Great video Mike! The game looks pretty sick! 👍 my rarest game: Geppy X for ps1 and the Rockman Collection Box , both japanese... obscure Asian games can get so so expensive!
Wow. This was actually a very interesting video. I would really like to see more reviews of rare games (or other obscure and interesting games in general) from you, Mike.
"I'm glad that a game that's this expensive and rare is actually so awesome"
Take note, Cheetahmen II.
Well Cheetahmen II was never even finished tho? :D But yeah even if it was, it woulda been a stinking pile of shit...
@@Ex0rz The people who made Action 52 had a very different definition of "finished" than most people.
That death screen with the sexy girl says "INSERT the arcade card", Understood!
Don't mind if I do
I mean, it does make you want to put it in, GIGGITY.
Ugh omg u guys are like totally pervs
One would think that's a case of engirish or they knew exactly what they were doing.
@@rayvenkman2087
It's Japan it's intentional
Great video. I’d love to see more videos in this format.
Thanks! I'll be doing more, as always! -Mike
@@JamesNintendoNerd so nice
My rarest game is the ancient "rock throwing game" game that cavemen used to play back in the day
Is there any chance we are gonna get a 4K Remastered edition with an online multiplayer mode?
Right now mine is either pokemon emerald or my pal version of worms for ps1
@@virgilthemob1242 Don't give him any ideas, or else we'll get a butchered story mode were Gronk isn't even playable. Unless you get the season pass that has only one dlc: A slightly bigger rock.
My rarest game is Banjo-Kazooey
With original rocks or re-production?
The 90s anime aesthethic of this game is off the charts
90s anime are so amazing.
Yooo! Really awesome of you to share this treasure with us Mike! It'd actually be really cool maybe if you made this into a series of sorts of other rare gems you have :D
Never heard of this game, but awesome video
More games/systems need a Sexy Screen of Death.
That will cause more players to die on purpose...
Journos would start calling it sexist and start calling for outrage tbh
Vore Games
A lot of Japanese games on obscure systems like the X68000 have things like that, fun fact.
How about a Game Over Worm?
This is one of your best videos ever. I would love to see more stuff like this. It's fast, clean, and shows you something that not many other content creators are doing. Also, I'm so glad we have emulation for poor folk like myself. :)
A waifu on the cover of it? Consider it sold.
you weebs are fucking weird
Nice Trinitron PVM, Brah.
Your right
degenerate
Character in anime/manga style =/= "waifu" you fucking dumbass.
I loved the blogpost on this...glad to see it in video form
Blogspot? :0
The "sexy screen of death", nice
I love this new format Mike this is a cool way of introducing games that u and James or Erin might play on stream or James and Mike Monday’s
Sorry for seeming random, but since I don't watch the streams... Who's Erin?
Oh u can find her channel Erin plays she is pretty solid UA-camr old skool gamer but play new too
Aaron DeVack my thoughts exactly
@@aarondevack1912 search Erin plays.
A game so rare, you can't show footage by itself. You need to show yourself and Erin playing it.
If no-one else was going to point out the obvious, then I will!
I see you’re a man of culture Mike.
Misteriosi81 ah I made a mistake dammit!
With a name that long there’s no wonder it yields such a high price tag
they charge by the character.
Like Mister Spock would say : "Fascinating"
I think the Beast said that on Fox Kids' X-Men Adentures, too.
Love when you cover shooters, Mike.
Love this game, but I'd recommend just getting the PCEworks version of it. Saves you over $1000
Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru was, at one time, my most obscure purchase. It was an impulse that was ill-advised considering economics at the time, but I took a chance on an opportunity and was actually surprised. It wasn't the most amazing game, even for the console, but it was an experience that was uniquely singular and still stands apart from the pack. Sometimes there are games that aren't traditionally great and thus garner little attention or imitation, but as game design streamlines and articulates popular trends, it's those weirdo games in history's dustbin where the risks that sank the game at the time are the experiential outliers that make you appreciate them. It's like b-movies; sure they aren't great by Hollywood standards, but they also contain an adventurous recklessness that make them fun because of how they buck the trend.
Absolutely amazing
0:38 - WELL DONE, PLEASE - PAULA
Japanese⇒English
超キュート！！超ハード！！⇒BerryCute！BerryHARD！
1:31 アーケードカード入れて⇒Insert an arcade card
2:10 あれれ、逃げちゃうよ？⇒oh,let's run awey？
My rarest/most expensive game is Aero Fighters for SNES. Strange how it's always the SHMUPs that get crazy expensive!
"this is very rare and expensive game" - "It's a good game to indroduce your friends to shooters" -> pick one...
nice vid!
The two aren't mutually exclusive
Thought the exact samething lol. 1k to introduce a friend to the genre lmao.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Sounds fine to me lololololololol
@@KGB240 only if you already have the game...
Man, it amazing to see you have a real copy of this. I have a duo myself, but I need to replace the capacitors on it. Fantastic part of your collection! Hope you do more turbografx/PC-engine games.
Oh I have 60 copies of that. Good to know
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. lmao
You wait until Halloween? I just hand mine out on a street corner every Tuesday.
@@officialclownbusiness7788 you only do it every Tuesday? I hand mine out every hour on the hour
@@djstapler You only do it every hour? I hand mine out every minute on the minute 😎
@@Jimboishere11 damn bro. My cousin hands em out ever Planck time on the planck time
2:50
Those mechs are references of Quebley MKII from Gundam, the character designer and creator of this game Mika Akitaka worked on Gundam so its probably a reference to that
This is so bizarre to me. I got this game the day of its release as it was in many stores where I'm from, and to think that this became a very rare game makes me feel super lucky. Great video by the way, would love to see more of those "quick" type of reviews.
yes ^_^@Can You Fuking Not
This is really good content. I enjoy seeing videos about these obscure games. Also you're out of your goddamn mind.
Sapphire got confirmed recently as one of the games to be released on the upcoming PC Engine Mini.
Love videos like this Mike and your reviews!
My rarest game is a physical copy of The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.
R1 or R2 copy?
@Ray Venkman
What's R1/R2?
I also have a copy of the game.
@@rayvenkman2087 how can you tell?
@@HarmonySword I'd usually check the back of the case at the bottom.
Mike, that screen at 1:29 literally translates to "Put in the Arcade Card" but with the way she says it, she is essentially saying "put it in me". What a weird screen! Great vid!
3:45 aren't those outer shooters that are firing in the right and left direction those same things that are the top villains in Galaga?
The box art looks so amazing, i love that 90s anime style
So do I. It's brilliant.
Great video as always Mike! Love seeing the more unknown consoles and games on your list :)
Does anybody else want the *"Sexy Screen of Death"* implemented into Windows? No? Just me? Okay.... LMAO 😂
Now Im interested...
my personal favorite shooter is Ikaruga. Love the strategy involved with switching colors to navigate the bullet hell scenes and I was happy when they brought it back recently.
Great video, but i thought it would be about James lol ;p But also love to know what Mike has ;d
James is more of an movie guy
Mike is a mystery....
This is why we need to archive old video games. Video games are art, and they should be preserved for future generations.
Swell, now make it into a James and Mike Mondays.
I know the rarest/uncommon games that I own are:
- Pocky and Rocky (SNES)
- Contra 4 (DS)
- Kirby Superstar Ultra (DS)
- The Legend of Zelda Anniversary Collection (Gamecube)
2:01 Hey it's Ms.Swan!
It's always a little sad to find out such a good game is so rare, pretty much always means it never got the amount of appreciation deserved to it.
1:29 the blue balls of death
I like your tone and speed of delivery here. Its very cinemassacrey.
Put this on a snes classic, it runs 100% perfectly.
James and Mike should play this game for their Monday videos! That would be amazing!
I was listening to some of this games soundtrack!! That's awesome that you covered this!!!
I don't know if they are considered rare but my most valuable games are a CIB Terranigma and a mint condition Chocobo Racing
I missed Hudson Soft. Especially the games like Bloody Roar was awesome at a time.
Very rare shooting game indeed. Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire（銀河婦警伝説サファイア）in PC Engine.
I legitimately really enjoyed this video. I normally don’t click on anything non Nerd related, but this one was really well done.
3:36 is a good pun lol.
Thanks for showing this Mike. I was looking into rare shooters on the Wii shop (via Wii U) before it went belly up. Decided on Lords of Thunder (thanks to J&M Mondays) and Psychosis. Both on Turbografx though probably not as rare as "Flying Japanese Anime Girl" or whatever your game was called. Turbografx had some bad ass weird shooters.
"this is a great game to introduce a friend to the shooter genre"
I can picture the friend's reaction: *"It's in Japanese, only available on some console nobody makes anymore and it's $1000?! Jesus Christ, how can anyone possibly get interested in the shooter genre?!"*
My rarest game is Shantae for the GBC. What’s funny about it is that I bought it for $7 at a Play N Trade when the game was going on eBay for almost $300. Now just the cartridge is running $650.
Nice catch
You werent kidding, it was under 200 in 2016, wtf.
Congratulations! It’s always satisfying to get a game you’ve been looking for. Especially after jumping through so many hoops.
I hate the dislike ratio on any video not featuring James. This is a great video from Mike.
You mentioned that these obscure games were your hobby right now, you should definitely make more videos like this!
My rarest game is probably the Quake 2 expansion pack Juggernaut (PC game). It's so bad one can't believe it made it to stores, but feels like a privilege to still have the CD in its original box. I actually replayed it a couple of years ago and childhood memories flooded back as I progressed.
>Click on video
>Hear Mike
>Switch off
Still hoping that he and James to play Touhou 1-5
Anyone know the games showing between 1:54 to 2:02?
Possibly the rarest game in my collection is the English language Digimon RPG on WonderSwan Color. It was only released in Hong Kong and Korea, I was lucky to find, for about £100, a WonderSwan Color/game bundle!
Love the soundtrack for this game, simply fantastic!
>Buys a vidya just to show off wealth and prestege
>Gets hot anime waifu on cover
>Win-win
I'm trying to figure out whether my most valuable game is Misadventures of Tron Bonne or Earthbound. I picked up both before the nostalgia boom back when Gamestop was closing out their retro games to focus on modern stuff. Picked up Earthbound for $40 and MAoTB for $7
My rarest game is pimp manipulation...yeah, I manipulate pimps.
This game looks like a ton of fun. :D I think you narration was a bit hurried, BUT it did keep the video moving at a good pace. 👍
Your "sexy game over" screen actually says "Insert your arcade card", making it even naughtier. Just an FYI.
Cool
My rarest games could being "Conkers Bad Fur Day", "Earthbound" and "Trip World" for the Gameboy.
Also the most PAL-Versions from the old Megaman and Megaman X-Games for NES, SNES and PS1 are really expensive.
Awesome, you play with Erin plays. Cool
@@peoples2296 really? thats cool
@@peoples2296 didn't know.
This game looks really awesome! Everything about it reminds me of my favorite Sega Genesis games, but improved in every aspect ^^
Glad I can just play it on my flashcart Lol
Played this game a lot every time I'd go to MAGFest, Animazement or any other convention that Wedoca went to. Sadly the member of Wedoca who owned it passed away, so haven't played it in a long time, but damn it's a fun ass game.
3:23 I saw that bomb... in a kirby game, amazing mirror maybe?
My rarest game is Zelda Adventure for the CDI. Took me over 6 hours to get my Philip's CDI working. Had to drill into the memory chip to solder a new battery into it then fix the CD tray. But I was able to finally beat Zelda's Adventure and the other two Zelda games for the CDI. I can officially say I have beaten every Zelda game now.
Interesting. CAProduction did this title, and they also made Hagane on SNES, which is also one of the rarest SNES titles. These guys seem to be a complete enigma. The most conventionally obtainable title they made was probably Bulk Slash on Saturn, which is still at least a $100. And that game has like zero info on it on the English speaking web.
Definitely an unusual company, Bulk Slash has the Manual glued to inside of the case, every copy is like that. No one knows why it was produced like that.
If you look hard enough there are some english reviews and articles for Bulk Slash, Hardcoregaming101 has one, and there are gameplay videos on UA-cam as well.
Zenki for Super famicom is the most affordable CAProduction game I've seen
@@JetWolfEX so it wasnt just the copy I ordered. Makes perfect sense. I'd love to talk to the guys at CAProduction, but I can't read kanji, so I have no idea on who all the developers are.
How much have you sunk into your collection, as in total approximation of dollar amounts spent in total???
Mike, you should review more of these obscure games since you enjoy them and i enjoy watching your Reviews
My rarest title is Elemental Gearbolt for PS1. Super cool light gun title published by Working Designs. This definitely reminded me that I even have it. 😂
I love all of the cool effects, and movement of the bosses, great work developers!
Very cool man awesome stuff thanks for the post 😀
man the background music is kickass!
“ sexy screen of death”. Beautiful.
The Arcade Card Pro works just as well as the Arcade Card Duo in this case, it’s just overkill. It contains the software and ram that the base model pc engine with cd-rom attachment need, but will override the Duo o/s when run on one.
This is why I love using Translated Rons for the Japanese Games
My rarest games are Clayfighter Sculptors Cut on n64, CIB Earthbound on snes, and Sumo Fighter for the original Gameboy! 😁
What’s that game at 1:56?
Pretty cool how this game almost looks like an early Neo Geo title or something. Very nice.
Little disappointed because i thought it was going to James' rarest game... Then again i should have expected as much that it wasn't just based on the anime like thumbnail
2:42 freemasonic checkerboard floor with an altar and triangle in the middle?! Mmmhh.
Looks like a pretty cool classic STG.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing!
Awesome video, and congrats on getting the game to work!
looks like an old good shooter i once played as a child that i cannot remember and still have yet to find again , the only clear thing i remember about it was the final level music....
I remember picking this up for my friend when i went to japan back in 2014, and back then it was only 450ish at akiba. I will always remember the look they gave me when i asked to check for counterfeitness like "who the hell does this guy think he is". He still keeps it in a glass case to this day.
Great video Mike! The game looks pretty sick! 👍 my rarest game: Geppy X for ps1 and the Rockman Collection Box , both japanese... obscure Asian games can get so so expensive!
Wow. This was actually a very interesting video. I would really like to see more reviews of rare games (or other obscure and interesting games in general) from you, Mike.
Does it come with a dakimakura of the girl on the cover?