Rarest and most valuable Famicom games?

[lingolingo]

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nes/2008/03/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-nes-games.html

it in the part where they talk about famicom, and its not the only place ive seen it. i think its one of thoose special carts.

[nintendodork]

Oh, this famous Racketboy page.  I've seen it linked here at least 4 times.

Most of the values on that page aren't very accurate, and I wish they would've linked to where they got their pricing information from.  It's not in the database here.  So I wonder if it's just that rare, or it's just some pirate someone thought was rare.

[nensondubois]

Maniac Mansion
Family Stadium: Manhattan Cop

[JC]

Never heard of Uranoid Li -- I guess that's the name on that page. I'd assume I'd know it since I spent a lot of time learning about rare games, but who knows. Maybe there's something out there by that name...

[UglyJoe]

Maniac Mansion

Seriously?  JGS has it loose for $19.

[lingolingo]

so, here in this forum we have a person that has 1 of the 8 rockman 4 gold??? IM FREAKING OUT

[Nightstar699]

I guess Spartan X 2 is pretty rare. Its so expensive!!

[nintendodork]

I'd only say uncommon.  A complete copy goes for like $80, but still just uncommon.

[JC]

I've been pretty unsure of how to categorize Spartan X2. I think it's rare, like Gimmick! or Hebereke or Snow Bros. Sometimes people think games are rare just because they sell for high prices; for example, Hitler no Fukkatsu isn't rare, but people are always wanting to buy it so the prices go up. The same is true of the Kunio titles.

[nintendodork]

I call that "high in demand" whenever a game like that comes up. 

[Nightstar699]

Yup, thats why the store near my area sells a loose Bubble Bobble cart (NES) for 50 bucks.

[cavanor]

What is the market value for a Nintendo Golf Gold Disk and Case these days?

[PolarGeekster0x50]

I have translated this to the best of my ability. I have been studying Japanese casually for the past 10 years, but I am still not
"fluent" in it yet. 

Here it is:
Top of Banner (area at the very top of the image)
"Winning Prizes (Punch-Out II) and gifts for all 10,000 names (in the tournament) "
(I imagined that the // after Punch-Out meant 2, or II)

Left Side, Row 1
"Prize for Ranks 1-100"

Right Side, Row 1
Prize Winner's Trophy award, for all participants.

Left Side, Row 2
"Prize for Ranks 101-5000"

Right Side, Row 2
"All Participants"
(I'm guessing that those who fall into this category can only win prizes in the manner described in the last two rows below...)

Left Side, Row 3
"Hole-in-One Prize"

Right Side, Row 3
"Lottery Drawing from 1,000 Names"
(I could have used "Entries" instead of "Names", but I'm sticking with the original Kanji and using "Names").

Left Side, Row 4
"Lucky Number Prize"

Right Side, Row 4
"For ranks ending in 1, 4, 9, or 2:
Lottery Drawing from 4,000 names
(The end of the first line in Japanese can be read to say "in the manner of", or "similar to", but
in this context, the last part is a phrase modifier which means that the second phrase will be done as
described in the first phrase.)

(Example: The first phrase literally translates to: "Ends of Ranks FOCUS 1, 4, 9, 2 PHRMOD NO manner using/because..."
or more intelligently: "For ranks ending in 1, 4, 9, or 2: (this step will be performed)".
This implies causality in the first phrase.
The Lottery Drawing from 4,000 names will only happen for those who have ranks which end in the numbers 1, 4, 9, or 2.

Hope this is illuminating! 

[Phosphora]

A question for the knowledgeable FDS collectors:
Are disk writer exclusive games more valuable if they are in the normal yellow case, or the very late blue case with the shutter? I've seen pictures of real Clu-Clu Land disks in both.
Also, are the Full color official labels worth more or less than the generic white labels that were given out when the store ran out of full color labels?

[fredJ]

Sure found some old thread, but I don't mind.....

I don't think it matters if it is blue or yellow. I'd personally prefer to see yellow cards because blue cards had crappy games to begin with, but a collector might not care.
Also, the blue ones were not late releases, they were Fax games for contests, and there were only five of them.

I assume that a game with a real label is always worth more... I'd personally put a higher price tag, at least 1/3 higher, probably more. Ask yourself, which one would you rather have in your collection? There is your answer about price...