missing rarity tag?
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chrislynn5
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missing rarity tag?
Every game I look up has no rarity rating? I typically search 8bit but I also have a 2600. I have some games that I'd like to know there rarity. Thanx.
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Rom Hunter
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Re: missing rarity tag?
Chrislynn,
It will literally take a hundred years fulltime job to give each single VCS game its proper rarity.
A game's rarity is depending on format, popularity, region, production numbers, condition, knowledge and finds, therefore constantly fluctuating and thus impossible to catch.
IMO it's a complete waste of time to put any energy in determining proper rarities for VCS games.
Believe me: exept for Atariboxed.com, all known to exist VCS Rarity lists on the net are outdated and in most cases quite unreliable.
They give you a rough estimation of a certain game's rarity, but that's all.
I marked all released VCS carts of which 3 or less are known to exist with a Holy Grail symbol:
http://www.atarimania.com/pgelstsoft.aw ... 0&step=200
It took me almost two years to create this list and we're talking about 106 out of almost 10,000 titles here.
Each time a fourth cart of a certain Holy Grail title is found, that title will be deleted from the list.
Eventually, we will have a small list of true Holy Grails, which IMO forms the quintessence of the true VCS Rarity Guide:
Holy Grails: Virtually impossible to get.
All others: Possible to get.
It will literally take a hundred years fulltime job to give each single VCS game its proper rarity.
A game's rarity is depending on format, popularity, region, production numbers, condition, knowledge and finds, therefore constantly fluctuating and thus impossible to catch.
IMO it's a complete waste of time to put any energy in determining proper rarities for VCS games.
Believe me: exept for Atariboxed.com, all known to exist VCS Rarity lists on the net are outdated and in most cases quite unreliable.
They give you a rough estimation of a certain game's rarity, but that's all.
I marked all released VCS carts of which 3 or less are known to exist with a Holy Grail symbol:
http://www.atarimania.com/pgelstsoft.aw ... 0&step=200
It took me almost two years to create this list and we're talking about 106 out of almost 10,000 titles here.
Each time a fourth cart of a certain Holy Grail title is found, that title will be deleted from the list.
Eventually, we will have a small list of true Holy Grails, which IMO forms the quintessence of the true VCS Rarity Guide:
Holy Grails: Virtually impossible to get.
All others: Possible to get.