While I was browsing eBay I came across this auction: http://tinyurl.com/47tamo Are these real? Because it would be easy for someone to print up a label like that and slap it on a game cartridge. I've never heard of a "dealer version" but I don't really have knowledge in this area.
My first system was none other than an NES for Christmas of 1989. It probably hasn't really influenced my collecting; since there are a lot of crap games for it I have little desire to own them all. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from buying a bunch of $1 games, but still... It's the Nintendo 64 that made me want to be a collector... or maybe it was technically the GameCube. I was disappointed in the GameCube, Nintendo's offerings on it seemed half-hearted at best, with numerous games being rushed to the market. But the N64 had numerous games I enjoyed, so I decided to forget the 'Cube and just get all the N64 games I missed out on. After discovering numerous gems (Blast Corps., Tetrisphere, Banjo-Tooie, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, etc.) and learning that there were only 296 North American releases, I knew that I must own them all (I'm only 13 games away from that goal, if anyone's wondering).
For N64: Mario Party 1 and 2 are overrated. There were both million-sellers, yet they often sell for $20-25 on eBay. International Superstar Soccer 2000 is underrated. It is quite possibly the rarest US release: It was a rental-only game that came out near the end of the N64's market life. It's also soccer, which nobody in the US really cares about. There are extremely few complete copies in existence, mostly because Blockbuster usually trashed the boxes and manuals. Battle Zone: Rise of the Black Dogs also seems quite unnoticed for being rare. I rarely see copies for sale on eBay, especially complete ones.
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