The Rarest Game I Own: Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
How well does a game have to be to be worth more than $1000?
Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire (roughly translated as Galaxy Policewoman Legend Sapphire) is my rarest, most expensive games as of this writing.
This game was only released in Japan, it’s for the PC-Engine CD Rom² System, and it requires a special Arcade Card which goes in the HU Card slot to increase the system’s RAM.
My system is the US released version, known as the Turbo Duo.
You have to jump through a lot of hoops just to be able to play this game on a real console, and each hoop wants more money from you than the last.
So is this good enough to be worth $1000? Of course not, are you kidding me? I don’t think any game is that good? If Nintendo charged that much for The Legend of Zelda, I would have just ended up taking up a different hobby altogether. The developers who made this had no way of knowing they were making a future ultra-rare collector’s item, so I don’t think it’s really fair to factor in the game’s current high price into my review of the game. It’s fun to joke about though.
This is the kind of premium, deluxe character select screen $1000 can buy you.
I had to go through a long process to get this game working. First, I had to do a lot of research and ask around to make sure I could get a legitimate copy of the game without getting ripped off for the price. This game goes for so much that it’s definitely a huge score for a dishonest seller every time they trick someone into buying a reproduction copy. With how much I ended up having to spend, I definitely wasn’t going to risk being scammed with a counterfeit, which luckily didn’t happen. Here are photos of my copy which have been verified by several sources to be an authentic copy of the game.
This site is a great primer for how to identify counterfeits, but bootleggers are getting better and better all the time.
If you’re curious to see the numbers on the inner ring on my disc, here they are.
Then I had to order an Arcade Pro expansion card…
…only to discover that I was supposed to get an Arcade Duo card instead!
After the Duo card came over from Japan, it still didn’t work.
If you don’t have the right expansion card, the game doesn’t run and you get what I’m calling the Sexy Screen of Death.
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