Your rarest games

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What are your rarest games, complete cabinets or just PCB sets?

I just got in an Arcadia Systems Leaderboard Golf set which got me thinking of this kind of thread, I love rare and odd games. Here's my other stuff.

Complete:
- Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom

PCBs:

- Looping
- Victory
- Rotary Fighter

I used to have a Screamin Slopes redemption game, but alas it had to go.
 
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Domino Man complete working game. Seems sort'a hard to come by.

CVS board set and a couple of games PCB wise.

Midway Road Runner video based shooter. I figured they were not all that common. It falls just after EM shooters and prior to the "classics" boom. A buddy mentioned to me they were not out very long before being re-branded Desert Gun (marketing material and bezel change). Apparently an issue with the name!! http://marvin3m.com/arcade/mroadrun.htm


Desert Gun: http://marvin3m.com/arcade/desertg.htm
 
certainly wont say its super rare, or old, or really anything but my Blitz 99 cabinet that has a development PCB (sportstation) in it, very unique and a great history behind it :)
 
Mine is the game "Swimmer" by Centuri. From what I can tell, production numbers were probably 300-500. Mine is #149.
 

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I had one of those once. Service calls came in as soon as I sold it.

Yeah PP's are notoriously flakey, which is why some other games ended up ultra rare, vendors got sick of fixing them and they either got converted or thrown out. Moppet games like Tug Boat had kind of an interesting and tragic story behind them, Chuck E Cheese used to own the bulk of them but when they were done they threw them in the dumpsters for tax purposes! :( The games totally sucked but what a waste!
 
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My rarest game is my Frogger! Man that game is super rare! Almost as rare as Pac-Man!!! :D:p

I have a few fairly rare PCBs...Mega Man 2:The Power Fighters green Japanese CPS2 board and a grey asian board.I've only seen this grey board once,and I bought it as fast as I could.

I also have Vampire Savior and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo,although those are a little more common than the ones above.
 
Umm....games...
Subs
Sky Diver
Space Dungeon
Avalanche
Extra Inning
Looping
Top Secret (Exidy)

Pcb's...
Space Race
Cops 'N Robbers


Edward
 
I would say mine would be my 1976 "Datsun 280 Zzzap" by Midway. (very similar to Atari's Night Driver)
 
My rarest game is not really a game, but a modified cabinet. See, I took this Star Wars upright, and thought... What can I do with this empty cab, and my old green phone, and this leather chair upholstery??? Hey, wait! I know!

I'll go start up a thread about it, if you guys haven't seen it, yet. :D



In all seriousness, I suppose my rarest in my Space Invaders, which is not really rare whatsoever. :( But it is old...
 
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