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ozzie · 11-06-2009, 06:36 AM

Nah, well, there are games that nearly didn't sell at all, but which you can still easily find years after. For example, Uncle Henry's Playhouse, a repackaging of puzzles from 7th Guest, 11th Hours and Clandestiny. It didn't sell more than 27 units in the holiday season of 1996. A bigger number of copies was produced, of course.
So, it's still rather easy to get the game years later, depite its limited release, just because nobody had any interest in it.

But then there's Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash, a game in the Ultima series developed by former publisher of the games developed by Origin Systems, Sierra.
Sierra apparently never officially released the game, and only like 13 fully existing copies were confirmed by a collector.
The game is rare because the release was apparently stopped at the last second. It was therefore a failure. Still, it's incredibly hard (and expensive!) to get hold of it. So, it's definately rare.

11-06-2009, 06:36 AM	#265
ozzie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 726	Nah, well, there are games that nearly didn't sell at all, but which you can still easily find years after. For example, Uncle Henry's Playhouse, a repackaging of puzzles from 7th Guest, 11th Hours and Clandestiny. It didn't sell more than 27 units in the holiday season of 1996. A bigger number of copies was produced, of course. So, it's still rather easy to get the game years later, depite its limited release, just because nobody had any interest in it. But then there's Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash, a game in the Ultima series developed by former publisher of the games developed by Origin Systems, Sierra. Sierra apparently never officially released the game, and only like 13 fully existing copies were confirmed by a collector. The game is rare because the release was apparently stopped at the last second. It was therefore a failure. Still, it's incredibly hard (and expensive!) to get hold of it. So, it's definately rare.