PCB collectors: What is your RAREST board.

robivy64 · Post by **robivy64** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:40 am

What shmup PCB do you own that you consider to be the rarest in your collection. Market value aside.

Here is mine. Original Fantasy Zone PCB:

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:41 am

Mushihimesama Futari ver 1.0. I doubt there are more than 50 of these out there.

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:07 am

of the handful of boards I own, Tumble Pop is likely the least common.

edit: sorry, forgot this thread is in "shmup chat".
Then the one and only shmup I've got would be Blasteroids

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:19 am

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:32 am

I own the "2006/XX/XX Master" release of Pink Sweets. It took me years to locate Scramble Spirits so It might be rare I suppose.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:34 am

I guess it would be Guwange. I have some other pricey ones but I don't think it's b/c they are rare.

Dave K... I want to play that Planet Harriers!

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:51 am

Strider77 wrote:Dave K... I want to play that Planet Harriers!

Come on out for shmupmeet #10 and you can!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:54 am

dunno.. Strahl is a pretty rare board?

Post by **system11** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:23 am

Hyper Duel, Mr Heli, or Saturn.

Probably Saturn, that thing is nearly impossible to find.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:33 am

yojo! wrote;

It took me years to locate Scramble Spirits so It might be rare I suppose

Aw man! Scramble Spirits - brings back memories. Yes its rare.
How is it? My memory is fading.

kernow · Post by **kernow** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:45 am

Art of Fighting MVS cart.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:46 pm

Vimana?

Emph

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:26 pm

the black pachi

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:01 pm

Espgaluda is my "rarest" board so far

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:48 pm

DEL wrote:yojo! wrote;
It took me years to locate Scramble Spirits so It might be rare I suppose
Aw man! Scramble Spirits - brings back memories. Yes its rare.
How is it? My memory is fading.

Awesome game but I can't play it; It's medium res and my cabs only accept standard resolution.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:22 pm

Galaga 88. I sold one to someone on these forums and they sold off their whole library except that one PCB. Then when I got back to the UK from the US I tried to look high and low for one, eventually found in Belguim.

I would imagine the PCB's that are the rarest are the ones we don't talk about much.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:30 pm

neorichieb1971 wrote:Galaga 88. I sold one to someone on these forums and they sold off their whole library except that one PCB. Then when I got back to the UK from the US I tried to look high and low for one, eventually found in Belguim.

I would imagine the PCB's that are the rarest are the ones we don't talk about much.

hmm, then I have a new strategy...

1) Find extremely rare game that nobody plays
2) Get moderately decent at it
3) Take high score

jaycm1 · Post by **jaycm1** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:43 pm

i suppose guwange it was'nt that rare really when i first brought it early last year

Dragon1952 · Post by **Dragon1952** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:42 pm

I also have Galaga '88 but it is not that rare, but I won't part with it!

My most rarities are:

Double Wings - Mitchell
Cannon Dancer - Mitchell
Mad Shark - Allumer
War of Aero - Yang Cheng
Mr. Kicker - Eoith
Tenkomori Shooting - English Version

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:43 pm

A Japanese XEXEX with some art, my pride and joy. Not exactly rare by most standards, however the fragility of the prototype Konami GX board means they are prone to disintegrating - I've had one World version and one Japanese version die on me already. The third is cocooned in bubblewrap and stored in its own box.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:48 pm

I've only got about 7-8 boards right now, so I'm guessing the rarest one I have (or at least the most valuable) is either Dodonpachi or Battle Bakraid.

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:25 am

Dave_K. wrote:

Is this game actually any good? Any chance of seeing some footage of the gameplay?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:39 am

bcass wrote:Is this game actually any good? Any chance of seeing some footage of the gameplay?

There is a video of the demo/tutorial mode on youtube. I'm holding out my review of this game until I can at least get past level 3 on one credit. There are some unavoidable missile attacks that I must be dodging wrong. In short the game is a lot like Rez, and depends heavily on the double dash roll tactic that can only be accomplished if the joysticks are calibrated properly. The graphics, music and effects are great, as expected for a Hikaru (Naomi+) game.

At some point I hope to get a good VGA capture system, and will take some high end videos to show the gameplay.

Post by **undamned** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:59 am

Outzone.
-ud

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:06 am

Gradius IV with custom socketed timekeeper chip, so when the battery dies, I can pop in a new one and keep the settings.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:33 am

Tenkomori Shooting (English)

rtw

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:09 pm

I've seen and played the uber-rare USA region Tenkomori Variety Shooting cabinet with official U.S. marquee signage at the California Extreme show a few times in the past years that it's made it's appearance...so that's old news for me. ^_~

What you don't see very often is a Data East produced Darwin 4078 PCB with original arcade paperworks and instruction manual. That, I do have. It does command a hefty price in some Japanese PCB shops. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

I'm Alec · Post by **I'm Alec** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:53 pm

Hmm, probably my USA region Bragging Rights PCB. So rare, some of you may have never heard of it.

pixeljunkie · Post by **pixeljunkie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:58 pm

Splatterhouse and the U.S. Version of Night Slashers

Runners up:
V-V
Batsugun Special

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:05 am

I forgot to mention Boogie Wing, Osman (full kit) and Nebula Ray