Which is the rarest commercially sold shmup video game?

[Friendly]

Massive bump on the topic of Bangai-o prize edition (dunno if it's the right place):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0851918375

Does it look legit? Seller has 2 recent negatives for fakes. 800 bucks is a lot of money and seeing as how all you'd need to fake could be easily done with a printer...

Fake, the prize edition was not a DORI KORE reprint but a regular copy. Of course this means the game itself is indistinguishable from any other Japanese first print copy of Bangai-O. Even if it had been a real "prize edition", it would have been silly to pay that much money for it. Pretty funny how the seller messed up the one thing that makes this stand out as a fake instantly. The poster looks like an inkjet print, too.
In short, the person who bid 800 USD for this is a moron, especially given the feedback of the seller, who appears to be a scammer.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... chock1_in1

Negative feedback rating
AVOID! Item was a poor quality fake/reproduction. Inkjet printer used label/art
Member id jbrumley7734 ( Feedback Score Of 55Blue star icon for feedback score in between 50 to 99)
Oct-19-11 12:02
Akalabeth World of Doom Apple II 5¼" Disk California Pacific Computer Co 1980 (#220866110569) US $1,000.00

Negative feedback rating
Game is a Forgery.Label & Coverart is a copy with an Inkjet printer. Stay Away!!
Member id wvnationals ( Feedback Score Of 550Purple star icon for feedback score in between 500 to 999)
Oct-17-11 15:36
APPLE-OIDS California Pacific Computer Co. 1981 APPLEOIDS (#220868381000) US $102.50

[BPzeBanshee]

On eBay Australia Recca is available at approx. $1500 - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw= ... m270.l1313

Huge price but not nearly as bad as that crap sports game that was so rare that the seller of the game bundle which included it pretty much became an instant millionaire.

[sven666]

akai katana LE must be up there? most expensive retail price for sure?

I know it says no PCBs but ceph is banned and AKLE is a PCB released strictly for home use (freeplay only) so it kinda changes the game a bit?

[Ghegs]

On eBay Australia Recca is available at approx. $1500 - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw= ... m270.l1313

Huge price but not nearly as bad as that crap sports game that was so rare that the seller of the game bundle which included it pretty much became an instant millionaire.

That one's waaaaaay overpriced, though. I didn't pay nearly that much for my CIB Recca.

Still, Recca probably does rank near the top of the list for rare and expensive shmups.

[BPzeBanshee]

On eBay Australia Recca is available at approx. $1500 - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw= ... m270.l1313

Huge price but not nearly as bad as that crap sports game that was so rare that the seller of the game bundle which included it pretty much became an instant millionaire.

That one's waaaaaay overpriced, though. I didn't pay nearly that much for my CIB Recca.

Still, Recca probably does rank near the top of the list for rare and expensive shmups.

Yeah, I thought as much. The prices listed here in this thread years ago for Recca were much less, no wonder no one's bought it from that guy.

I still like to think it's probably a little less overpriced than some of the Cave PCBs, that's for sure.

[Ceph]

ceph is banned

No he is not.