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The most expensive game...EVAR!
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ManDudeChild
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The most expensive (non-typo) console game has to be Steel Battalion. So you were close at least by mentioning the right publisher 
Tortfeasor
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Comes with free ground shipping!
When Capcom's online store stops stocking a game, they remove links to the respective pages but leave them up on the server, so you can still get into them with a bit of effort. They jack up the prices in the database to prevent someone from accidentially ordering a game they don't carry or make anymore.
wow, someone just pointed this out to me.
Go to Capcom's online store and pick any game, add it to your cart. Look at the Shipping/Handling charge... bring up the drop down menu, change your order to ship to Canada, then click "Update Prices".
Are they adding $$$ as an effort to discourage orders from Canada?
Go to Capcom's online store and pick any game, add it to your cart. Look at the Shipping/Handling charge... bring up the drop down menu, change your order to ship to Canada, then click "Update Prices".
Are they adding $$$ as an effort to discourage orders from Canada?
ravingloon
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Speevy said:
I paid 79.99 for Wayne Gretzgy's 3D Hockey and Star Wars at the US launch, but by the time OOT was released prices had gone way down and I bought a gold edition OOT for 59.99 at release. You got screwed if OOT meant Ocaria of Time.
And Square RPGs for the SNES were expensive (Chrono Trigger being the highest), but at least they were under 100 dollars (Unlike Japan).
But Neo-Geo, as stated, are kings. I remember my Babbages always having them sitting on the shelf for like 300 a pop.
Yeah, most GOOD SNES games were $75. I sometimes sit and think about that, actually - I really wonder if this would still be my hobby if I had to pay almost $80 for every game. And I do remember, my mom bought me the Star Wars game for N64 in '96, and paid $89.99 for it in EB, not because it was the MSRP, either. I'm happy they got that "shortage" thing cleared up eventually. Damn, the Phantasy Star games for $90 to $100 were RIDICULOUS. I don't know how I managed to talk my parents into getting me those.
distantmantra
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Soul4ger said:
Who screwed up the price on that one? Is this an inside joke between the employees?
distantmantra said:
Not really an inside joke. Corporate office screwed up somehow and changed the price to $9,999.98. So, when we were printing out tags for price changes, of course we noticed the enormous discrepancy. We didn't put the game out on the floor, because we knew, or thought at least, that it couldn't be right, so we kept it in the back until the price went down. Took a few days. Not sure exactly what happened, but I always just assumed it was a computer glitch.
SiegfriedFM
Member
A Euro copy of Kizuna Encounter for Neo-Geo AES sells for more than $10000 when it does appear. Only four known, confirmed copies out of a possible 15 ever sold.
DIrtyWeasel
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How much was Virtua Racing? I think i've rented that game more than once.
Priz said:
Yes, that is EXACTLY why. I called Capcom about this before, and that shipping charge IS correct. $120 for anything to Canada, and you still have to pay for customs and taxes. Capcom just doesn't wanna ship to Canada, and that's their way of saying 'Fuck You' to Canada.