Game Quest Direct and the secret of rare-game reprints

I would personally fellate everyone in the company if there was a rerelease of suikoden 2. my copy was stolen a few years ago and i really cant afford to pay $100+ on ebay.

comment 2: electric boogaloo

looks like they have some other hard to find psone games that i had stolen from me. Let me tell you, it sucks the big one when games are stolen. They even have like some SNES stuff. Cool.

I too would would love to get my hands on a reprint of Suikoden 1 & 2.

I can only see a few reprints on the site .The rest are bargain bin items that most brick and mortar stores carry and regular releases ,There'slot is Majesco crap that's been liquidated.It would be better if they had a section of re:released games and not just put them in with general releases.

Hmmm, and here I have suikodens I & II sitting on my shelf, never played. Valkyrie Profile too. That was back when I would buy everything the day it came out and never got around to playing any of them. Maybe I should sell this stuff....

-p-

The rare Virtual Boy games.
Seriously. I've been collecting the cheaper stuff. Some have gone for close to $1000

Coolest system ever...[until Rev, maybe]

Great idea... I have REZ for the Dreamcast and it's a blast. Everyone should get a shot at playing it.

I have Suikoden I & II and Valkyrie Profile, along with other "rarities" on my shelf. And Fry's has copies of Guitaroo Man for $39.99. I've considered picking it up, but I think Guitar Hero has spoiled me.

Disgaea's on the list. Yay!

R-Type Delta.

Panzer Dragoon Saga please.

Before anyone here even thinks that GQD is a good company for doing this, you should read the thread over at CAG:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75380&page=5&pp=50

The whole thread is a great read, but scroll down to CheapyD's comments on that page for the truth on these guys.

They have an extensive history of getting these reprints done, and then trying to flood online sites to sell them at $100 before anyone catches on. Once people find it was a reprint, then they just drop the price to where it should be and they still make money. They also have a history of actually ripping people off who ordered from them and never got billed properly. They also don't know how to package these new games they sell. They think it's okay to just ship a double jewel case sealed game with no bubble wrap or any protection at all. Why is this important? Because it shows how much they don't care about the customers who support their business. The list goes on and on. Is it nice to see games get reprinted? Yes, of course. However gamers should petition game companies to do it themselves rather than give the profits to an underhanded organization like GQD. They are only in it for the money. They don't care about gamers at all.

The story did briefly mention some inventory unloading on eBay and selling to an eBay seller "if the price is right," but the bad side of the company wasn't explored thoroughly in the original article. That said, thanks for the info, fwacce; hopefully GQD won't have to resort to shady practices to make back its $100,000 reprint investments in the future.

Somebody's been listening to Minus The Bear.

Rez, Rez, Rez. It's what's for dinner. But have any of you checked Amazon recently?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B00005ULXM/all/ref=dp_pb_a/102-2288764-4140118?s=videogames

Tsk, tsk.