Man pays $2500 for Sonic X-treme demo

by Blake Snow on Mar 9th 2006 9:00AM

The Digg link says it all: "A man pays $2500 for the only playable version of the Sonic X-treme known to exist. This is hard core." I don't care how little or much money you have, but $2500 is a lot of scratch to throw around for an unreleased game. Granted, I'm not the collecting type, so it's hard for my little brain to fathom such a purchase.

Would you pay $2500 for an unreleased game? If so, which one?

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if i wasnt dirt poor i would pay a pretty penny for an unreleased sequel to Illusion of Gaia for snes, if there was one. or english versions of the SuikoGaiden games for psx

This is easy.

HALO 3

And I would feel it was a bargain at $2500.

maybe for the twilight princess!

I'd pay that for the most complete version of Warcraft Adventures just to see what Blizzard was thinking.

Would you steamroll your granny for a copy of halo 3?

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HALO 3 & DIABLO 3 (if thats even started!)

gotta love unreleased games!

i'd pay that much for the fabled Zelda III for NES (if it was a fully developed version)

I can't say that I'd spend $2500 on any game, but I'd be enticed by Herzog Zwei 2 (or would that be Herzog Drei?).

halo3 because, every gaming news site would pay out the ass for screens

I think this was about games that were scheduled but never released. Thus, Halo 3 is not in the running.

I'd like to see American localizations of Shining Force III episodes 2 and 3.

Still, I would do many shameful things for Halo 3.

I have a hard time fathoming the pricing of the system these days so 2500 bucks for a game isn't going to happen...

...unless it were StarCraft 2.

Man, I wish that was a real game. (I think this thread has turned into a fantasy game thread.)

Fallout 3 :D

Surely you could just copy the game and make back your $2500 with a few sales. Theres always ways round a little copy protection.

$2500 is nothing to a lot of people. They blow that on a single hand of black jack in Vegas and dont even care.

I'm pretty sure gaming isn't just a poor people thing.

Duke Nukem Never, er Forever..

I'd love to pay that much for what code's been written for Duke Nukem Forever, just so I could turn it open source and see the the open source community finally finish the game.

2500? Zelda: Twillight Princess, of course...

I'm sorry, but you'd have to be a total loser to spend 2.5 Gs on a stupid game. Get a friggin' life!

Definitely Resident Evil 0 for the N64, RE 3.5, and RE 1.5. ::pushes up glasses::

I'd definitely have to go with Twilight Princess. I'd not pay quite that much money, but somewhere in the order of $1000 would probably be in order.

And Halo 3?! Are you people smoking crack? What makes you think it's going to be any different from the first two?

The only legit answer I've seen is Filth's- Zelda III. I would have said the US version of Mother, but we've had the ROM of that for some time.

Anything that hasn't come out yet is a moot point, though an argument can be made for Mario 128. We know it exists somewhere at some level of completion... but will it be released for Revolution? Was the technology already utilized in some other game?

Regardless, $2,500 is too hefty a sum, something in the realm of $500-$1,000 is more applicable to test a gamer's wills for software. Clearly we know there is a hardware market in that price range judging by eBay in Nov/Dec 2005.

JodyAnthony: You are so freaking in luck, man.

First, I believe Suikoden 1 and 2 will be released to the PSP later. Anyway...

Illusion of Gaia is the second game in the Soul Blazer series. They're all different stories, but they deal with the same theme of world rebirth and legends and stuff. Anyway...

http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/terranigma.htm

Terranigma. The sequel to Illusion of Gaia. If Illusion of Gaia was Final Fantasy 4, Terranigma would be FF6 or Chrono Trigger. If Illusion of Gaia was Zelda 2, Terranigma would be Link to the past. This is one of the best games ever made for the SNES, and you owe it to yourself to find a copy and play it as soon as you can.

Erm...seriously people, they mean games that were meant to be released but were cancelled. Games that are CURRENTLY in production and have a FUTURE release date don't count.

"Have IQs suddenly dropped while I've been gone?" - Ripley

I'd pay for Bungie's very own 'Pimps at Sea!'

Agreed with #21(Will). Terranigma is the greatest game that nobody ever played. I think the english port finally came out right before the Nintendo 64 was released. Everyone would be wise to get a copy of this game and play it. It was that good.

"Surely you could just copy the game and make back your $2500 with a few sales. Theres always ways round a little copy protection."

A few sales where? Ebay won't let you do it. Private buyers won't pay diddly for a copied game (just ask those who tried to sell Thrill Kill), whether it's technically "pirated" or not. The whole point of this price is that you have a one-of-a-kind item, and that's an actual, honest to goodness Sega-produced copy of this game. Nobody else will *ever* have that.

If I had $2500 to blow, I might buy something *like* this, but not this game itself. But I'd buy something like an unreleased Atari 2700 prototype for good money (there's more than one, but not many; I don't even know what they're worth, but it's a lot).

Resident Evil's 1.5 and 3.5 (the early videos where Leon shot ghosts)

it's only a megabytes worth of data so he isn't getting much.

go here for more info on sonic Xtreme: http://lostlevels.org/200403/200403-xtreme.shtml

here's a forum about sonic Xtreme run by one of the developers of sonic Xtreme: http://www.senntient.com/cgi-local/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=Xtreme&number=13&DaysPrune=1000&LastLogin=

I'd pay for Elite 4.

They must be some unreleased demos since have supposedly been working on it on and off for the last 5+ years (www.frontier.co.uk).

I would pay that kind of money for the demo of Zelda that was shown at SpaceWorld before the GameCube - that game looked sweet...

But let's face it, how long do you reckon it will be until there is a torrent of Sonic X-Treme ?

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Good suggestion on that lostlevels.org vazel. Very cool site.

I think the article clearly means a cancelled unreleased game. So stop talking about Halo 3 and Twilight Princess cuz they will be out no matter what. As for me I'd pay some money (not 2500$ tho) for Banjo Threeie for GC. Banjo Kazooie series were great.

Baldurs Gate 3.

How about the unreleased version of Starfox 2 for the SNES that was 95% complete but then pulled. Maybe even the Conkers game that was shown for the N64 that was the "nice" version before Rare switched it up to be Bad Fur Day. And of course the SNES version of Kid Icarus that was canned early on in the SNES lifespan.

I would pay that much for:

- StarCraft 2
- Diablo 3
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

(if I had the money)

i know of terranigma, ive emulated it (for "learning purposes" of course) but i think IoG was a much better game. then again it was the first game I owned for snes, so that might be why.

but yeah, i would pay about $100 for an english NTSC cart of Terranigma. Damn you brits getting the only english version!

sorry, but I wouldn't want any "unreleased game" unless it was totally finished. I don't want to spend 2500$ on something half assed if I could wait a few months and get it complete for $49.99

Jeez, I figured a lot of people would say Halo 3. Halo is way too overrated.

I'd say either Twilight Princess or Final Fantasy XX

I would like to have a copy of Eternal Darkness when it was planned for the N64. I wouldn't pay $2500 for it. Maybe like, ten bucks?

Lamborgini for xbox .... A game by Rage ... I have the demo which went on the official xbox magazine cover about a month before the game was due to be released... Rage went bust and EA bought up there shite... So Lamborgini got absorbed into EA the useless fools....

red alert 3

Picking games that WILL be release seems a little uncreative. We already know Halo 3 is coming out eventually, so paying extra for that would be a waste.

Aliens vs Predator 3 on the other hand, is a much better choice. Why this hasn't been worked on is baffling; AVP2 had the Halo (for Xbox) popularity for the PC. I'm sure the sub par AVP movie didn't help.

AVP2 is still my all time favorite FPS, and dwarfs Halo in fun and playability in my opinion even though it is dated. All 3 (Alien, Predator, Marine) of its campaigns are way more intense and interesting. It's still a good game to pick up to this day.

why do people keep saying games that will come out or don't exist at all. given the context of this blog entry i'd think the question was meant for games in production that were canceled and will never come out. like the lucasarts sam and max game. i'd also like to play dinosaur planet for the n64 before it was transformed into starfox adventures. and fear effect:inferno for the ps2.

No one said StarFox 2?

Earthbound 64! :D

i would pay 2500$ without hesitation for a US version of the Dragon Warrior IV remake that was "supposed" to come out for ps1... especially if they ported it to N64 instead :P

Earthbound 64

megaman 9?
and you could make money to let a piracy group copy your game, ala earthbound zero.

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