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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to #'s 10, 19, 24, 33, 43, and any others I missed:

just stop it.

you don't have to rain on everyones parade. let people have fun and be wishful. naming a game that doesnt exist or whatever doesnt matter. who cares if the games don't exist? this is an informal newsblog, people read it for fun. you shouldnt be trying to make rules for people to follow. if we all had to follow rules about what to post, how many people would want to come here and share in the discussions? I know I wouldn't.

If I had $2500 laying around (yeah right) that I had to spend on a video game, it would have to be the unreleased arcade sequel to Marble Madness: Marble Man. http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8619

Even though it is being released in 11 days, i would pay that much to get ES4:Oblivion now.

As someone else already said - N64 RE 0, RE 1.5 and RE 3.5. But I'll also add on RE for the GameBoy Color, as I always had a curious interest in it.

I'd choke a public official to get a modern remake of EA's "Mail Order Monsters" with online support.

I'd also really love an updated version of "Outlaws" by LucasArts, with Clint Bajakian's music and everything. While there have been many western themed games of late, none has mastered the Spaghetti Western like "Outlaws" did.

And as a bonus, they could throw in an update of "Law of the West" for us old-school gamers.

HALO 0.5 for the Mac.

I'd pay about $250 for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Chapter 5 (in English) for PS2, and about $50 for Megaman Collection for GBA.

I would give anything to play Sam and Max: Freelance Police. I mean, at least we're getting a sequel from Telltale, but that doesn't mean I still don't want to play Freelance Police.

I like the dollar. When I first see a price in $$$'s I think "oh thats a lot" before using my currency convertor widget. �1,439. I've spent more than that on a whim. multiply it by 10 then you might have a mad number.

Zelda III even though it doesn't really exist. but if there was another NES Zelda I'd be pretty chuffed.

Penn and Teller: The Game

Sorry Qazar (post #33),but regardless of what the article says I would definitely pay up for TLZ : TP, because right now I'm not even sure it's goona come out...

To number 10 - 24 - 33 and others :

(# 10) The running ? There is no running, everybody is free to say whatever they want, cancelled game or not, who are you to make up rules.

Like, seriously Chris (# 24) we do not care what "they" or you for that account mean (whoever they are) because we are thinking beings and if we all suddenly decide to start talking about games that are still in production or whatnot, that is how it's gonna be, so.... do you even have an IQ ?

Same to #33 and #43 and to all others who come here to judge instead of having a good time...

You know more than you think you know, just as
you know less than you want to know. - Oscar Wilde

To # 50 stop it, just stop it. There are many reasons to stay on topic.

Personally I would pay $$ for the almost finished fallout 3 (vanbruerin) , not the upcoming fallout3 from bethesda. I want more oldschool fallout!!

Anon - I - mousse: Top .5 percentile, thanks for asking :)

I prefer to read threads that stick to the topic at hand. That was the motivation for most of our gripes.

My unreleased game is Cali 2095 (I may have the year in the title off, it was many moons ago back in the Dark Forces era). Lucas Arts had that advertised for a while as being a "FPS with puzzles" set on California after "the big quake" that split them from the main continent.

#62 and #63..fine, stay on topic. it seems like we've all been doing that. the question posted in the original posting is exactly as follows:

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

an unreleased game. it doesnt say "Would you pay $2500 for an unreleased game that was scheduled to be released, and then cancelled? If so, which one?"

I would pay $2500 for the version of Metroid Prime 2 that is actually fun.

Oh yeah, I went there.

somebody mentioned copy protection for this game. I had been following this for awhile before, and the forum people said since this is a prototype, there is no security ring. you can just copy it. however, you need a sega saturn game with the security ring to play it.

I'd pay $2500 for zelda III definitly.

I would never pay that much for a game even if it was unreleased. I did pay $350 for a Ratchet & Clank statue that they gave out to their employees on the box it said #34 of 250 so that is neat. Also after reading the post in the link the seller said he was in charge of destroying the disc so if he kept one who is to say he did now keep a couple of other copies. I just don't trust things like this because chances are if it can be copied their is more than one of them out there.

Kid Icarus 64

- Chrono Break
- Starcraft 2
- Earthbound 64

The End.

DIABLO III. if blizzard were to make Diablo 3, my soul would be eternally theirs. i would sacrifice babies, eat foreskins, smash all my consoles into tiny bits, whatever. I WANT THIS GAME.

#50....grow up..they were stupid answers.

Given the many thousand people spend on released but rare games (think Metal Slug on the AES), this doesn't seem all that crazy.

Primal Rage 2

I would pay that much for Dead Rush. RE meets GTA. Shweet.

And Starfox 2 for the SNES.

castlevania for dreamcast

this is actually quite old but anyways the hardcore collectors thing that this is a steal.

If i had the money to throw around, i would get the original Zelda III for NES. I would say twilight princess or halo 3, but i can guarantee i will get those in the future, and am about 99% sure i will not see Zelda III. unless someone gets around to releasing a rom...:)

I'd pay $1000 for Gyakuten Saiban 2 & 3 to get translated and localized by the same people that did Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

No one game's worth 2500 bucks.

Get me a real katamari though, and I'll think about it.

The GoldenEye Beta!
(the dam island! citadel!)

Earthbound 64 and Resident Evil 1.5 and 3.5. Because 3.5 just looked alot scarier then 4 was.

I've played a ROM that claimed to be Starfox 2. It was just one level ong though. And it seemed like just a tweaked version of the first level of the first game though.

I'd choke a public official (great line ZeroCorpse!) to play the E3 2003 single player Halo 2 demo. Hell, I'd go streaking, in zero degree weather, after having just gone swimming, on the field at the World Cup final to play that demo.

As someone from the Sonic community, here's a journaling of what happened on our end:

http://shit.sclassic.net/index.php/Sonic_X-treme_beta_auction

I would definetly pay $2500 for Banjo-Threeie, or whatever it would be called.

New California Games
New Double Dragon
New Excite Bike
New Contra
New ChuChu Rocket

Street Fighter 5
Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat vs Marvel Super Heroes
PowerStone 3 :)

Goldeneye Online
Agent Under fire Online
Mario kart 64 Online

The Legend of Zelda that will be coming out after TP
Halo 4

Chrono Trigger/Cross Sequel!!!
2500 bucks would be a bargain!

i might pay $2500 to play at FF7 N64 unreleased version =)

To all of you who keep saying Starfox 2...just wait till Revolution is out, you can download it than.

3 words... FINAL FANTASY 64. That game looked AWESOME! Go to lostlevels.org and check out the videos for it.

Maybe not that much but I would certainly consider giving a lot of money for Metroid 64...

I would pay that much (if i was freakin' stinkin' rich and had nothing better to do with my time) for Mother 3 for the N64.

That game was shaping up to be very interesting.

i believe it was a final fantasy 6 test demo for the 64, that i would of loved to see

I would of loved to see a localized version of deep fear that had all that it was suppose to have claimed (last guy was suppose to change based on fights)

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