7 Ridiculously Expensive Games for When You Win the Lottery

it is a weird time for video games thanks to all the free-to-play games and microtransactions it is now simultaneously the cheapest and most expensive time to be a fan which is how I've managed to spend 3 grand on a free iPhone game where you furnish houses but it turned out that my wallet got off lightly because there are games out there so expensive they make that like the sort of pocket change you'd find down the back of a powder-blue Cathy qo sectional sofa sorry got distracted there here are seven games that are ridiculously expensive for you to bear in mind if and when you win the lottery [Music] when Super Mario Bros first released for the Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1985 it costs around $25 here we are 34 years later and a copy of that game has just sold at auction for $100,000 which is ridiculous because Mario Odyssey only cost $60 and is at least twice as good maybe even three times I'm not a game critic oh no wait I guess I am three times then $100,000 is the most ever pay for a single video game cartridge by quite some margin and the reason it fetched such a hefty price is down to its unique condition this edition of super mario bros it's from an early batch that was used to test the US market before the NES released properly and it was only available in New York and Los Angeles the other selling point is how the game still has its rare black foil Nintendo seal in place meaning that it has never been opened Super Mario Bros is a popular game of course which meant that most people who bought it opened it up and played it deriving merely hours of pleasure from this classic game instead of cold hard cash 34 years into the future the idiots yet it gives us all hope that nestled somewhere in our attics is a rare video game that's worth a fortune anyone fancy a pre loved copy of wrestle war for the Sega Megadrive as some as juice stains there but otherwise in okay condition call me [Music] at first glance train simulator 2019 doesn't seem like an expensive game unless you count the social cost of being judged for playing a game called train simulator 2019 I saw the steam notifications your on it all last night I was checking something also how else are those commuters going to get the 8:53 to Bristol Temple Meads the point is that respective train sim fans heading to steam will notice that the game costs an extremely reasonable 24 pounds 99 so why included on this list I have three letters for you DLC although you're 24 pounds 99 pence gets you the base game and a small selection of lines to play if you want to expand your railroad horizons you'll need to pick up some extra DLC train simulator doesn't disappoint in this department with over 500 pieces of additional downloadable content for locomotive lovers including new trains routes and stations ranging in price from two pounds 99 to $24.99 the option is if you buy every additional thing that train simulator 2019 has to offer it will set you back a staggering five thousand six hundred and thirty seven pounds and 80 pence or roughly seven thousand four hundred dollars so you might be out the deposit for a house but you will have the Munich to rosenheim route add-on and really can you put a price on that oh yeah you can 24 pounds 99 hey maybe there'll be a Steam sale soon then the whole thing might only set you back $4,300 by far the most expensive special edition of a video game ever put up for sale dying like spotlight edition retail for 10 million dollars which was roughly nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and forty dollars more than most other versions of the game the spotlight edition of dying light felt very strongly that a dying light movie was going to happen at some point love your optimism as a result this edition of the game came with a promise supporting role in the dying light movie plus acting lessons from Roger Craig Smith the voice of dying light Pro tagging Kyle crane and we don't need to tell you Ezio Auditore we don't tolerate the lazy [ __ ] here in the tower hey be fair I'm not lazy I'm just hey boss save it you would also receive parkour training off-road driving training a first-class screening tour and a whole host of other Hollywood star level perks oh and four copies of the actual game although when you're going to find the time to play dying like once you're maybe start I do not know credibly no one snapped up this absolute bargain which is just as well because here we are in 2019 and the dying light movie is still not out or in production or you know greenlit unless it's this psychological horror film no how about this 2014 Nicolas Cage movie to be honest I think you could just add yourself to the IMDB page of either of those films and no one would notice 10 million dollars saved you're welcome the experts say scarcity creates demand and yet my one-of-a-kind macaroni self-portrait continued to go unsold on Etsy nice one the experts they were however somewhat right in the case of the rarest and most mysterious Atari 2600 game ever made a game by the name of gamma attack yes you're looking at it right now and no the Atari wasn't suffering a catastrophic electrical failure at the time this is what games really looked like and sounded like it was a different time a different worst time in gamma attack you played a shape that the game manual described as a spaceship shooting other shapes that the game manual described as a fleet of alien tanks this game came from a small mail-order company called Galatian the company made and sold peripherals for the Atari console not video games but in 1983 it chanced it's armed with gamma attack to almost universal indifference the lack of salesmen only a few of the game cartridges were ever produced and gamma attack slipped into obscurity some things that should not have been forgotten were lost history became legend legend became myth and for 25 years gamma attack passed out of all knowledge then in 2008 an Atari fan named Anthony DiNardo stumbled across a single surviving copy of gamma attack when he bought a bundle of old games realising the rarity and preciousness of this unicorn among Atari titles DiNardo whacked it on eBay for the eye-watering sum a $500,000 according to DiNardo the eBay listing was to publicize the existence of the game and for bragging rights he never expected to find a buyer willing to pay 500 grand and he didn't after careful consideration and though retro gaming site racketboy today values a copy of gamma attack at 6,000 to $14,000 still if you'd have the money and inclination at the time you could have had a copy of gamma attack to call your own for half a million bucks for just $100,000 you could have my exclusive self-portrait in the medium of two pastas no fine [Applause] [Music] question what's one way to drum up interest in the mediocre sequel to an excellent driving game answer a one-off massively expensive collector's edition grid - mono Edition as it was called was originally only supposed to be available in the UK presumably because in America mono is what they call glandular fever a disease commonly transmitted by kissing imagine the potential confusion when the delivery guy shows up mono Edition comprised a copy of grid to a ps3 to play it on and also an extremely rapid open topped single seater sports car called the BAC mono which featured in the game be BAC mono is the sort of car that costs an arm and a leg and that's fine because you probably wouldn't fit in the cockpit with the usual number of arms and legs anyway the lucky purchaser of this one-off special edition would also be able to collect the custom decorated car from BAC s headquarters and be measured up for a bespoke racing suit to match the car based on the cars terrifying nought to sixty time of two point eight seconds maybe go for dark colors just in case of accidents now I know you're thinking this is just a jokey publicity stunt designed to grab a few headlines rather than a serious offer but they actually sold this thing and what's more they sold it to deadmau5 yes that dead maps pretty sure that thing isn't rated as a crash helmet my dude allow me to retort [Music] hey Doris we still playing tennis later a million dollars is a lot of money unless you're the queen or own Starbucks with a million dollars you could buy a McLaren center or a one-bed apartment in New York or a copy of saints row for now it came out the Saints are owned for super-dangerous Ward Ward Edition was a special edition of 2013 Saints Row for super-dangerous wad wad edition was an ultra deluxe edition of that game that was more extra than guacamole on your burrito in addition to the game itself it came with a whole laundry list of swanky stuff and services that would presumably simulate the experience of being the super-powered form a gang leader President of the United States protagonist of Saints Row 4 and what fun is a gang leader the package included a spaceflight experience a hostage rescue experience spy training plastic surgery clothes hotel stays and a Toyota Prius plus a Lamborghini Gallardo you know for the weekends the most on brand saints row item in the super dangerous Ward word Edition was a full-size replica dubstep gun which since it was billed as full-size replica we must sadly conclude did not fire actual mind control rays [Music] this big ticket bundle came with the aforementioned price tag of $1,000,000 and it was a limited edition as it could get in that there was only one of it if you're thinking no one is gonna pay 1 million dollars for a Saints Row special edition you'd be right it appears no one with a million bucks to spare went for this one-off grab bag of luxury nonsense predictably enough which raises the question why would the games distributor even for the to offer it for sale could it be that they thought the ludicrously extravagant super dangerous Ward Ward edition I can't believe I've said it three times now was so ludicrous and extravagant that it would never sell but would get the game a bunch of astonished headlines and free publicity probably I mean I'm talking about it right now I see what you did there Saints Row well-played okay Todd we're always cost more than your average video game not least cuz you have to pay two burly people to lift it into the building Plus these things are priced assuming that you're going to put them in a public place where punters are gonna fill them with money such that this thing will pay for itself in approximately fifteen to twenty years depending on market trends that's why the Star Wars battle pod with its 180 degree wraparound screen wind machine fans and the fact that its mother flippin Star Wars originally retailed for a tasty thirty-five thousand dollars to be fair it is a pretty great arcade game we played it for years ago and we hadn't felt that much like Han Solo since our ill-advised fashion phase of jodhpurs and thigh high boots why do you think we filmed these videos from the waist up I'm wearing shorts right now not content with a price to match that of a reasonably SPECT BMW car developer Namco Bandai and Lucasfilm came up with two premium versions of the cabinet one was modeled after the cockpit of Darth Vader's TIE fighter and the other was a giant rebel pilot helmet but wait there's more you got real leather seats special carpeting just like the one we assume Vader insists on in his tie fighter and especially bound operators manual and all for the low low price of one hundred thousand pounds and there was everyone freaking out about loot crate's in Star Wars Battlefront 2 if you're a fan of getting inside a giant helmut full of flashing lights though star wars battle pod premium edition Rebel Alliance version is absolutely the video game for you we sure dead mouse doesn't have one of these as well that's all seven thanks for watching yet another seven things this video by outside Xbox if you'd like to watch another one on a different subject try this one which is about loading screens that were cunningly disguised by games to not look like loading screens also maybe try this one from sister channel outside extra which is about all the weirdest jobs that Mario's ever had aside being a plumber which isn't actually thanks for watching we'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 21 2019