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This is also reflected in resale value of the game as well. It garnered solid critical reviews due to its noting the deep gameplay system and solid story-telling. It slowly become a cult classic and eventually saw a PSP re-release in Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth which made changes to the cutscene formats. As the series grew with a few follow-ups on the PS2 and portable platforms and Playstation RPG fans looked to expand their collections, Valkyrie Profile, with its rather small print run became a natural to rise in value.

The arcade game got ported to both the Playstation and the Dreamcast. Neither one is easy to find. Eternal Punishment also received a PSP two years later in Loose and low-end copies rose gradually from there, however complete copies in nice condition has seen a steady rise over the last decade. This action-adventure game was developed by CyberConnect the studio that later went onto develop the. It has the charming storytelling you might expect from an Atlus game and has a positive and fun-loving atmosphere.

This 2D platformer from Psygnosis is a spin-off of the classic Lemmings series. The player takes the role of Lomax, a lemming character that has to save his friends and animals from an evil doctor. Looking back, the 2D art style is quite charming, but in hindsight, it is quite easy to see how the typical Playstation owner in might not have been interested in the game. It has been roughly at its current range since early It was praised for its flexibility and innovation in its game engine, but can seem rough around the edges elsewhere.

Beatemups had their heyday in the arcade in the very late 80s and first half of the 90s. Acclaim was hitting their stride in the arcade in the mid 90s with NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat and decided to take a swing at the side-scrolling brawler genre while bring in the Batman Forever movie license. Although this is different than the Batman Forever game they released a year earlier on the bit era platforms. And while the Saturn version is an honorable mention in the Rare and Valuable Saturn list , the Playstation version is surprisingly more valuable at this moment.

It also has a colorful and fun style that will appeal to all ages. In late and early , we saw a big spike in sale prices, but then it calmed back a bit over this past year. Perhaps not as much as the Sega Saturn , but the Sony Playstation was a wonderful console for fans of 2D scrolling shooters. While most of the shooters were arcade ports, one of the very best on the system was exclusive to the Playstation and actually was published by Squaresoft. Einhander also felt true to its 2D gameplay roots while still sporting some slick polygons.

As you would expect from Square, Einhander utilized the Playstation hardware beautifully to create a very modern-looking shmup that fans of the genre could still rally behind. And even though it looked modern at the time and still has quite a futuristic look to it it still played tribute to old-school sensibilities. It gave the iconic series new life and became a Defining Game — especially for a 2D bit game and actually pushed the system to its limits well.

SOTN was one of the best-sellers on the platform that received a Greatest Hits releases with the lime green spine. They are typically more attractive and a bit harder to find since the Greatest Hits versions were sold at a budget price in retail.

Pretty interesting dynamic and something to keep in mind when thinking about long-term value. It also happens to be one of the shooters in shortest supply. However, as more Shmup fans have been building their PS1 collections, this one has gradually climbed up in value. Check for Harmful Park on eBay. Our dreams can be pretty weird and open-ended and this hidden gem captures this spirit quite well.

LSD: Dream Emulator is a surreal exploration game that lacks any solid objective, but rather lets you experiment and experience this unique creation. The game was eventually re-released on the Japanese Playstation Network, but the original copy has still remained pretty consistent in value over the past decade.

It was a bit of swan song from the team at Compile at the time many of its members were moving on to work at other studios and projects. Other than a few slight fluctuations here and there, Zanac X Zanac has actually stayed quite consistent in value from our first edition of this guide in through this day.

Check for Zanac X Zanac on eBay. While they are best known for Gunstar Heroes and Radiant Silvergun, they also have a handful of rather unknown gems like the Japanese exclusive, Rakugaki Showtime.

Rakugaki Showtime takes a arena battle concept like Power Stone or Poy Poy but takes a more 2D-ish approach by using a paper-like technique made popular in the Paper Mario series.

Check for Rakugaki Showtime on eBay. If you are a PS1 collector and see a boxed or sealed copy of any of these on eBay for a low price, you might want to snatch them up — you may never see them again.

How about oddball rare hardware and controllers? Basically like a Nintendo Power Glove but not wireless. It made the original Wipeout a joy to play. I got mine from Dan Kramer who consulted on the design. Dan designed the trakball for the Atari back in the day. A PS1 version was made and I believe the only game to fully use it was Forsaken — itself a really shitty Descent clone.

Only a few games supported single shock at the time, the Japanese release of Bushido Blade had single shock and also supported analog control which the US version did not. For the most part games released with single shock had this feature removed when they were released outside Japan. Noteworthy because Dual Shock controllers were still new at the time and was not the regular pack-in controller until at least a year later.

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Still, the semi-transparent plastic of the console and controller are pretty cool. Minecraft is a sandbox-style open-world game that allows players to do whatever they want. They can build, explore, and face off against various types of enemies. There are a lot of mods for the PC version of the game that expand on the game even more and this game has been released on a wide variety of platforms.

The game was even released on the PS Vita. In Japan, a special edition console themed after Minecraft was released. It has a white body with Minecraft creatures on the back and two tools on either side. It came bundled with the game and a special Minecraft -themed console case.

The Sony PSX is a special type of console. It was exclusively released in Japan in and it's more than simply a console, although it does have a PlayStation 2 built in. The console was marketed as a whole entertainment system.

This high price stopped it from becoming particularly popular with the non-gaming market in Japan. Hitman is a game that was released on the PlayStation 4 and other consoles in The game is the sixth in the Hitman series and is definitely a favorite among fans of action-adventure games. In order to celebrate the launch of the game, there was a special Hitman edition PlayStation 4 that was created.

The console resembles a briefcase and the controller has really unique silver detailing on it. The console was made available through a raffle on Square Enix's website where members could trade in their membership points for a chance to win the console.

Because only one was made, this console is definitely priceless. This limited edition PlayStation 4 Pro was released to celebrate the launch of God of War , a popular mythology-based action game that was released in The game is the eighth in the God of War franchise and turned the series toward more Norse mythology than the previous games.

Elemental Gearbolt — Assassin Case. NBA Elite Discover why they're so rare and how much it'll cost to buy them below. Read Story. There are countless PlayStation games that were released in Japan but never saw the light of day in the West.

Despite all the exotic mystery of them never making it to our shores, the vast majority of Japan-only games are barely worth anything because they aren't actually rare, just foreign.

One of the big exceptions is LSD: Dream Emulator, an absolutely bizarre PSone adventure game that's based on a developer's dream journal. Rule Of Rose. This PS2 survival horror game was met with a lot of criticism when it was released in the West, due to claims that the content was too explicit.

Although a lot of these claims were wrong — an EU justice minister said it had a bit where you buried children underground, but it actually didn't — the damage was done and Rule Of Rose's release was cancelled in a number of countries.

Often games are popular among collectors because they were released in smaller numbers near the end of a system's life, usually as budget titles for younger gamers. Tintin: Destination Adventure is a good example of this, as it was released for the original PlayStation a year after the PS2 came out. It was released in a number of European countries, but collectors are a picky bunch — even though every country got the same multi-lingual disc, only a very limited number were sent to the UK.