Super Potato is not really known for having realistic prices. It can be BIN'd on Yahoo auctions for... well... at least only 499 USD. -__-;

elend

@bucocky: Its called Chinese Rip Off Marios

Witzbold

I just had to start playing my Maximum Carnage ROM! Thanks a lot!

Doctor1337

Wow, I still have my US Genesis copy of Maximum Carnage somewhere...

I know it's not the JP Mega Drive version... but still amusing to think about.

BPMΣ

It's the rarity of the game in Japanese basically. Sure they could import. But why on earth would you import a game if you cant understand a word of the language? ;-)

Gwynna

@ReidP: I too had to comment on the beast. Is is Bowshi or Yoser?

treydfleming

Have you played Maximum Carnage?

Totally worth it.

The only reason I wouldn't but it is I broke my genesis over my cousin's head about 7 years ago.... too bad.

BigDerf

I remember seeing that copy of maximum carnage in there last november, im not surprised its still there!

TheSpiller

@NeVeRMoRe666: Akihabara is in Japan, not China or one of the other bootleg heavy countries.

Derangel

Well, duh. It's for the collectors. It's probably mint condition or something.

Ad-hominem

I went to a Green Jello show about 3 months back, they played Carnage Rules and even mentioned the game before it started. Obviously it was the best concert ever for that month.

KaneRobot

WWF Raw in the back left corner lol that is awesome, so that actually cost $600+ too?

bucocky

@ReidP: I'm not too sure, but it's burnt into my mind. Forever.

Roc-Thul

Oh man, Maximum Carnage was the best Spidey game ever!

themadman123

@ReidP: Holy shit thats why I had to comment. What the hell who designed that cover art?

serotoninzero

@Crisu:
ya i agree with you, what the hell is that? Yoshi with teeth and a helmet? What mario game is that anyways? Yoshi Island?

bucocky

Its Akihabara, couldn't we just find a pirated copy somewhere?

NeVeRMoRe666

@laser beams: A collector would want the Japanese version, due to it's rarity. It doesn't matter if it's the same game inside.

Ecks

I still have my maximum carnage. Go me for not selling anything ever. Hmm , I would shell out the money for virtual bart. I still want the simpsons arcade machine just to play with marge and Lisa.

휘성

Yeah these prices are for Japanese copies of the games. Actually Super Potatoes prices are pretty inflated I think. I saw Maximum Carnage for a few hundred here in Yokohama the other day.

gatsu25

Man i should just buy some copies here and sell em over there. bring enough copies and i may be able to fund my own trip to Japan!

PhoenixAzure

It's the Green Jelly.

futurebiblehero

What's more disturbing is that Yoshi-Bowser bastard child that Mario is riding over on the left. What is that!?

ReidP

i mean, couldn't a collector just import a used genesis for like 40 bucks and get an American copy of the game for like 5 or 6 bucks?

i.... just... don't.... understand

laser beams

@PuppyGuarder: That was definitely my favorite. The baby one was also good but sooooo hard. Man I must have rented that game 20 times when I was a kid.

liquid_kore

Ay Carumba!

WackyComputer

Wow, yeah, that's pretty retarded considering how cheap they went at GameStop...

HalcyonX12

@PuppyGuarder: that drawing alone is worth the entire price.

salmonax

@nikolaj: I know, I was being sarcastic.

slfootball63

@Crisu: So is that the love child of Bowser and Yoshi?

LordBowserKoopa

Virtual Bart was almost as amazing as that hand drawn Bart Simpson on the price tag

PuppyGuarder

And this is why it's one of the greats in gaming. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's worth something.

TheMurderer

Virtual Bart is worth every yen, the minigame where you toss tomatoes at the students was amazing

PuppyGuarder

and bart is sitting next to a chinese knock off of super mario world

SudiptiEquestridomus

That only applies to the Japanese copy.

molotovwars

@slfootball63:
don't bother, just because a game has a rediculously high PRICE somewhere, doesn't mean anyone will actually BUY it for that price anywhere else...

nikolaj

I still have Maximum Carnage in a box with my genesis in my closet.

Arkos

I remember my brother wanting to get that game cause carnage was his favorite comic book character. Im not sure if its cause he's red or because hes a psychopathic murderer with super powers.

snakepliskin

That's a creepy-looking Yoshi on the left.

Crisu

Wow, I wonder if my copy of Maximum Carnage is worth that much as well.

Mikey G

I have that Simpsons game in my basement....damn I should sell it then.

slfootball63

Considering how Maximum Carnage was THE shit, I think that price is a steal.

William Killer Shatner

Is that Mike Tyson behind it?

ZinkO: preferred the old theme AND comment system

hell yea maximum carnage is classic....but that price is insane.....i would pay that much for tmnt hyperstone heist....

Hi_ImBlack420

This is really weird...I just played through and beat this game this last weekend.

Maximum Carnage is BAR NONE the best Spider-Man game to be released, ever.

Sheen_Latrine

thats balls out crazy. but that game was pretty damn rad.

pandafresh

@Mikey G:

I was wondering that as well.

To Ebay!

EtisArap

d@NeVeRMoRe666: the only thing raising these prices are collector value anyway.

muu

@Derangel: That Mario next to it is obviously bootleg and also Akihabara is easy to find bootlegs stuff...you j ust gotta go in to the alleys

djricekcn

@NeVeRMoRe666: Its the Chinese mostly selling the pirated shit in the street corners.

Witzbold

Also, most everything else in the store is pretty reasonable. I got a couple Super Famicom games (one of them the Japanese version of ALttP) in the boxes, with the manuals, for like $15.

JDavis

@futurebiblehero: you win for referencing green jelly.

the bear went over the mountain

rustingmiller

I had actually read about that particular copy of Maximum Carnage at Super Potato months before I went to Japan for Spring Break, was unsurprised to see it had not moved when I visited the store, and am still unsurprised that it remains there.

What I did find incredibly surprising was that a Megaman wallpaper I made years ago was decorating one of the walls.

[quint.panelmonkey.org]

(Yes, I was too excited to realize how terribly askew my jacket was)

JDavis

@themadman123: Agreed. I still have my copy for the genesis. I think I lost the box though :(

Brown Thunder

Wow... and here I thought $100 for Tales of Destiny (PS1) was a lot for an old game. Wow!

iamthebozz

Virtual Bart was interesting?

Not THAT interesting.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

@themadman123: i totally agree, if you never, ever played spider-man for dreamcast/PS1, which was way, way better and still featured carnage.

i think i have the maxium carnage TPB about, much love to bad 90s storytelling.

TheIrishNinja

If only Maximum Carnage had two player... would have been so much funner.

R1ZE

@laser beams: "i.... just... don't.... understand"

Riiiiiight...

Jest

@Ecks: good point, sir.
i guess i assumed that a collector of video games would still probably want to play said game in the most painless (and inexpensive) way possible. but if they specifically want it because it's a rare game (even if it is much more easily acquired in import form) then i suppose it's their prerogative...

the funniest part of all is that this game is terrible :)

laser beams

I've got the red SNES cart for Maximum Carnage. How much is that worth?

xanavi

@Ad-hominem:
No. It's not for collectors. It's for rich idiots who'll spend 600 dollars on a game worth.. 10 bucks tops.

Tizlor

@xanavi:
They were all red.

And i'll give you.. a buck and a bottle cap for it.

Tizlor

You guys should come to nyc and check out video games new york. I think there was a game in there that was at about.. 700 or so?

akumaserge

Maximum Carnage? Really? And by Acclaim no less...What's so special about it that it can "ask" for that big of a price on its head?

Or is it more to do with American games which weren't really localized for the Japanese demographic during the SNES/Genesis days that has people shelling out top-prices for these...

excaliburps

Maximum Carnage was a tough game.. pretty cool for the time though. You can call in other super heros as powerups.. and choose the path of venom or spidey! lol. I remember that last fight was such a bitch!

everyonesmom

When I went to Tokyo in 2005, we found a shop in akihabara that had a lot of rare games.

From the outside, it looked like a junk and tools shop (seriously), but they had some game on display. Going further made us realize this thing had about 8 floors.

On the last floor, saturn games and little toys... and a 200 000 Yen limited edition ... I think it may have been macross. There was a big mech on it. Apparently, only 1000 of those had been made.

It was for the famicom and the cartridge was blue. Try to spot it!

UndergroundDreamer

Akihabarbitrary.

Most arbitrary pricing on earth can be found in Akihabara. You can find a Famicom game that costs 5,000 Yen in Akihabara, get on a train, get off at some podunk stop 20 minutes away, and find the same game for 100 yen in a used game shop.

Akihabara is a lot of fun, but just not a good place to buy games, really. You'll find treasure troves of amazingly cool cheap stuff in local Hard Off stores and various junk shops.

Robotube

@ArgentAngel: Yeah I plan to keep it anyways. I loved my MC too much to let go.

Mikey G

@Mikey G: I just checked ebay and they're going for about $4.00 to $34.00, so I'd hang on to it.

ArgentAngel

Super Potato is known for stuff like that.
Those old cartridges will sit there for a long long time 'till someone crazy enough (collectors) buys it... or 'till it really becomes this expensive.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@snakepliskin:

I'd introduce him to the Joker and Daredevil, and see which one he likes better

Kiri Komori

@excaliburps: You know the old collectors saying.

One mans garbage is another mans treasure.

Witzbold

@Robotube: It depends since stuff there is rated on quality of box, manual, packaging, cart.

Since most other used stores they dont really care all that much about that stuff and just price it however.

Granted yes its still overpriced, but where else can you find some of those titles they got.

Witzbold

If only Japan was next door. I need to go there to sell my crappy N64 games.

cantbeatmegaman

I played the hell out of that game and loved it when I was a kid, but there is no way its worth that much money.

Wubbytoes

@Mikey G: I have the "limited" red cartridge version that everyone else seemed to have. Heck, I even have a second copy that doesn't work that a roommate left me once. I'm going to be rich!
Or maybe not, but it brings me some memories. I spent a lot of time playing that game but never beat it.

Masterpain22

Virtual Bart: $14.95 on Ebay

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GovernorWatts

@Guts4:

Way to present yourself as a racist frat boy.

xanth

LOL! I didnt know japs were so stupid to pay outrageous prices for outdated games. I've been to Japan before and never saw their second-hand game prices myself but c'mon! Although being there I saw so many games that came out way before their release here in the states plus seeing their kick ass (if not dying apparently) arcades. WOW! So f'n sweet. Japs know how to arcade it up though (and drink great beer). One of the greatest trips of my life.

Guts4

@Witzbold: or Japanese?

skitzogreg

@Guts4: I didn't know yanks were so stupid to pay outrageous prices for showing off their brand new cars by driving at 120 mp/h in a school zone.

Never knew stereotyping was so easy :O

While I do agree with the rest of your post (my trip to Tokyo was excellent), the social anthropologist in me just screamed in terror while reading the beginning of it.

UndergroundDreamer

@Guts4: And just who the fuck is letting these rejects in?

Witzbold

it's worth every penny

mcool93

Wow! It's Maximum Carnage! That game was so fun back in the day. I think that is when I didn't have ears, cuz the music in the first level is more than capable of eating off my face

MetaKz

ill tell you this right now. they have ton of worthless games on sale, including a whole case of atari 2600 games for about $50.

when i came back to japan from my vacation in america, i brought back 10 atari 2600 games. they offered me 10 yen for each game! thats about $1 for all 10! and you thought gamestop was bad

kenesu96

I think you guys missed that Rockman gold cartdrige that sells for a mere 6 times the price of Maximum Carnage (unless, well, they actually sold it which could explain why you haven't seen it)

VanniCalyce

I just played the rom. Don't waste your money lol.

Orionsaint

@Tizlor:

Boo, I thought it was something like the gold Zelda carts.

And if I were to put a price on my nostalgia, it'd be at least a buck and two bottle caps.

xanavi

There are pricier cartridges at Super Potato. Some of the gold cassette limited edition Dragon Ball or SD Gundam Famicom rank in the range of 120.000 yen. You should've looked better...

Zuiyo

Forget Maximum Carnage, I want The Simpsons: Virtual Bart! My Simpsons fandom in me wants it even though I own the English version.

Mike's Stalker

WTF is SUPER POTATO ?

lulz

theEnemy

@slfootball63: @slfootball63: I'm sure I used to have it as well. Like if it was a GOOD game you could TRY to justify the price, but it was horrible from what I remember. Maximum Carnage I thought was cool cos it had Venom, but that too was a pretty poor excuse for a beat em up!

☆Y2Jason☆

@Masterpain22: I did. Carnage is a bitch and a half to beat as he cheats and has moves that don't stop even though you keep punching him.

You have to tag between venom and spider-man constantly to use those few seconds of invulnerability they get when tagged to actually hit him then tag back as soon as the invulnerability is up.

I'm shocked I still remember this.

FrigidAir44

they are waiting for people to accidentally trip over and damage the goods, oh you have to pay!

paraaya

jesus christ is that what yoshi used to look like? or is that just reverse megaman box art?

epy0nkaru

@Masterpain22: Neither have I. As much as I loved that game, I will always remember it to be one of the most annoying games there was on the Genesis.

Mikey G

@epy0nkaru:

That is outsourced to china yoshi.

francoamerica

@skitzogreg: Well, given the writing on the front is is Chinese rather than Japanese it's probably safe to assume thatit's from China...

Taince

The ignorance and stupidity in this thread is breathtaking. I'd just like to mention that some US games had incredibly low print runs in Japan (we're talking <1000), Maximum Carnage being one of them.

DukeHill

I saw a game for 498,000 yen a couple of years ago in Den Den town in Osaka. I have the picture to prove it too.

UshiMacropod

Hey I designed that game! Fame at last.

JPickford

I have photos of 400.000 and 600.000 yen games sold at Super Potato in Akihabara last summer. The 400k one was a golden snes cartridge of Yoshi's Cookie. The 600k... I don't remember but I'll check it. One more thing. The 600k one was missing the next week I went...

SunitaCanace

You keep your genitals in the closet?! WTF dude?

StephenMacer

There ARE several cases of Japanese versions of American/European games being that expensive, just because of that fact (and small print runs), not because of the game's quality and/or added features. Another such case for the Genesis/Mega Drive is the Japanese versions of "Comix Zone" and "The Ooze", which are said to be ultra-rare due to their almost non-existent print runs. (The Mega Drive was all but dead in Japan by 1995, it was the 16-Bit equivalent of the original XBOX in Japan at that time.......unpopular, unwanted). So yeah....this is only for the hardcore-est of the hardcore game collectors.

WilonaKlinger

These prices are for japanese version only, they are released in JP with a very limited number of copies. US versions of both are common and cheap like an candy, don't try to sell them at these prices if you don't want an very long laugh from another part

Arthur-Otaku

not really i just checked ebay and the highest with a buy now price was 11 bucks mint with box and everything

SammyPriest

Wow, i still have my copy of Maximum Carnage. never managed to beat it.

RobinCabarizzaaay

What about Venom?

BunnyForce