What is the Vectrex Cartridge Rarity Guide? How do we arrive at values? First of all, this guide reflects the availability of Vectrex cartridges from all sources: thrift stores, flea markets, retailers, and online auctions. In some cases, the games may be extremely difficult to find "in the wild", but they may be readily available online. For example, 3-D Imager cartridges are quite hard to find at the local thrift store or flea market, but you can find them sometimes on an online auction page. They may be more expensive than other games of a similar rarity, but not necessarily more rare.
Some of the Vectrex cartridges where produced in great amounts because they where sold with the Vectrex Arcade System in 1982. GCE produced more games in 1983 and 1984 - some are quite rare. Also some games where not exported to foreign countries so to have one of this games means to search for a long time.
Common
The most common of all games. These are the titles
that you almost always find when you buy a stack of games at a flea
market or at online auctions. Any longtime collector probably has stacks
of these.
Common+
Almost as ubiquitous as Common, but may vary slightly
from collector to collector. Even beginning collectors can find almost
all of these without much difficulty.
Scarce
Scarce cartridges are those that you don't find
in every pile, but you will find them often enough. Although you may
have trouble tracking down every Scarce cartridge initially, you can
eventually get them all.
Scarce+
Getting harder to find, it may be difficult to
track down all the Scarce+ cartridges if you are only hunting locally.
For that reason, you may have to resort to online resources to track
down all of these, although you should be able to pick them up inexpensively.
Rare
You don't see these everyday, unless you're really
lucky. We're just getting into the rare territory, and you will probably
have to do some trading or online buying to acquire all these cartridges.
Rare+
Ah, now we're talking. Dedicated cartridge hunters
can find these in the wild with perseverance, but it will take considerable
effort.
Very Rare
Very rare, cartridges you will rarely run across
in the wild.. You might even have a hard time finding these on eBay,
but they show up often enough that you should wait for a good deal.
Very Rare+
Worth bragging about if you find it in the wild.
If you buy one of these on eBay, expect to pay well for it.
Extremely Rare
Extremely difficult to find, although these are
attainable. Even veteran collectors of many years are excited by finding
one of these babies in the wild. Consider yourself lucky for any Extremely
Rare+ cartridge that you find.
Unbelievably Rare
These games are almost impossible to find in the
wild. Even collectors who have been at it for years may never run
across one of these, and they often make up the showcase of an individual's
collection. These rarely show up even on eBay, and if they do there
will most likely be a bidding war.
thanks to atariage.com
to create such a detailed rarety range guide for the ATARI cartridges
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