I have Racing Destruction Set for C64, and it comes in a double LP like cover. A bit smaller, not LP but EP I would say. Best racing game for the C64, eventually best game overall, I played years!! There's a course editor, and best of all, you can build hills (ski jumps) and chose between 10 different cars. You can also race on various moons and planets, where the gravity is other than on earth, thus not crashing when making mega jumps.

Similar game nowadays would be the Trackmania series.
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Why Unlimited Saga? Is it at all rare?

I've got the game, and am ashamed to say I've never actually even played the disc in my PS2 yet. I found it online new and sealed and although I did open it to look at the packaging that is as far as it has currently gone. I still have the older Saga games on the PS1 to complete first
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I didn't see that post. Unlimited Saga isn't even 2 years old I think, definitely nothing rare.
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I checked the game cover and was surprised to find Unlimited Saga was actually released in 2002-3 (depending on region). So it is actually 4-5 years old. Scary how time passes.

It does come with some very nice fold out packaging and a slip cover, and the art work looks good too. My version also comes with a second disc containing the FFX-2 Eternal Calm: Prologue which could add to making it more of a collectors item as time goes on.

Although as my copy is a PAL release I did notice the usual practice of printing the manual in b/w had been done. Not sure if the US version was in colour, but in previous cases where I've imported a US version of a PS1 or PS2 I've found that if the PAL manual is B/W, the US manuals are always in colour. A bit annoying.
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It was a game that, after about 4 months of release, had completely disappeared from the shelves (even second hand) from all the shops I visited. Which is bizarre because it is NOT the greatest game ever, but marked a noticeable departure from the normal Squaresoft games, and I particularly love the artwork all the way through the game.
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It isn't actually that uncommon for a title to nearly disappear from all mainstream stores within months of release. Many titles that don't have the current big promotional launches are very hard to find after just 6 months.
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Hmm, quite. The top 10 games account for 90% of all sales (or something like that, is a commonly quoted thing), but it becomes almost self-propagating as the big shops only want things that will sell, so cut back on older games, so the only ones that can sell are the chart games...... websites and indie game shops are where I get a lot of my games from (and the internet.. yarrr.....). Oh, and supermarkets too as they are dirt cheap for many releases
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I should now, Harrison probably does too because we talked about it while I was looking for a game.

Why do such games disappear so quickly after being released?
Last I was looking for a game in a store that wasn't that old but I couldn't find it anywhere, only a few specialised stores still had it.

In the meantime you see loads of movie or cartoon tie-ins that are months old, and in most cases are pretty average.
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Out of interest, what are opinions of keeping old floppy disk games? As it's inevitable that the disks will fail eventually, which is the reason I ended up selling my old Amiga games collection, and some of my DOS games.

Currently I've only got these remaining floppy based games, that I will be miffed about when they fail, on PC:
Eye of the Beholder
Ultima Underworld 2

Also wonder if there's any point to buying current games "Special Editions" that seem to charge a £10 premium, for the collectability in the future. As would of liked to have owned Arena: The Elder Scrolls CD versions, and Homeworld: Game of the Year edition.
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When future collectors look at Amiga games for example, I assume that they would like to get their hands on the complete package. By that I mean they would like to have, say Monkey Island, complete with manual, code wheel and floppy disks. Even if the floppies doesn't work properly, they are still part of the product as it was when sold in the beginning of the 90's.

As for special editions, I doubt many of the will reach a high value in the future. There are probably exceptions here, but in general, I don't think so.
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