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Games Costing A Kidney

Castlevania Legacy of Darkness

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

Posted on January 13, 2023January 14, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

I know what you are thinking: “The N64 Castlevanias were crap, no way that either copy of its two entries are going for more than $50.” If that’s what you thought when you first read the heading of this article; then I regret to inform you that you are (mostly) completely wrong my friend. First, the…

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Ganbare Goemon

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Mystical Ninja (N64)

Posted on July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

When we think expensive retro games, for some strange reason, Nintendo 64 games do not come to mind. This is true, despite the fact that just last year a sealed copy of Mario 64 was sold for a whooping 1.5 million dollars at an auction. Yeah, that’s way more expensive than ‘kidney’ money. This week,…

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Tales of Destiny II

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Tales of Destiny 2 (Eternia)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Namco’s Tales series is popular these days thanks to the recent (successful) release of Tales of Arise. However, JRPG fans have been around this series for a quarter century. Despite the long running nature of the series, the PlayStation pair of “Destiny” titles both remain the most legendary and hard to find, making them “kidney”…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Dragon Force

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

When we think about old classic turn-based Japanese Role-Playing games, Final Fantasy Tactics and the Shining Force series come to mind. A game that is not often mentioned, and it should be (mentioned) among those great titles, is Dragon Force.  Dragon Force is a tactical Sega RPG. It was published by Sega in Japan, but…

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Revelations Persona

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Revelations: Persona

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The original PlayStation was the home to many great Japanese Role-Playing games. Some of these games (Wild Arms, Suikoden) were modestly successful on their PS debuts and spawned franchises before dying off in the mid 2000s. Today’s subject in the weekly “Games that will cost you a kidney” series is a game that didn’t have…

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Games that Will Cost You a Kidney: Shining Force III

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Sega Saturn is, at least to me, the most legendary of the 32/64-bit era machines. The reason? I didn’t own one, and I only know a single person who did. Furthermore, this person lost the console two decades ago.  As a JRPG fan, it was painful that the Sega Saturn was also the home…

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Vanguard Bandit

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Vanguard Bandits

Posted on June 7, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Another week, and another ill-fated Working Design’s PlayStation 1 release. Vanguard Bandits was a decent JRPG/Strategy game based on stereotypical anime mech troupes. Vanguard Bandits had a little more ‘flash’ than most Japanese strategy games of the time. It featured multiple story events with different ramifications given the choice of the protagonist, and consequently, multiple…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Thousand Arms

Posted on May 31, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Thousand Arms, like other games on this weekly feature, is not prohibitively expensive. If you are willing to gamble with your money on “resurfaced discs”, you can get the game on Amazon for about $189.00. This (the price point) is a whopping $169.00 more than I paid for my physical copy of the game about…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Alundra

Posted on May 23, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Editor’s Note: We have read your comments from our previous “Games That Will Cost You a Kidney” features, and most have been positive, and thoughtful. However, some of our readers have complained that a few of these games “do not cost a literal kidney” because they could be found for much less than $600 in…

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Suikoden II cover

Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Suikoden II

Posted on May 16, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Konami’s Suikoden is a respected franchise within the Japanese role-playing game genre. The series has been dead in the west for about a decade and a half as its last title Suikoden V was release in 2006 to little fanfare.   As it often happens with dead role-playing game series, its older titles gain monetary…

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