Why? They ran the numbers and it made perfect sense. It meant more to their bottom line to destroy games they no longer wanted then to sell them to people who would just be competition.

Yep, so incredibly common that 70 people have it listed in their collections on here. You can't hardly visit a town in all of the united states where you wouldn't see one of these. Everywhere I tell ya, falling off trees they are.

I've seen prototypes at shows on more than on occasion, that doesn't make them any less rare. Your criteria is bunk. Especially since shows are usually when people are willing to haul things out since others have not seen it.

Relative to other machines robocop is rare and there are many on here who have never played/scene one. 1500 worldwide minus however many have been trashed over the years. Oh, and despite what you say many machines still get trashed. Fires, floods, neglect, or company policy they still wind up wrecked.