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Quoted from RCA1:We all know the answer is 42.
Its always 42, but now what is the question?
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:that's the answer to the universe, not the answer to rare.
And it's true. Production number and years it was made go hand in hand. Kind of like comic or toy collecting. Back in the 70's, nobody collected much, so nothing was kept safe and pristine. So finding stuff looking mint or in the package is much rarer, than something made today, which everyone seems to collect.
So a production game of a NIB stern LE today at 500. Is going to be much more common since 95% of them went right into peoples homes, where a production run of 1000 from the 60's or 70's, is actually going to have less nice examples since 99% of them went on route, and operators would burn or destroy them when they were done, so their competition didn't get them cheap. So 10 years from now. Out of the LE's there will probably be 495 still surviving and looking great. Where a 70's run of 1000. might have 5 pristine examples in existance, and maybe less than 300 still alive.
Exactly, and like you said, how many were shipped where, maybe most were shipped overseas, so its semi common there, but "rare" over here. I also believe you can't go by what you see at shows, as a number of people that have the more obscure games do bring them to shows so people can enjoy them.
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