Rarest Playstation Game Ever?

For only the fifth time in 18 months, the inhabitants of GOY towers are on the move, which means another bout of rummaging. Things we had completely forgotten about have made their presence felt. We're pretty sure that 90% of gamers are at least a little bit like us, and hoard entirely unnecessary items of merchandise or ephemera.

Some of it is taking up space that we now need for grown up things like ironing boards and a garlic press, like those 30 odd playstation one demo discs, but some of these are real finds, worthy of note. I speak of course of things like the Super Mario Jigsaw Puzzle, various copies of Mean Machines magazine, and the pile of Street Fighter comics, including the adaptation of the JeanClaudeVanDamme adaptation (which was on the telly the other week - it's so bad it goes past being good again, into being bad and then out into being good).

But there comes a time when we have to do things we'd never do, sell the 'retirement fund' - a special selection of rare games and bits that we know draw the top dollar. This week saw the time draw near.

CASTLEVANIA - SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT with lovely art book and soundtrack CD


So this little beauty found it's way onto a popular internet auction site.
It was a thrilling battle to the finish line, the wonder of consumerism all concentrated into a small 7 day auction. Anyway, it sold for a amount of money in the area of £75. Which will probably be spent on a combination of Phantom Hourglass, Pro Evolution 2008, or that garlic press I've heard so much about.

The point of this bleating on and on about my own successes in the field of international commerce was to ask whether Castlevania, Symphony of the Night, is in fact the RAREST PAL Playstation 1 game OF ALL TIME. We know Kula World was a bit rare for a while, and Tombi, but is this old vampire jaunt the rarest of the lot? Your thoughts please.

While thinking aloud about this post, a local asked me why on earth anything in this age of mass production would be rare, and in particular a game in a popular series, published by a large videogame company? We didn't have any of the answers, and thus pretended that we hadn't heard the questions.

I'm just off to play the fuck out of it before I send it off.
(unless of course, you are the person who won the auction, in which case I'm off to make sure it's safe in the oxygen vacuum chamber I set up to keep if fresh)