With many video games, there comes a price. That price usually reflects the effort, work, and prestige a company put into a game. There are also games that were created by smaller companies with limited budgets. Unfortunately, many of these lower budget companies didn't have the same amount of funding as Nintendo or Konami had. Thus, third-party companies you never heard of usually had lower production counts and this made many games rarer than they should've been. So how does the Rarity Conspirators fall in this conflict? Simple. We are a group of NES fanatics who are determined to make the typical common game rarer. We are the future reason that Super Mario Bros. will be an extremely rare game. Our goal is to make the common games rarer, and make the rarer games unique. Using different approaches, we are determined to make these games rare at all possible risks. If this means burning, destroying, hiding, sacrificing, or risking a goal, we will do it. So prepare yourself to enter the underground world of the Rarity Conspirators.

Current Target

Super Mario Brothers / Duck Hunt

The Violent Approach
This is probably the easiest approach to making common games rare. First off, we must determine what rarity we want the common game to be. So let's say we want an average rare game, then we'd choose a B on the rarity list. Now comes the hard part. Our mathematicians would have to determine the average production count of a B rarity game, which may or may not be attainable. If we do determine an average B rarity production count, then we can determine exactly how many common carts we'll need left in order for it to be rare. So let's say that a rare game only has one million carts in the world. Next, we would have to destoy all the common carts until there were one million left. How would we determine that? Well, we would count the number of cartridges we would be destroying, and subtract that from the production count.

In order to make the games rare, we would be forced to buy as many of the common, cheap cartridges as we could. Then, we would build a giant bon fire and throw the carts in one by one. We would watch the plastic melt, mutate, deform, and laugh at the pitiful site. Then, we would spread the remaining carts out to the fellow members and laugh that we have the only remaining SMB/DH carts. Good idea, eh?

The Economic Approach credit to Heronblade
This is one of the most ingenius ways to make money off of common carts. First, we would buy as many common SMB/DH carts as we possibly could with our own money. Although we would only amount to buy a few thousand, we could convince Bill Gates and Sony to provide us with some funding (since it would hurt the Nintendo economy). After we have a few hundred thousand dollars, we would go to every Funcoland, Game Crazy, pawn shop, yard sale, flea market, and buy out every SMB/DH copy. We're only about one-third of the way through. Then we would put up ads saying we'll buy your SMB/DH for $4 since we have plenty of leftover money from the funding of Sony and Bill Gates. After we have more than 3/4 of the actual copies that were on the market, SMB/DH will become a rare game. In fact, the price will most likely go up to $15+. With the price increase, we will simultaneously sell all the copies in our hands at once and plenty of buyers will swarm with bids over $20. Thus, we will make a 2000% or 20000% profit and we will be richer than a frosty flake. Of course, after all our copies are sold, the game will be worth a measly $.25 and we'll have to make a run for the border. Unfortunately, this idea requires a lot of money and a decent brain still intact in your head.

The Leisural Approach credit to kilroy989
These type of approaches are the kind that bring out the lighter side in us. Let us start with Martha Stewart, everyone's favorite house decorator.

First, you must blackmail, threaten, harass, or somehow intimidate Martha Stewart into using SMB/DH carts as a part of her T.V. Show. Obviously, we'll require some conspirators to steal her pets, send pasted magazine letters, throw M-80s near her home studio, or get her attention in any way possible. After we convince her to use these common carts on her show, the most efficient part of the plan comes next. We will require her to use the carts as her project of the day - Such as being how to make a love seat with just some super glue and 478 spare SMB/DH carts, or how to redo your old hard wood floor in nice, easily replaceable, modern Nintendo grey plastic. Thanks to Martha Stewart, this is one way of increasing the rarity of SMB/DH carts.

The Fat Cat Approach credit to kilroy989
Regardless if you're rich or not, this is one of the easier ways to get people with higher incomes to destroy the SMB/DH carts for you.

First, go to a skeet shooting range somewhere near the Beverly Hills area or some other "trend" setting area. Make sure you bring a large number of SMB/DH carts with you. Now, make sure you load the skeet shooting machine with the cartridges instead of the clay birds. Now you can use them as targets. Then, every time one of the rich bastards comes and asks you what the hell you're doing - Tell him it's the newest range in some other ritzi area and that every one is going to be doing it soon. At least you can save some manpower, and let the fat cats do the rest.

The Sneaky Approach credit to kilroy989
Some things need to be kept secrets. Luckily, the Rarity Conspirators have plenty of silent and sneaky operatives who know exactly what to do.

First, we would hack into various game magazine servers shortly before they print their next issue. Then, we would slip in an ad from Nintendo announcing a full recall of all SMB/DH carts because of slightly toxic chemicals that have been found in the plastic of the cart itself and in the ink of the label. This would cause a huge panic from people with these oh-so-common carts lying around. Then, we would tell them to ship their carts to such and such address claiming it to be a Nintendo warehouse of some kind. When in reality, the address is listed to a local dump. The ad would also inform them to include with their cart a request for either a new untoxic SMB/DH cartridge or a check for $35 to insure a large response. Even our purely sneaky ways can be the evilest of all...

You got an idea, submit it to me - and I'll give you full credit for it.

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