While it may have been promptly replaced by the far superior Xbox 360, the system and its strong catalog of games still remains popular with collectors to this day. Updated May 9, 2022, by Tom Bowen: It's a little hard to believe that the original Xbox was released more than two decades ago now. Even though the original Xbox had a relatively recent lifespan, introduced in 2001 and discontinued in 2009, there are still some games that are hard to find. Retro consoles like the NES are known for having some super rare games that collectors spend a lot of time (and money) trying to hunt down, but some more recent consoles also have rare games that collectors definitely want to get their hands on.

RELATED: The Rarest PS2 Games (& How Much They're Worth) Instead of simply buying games to play and enjoy, there are a lot of people that buy video games so that they can collect them and keep rare games on display.

While there are a lot of people that go out to buy a new video game when it's released and then play and enjoy it, there are also quite a few other people that buy video games for other reasons.

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