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* Every ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game before [[Fire Emblem Elibe|the seventh]] is virtually impossible to get outside of Japan, being that the entire franchise before the seventh instalment was a case of [[No Export for You]]. Unsurprisingly, the series is very frequently pirated and subjected to [[Fan Translation]].
* Every ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game before [[Fire Emblem Elibe|the seventh]] is virtually impossible to get outside of Japan, being that the entire franchise before the seventh instalment was a case of [[No Export for You]]. Unsurprisingly, the series is very frequently pirated and subjected to [[Fan Translation]].
* [[Doug Ten Napel]]'s [[The Neverhood]], an ingenious point-and-click adventure game made entirely in claymation, has been MIA since the mid-Ninties and copies are quite scarce. When it's easier to get the soundtrack CD to a computer game than the game itself, there is no hope for humanity. Or so it seemed, but [http://www.facebook.com/NeverhoodMobile this statement] has mentioned that a rerelease on mobile platforms is in the works.
* [[Doug Ten Napel]]'s [[The Neverhood]], an ingenious point-and-click adventure game made entirely in claymation, has been MIA since the mid-Ninties and copies are quite scarce. When it's easier to get the soundtrack CD to a computer game than the game itself, there is no hope for humanity. Or so it seemed, but [http://www.facebook.com/NeverhoodMobile this statement] has mentioned that a rerelease on mobile platforms is in the works.
* After its unfortunate initial performance in 1995, ''[[EarthBound]]'' has never been rereleased in America, not even on the [[Virtual Console]]. Its Masterpiece demo in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' was even explicitly removed from international versions of the game! Even Japan, where it did well, it is seemingly affected too - its only re-release was on a 2001 [[Game Boy Advance]] [[Compilation Rerelease]] [[Porting Disaster|of dubious quality]], and it's not on the Japanese Virtual Console either, which makes its presence as a Masterpiece demo in the Japanese version of ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' all the more confusing. Rumours abound as to why this is so, the most common ones involving legal issues over [[The Jimmy Hart Version|its music]], but nothing has ever been confirmed by Nintendo and there are plenty of arguments against those theories too. At any rate, it's actually pretty rare to find someone who actually played the game on a console rather than just emulating it. Being a very famous game that sells for anywhere between $80 and ''[[Crack is Cheaper|$200]]'', it's an exemplary and significant example of this trope in action.
* After its unfortunate initial performance in 1995, ''[[EarthBound]]'' has was not rereleased in America, not even on the [[Virtual Console]]. Its Masterpiece demo in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' was even explicitly removed from international versions of the game! Even Japan, where it did well, it is seemingly affected too - its only re-release was on a 2001 [[Game Boy Advance]] [[Compilation Rerelease]] [[Porting Disaster|of dubious quality]], and it's not on the Japanese Virtual Console either, which makes its presence as a Masterpiece demo in the Japanese version of ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' all the more confusing. Rumours abound as to why this is so, the most common ones involving legal issues over [[The Jimmy Hart Version|its music]], but nothing has ever been confirmed by Nintendo and there are plenty of arguments against those theories too. At any rate, it's actually pretty rare to find someone who actually played the game on a console rather than just emulating it. Being a very famous game that sells for anywhere between $80 and ''[[Crack is Cheaper|$200]]'', it's an exemplary and significant example of this trope in action. Eventually averted with a very late virtual console release.
** Similarly, the sequel ''[[Mother 3]]'' hasn't ever been released internationally. As time passes, it's quickly slipping the same way as ''[[EarthBound]]'', with prices on it hiking ever further up.
** Similarly, the sequel ''[[Mother 3]]'' hasn't ever been released internationally. As time passes, it's quickly slipping the same way as ''[[EarthBound]]'', with prices on it hiking ever further up.
* Virtually every [[Licensed Game]], due to the publishers and/or developers either no longer existing or no longer having the licenses. Thankfully, there's been some aversions to this in recent years, in particular when it comes to still-existing major publishers:
* Virtually every [[Licensed Game]], due to the publishers and/or developers either no longer existing or no longer having the licenses. Thankfully, there's been some aversions to this in recent years, in particular when it comes to still-existing major publishers:
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