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I'm working on a "Rarest and Most Valuable Sports Video Games" article and there are a number of ways this can be formatted.

Since I'm including all consoles, I'm leaning towards writing it by most valuable/rare title by Sport rather than by Most Valuable overall (mix of all sports) or by System (like all the rare NES sports titles).

How does that sound?
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Sounds Good (if I read that right)!
"Rarest" and "Most Valuable" as separate headings, each grouped by sport right?

Given the genre, an "Oddballs & Loners" section as honorable mention might be good. For example, if there's a "Wii Senior Shuffleboard Party" game out there, it's likely to be a poorly represented sport sub-genre, but not necessarily super rare or valuable.

Then again, who knows... :)
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Rarest and Most Valuable is one heading as the two go hand in hand for the most part.

It would be broken down like:

Baseball:
World Series Major League Baseball - Intellivision

World Series Baseball starring Deion Sanders - 32x

Basketball:
etc, etc.

I need to figure out how to incorporate my friends in Europe and Japan also.
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Makes sense now that I think about it. :)
Among peers in this lowly appraised, peripheral genre "Most Valuable" needn't mean expensive (a refreshing change).

I can still imagine a few misfits making things difficult. Consider "Tecmo Super Bowl", a very common, but higher-valued sports title because of it's wider appeal and "cult following".

Could you just append (JP) or (EU) for the Japan & Europe releases, or were you thinking of sorting them differently?
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Thanks for the response. The JP or EU games would just be lumped in the same per sport.

There will definitely be a "Misc" type category to catch anything not covered.
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