Topic: The most Rare or expensive game you own.

Literally any game I look up, even when it says it costs a lot, you can seem to easily find one for like 20 bucks.

So I'm gonna say Astro Boy: Omega Factor, as that game will probably never be re-released ever and the initial eBay price I saw was above a GBA game price from over a decade ago.

I got this for $10 back in like, 2010, and it's gone up quite a bit. (Half Price Books; they had Lunar 2 for $35 back then, which is how much my sister got the guide from them for, funny enough) I have a feeling this will become one of the most valuable GBA games, as TONS of people passed it up when it first came out. Heck, I only got it because Nintendo Power mentioned how great it was.

I don't think I paid more than like $10-15 loose for Astro Boy GBA even two years ago.

To be fair, if you're looking up GBA or DS games, the cheapest options are usually bootlegs and/or non-English imports.

So I hear Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver have become expensive even for Pokemon standards. (expensive common game)
RIP my PokeWalker I loaned out and was not returned, with my otherwise complete HG.
I don't think I need to question if that would be costly to replace at this point.

@KingMike Yeah, there have been a few times I let some golden opportunity like that pass me by as well.

Mainly with books, though. I put off purchasing a Thomas Ligotti book once because I wanted to get something else at the time. The price then proceeded to skyrocket from $25 to something like $150+ on the used market.

Of all the games I own physically, Paper Mario TTYD (Gamecube) and Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast) probably hold the most value.

I'm not usually great at spotting the ones that eventually become rare...

heres another one i had to take out of security to show all the hardkore kollectrz whats its all about.

That actually is somewhat rare, funny enough, as the vast majority of sonic 1 carts were NFR carts.

It's probably not a rare game but it looks like prices have caught that I should regret not purchasing Light Crusader for Genesis for like $10 sealed. That was just sitting in a store for years before someone else bought it (in the years people were praising Genesis prices for being so cheap). Now it looks like it's approaching that loose.

I got Sonic 1 for $3 instead of Bloodlines for $5 years ago... That's been a sore spot for me for years.

I think my most rare Game is the Japanese Pokémon Trading Card Game 2 for the Game Boy Color, complete with Box, Manual and 2 Trading Cards that came with it.

Probably the Gamecube version of Skies of Arcadia.

Sells for more than its original price. Sometimes about twice as much!

I guess my recently bought copy of Terranigma for SNES.

Though I like to think it's my Japanese, factory sealed, in-company distributed copy of Ace Combat 5 signed by Kazutoki Kono.

Probably also would have been my American Limited Edition of Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk 2 for PS3 that was sealed for many years until a friend convinced me to open it up even though I bought the enhanced Vita version.

At least I got enjoy the extra swag but it still "hurts" a wee bit.

Now I try to open up every limited edition upon receipt.

I forgot the 25th anniversary of a certain expensive piece of 8-bit Nintendo software.

sad thing is, i owned almost all of the popular games for nintendo platforms and bought a couple at least twice

Just bought a complete copy of Lunar 2 Complete for $95, this is the 2nd copy of it my family owns now XD

@Fiyaball ...ouch, $95? Even my second copy didn't cost that much...or did it? I honestly didn't mean to buy that one (Never bid on two auctions at once, especially if they both end within hours of eachother)

I wanted to get a copy with EVERYTHING. (The Omake box) Almost paid $120, but found a cheaper one on Amazon.