Just How Much Can Your Sealed Retro Games Sell For?

I do leave games I buy sealed until I get around to playing them. Just in case I never do and they should be worth more in the future. But I buy games to play, and so only have a few 3DS and Wii U games still sealed.

I don’t think we’ll ever have more recent games reaching these sorts of prices ever again though. Except maybe for some really obscure ones that become ‘hidden gems’ 10 or 20 years in the future.

Also, are they correcting these prices for inflation? The Sonic example, if that’s £40 today not corrected for inflation, that’s actually worth less than its original RRP.

Poor Sonic....the value is the same, hahaha!!!

I wouldn't even pay 5 euro for it. I don't collect those old games anymore. I even threw away some SNES games in garbage. No boxes and say and people in Holland at certain websites wouldn't even give a 1 euro. I rather throw it a
way then selling to them

I have X-Zone (pal) with box, near mint.
Some people will pay stupid amounts of money for it..

I have 115 (+/- some) SNES games, all with boxes (except SMW) and booklets.
Maybe I'll sell it all in about 30 years time

Actually I remember street fighter 2 being £64.99 on release, which was a HUGE amount of money at the time!

Cars, houses etc cost a lot more than they did 25 years ago, games have got cheaper!

I'm part of a very large game trading site from retro to new and the most I've seen a game sell for is an original NES super mario bros first edition with the black box still sealed with the Nintendo red strip and that went for just over 4000gbp I have also seen a very Ltd edition Zelda n64 pack go for over £1000. I think it was exclusive to somewhere like Sweden or Norway etc and is classed as the holy grail of the N64 variant.

@Alucard83

And people wonder why our planet is dying.

As someone who was there, and can remember it very well, a lot of these RRPs are flat-out wrong. Start with the basics before publishing a story.

Nintendo life should make a poll to see how much we are willing to pay for sealed classics (marios, zelda... from the cartrudge era)

I don't really understand why you would want them dusty old cartridges, when many of them games are getting re-released.

Not that I was complaining when I sold my SNES RPG collection. Made a profit on those!

I saw CEX selling copies of Cube games like Fire Emblem and Paper Mario for over a hundred. I was tempted to just sell my copies, I’m really not playing them anymore.

Um? Metal gear solid - 49 million sold. 10th best selling playstation game. Crash bandicoot - 6.8 million sold. 8 th best selling game on playstation.

Something doesn’t add up here...

@Ladasta shhhh, be quiet. The editor God's will smite you for pointing out such an error.

Mario 64 at launch was £60, not £40. Maybe it was officially reproved later, or maybe they’re factoring in the Player’s Choice budget rerelease, but launch was £60. I know, I fought tooth and nail to save up for the N64, the first console I bought myself. Took a lot of patience for 15-year old me.

As others are pointing out, some of these maths aren't right, and the launch prices are incorrect. But considering it was all compiled by a self-storage company...they really just want you to empty your storage.

Still find it incredible we used to pay £30-£40 for 700kb games that last half an hour. I paid £40 in 1989 for Wonderboy in Monsterland for SMS ... takes 40 minutes to complete. Even more incredible is that prices for standard editions of modern games are roughly the same price as they were 30 years ago.

All the UK RRP prices are wrong. Games were much much more expensive. Street fighter 2 was near 60. N64 games were always 60. But I would’ve loved them prices back then

I do have a Gold Ocarina of Time still in shrink wrap, I was hoping it would be worth enough to pay off my mortgage by now....

@BulkSlash I'll give you £40 for it?

@Kidfunkadelic83 Those kind of sites are great! I used to buy GB games off a site like that for 5 quid still complete in box. I think these prices are for the money milker eBay, though.

I had a complete edition of SMW unsealed about 6 years ago, it only sold for around 45 or so, I think.

However, I sold my copies of TOMBI 1 and 2 for £80 each. Also, Legend of Dragoon for about the same even longer ago.

This is nothing new. Popular, sealed games have always commanded a premium as it's a natural progression of "I want a nice copy for my shelf". It's a little mental to want one you can't play but the counter argument is by being sealed, it's in better condition.

Sitting on a gold mine with rare sought after N64, Gamecube, and Wii games all complete and in mint condition, played through once and then stored away. Though if I had never unsealed them I could sell them for double or triple. Unfortunately I did not buy them to stare at their boxes.

I never understood the appeal of collecting sealed video games. To me the entire appeal of collecting video games was my ability to play them and enjoy them. What good is just looking at a box with plastic around it? Seems like a real waste.

A game should not be held in a plastic wrapper. It should be played and enjoyed as was the reason for creating it. Not for making profit.

People who do this are not collectors, they are investment bankers which do not care about the actual thing, only about profit.

Those people sicken me

My friend has a bunch of sealed retro games, one of them being Magical Chase for the TG16.