The most valued game in the world nowadays?
 

After seeing that Atari games actually are being sold for a piece of shit I asked to myself, if this are basically the games that initiated all what's the reason that they worth nothing?

So, what generation has the most valued games? Is time an important factor?

Please keep it to games and not consoles or cabinets, and try to avoid checking Ebay and guides so you guys don't spoil it.

As for myself I... don't know, that's the reason I made the thread :niki:

Emulation.

Without emulation widely available, I would say that even Atari 2600 games would be worth much more than they are today. It's kind of too bad, as I could see an industry of people who fix/maintain old video game systems and carts if emulation weren't available. On the other hand, emulation makes it so that they don't have to.

I think you're trying to use cash as a measure of "worth" here might not work because of this. For example, Pitfall II is "worth" a lot to me, but I wouldn't be willing to pay a lot of money for an actual physical copy or a working 5200 to play it on...

The majority of the Atari 2600 library will probably never be worth anything. Ever. Unless it's Custer's Revenge, coooz sooo sexy. I'd say the 32-bit generation probably has the largest amount of valuable-ish games, due to piss poor publishers at the time. Especially on the PAL side of stuff. Like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Riven and Guardian Heroes on Saturn are LUSTED after pretty often. I think everything Working Designs ever released in America's worth a bit.

PAL version of Terranigma on SNES is really, REALLY expensive on the internets. :( I've got an unlicensed NES game sitting around that is apparently extremely rare as it was only released here and in Hong Kong (Little Red Hood). Rare doesn't make it valuable though, as it's terrible.

The Zelda games for SNES/NES are pretty highly priced, especially the NES ones, I've seen them in the computer game stores for £24.99 (approx $47), and that's without the boxes or instructions. So i'd say that the SNES/NES era of games are the most valued because some the more rarer games can fetch a small fortune.

Agree with Infernal. 32-bit era probably has the most expensive games, due to the difficulties of emulation (I think). A lot of Saturn titles are at least 60 bucks. Radiant Silvergun is also a pricey game at $120+. Man, I wish I had that game.

A conspicuous number of SNES RPGs still sell at a high-price on internet auctions.
Apart from the obvious Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy et similia, I noticed games like Secret of Mana or Earthbound still ranking at a considerable cost.
Doesn't surprise me, though. It's the gaming generation that probably left the fondest memories in most players, all around the world. Lots of classic titles were produced during that specific time arc.

Time is no doubt an essential factor, but I think global (emotional) attachment counts as well.
And I think the 16-bit era wins in that aspect (though this may still vary, depending on one's region and the availability of certain games at the time).

Nada. Neogeo stuff still sells for absurd prices even though every game is emulated and easily available.

The most expensive games I know of are some Saturn games. Not just the 100-300$ stuff like Radiant Silvergun and Panzer Dragoon Saga (both titles are worth it though), but some of the japanese demo discs like Delisoba Deluxe. Which regularly goes for 60 000 yen on Yahoo Japan.

There's also the Hi-Saturn Navi system (Saturn with slim case + car adapter + on-the-fly karaoke controls + video cd card + GPS system + inbuilt LCD monitor), where the complete set would cost you more then a Playstation 3, on launch date, from ebay.

How much do those golden cartridged Zelda games on the SNES or whatever go for nowadays? I'm under the impression they're quite sought after.

Valkyrie Profile sells for multi-hundred dollar prices on ebay.

You people are talking abotu PS1 RPGs being the most valued games? Are you SERIOUS?

SD Gundam Dimension War (Virtual Boy) and Virtual Bowling* (Virtual Boy) are both worth SHITLOADS. Those NES competition carts are worth TONNES. The SNES Donkey Kong Country and Star Fox weekend competition packs are worth a good chunk of change. Many rare arcade PCBs are worth crazy amounts. There are extremely rare NES games worth lots too. Neo Geo stuff, as referenced above is also included. If you include stuff like Beta carts and the infamous english Mother NES cart then you've got even MORE pricey stuff.

Piccolo, VP's price has dropped sine the PSP rerelease, and it's been a while since it went for over 100 in a sensible auction or sale.

* Not Nester's funky bowling. I mean the Japanese game.

Really, that's good to know, maybe I can go snag a copy now.

Of course, as I say that there are many copies on eBay that are sitting at 100 to 130 dollars, but there are also copies sitting at 50 to 80 bucks too, which makes more sense.

I think right now it's a little high because of VP2 being right around the corner. Shouldn't be too hard to wait a bit for it to go down again. I know I used to see copies going for 60 to 90 all the time. And that was, what? A couple months back when I was last checking?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the most expensive game is Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Someday, I will spend a few hundred bucks and get a Saturn with all those games I missed. Someday.

Suikoden 2 is also pretty insane in pricing, and Konami were assholes enough to not even release the PSP remake here. Bastards.

Neo Geo games are still selling for a shitload of money, but in terms of specific games, I'd say the following have fetched high prices-

- Panzer Dragoon Saga
- Radiant Silvergun ($150 liek wut)
- Ikaruga (Dreamcast version)
- Gitaroo Man
- Rez
- Zelda gold carts
- Rare beta versions of NES games
- Final Fantasy V for Super Famicom
- Chrono Trigger

I'm willing to bet Shadow of the Colossus and Beyond the Beyond will be on that list in a few year's time.

SotC is a player's choice title. That game is common as hell now, with far too many in circulation to become rare.

For the most part, it's going to be the games that were restricted from one region. For Example, in the US....I would hazard a guess on Final Fantasy V for the SNES, Seiken Densetsu III, Shining Force III Ep. 2/3, and so on. I'd say right now, the 16-bit games are worth the most because this was a time of Innovation Explosion in video games, much greater than that of the previous 8-bit games as well as it's 32-bit successor.

Cept that I've seen some games go for over a thousand dollars on eBay. Some of the ones I listed, for example. PDS has never hit that.

Edit:
See?

I've always wanted to play the Virtual Boy. :( So crushed when they announced it wouldn't be released here, cried for weeks. Had to go put my eyes under a barcode scanner at Woolworths to pretend I was playing one.

I'll say Sapphire, a shmup for the Turbo Duo. $400 at least if you want to own a copy.

I'm in agreement about the 32 bit era...You have import-only games worth a fortune and domestic ones with pitiful releases or demand (most good Saturn games, FFT, Dragonball GT and Valkyrie Profile for a time, Suikoden 2 is probably still worth a small fortune). Not sure any period before that was ever that active, Neo Geo aside. I'm taking my chances now and betting some of the lower print runs for PS2 (and DS) we're seeing now might see a similar jump.

Alright, I'll rephrase my statement.

"The most expensive game that anybody gives a shit about is Panzer Dragoon Saga."

I've tracked down, paid exortitant amounts for, and been bitten on the south forty by a lot of rare and allegedly cherished games that collector's hype had overvalued by half. But even putting aside relative value, we're still talking about games released to the public.
If we're really going for rare and valuable, how about the leaked and official master copy of the never-released English Earthbound Zero (which obviously wasn't called that, but you know what I'm getting at)?

By the way, I just ordered a MGS Japanese Edition (the one with the platinum font) and it includes a demo for Suikoden II, after seeing Suikoden mentioned above, I wanna know how much is worth it.

I paid the equivallent of 50 bucks for the 3 games at a mexican auction site.

Like evilboris said, Neo Geo games are quite expensive. Don't know if Wikipedia links are allowed in this thread, but here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizuna_Encounter

"The Neo Geo AES European homecart version of Fu'un: Super Tag Battle (Kizuna Encounter) is one of the most expensive and rare video games of all time, there is rumored to be no more than 10 copies of this and the last one sold for around $12,000 $USD."

Suikoden II is on that road too.

There's a boxed, sealed copy of FFII (or, rather, FFIV) going for £120 in my local retro shop. :X

The most important thing I think is because people only buy retrogames out of nostalgia. The SNES games are fucking expensive now, because everyone remembers Zelda from their childhood and wants one. When we grow old, our kids will have no interest in those crappy old consoles, and play what they grew up with, and the price will drop.

I have lots of videogame consoles, but stuff older than NES I don't care about at all*. I've never experienced one*, probably because I am too young for it*. I think the price will drop when it gets 'too old' for the generation. Who wants old stuff that sucks, if you never experienced "live"?


*c64 and amiga does not count.


Oh, and I've seen Link to the past for at least £130 on auction here (1600NOK).

With prices like that, I really should just start buying up any PAL games that look like they might be even remotely popular and turn around and sell them for profit. LTTP setting someone back THAT MUCH? Wow.

Oh geez, I remember that. That blasted GT game on the PS1 was one of the rarest games for the PS1 at the time and being the only game with the Dragonball name attached to it during the start of the craze here in the US made it even more sought after. I(now just a Dragonball fan, disgusted by Z and GT) remember spending 3 years looking for a place to buy that game after having only rented it once from a local video store.

Now since it has been re-released, you can find it in bargain bins everywhere.

I guess I got pretty lucky then, I happen to have a original radiant silvergun that I bought for the saturn quite a while ago, I doubt I still have the case though

I'd say the most valued games to me are games I find worthy of continueing to own... I don't care how much a Genesis, SNES or PS1 game is worth on ebay unless I own it because you know... there are always roms and ISOs if you are that desperate for those games...

Not so much Scenario 3. You're likely to shell out more for a US or PAL Scenario 1 than you are a Jap Scenario 3.

Add the Shining Force 3 Premium Disc to the list, though. A limited edition freebie from the makers of Shining Force 3, provided you could prove you'd bought all 3 scenarios. Probably worth more than either Panzer Saga or Radiant Silvergun.

I actually worked in an Electronics Boutique during the height of the DBZ craze. If someone was dumb enough to trade this game in (and 3 people were), the employee on hand would immediately buy the game for the system price (relatively cheap) and then turn around and ebay it. I would always come in and someone would be gloating how they won the GT lottery. One guy got $166, IIRC and the other two were around $90-ish.

We did something similar with Final Fantasy Tactics...Someone traded it in and my manager adjusted the price of of used copies from like $40, to $80 and someone picked it up later that night.

The reissues effectively dropped the insane prices both were going for, thankfully.

Secret of Mana PAL is the most expensive game I've ever seen.
This was TWO WEEKS AGO OK.

I walk into Gametraders, I'm mulling about the store looking at old snes carts, everything was $20 basically unless it was good in which case it was $40 or $50

And just as I was leaving the store I looked at some glass cabinet that was in the middle of the store like a trophy cabinet. IN it I saw new, sealed FF7 for PSX.
$150 AUS, that's $112US
But then I fucking gagged as I saw what was above it.
Boxed Secret of Mana in I would say, pretty ragged condition.
THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS AUS
That's $225 US

This wasn't an ebay auction, this was a retail store.

It was ridiculous.

Holy shit, that's mental.

"Hey Gametraders, I'll trade you this busted Mega Drive RF switch for that Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy VII"
"That's not a worthy swap young man haw haw haw snort snort"
"Yeah but it was probably made in Japan I guess.. made in Japan by the Japanese"
"JAPAN YOU SAY? HEE HEE HEE MISTER HAGGER.. Snort snort, it's a deal! JAPAN!"
"Hey whoa now, don't get your corn chip crumbs all over my face"

I think their quest for crazy money is going to fail!

http://ps2media.ign.com/media/previe...xi/taxi_28.jpg

The most expensive game I've come across that had a high value price was one of the few copies of the English translated Mother 1 (Earthbound Zero) that was floating around. I believe there were 4-5 copies made, but the game was simply never released at all outside of Japan so no more were made. One of the guys that did the ROM dump for it supposedly paid about $400 for the copy, and is the sole reason why we even have a ROM for it.

It'll be interesting to watch the prices though when Panzer Dragoon Saga and other games start showing up on XBLArcade or Wii's Virtual Console. Everyone will try and get top dollar at the last minute, and hilarity will ensue accordingly.

The most valued and expensive game in the world is one I own.

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/9947/525fzy1.jpg

Thanks, bye.

We've already debunked in this thread already that RS isn't that valuable compared to some other games there, New Zealand.

Double Post:
Wow, you got that whole story wrong. The carts you see on eBay are fakes. ROMs dumped onto blank carts.

The story, according to starman.net:

Okay fine. I did some fucking digging.

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I know the Bangai-O one was only given out to 3 people who took Gold, Silver and Bronze positions at some little expo Treasure held in japan. That's probably the rarest out of the lot, although signed stuff is already nice.

Someone in Germany has taken that Chu Chu Rocket LE DC and had it signed by the Sonic Team staff as well, but I can't find any pictures at all. That'd be worth a billion. I did come across a bunch of stuff like a sealed Vib Ribbon, sealed Xenogears, sealed Valkyrie Profile, a ton of signed gear, but what I've displayed here is what seems to stand out over the rest.

The invisible rarity chart for games is really lame, but if someone can think of something I'm sure it already exists.

Well okay. Even though it's not a game...

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/jo...6&entryid=9249

Nintendo World Championship (gold cart).

When they only made 116 copies of the game, and only 26 of those copies were gold, and the only way you could get one was to be one of the top winners in a one time only competetion in 1990, you can bet the thing is pretty fucking rare.

The more common grey cartridge version has sold for upwards of 6 grand. A gold one? Who knows. It was put on eBay with a But It Now of 20 grand. I don't know if it was purchased.

I heard that a guy in France sells a extremely rare copy of a prototype version of Castlevania Resurrection for Dreamcast in 2500 Euros... it was crazy as hell, but i remember that some guy at Assembler Games buy it. I believe this because Assembler Games contains probably the most incredible Video Games collectors i ever saw in my life... i mean, the beta of Propeller Arena for Dreamcast was released on internet by those guys.

I too have read that the rarest and most expensive game known is Neo-Geo Kizuna Encounter. It seems that there's only 3 or so documented copies in existence, and that prices have gone well over $5,000.

Radiant Silvergun ain't that rare... I had my copy with spine card for less than $200.

The problem is that there's no official price for old games, as it happens for, say, cars. I remember following an auction for a copy of SNES Soul Blazer - it went for $203, now that's a load of cash for that game, I've seen other copies sell for considerably less.

Well, that was the story told to me really. I didn't even know there were fake carts on eBay at all, but thanks for letting me know about the real story then. Even though, to merely only borrow it for a couple hundred dollars is still something in and of itself.

Agreed, some saturn games are crazy. Such as the Saturn version of Akumajo Dracula X (AKA Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) can go upwards of $150. I used to have it, and I am still kicking myself ;-)

Yeah, I'm sorry that my post came off sounding al ittle harsh and angry. My bad there.

But yeah, charging a couple hundred bucks just to BORROW it is ridiculous. It's a shame that the fake carts sell for such large amounts of cash too.

A SNES game, Rendering Ranger R2 seems to be quite rare. Wouldn't really care if I didn't like that game, only played it with emulator.
I saw it going for 159.99$ on eBay.

I have a sealed Disgaea 1 (PAL) on my shelf. It's pretty hard to find it on sale anywhere now, let alone after a couple of years... :p

Rendering Ranger, I was going to mention that. I've actually seen it go well over $250 on eBay.

Wasn't there a SNES military game (not military themed, a non-commercial game made for the military) that went over $3000 once? Do non-commercial games count?

Oh, you poor thing, I feel sorry for you. If only it were the american version.

I knew somebody with a signed american Bujingai and a signed 50 Cent: Bulletproof.

PAL Disgaea

Step one: Rape game
Check!

Step two: Release eight copies in total
Check!

Step three: Publisher whinges about lack of sales and finally realizes why
Processing!

I actually had a PAL Disgaea. The thing as, I imported the american version the same time. So of course both of them showed up on the SAME DAY and I was like "oh." wondering what the hell I was going to do with both. The most disappointing thing about the PAL version is that it's printed on a CD-R.

Oh, and the instruction manual is different. I can't remember why exactly, or whatever, but I know it's different. The game looked different, but I assume that's because it wasn't on dvd. It didn't have the japanese voices, either.

Speaking of Disgaea, La Pucelle pissed me off. When I bought La Pucelle (which was released here after Disgaea, and I could ACTUALLY FIND A COPY), I was impressed by the box art tenfold.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5...x107879kn8.jpghttp://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9...tsengthjy7.jpg

The american box art doesn't even look like Prier. The problem is, the exact same things (disc format, lack of japanese, manual, so forth) happened with this game. I'd import the american version since I really love La Pucelle, but the box art puts me off entirely.

AND IT GOES ON. Makai Kingdom? Okay let's just release this about a YEAR apart from the american release with problems. Phantom Brave? Same deal, except I bought it since it had the Arrange OST. If it were an american version, it'd be perfect, but no, it's the PAL version and thus it sucks.

I think we can just conclude with saying Koei sucks at publishing Nippon Ichi games. Atlus seem to od a fine job of it, but not Koei. I can't say that Koei's Dynasty Warriors or their other titles have been poorly released, since I've played a whole ONE of their titles, but this was just depressing.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...b/000_0811.jpg

That is the Saturn game I was talking about in my last post on this topic. I wish I still had it, thats the exact same one I ebay'd. I could probably get ever more for it now. Grrr! <hits head>

Except there were no bids on that game...

Yeah no shit. I saw one on ebay for BUY IT NOW only, $699. I chortled. People on Half.com were selling very used copies for like $250. These were copies that didn't have booklets or cases (sometimes only discs!) That's just some bullshit there. I'm going to pick up the second one to avoid that shit again. :\

Reminds me when I went to Funcoland and they had a copy of Chrono Trigger for SNES. The catridge was fucked up and shit, with the label being half torn or eaten or something.

"How much is this game d00d?"
"79.99"
"LOL. No really, how much is this. There's no box/manual/anything and it looks like a piece of crap."
"It's 79.99 sir."
"LOL!!!"

It really needs to be put on GBA. :(

I'm not sure if this site will give a value of the most valued game, but it has a rating of how rare the game is.

http://www.digitpress.com/

Go to the online rarity rating and choose your game.

As for Valkyrie Profile, it's given a price of $40, so basically when you're paying three fold for that, like how I did, talk about costing an arm and a leg.

Heh, I spent $50 on a copy of Final Fantasy VI with a failing battery and torn up instruction booklet. I haven't had a chance to play it because it can't hold a save. I need to find a way to open the cart without harming it so I can replace the battery. I looked and looked and looked and believe me damn I looked by they didn't have a copy of Chrono Trigger. I would have spent a lot of money even on a shitty-looking copy.

Well....I'll would say though not as psychotically expensive as some of the ones listed already
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Mint Complete (PS2)
Chrono Trigger (Mint Complete) SNES
E.V.O. (Near Mint Complete) SNES

not too expensive ones
Zelda Master Quest & Zelda Collector's Edition (GC)
Aria Of Sorrow Complete/Mint (GBA) Before it got rereleased in that 2 in 1 gamepack
maybe more but have to dust off my closet.....think I still have a retro NES GBA still sealed...maybe....