[General Discussion] The most valued game in the world nowadays?

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.

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Originally Posted by Sarmoti

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 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.

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