The Cover Project
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: NeoMyGeos on May 27, 2018, 11:50:24 AM
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By this I mean besides obvious things like limited edition system variants or the like. I mean things you have in your collection that you were possibly surprised to learn was actually very valuable.
In my case it's Felix the Cat on NES: I bought it for 20 bucks at a mom and pop store like four years ago; and I recently learned that on eBay it's going up to 100 bucks easy
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The most recent one for me would be Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ on the DS. I picked it up a while back after hearing it was a bit of a hidden gem. Think I paid maybe $20 for it CIB and now it's around $100. Same story for Drone Tactics for the DS also.
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I have a copy of Street Fighter Zero 3 on the Saturn that I bought from ebay many years ago. I only bought it because I went through a faze where I was buying a bunch of Japan only releases and got a lot for super cheap. It goes for over $200 now and I probably paid less than $100 for a bunch of games.
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R-Type III on the SNES. I have no idea how I got it. I suspect I got it from when I fixed a couple systems for a guy. Guy had 2 SNES a NES and a Genesis, none worked. If I fixed him a SNES and NES, I could keep the second SNES and the Genesis, with all Genesis games. I got a couple SNES games, I suspect that was one of them.
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I've been truly buckling down and organizing my collection and I've come across a few more:
Megaman 8 for the Sega Saturn CIB: I can't remember WHEN I got it, but I got it for roughly 80 bucks some time ago. I look now and it's shot up to nearly 300 bucks!
Mario Party CIB: I got it for about 30 bucks, and now it's around 80 bucks
Makes me wish I had cleaned out my mom and pop store back when I had more money to spare.
Still! I'm extremely satisfied with what I have
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I was given a CD-I with Link: The Faces of Evil for free back in 1999.
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Mine isn't a game or system, but I bought an old action figure of E-102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure from a used game shop (along with Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Big) for about $6. I went home to see what toy line they were from and it turns out that Gamma can go for around a hundred bucks on eBay. Of course, I won't be selling mine but I never knew that this figure was that rare!
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Mine isn't a game or system, but I bought an old action figure of E-102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure from a used game shop (along with Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Big) for about $6. I went home to see what toy line they were from and it turns out that Gamma can go for around a hundred bucks on eBay. Of course, I won't be selling mine but I never knew that this figure was that rare!
I used to have one of those back when it first came out! I miss it
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Back around 4 years ago I found a CIB copy of Hagane for SNES. I paid about $350 or so for it, which was around going rate at the time. Now clearly I know this is a rare/expensive game...but when I looked at eBay recently, it's selling for around a thousand dollars now. So I was a bit shocked to see it go up in value that quickly.
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I was given a CD-I with Link: The Faces of Evil for free back in 1999.
That’s about what they were worth in ‘99 ;D :P
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I was given a CD-I with Link: The Faces of Evil for free back in 1999.
That’s about what they were worth in ‘99 ;D :P
Yea back then I worked for GameXchange and the owner did not even want it.
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Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast for the original Xbox. I bought this around 10 years ago for $10 because I love the Outrun games. Turns out the Xbox version was produced in very small quantities, and now goes for over $100 complete.
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I used to have one of those back when it first came out! I miss it
Who knows, maybe I have yours! ;D
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I was given a CD-I with Link: The Faces of Evil for free back in 1999.
That’s about what they were worth in ‘99 ;D :P
Yea back then I worked for GameXchange and the owner did not even want it.
Ha! I can relate to that...
I recall us having literally a pile of 3DO consoles in the back of the Record Exchange store that I managed at the time. That store was used to hold old, unsalable and defective consoles that were "waiting for repair." The truth is that no console was ever sent out to be repaired, and I eventually asked the owners of the chain if I could have a crack at repairing them. They considered them basically write-offs/garbage otherwise, so they let me have at it. I got a LOT of consoles out of that little side job. A number went back into inventory, but I was able to keep a large number of them, since they weren't of any value anyway, even in perfect working order. I had 2-3 of each version of the 3DO at one point, and a LOT of games. Numerous copies of all 3 Zelda titles. I eventually gave them to fellow gamer friends, and then sold my personal copies shortly after graduating college in order to pay bills (at which point they had accrued a bit of value [2007]).
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StarCraft 64. Got it new when I was a kid and played the crap out of it. I still have the box, manual, and inserts for it and recently found out the set goes for $150ish. Not the largest amount of money, but I was definitely surprised.
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I don't really have anything unexpectedly rare, but there have been a few nice surprises. When I bought a CIB copy of Super Metroid from my neighbor for $2 back in grade school, I never imagined that the game would become valuable in the future.
I also have a CIB copy of Alien vs. Predator for the Jaguar which includes all 3 inlays. I actually pieced the set together over a period of time and never spent much money on it. The last time I checked, the price was getting up there, but I have no idea what it goes for today.
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Lucienne's Quest on 3DO.
Got a huge stack of 3DO games for free. Not being a 3DO collector in particular I was blown away with how expensive this game is! :o
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I don't know, I have quite a few rare games. Snatcher for the sega cd, ninja gaiden trilogy for snes, r-type 3 for snes, , princess tomato and the salad kingdom for the nes. I have quite a few games that I had no idea that were rare. I would actually have to look at all my games and find out what ones are rare.
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I didn't realize it, but apparently Futurama for Xbox is exceedingly rare, it goes for $80-100 dollars complete. It was a game I figured would be mega cheap, but its skyrocketed in recent years.
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Bought this for $450 about 8 years ago. Yeah... can't believe what it's going for now...
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vkzEXPeXxRs/WxTIc2oOGHI/AAAAAAABTUY/LeCYhuVZ6Lscyp2NY4hxIkWmthYe1_X6QCL0BGAYYCw/h1530/d1b06e1e-efd7-43c5-9a0a-25d44478c8f6)
Wiggy, you should have stole it when you had the chance :( Thank goodness you had it in a display case at CCAG LOL
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I am sure I got a bit but I do not keep up with current price trends on my collection. The one off the top of my head is Bubble Bobble 2 for NES. Got it CIB waaaaaaaay back about 15-20 years ago for like $10. Gave the box and vooklet away as I had a friend who was obsessed with both NES games. Kinda wish I kept it now but oh well, at least I got the cart still. I know I sold off some games that became high dollar items but hey, you cant tell the future so oh well. Oh and Ibara on PS2. Like I said if I went and checked current pricing trends im sure I would be very surprised at the current price of a lot of my stuff.
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I am going to go with something more modern. I was floored when I found out that my CE of Ar no Surge for Vita was worth over $300. I can't remember what I purchased it for from NISA. I don't think it was more than $60.
Turns out it was a pretty limited run but was not made public. I haven't played it and now I may never since it it worth so much.
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Bought this for $450 about 8 years ago. Yeah... can't believe what it's going for now...
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vkzEXPeXxRs/WxTIc2oOGHI/AAAAAAABTUY/LeCYhuVZ6Lscyp2NY4hxIkWmthYe1_X6QCL0BGAYYCw/h1530/d1b06e1e-efd7-43c5-9a0a-25d44478c8f6)
Wiggy, you should have stole it when you had the chance :( Thank goodness you had it in a display case at CCAG LOL
Super jealous of that one! Wish I had the money for it haha not worth its insane prices now.
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I sold my DKC Competition Cart a few years ago for $500. I like money more than games. Plus, I made an official looking Wii Virtual Console of it to play.
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Keio: Flying Squadron for Sega CD. I bought it used complete several years ago for around $100. Which was bout $50 less than the going rate at that time. Now it's ballooned to stupid levels.
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Honestly? I couldn't tell you.
I mean, I have an complete set (game, box, manual, misc. pamphlets) of Uniracers, Equinox and the JP version of Chrono Trigger, GoldenEye 64 (Player's Choice), and a couple of the Dragon Quest remakes on the DS, but I don't think they're exceedingly rare or anything. Well, maybe the DQ games.
I'd probably need to have someone much nerdier than I to take a look and tell me which games I have that are super rare.
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Olympic Soccer for the U.S. Sega Saturn. There are numerous soccer games for the Saturn, but this one seems to have been produced in very small quantities. I bought one last year for $20, and when I looked it up on Ebay there were no current or completed listings for it. I thought that was odd, because there are numerous listings for every other sports game for the system. So far this year there have been a few listings, with sales prices as high as $140, and according to Game Values Now (which now seems defunct), there were only 15 or so total listings in the past six years.
The PS1 version is quite common, as well as the European Saturn release. For some reason it just seems very few were released in the U.S.