What's the Most You've Ever Paid for a Single Game?

[Keir]

67 posts later and I finally get around to answering.

I asked this question because I had just paid $250 for a boxed Atari 2600 "Lochjaw". You may have expected that I've paid much more for some of the other things in my collection, like the boxed "Malagai", boxed "Video Life" - both of which would go for well over a grand if I were to sell - or the piles of prototypes I've amassed over the years, but you'd be wrong. Fortunately I've stumbled into lots of great stuff mainly from just being in the right place before everyone else or being terribly persistent with owners (you know who you are).

So that's it for me, $250 for a boxed Atari 2600 "Lochjaw". Closest to that would be $200 for a boxed Intellivision Congo Bongo.
Time to update! :P
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8136121512&fromMakeTrack=true

Also, I spent $60 on Twinkle Star Sprites (Saturn) so that's my new highest amount.

[max 330 mega]

i spent $250 on a complete copy of sonic wings 3 MVS.

[pixelsnpolygons]

$130 for Turok on N64 - but that was Australian dollars.

[Howie6925]

I paid $81 for RPG maker 2 new is the most i paid for a game.

[Time]

$600 for a millipede cocktail arcade game.


Don't ask about my pinball machine. @_@

[tritium]

I paid $80 after shipping for the Ayanami Evangelion game[DC]. I'm not a big spender for single games, but I like to buy lots of them. =)

-Tritium

[SegaAges]

I buy games new every once in awhile when I want them bad.

I have paid 60-70 for new n64 games when they came out.

other than that, around 50 for some new next gens.

[klausien]

$130 for Radiant Silvergun and $110 for PCE Dracula X. Cliche.

I have definitely gotten my money's worth though. ZERO regrets.

[anagrama]

I recently more than doubled my previous most expensive game by paying £100 (~$185) for Les Schtoumpfs Autour du Monde (Master System).

[Mr.Faxanadu]

around $80 for a sealed copy of Faxanadu for the NES ( I was willing to spend a couple of hundred to get it !!! :-P )

[evilmess]

$100.00 for a complete Panzer Dragoon Saga and $78 for a complete SNES Metal Warriors and $67.50 for Space Channel 5 Part 2 (not LE) to give to my daughter for x-mas . Those are my biggest purchases outside of the occassional $50 new game purchase.

[Dr. Morbis]

I paid $150 US for a sealed Caltron 6 in 1 a long time ago. I also paid about the same amount for a big-box Gyromite that was bundled with a boxed ROB. Then, before I even got it in the mail, I found a big-box Gyromite in the wild like 2 days later! I sold the extra one though. I also paid $55 US for a sealed Cheetahmen II like 4 years ago. Other than that, I think most of my stuff has been below the $50 mark.

[DigitalSpace]

$30 for a used and complete copy of The Sims for PS2, a few months after it came out. I was addicted to the game for about a month and a half. I see used copies going for $10 all the time now, and I still don't regret paying that much.

I'll probably break the record when GTA: San Andreas comes out, though.

[Promophile]

Highest I've every proxy bidded is 260 for a Earthbound Poster (impossible to find, believe me).

[Brian_Provinciano]

Well, I've paid a lot for some games and hardware in recent years, but relative to my income at the time, the most I paid was $90 for DOOM for the SNES back when it was new. That was waaaay too much, haha.

[spider-man]

I most I spent was 100 dollars for panzer dragoon saga on ebay. The second most will be Growlanser: generations deluxe pack - 90 dollars (if it ever comes out LOL )

[leorange]

$89 for a brand new virtual boy space invaders

runner up is $80 for a complete 2600 halloween

[Sibs]

The most I ever payed for a game was $60 for a brand new Super Mario RPG for the SNES shortly after it came out.


I paid $81 for RPG maker 2 new is the most i paid for a game. Wow, I got RPG Maker 2 three days after it came out and I only payed $39.99 for it. :o

[Richter]

$75 for a mint Shining Force III: Scenario 2

[Perkar]

$67 shipped for this beauty. i've been watching these on ebay for over a year, and i think i waited it out for the right auction. the manual is slightly water damaged, but the disk is FLAWLESS. looks brand new...

http://spaceballsthewebsite.com/perkar/sonicadventurele.jpg

[-hellvin-]

Nice Sonic LE....my friend Nez found the cd for 4 bucks then he put in a product request for shenmue limited edition at a nearby gamestore and the guy got in sonic LE and called him accidentally and he bought the case for 7 dollars, lol. Lucky bastard.

Anyhow....today I shall reach the highest I have ever paid for a game:

Buster Douglas - Sega Master System $90

Pretty damn high, but it will be mint, complete and I don't want to hunt it down.

[Nez]

Panzer Dragoon Saga paid 180 for it.

BUT! It also come with Gaudian Heros, D, Lunacy, Brain Dead 13, Ledgend of Oasis, Myst, Shining the Holy Arc and a Sega Saturn. Phew.

But I was mainly going for SAGA.

[Sanriostar]

The most I've sunk down for one item is a tie: $50 for Namco Museum 4 for PS and 2600 Demolition Herby loose at 2001 CGE Auction.

The single largest chunk of change I've ever laid down was $300+ for 4-5 cases of various SW'ed Classic (pre-crash) games.

[pr8cjb]

£75 (~$135) for the PAL Samurai Shodown for the Mega-CD, including shipping from Germany to the UK. HIghest proxy bid was £151 (~$270) for Syndicate on the same. And yes, it went for the next increment up - I was at work when the auction ended :angry:

[racecar]

not counting arcade cab/games, and some misc ebay bids
new games are usually the most expensive( snes ) when they came out i spend $60-$75 one them when they first came out

[dracula]

Up until now about 70 bucks for various 64 games. in a few days though im going to plop out $200 for Steel Battalion.

www.gamestop.com has it for $190 with free ship and no tax, and fry's has it on outpost.com for $180 plus tax and shipping, if you see it in a frys b&m then it would be $180 plus tax there.

[Black_Tiger]

I can't remember exactly how they broke down, but my first two arcade games came to $1300 & something.

I think that SFIICE and Black Tiger(cocktail) were probably $600 CAD each.

[PapaStu]

Well I lost out on a 10,000,000 Playstation unit at $1,300 a short while back. I would have bid higher, but I was sniped with 6 seconds left. I live.

But for an individual game, 200 For Steel Battalion when it released, the 300 that I dumped on my Xbox and PS2's. My highest game auction was for Lunar SSSC: Fan Edition which went for 85 shipped,

Ive tripped out in regards to what ive spent on some of my games (be it the retail price or whatever) but what it comes down to in the end is as long as i'm happy with the game, then I can really have no complaints.

[Nick]

I would have to say the most I have paid for a game thus far would be $58 Shipped for a MINT copy of Guardian Heroes (Saturn). With out question, the best $58 I've ever spent. :D

[link1110]

$90 for Final Fantasy 5 SFC August 1996, was my favorite game for the longest time, and still my favorite FF and is in my top 10 favorites of all time.

[kevincure]

I paid 70 for DBGT a couple years ago, but I've never spent near that for any of the PSX or DC games in my collection, even though I've picked up most of the rarities and expensive titles at some point. Even expensive PSX games can be had cheap with some patience - Silverload for 10, Fox Hunt for 10, Suikoden II for 20, Valkyrie for 15, DDR Disney for 30, etc.

[DigitalSpace]

$30 for a used and complete copy of The Sims for PS2, a few months after it came out. I was addicted to the game for about a month and a half. I see used copies going for $10 all the time now, and I still don't regret paying that much.

I'll probably break the record when GTA: San Andreas comes out, though.

And I did.

New record: $49.99 for a new copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Here's hoping it'll be worth every penny, like The Sims.

[Lord Contaminous]

King of Fighters 2001 (Neo Geo) -129.00.

But, one of these days I will break that record.

I don't know when it'll happen, but someday I WILL be ready to score a master copy of Dracula X: Rondo of Blood for PC Engine CD. And that's it. No more three digit price tag games.

[briguy578]

The most I have ever paid for one game was 72.00 for Chase the Chuckwagon. Incidentally, I'm going to be listing it on ebay shortly, due to my extreme lack of finacial funds :/

[mb7241]

The most for me? $51 shipped for a complete Final Fantasy II (SNES). Behind that, $50 for a sharply-scratched disc-only original Dragon Ball GT Final Bout (PS1) (resold for $80). Then, Dragon Warrior IV (NES), cartridge only, $40 shipped. As for systems, the most I've ever paid for a system is...well...I dunno... I can recall dropping $40 on a model 1 NES with 22 games (and 3 SNES games...don't ask how those got thrown in there), $46 on a Philips CDi 615, and $30 on a Turbo-Grafx 16 & CD expansion setup (with the carrying case for the whole thing). Probably the worst, though, was when I traded my Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (PS1) box set for a Japanese PS1 and Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA, cart only)...

[greedostick]

lets see...

$165 for a english magical chase shipped from europe with minty manual

$200 for english dynastic hero

2 of the best purchases i ever made.

$600 for darius alpha (sold shortly after because it sucked so bad)

$120 for minty last blade jp 1 homecart

$100 for kof 98 jp homecart

[LazingBlazers]

$202.50 for a loose TG-16 Magical Chase. Insane, yes; but it was the last piece to the puzzle.

[videogameking26]

$200

Steel Battalion (Xbox)

[sirgeoph]

$65+shipping for rainbow islands for the nes factory sealed

[max 330 mega]

$65+shipping for rainbow islands for the nes factory sealed
dude thats a great buy, i would have definitely done the same.

[Jive3D]

$200 @_@ (and change) Radiant Silvergun.

Worth it. 8-)

[charitycasegreg]

26 bucks for my nes Megaman mint/complete, everyhting it originally came with. :D I dont buy expensive games usually unless I really want it.

[suppafly]

70 US for a strider for genesis when it came out.....it was worth every dollar :)

[Fuyukaze]

80$ for Arc the Lad colection when it was released. I still consider it more expensive then it was worth, but as I got the watch with it as well as the JSRF soundtrack, it came out nice.

[jhd7]

$400 for a gray NWC1990 (NES). Even tho it was well worth it, I still had the shakes when making out the money order.

Jeff D

[tritium]

.Hack

Bastards made one game and split it into 4 parts. I played the first three paid $150, until I realized I was paying $150 for 3/4 of an game that should be rated a 7. Bastards.

Interesting story, but it shoulda been $50, or $70 tops

Sold my PS2 after that... DCEmulation told me that God kills kittens for Sony....

-Tritium

[imanerd0011]

Jeff d, that is a sweet as deal ! I would have paid almost twice that for it if it was in mint shape.

[GamblinMonkey]

Steel Battalion, brand new. 'nuff said.

[drdrew1469]

$1.06 for Combat (2600) :)
Anyone else remember in the 90's 2600 carts in the Dollar Stores? (the .06 was tax). I really paid too much LOL

[TougherToast]

$200 for Steel Battalion
I also paid $80 for Panzer Dragoon Saga.

[Canadian Psycho]

It just happened a couple weeks ago: I paid $100 for both Suikoden and Suikoden II.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

49.99 plus tax

[m82 dan]

im not sure if this was a bargain or not but i paid £160 for a boxed, sealed version of stack-up early in 2004 at the time the exchange rate meant it was about $300

[izret101]

Per system

XBox $70 bucks for MK: Deception
PS2 $30 Virtua Fighter 4
GCN $50 Animal Crossing
DC $23.99 Sonic Adventure 2
PS $20 Atari Anniversary Edition Redux
N64 $60 Bubble Bobble '99
SNES $10 Star Wars
Genesis $12 Don't remember what game
GBC $3 RType DX and Bomberman Pocket
GB $30 Pokemon games
NES $10-$13 bucks for a bunch of different complete games

[NESaholic]

The most paid for now is FF1, mega mint, incl. ship. $74.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

£250 for each of my Steel Battalions - Both were factory sealed and had their outer boxes too!

I recently bid £250+ on a factory sealed PAL Samba De Amigo, so that would've been my most expensive had I won it...

I also paid a lot of money for my sealed PAL Suikoden!!!

[crisssybwoy]

Most expensive was factory sealed Samba PAL box set for £120 :D

[Beefy Hits]

$400 for a Converted Super Dodge Ball cart for Neo Geo.
Other than that -
$365 for Samurai Shodown 0 Special
$325 for Metal Slug 3
$200 for Metal Slug X
$90 for Panzer Dragoon Saga
$150 Last Blade

[Barbarianoutkast85]

$49.99 for new games for the PS1 and PS2 but on "older" games....I think 20 bucks on a genesis game but i dont recall what it was.

[jasonegitto]

I think the most I have ever paid was something around $50. It was a new game, I think it was Final Fantasy VII. Every other game I own was either old/pre-played or bought for me by someone else.

[shvnsth]

$400 for a complete bubble bath babes

other $$$'s include $300 x-man (r10,$400), $200 calton 6 in 1 complete (r8, $175) and steel battaltion $200

[Biohazard]

I paid about 200 USD for Radiant Silvergun. closest to that would be Panzer Dragoon Saga PAL for about 120 USD.

[MattG/Snyper2099]

Dropped $300 on a flawless Quadrun a few years back.
Paid $200 for a complete 2600 Stronghold this past year.
Paid $200 for a 2600 Color Bar Generator w/instructions (that was a steal!).
Spent $188 on a 2600 River Patrol very recently (another bargain).
Other than that, all I can think of are a bunch of MVS neo geo kits/games I spent anywhere between $100 and $200 each on.
Bought a 2600 Tapper prototype for $150 IIRC. That was the most expensive proto I ever bought.

[Dimitri]

Paid $70 for a loose Chrono Trigger when I noticed it had dropped from $90 at Funcoland...came back a week later and saw another copy for $50, then a month later I saw two for $30 each. :frustrated: I was such a newb back then.

[robotriot]

My top 5 most expensive games so far:

1. Steel Battalion LOC - 130€
2. Great Giana Sisters - 90€
3. Animal Crossing - 59,99€
4. Hybris - 58,13€
5. Fable - 54,99€

I guess I have too much money oO

[nesmaster102]

bubble bobble 2 $70 cdn (complete)
maxi 15 $45 cdn (cart only)

[fennec fox]

At the last CGE I bought Dino Park Tycoon (3DO) for around $200.

I am by no means a 3do collector, but I bought this one for two reasons: (a) I had just gotten a lot of spending money out of the CGE auctions, and (b) Joe swore to me up and down that it's a valuable game. I can't wait until it's 2010 and I can sell it back to Joe for $1000 or something. LOL

[Grim_Reaper_Bostock]

$130 CND for a complete Final Fantasy II. I know it was overpriced, but I really wanted the game!

[Wily]

I guess my most expensive game was Metal Slug 3 JAP homecart short after release for about 500 EUR.

Nowadays I´ll never spend such a large amount of money again for one single game - word!

[vulcanjedi]

Greetings

My most expensive game was bought retail back in 1988

The release price of $79.99 was just way too much so I had to wait till it went on sale. Finally I found a store that was having a sale with all games like 20% off and since the price had came down a little It was $57.99 plus 6% tax. That was after driving 20 miles from my house too!

Know what game I am talking about? Maybe a hint, Master System :)



Yes, till this day I have never paid more that I did for Phantasy Star 1. Most games I buy used. Exception was Tron 2.0 xbox but that was only 40. and the last time I paid 50 for a game in a store was REZ for PS2.
The most I have spent on eBay for a game was $38 total for a new saturn Power Drift .

:)
VJ

[studvicious]

I remember buying Mortal Kombat 3 for the SNES shortly after it came out for $80

[Cmosfm]

I just topped of mine the other day, I spent 120.00 on a sealed gold Legend Of Zelda for NES.

I don't plan to beat that for a while. LOL

[GobopopRevisited]

$54.99 for Halo 2: LCE. Thats right, I'm not crazy ;)

[NintendoMan]

I paid $70 for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time the day it came out. As far as older (than 1990) games go, I paid $15 for Super Dodge Ball for NES.

Why did you have to pay so much? I got mine the same day as you and was only $50.

[NintendoMan]

I just topped of mine the other day, I spent 120.00 on a sealed gold Legend Of Zelda for NES.

I don't plan to beat that for a while. LOL

HELL of a deal!! Where did you get it from? Ebay? Doubt you got it from there, would have gone for 3 times that. Anywho, great find!
Is it in good condtiion?