View Full Version : Please help me find the value/rarity of this in box game!!!!
smokehouse
03-17-2006, 10:34 PM
Ok, the only other time I have ever asked help of the DP members concerning rarity and price was for my Japanese Final Fantasy Collection for the PS1. I need your help again!
I am completing my Super Mario in box collection and needed a Super Mario World in box. I swore I remembered seeing this game sold separately back in the day and wanted a copy. I did a search on eBay and found an auction. I sniped it and won it for $11. Here’s what I got today:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/smokehouse/Video%20gaming/SMW_1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/smokehouse/Video%20gaming/SMW_2.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/smokehouse/Video%20gaming/SMW_3.jpg
Ok, first thing is the “for display only” on the front which s strange but ok with me. Second, it has a factory seal on it. Granted, it has been slit open but this thing was sealed at one point? If it was for display only what would it have been sealed? Lastly, after looking up some box scans it seems this one has different in game pictures on the back, is this a different production run?
The game is complete with manual and all the Nintendo pack in junk but I’m confused. Is this a rare item? (I know, in this age that word is throw around quite a bit). If so is it worth anything? I’m not looking to sell it but a value would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
smokehouse
03-17-2006, 11:25 PM
Anyone have any help/info on this one?
sisko
03-17-2006, 11:31 PM
Who was the seller?
More specifically, do you have a link?
smokehouse
03-17-2006, 11:41 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8264741076&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
PapaStu
03-18-2006, 12:49 AM
Not being a SNES expert by any means, but when I see any of those 'For Display' boxes I immedately thing of the boxes that are on gamestore shelves promoting the game before it comes out. With a notation on the front of the box touting the 90sumptin levels and stuff is meant as a draw to get people to buy the game and usually isnt on the front of the actual box art.
I bet that the UPC is a pre-order code as well and doesn't match the regular releases UPC.
I remember display boxes being sealed like that back in the day, and sitting on peg hooks on the walls of game stores, but I have no clue as to it being something that Nintendo did, or something that the game store did.
sisko
03-18-2006, 02:48 AM
Yeah, the auction lists it as preowned, and I'm willing to bet that you got a re-sealed copy.
Putting the vertical seam on the back isn't a terribly difficult thing to do.
Darth Sensei
03-18-2006, 07:58 AM
Anyone have any help/info on this one?
You couldn't hold your wad for even an hour? :roll:
smokehouse
03-18-2006, 08:04 AM
Anyone have any help/info on this one?
You couldn't hold your wad for even an hour? :roll:
Now that's helpful, share some more of your wisdom with me oh wise one.
By the time I had posted that over 50 people had looked at the thread, that's why I asked.
Drexel923
03-18-2006, 09:28 AM
Thats definitely a reseal.
SMW was sold by itself in a regular box and a PC box. The regular box is hard to track down though.
The guy just took one of the normal display boxes (which you can find all over eBay) and stuck the game in it. Heck, he probably even took a cheap sealed game and used the shrink from it to try and make it look real. Just trying to get more money for a common game.
smokehouse
03-18-2006, 09:40 AM
I look at it this way, I paid $11. I know the game os as common as it gets and I'll probably land up pulling the plastic off the box (it's on display now). I was just wondering how hard it was to find a box like that.
Drexel923
03-18-2006, 09:50 AM
I look at it this way, I paid $11. I know the game os as common as it gets and I'll probably land up pulling the plastic off the box (it's on display now). I was just wondering how hard it was to find a box like that.
Like I said, you can find the boxes all over eBay. Well at least you used to be able to (I can't find any of the auctions at the moment). But the box is super common...usually you will find them in lots with Super Metroid, Mario Kart, MArio RPG, etc.
The same seller even has one of the lots (with no SMW box, but he probably took it out to put in the auction you won)...
http://cgi.ebay.com/16-NEW-Super-Nintendo-Original-Display-Box-Collection_W0QQitemZ8267717681QQcategoryZ3592QQcmd ZViewItem
Yeah anything with "display only" is a reseal, those games never came with boxes like that, I have a couple I bought off a guy, they make great replaments and fill holes in your completes collection if you have any.
Jibbajaba
03-18-2006, 02:44 PM
I think the fact that when you got it, it was shrinkwrapped and then cut open, but the eBay auction shows a box with no shrinkwrap on it means that it was either a reseal, or he slipped the shrinkwrap off of another box and put it on that one. And the box itself was probably a display box like PapaStu said. Now in my opinion, that makes it kind of cooler. Plus that is a freakin awesome game. So for $11, you can't complain either way.
Chris
smokehouse
03-18-2006, 03:22 PM
I think the fact that when you got it, it was shrinkwrapped and then cut open, but the eBay auction shows a box with no shrinkwrap on it means that it was either a reseal, or he slipped the shrinkwrap off of another box and put it on that one. And the box itself was probably a display box like PapaStu said. Now in my opinion, that makes it kind of cooler. Plus that is a freakin awesome game. So for $11, you can't complain either way.
Chris
Bingo, for $11 you won't hear me complain. The box is perfect and really, that's all I wanted to begin with.