Game & Watches on Pawn Stars

[pollmonster]

http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-st...s-guns-blazing

Starts at 6:32

It was cool to see these on the show.

[VertigoProcess]

I remember they had a 2600 on the show once too

[markusman64ds]

And a Virtual Boy.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

The seller wanting $500 is way off. (Which is pretty typical of Pawn Stars)

Most of those games are $40-$50 titles.

That lot is worth about $300 HIGH END ESTIMATE. $200 from the store is a good call if they want to make a profit.

The boxed Donkey Kong is a small gem in that set but the box is in pretty poor shape and it's a common vertical screen game in that set.

There's also a non-Nintendo LCD in there that I couldn't identify.

[Collector_Gaming]

i would take the gun personally..

that thing is bad ass!!!!

[treismac]

$100 a piece, eh?

As awesome as those old handheld LCD Nintendo games are, I can't see paying over $10 for one if it weren't still brand new in the box, wrapped in glistening cellophane. I understand that the collectibility of retro video games keeps the market/supply of them alive as opposed to people just "shit canning" making it next to impossible to find any retro video games, but it still strikes me as a shame sometimes that old children's toys can cost so damn much. I wonder if one day the retro video game "market" will crash like baseball cards did. If it does, at least I will still very much enjoy the toys I paid too much for, which is way more than I can say for my childhood baseball card collection. Speaking of which, anyone wanna trade video games for baseball cards???

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

$100 a piece, eh?

As awesome as those old handheld LCD Nintendo games are, I can't see paying over $10 for one if it weren't still brand new in the box, wrapped in glistening cellophane. I understand that the collectibility of retro video games keeps the market/supply of them alive as opposed to people just "shit canning" making it next to impossible to find any retro video games, but it still strikes me as a shame sometimes that old children's toys can cost so damn much. I wonder if one day the retro video game "market" will crash like baseball cards did. If it does, at least I will still very much enjoy the toys I paid too much for, which is way more than I can say for my childhood baseball card collection. Speaking of which, anyone wanna trade video games for baseball cards???

The Donkey Kong with the box might fetch $100 if it had the styrofoam, battery compartment was clean, had the battery door and was cosmetically in good shape.

The loose games are worth all of half that.

The reason that Game & Watch LCDs tend to fetch more because they were made by Nintendo and feature IPs and charaters that they continue to use today. Also unlike a lot of the LCD game dreck from that era in the case of most of the Game & Watch brand games, they're highly amusing/playable.

[Collector_Gaming]

$100 a piece, eh?

As awesome as those old handheld LCD Nintendo games are, I can't see paying over $10 for one if it weren't still brand new in the box, wrapped in glistening cellophane. I understand that the collectibility of retro video games keeps the market/supply of them alive as opposed to people just "shit canning" making it next to impossible to find any retro video games, but it still strikes me as a shame sometimes that old children's toys can cost so damn much. I wonder if one day the retro video game "market" will crash like baseball cards did. If it does, at least I will still very much enjoy the toys I paid too much for, which is way more than I can say for my childhood baseball card collection. Speaking of which, anyone wanna trade video games for baseball cards???

Well i think it just goes with the classic "i'll give you this for this" kinda treat ment. Only we are dealing with actual dollars vs sheep these days.

[treismac]

Also unlike a lot of the LCD game dreck from that era in the case of most of the Game & Watch brand games, they're highly amusing/playable.

Aye. I can attest to that fact, Frankie. Once upon a time, I use to have the Nintendo Cement Factory Game, which was pretty damn awesome for a LCD game. Tiger Games, on the other hand, were pretty far from awesome. Of all of my childhood stuff that my father threw thoughtlessly away, I don't mourn the loss of my Tiger handheld electronics all that much.

Oh... I coincidentally ran across this picture of an incredible collection of Nintendo Game & Watches on beforemario.com.

[Greg2600]

I too saw that episode the other night. I doubt they thought to check if the LCD screens displayed all the screens without having any missing. I like the experts they have on that show too, particularly the museum guy with the hat, and the gun expert. The hand writing expert is often wrong if you ask me. It may have been the same episode where the guy had a racing tire signed by the late Dale Earnhardt. The signature and how the guy had it signed jived with what I know, because I sent things in for him to sign back in the 90's as well. Cards and a photo, not a tire though!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Aye. I can attest to that fact, Frankie. Once upon a time, I use to have the Nintendo Cement Factory Game, which was pretty damn awesome for a LCD game. Tiger Games, on the other hand, were pretty far from awesome. Of all of my childhood stuff that my father threw thoughtlessly away, I don't mourn the loss of my Tiger handheld electronics all that much.

Oh... I coincidentally ran across this picture of an incredible collection of Nintendo Game & Watches on beforemario.com.

That is indeed a complete Game & Watch collection.

That little yellow one in the Mr. Famicom Disk box (Super Mario Bros. special Famicom Disk Prize Edition) is worth THOUSANDS. Single rarest G&W item.

[Drixxel]

Man, that display case photo reminded me that I used to have one of those Popeye tabletop units. That thing was a lot of fun, it's a pity that my childhood self foolishly unloaded it at garage sale.

[Aussie2B]

I somehow was lucky and caught that episode, even though I almost never watch Pawn Stars anymore. I wonder if it'll have any effect on G&W demand/values. But at least they didn't totally overshoot the value like with the Atari and Virtual Boy.