The Most Expensive Items in Your Collection of Games

[Nz17]

I couldn't find a good existing topic for this, so I created a new one. What are the priciest, most valuable games in your collection?

Extra credit: What is the approximate value of your entire collection (software and hardware) in US dollars? Is it enough to retire with?

The most expensive game I had (as far as I was aware) was a complete, mint copy of Shantae for the Game Boy Color. I sold it on eBay for $688.89 during December 2017. Not too bad for a game for which I only paid about $20 or $30 in 2003!

[Aussie2B]

I definitely don't know the total value of my collection, and I'm not even sure I know my single most valuable game since it seems like I can never keep up with how values are changing. For a long time, I've figured it's my CIB Zenki for PC-FX. I thought it was worth around $200-$300, but looking at eBay, the only sold one recently went for $900. I don't know if that's a fluke or if it can consistently pull in that much. I've also got a CIB Zeroigar for PC-FX, Harvest Moon with the manual for SNES (no box, though, which I regrettably threw away myself back in the day), EVO with the box for SNES (no manual in this case, but at least I'm not the one who tossed it), a complete Chrono Trigger for SNES (well, minus the tray and generic inserts, but I could just as well pull those from another game), a loose Gun-Nac for NES, a CIB Goemon's Great Adventure for N64, and probably a bunch of others that are dancing around the $200 or $300 mark, give or take. A bunch of these I didn't even know were so valuable until relatively recently, so I wouldn't be remotely surprised if there are other games in my collection that I think are worth a few bucks or a few dozen tops, only to actually be worth $100+. So that's why I'm unsure what's truly the most valuable in my collection.

[Natty Bumppo]

I really don't follow the value of stuff very closely (mostly because I had acquired most of my collection long before it became collectible) - probably my most valuable thing is a copy of earth bound with the box, guide and manual. But I have a lot of other now valuable pieces such as the 4 dragon force discs and all seven of the lunars silver star (sega cds). And for most of the consoles I do have I have almost all of the rpgs. With the exception of the gameboy* formats everything I have has the manuals, maps, boxes etc that they came with.

*I got into the gameboy stuff late since I didn't get into it until the SNES converter came out - and the advance and color ones when the gameboy player came out - being a bitch kitty to get boxes - I do have manuals for all of them except a few things like trip world and amazing tater.

No idea of the total value of things - even a lot of my guides are now scary valuable.

[mailman187666]

My most valuable are probably Panzer Dragoon Saga (paid $160), Burning Rangers (paid under $40), Magic Knight Rayearth (paid $50), and Saturn Bomberman (paid $50). I bought all these in the late 2000s to early 2010s before prices went insane. I used to want to go for a complete US Saturn collection, but after looking what I had left to buy to do that, it's mostly filler at this point. I'd still buy that "filler' if I found it at reasonable prices, but I don't actively want to at current prices.

For the bonus question, I don't have my entire collection valued out, but a few systems I do:

Saturn = $8400
3DO = $1245
PS4 = around $2000 (will probably decline as some of the games get older)

Which reminds me, I need to get back to pricing out the rest of my collection

[Cornelius]

Like many of you, I haven't kept up with prices and have no idea the total value. Most likely would be the Star Force prototype, but Rescue Rangers 2 is up there. I don't have anything like Samson or Bubble bath babes. Other than those it is probably some CIB stuff I'm not too aware of. Polar Rescue on Vec used to go for a bit, and I have that CIB. Then there's stuff like N64 Snowboard Kids 2. That Rule of Rose I picked up the other day would make the list, but if I'd had it in the collection for years I probably wouldn't have known. PS1 stuff like Lunar and Suikoden 2 might make it? I wonder what Gamecube prices are doing these days...

[Gameguy]

I really don't know at this point as a lot of values changed and I haven't checked everything regularly to keep track. A lot of expensive games I've already sold off for far less than what they're now going for, including a loose Gun-Nac for $20 and an almost complete Action 52(missing the comic) for about $46. This seems more like a Nintendo Age type of question honestly. Not even focusing on the rarity, just the pure dollar value.

[Natty Bumppo]

........ EVO with the box for SNES (no manual in this case, but at least I'm not the one who tossed it).....

The dumb thing about that one is that the manual is just a single double sided page folded up. I scared myself several years ago when I thought I had lost the manual - I forgot that it was one page and I had put in a flat vinyl holder with my game maps and posters (keeps them from damage being folded/unfolded and stuffed in/out of boxes).