Old Video Games That Are Now Worth A Fortune

I was at a retro video game store/exchange today. Examining all the old video games on the shelf that I owned, rented, or played at a friends house, I was completely floored to see that some of the games I rented from the video store are now worth well over $200!

Collectors are paying top dollar for old video games.

Megaman 7 and Megaman X3 cartridges for the SNES were selling for $260 a piece! I rented those games from the video store on the weekends after I got my homework done. Looking back I deeply regret never purchasing them when I had the chance when they were cheap. Apparently not very many cartridges were made of these games, and they are very rare. They were among the last games made for the SNES as it was being phased out by newer consoles.

Duck Tales 2 for the NES is going for $190, and I remember borrowing that one from my childhood friend many years ago. It's also a very rare game. I hope he still has it for his sake.

I'm very thankful my siblings and I never got rid of our old video games and consoles. I think the most valuable game we still own is the Zelda Ocarina of Time (Gold edition) on N64. This version was the earliest release that had Gannon coughing up red blood, had imagry of the Islamic moon and star, and one of the levels had an Islamic prayer as part of the stage music. All that stuff was taken out for the later releases. Now if only I still had the damn box that the game was packaged in. Having the box and instruction book adds a lot more value to your game apparently.

 

was there only the one gold ocarina cartridge?

 

nvm..i just checked mine and its grey ...just the label is gold...i also have the book and box but i suppose grey are common and not worth much

 

several years ago when i had a used game store nearby, i used to browse the old NES games occasionally. i noticed almost all of them were one or two dollars, but a couple of them (i think legend of zelda was one, and i forget what else) were always something like $40.

at one point all of my games were stolen by a heroin addict. i caught him and his grandma paid me to buy back almost all of them, but i never was able to re-purchase resident evil 2 because it's always priced like a brand new current generation game for some reason.

 

Yeah, old games have really shot up in price over the past 5-6 years, there's so many people getting into retro game collecting now. My father has collected old video games for...well, before is was even born. Growing up around this stuff is the reason why I enjoy older games. He does not actively collect today, and certainly did not collect because he thought they would ever have value. I would not be surprised if his collection would be worth at least $100,000 today.

 

Grey is worth more then gold it's less common. But neither is worth much.

 

i never really had much worth anything when i was younger game wise....ive got 13 different consoles and hardly any games for them

 

I have a box with 30ish NES games in a box in the basement. I should probably see if any are worth anything.

 

I don't think that's accurate. At least for the Ocarina of Time. Then again there might be some gold carts that aren't the limited collector's edition.

We'll certainly at least one of those consoles has collector value. Shouldn't it?

Dang I don't think I even have half that many in my NES game library. There's bound to be a few good ones in your collection.

 

I still have Ocarina of time too, if it is worth money to a retro gamer I would sell it right away! I had a lot of fun with it but I'm not a collector (let someone else have fun with it and gimme the money ). I am pretty sure the machine to play it on is broken though. I should check some time so I can toss it out or sell it.

Too bad those old analog tv's aren't turning into collector items

 

ive got 3 n64's

ive got 15 nes games, 4 super famicom games(yes you can make them work in american super nintendos) an atari 5200 game of which i have no system to play it on , 5 or 6 psx games, one gamecube game, 7 physical copies of ps4 games, 1 gameboy game and ive been burning sega cd iso's to cd-r's and they work perfectly in my sega cd

 

Wait a few more years and they might be. You can't play old games on flat screens and as the years pass more and more old TV's will break or be thrown away.

 

That would be cool, and I can see the logic behind it but I looked around to see what I could get for my old tv and found out people were giving theirs away for free

So other people aren't seeing it otherwise they would be saving them up too.

 

Yes I'm holding on to my old 32 inch CRT television just to be able to play old school consoles. They aren't worth anything now, but i can anticipate their value climbing up very gradually. Even the early primitive TVs from the 1940s, are becoming worth something as antiques.

 

Hmmm, I think I may have 60-70 or so NES games around.
Think I may even have some copies of Super Mario Bros 3 unopened, those might be worth a buck or two.


hope they didn't get thrown out.
also might have some sega games laying around somewhere......

 

I still have mine as well, because nobody wanted it for €30

I can see those early tv's that are becoming antique indeed are worth money now (to collectors). But I doubt it will count for those newer ones, unless of course they are the only tv's to properly work with 80's, 90's and '00 consoles! And people in the future still wanna play those... But I too think there always will be those retro gamers....
So the smart thing to do is to go and pick up all those free analog tv's from the 80's and 90's that lots of people want to get rid of nowadays, store them well and just wait it out Hmm if I would have the room I might actually do it.

 

If you have Mario 3 unopened it should be worth at least $200, even more depending on condition.


Speaking of Mario 3, is was my night yesterday.

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Best one i had was dragonball for ps1. At one time they were hitting $200. I dont think they are that high anymore though.

 

Unbelievable. Although I find anything regarding Dragonball z and popularity quite unbelievable and lack a complete understanding regarding this franchise...

 

I had a friend that liked Safety Man. The story of the adventures of a crash test dummy. People will follow any story.