Unopened Super Mario 64 game from 1996 sells for $1.56M


I bought Street Trash on VHS about a year ago for $85 which at the time was a good deal. Now look at it, anywhere from $150-$300
 
A lot of people do have a lot of extra money right now. You're seeing this same pattern in a lot of other areas.

I take it as a sign that there's a major economic event coming. Prices will continue to skyrocket, the more available money there is in circulation. And that can't continue forever.
 
A lot of people do have a lot of extra money right now. You're seeing this same pattern in a lot of other areas.

I take it as a sign that there's a major economic event coming. Prices will continue to skyrocket, the more available money there is in circulation. And that can't continue forever.
I'm hoping that not every single hobby/collector's market I like is tainted forever, but that remains to be seen.
 
I remember seeing a giant jump in some items overnight practically. Look up Dogma on DVD for instance. The one I remember the clearest was a game by the name of Ivy the Kiwi for the Wii, which was selling for like 15 bucks for years sealed. Then over the matter of a week all copies, used/new disappeared and people started setting the price at 50 dollars, 60 dollars, 70 dollars on and on.

Of course crashes do happen. PS1 games had a brief crash say 5 to 6 years ago. Suikoden went from like 80-120 to 40 to 50. Suikoden 2 went from like 200-300 to like 120-150. Now they are way up again, good luck with Suikoden 2 at the moment.

Luckily VCS games are still dirt cheap.
 
VHS tapes for $200 plus? I never want to own a crappy video tape ever again. Madness.

Sealed Nintendo DS games have also skyrocketed. I bought some on $5 clearance when the DS was on its way out and left them in a box unopened due to having a hacked console. These are now selling for $180 or more. Crazy stuff. Who buys this crap, especially common games and VHS tapes whose only unique characteristic is that they are sealed?
 
I should've kept my sealed copy of NES Super Mario Bros. 2 I just sold for a few more years.
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For my future self, if this is worth way more now: Please kick yourself.
 
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I don't have any games graded and I don't care to either. I like to hold them. Caress them. Play them. And show them off sometimes. I was offered $5,000 for one of my PS1 games and I said NO! MINE! ALL MINE!!

Fly
 
That chart also is weird. I'm going to guess that the most expensive PlayStation game is LSD.
 
Supposedly only about 50 were made and I have a rare variant of it. With documentation showing that I won it in their $10,000 contests in 1999.

It's the Elemental Gearbolt Assassins Case.

Fly
 
It's also kind of interesting to see variants of common games like MK3 and SF3 go for so high. Granted I'm surprised that a Jewel case variant of MK3 even exists given that UKM3 would have already been out and that was more popular. SFs variant is more interesting however as it's art was cancelled/changed because of 911. There is likely very few of that variant, definitely more than that Gearbolt edition though. Probably is a legit "I can set whatever price I want" title right there, as even the standard game is quite high due to Working Designs uh, business practices.

Stir the pot a lil mo with another video that popped up in my feed.


Also apparently the dudes who encase these things in plastic and grade them were from Nintendoage, given the rather Nintendo centric nature of this. We aren't seeing any Daytona online's being grades it looks like for instance
 
Got me to thinking, I have an unopened snes super mario rpg and yoshi's island both still in the original shrink wrap. Paid around $20 in the late 90's when toys r us was blowing them out. Should have gotten multiple copies along with kirby super star iirc they had that as well. I see super mario rpg going on ebay used or open with box for $200-$300, unopened for much more
 
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