Much like its older Gameboy and cartridge based siblings, Game Boy Advance prices will vary dramatically between loose cartridges and complete as well as even sealed copies for games. Something to take note of for collectors new to GBA or cartridge collecting in general is the widespread distribution of counterfeit carts for the system. The low cost of materials make it so these carts are easy to pump out. Be sure to do your research before going in on a bigger or more popular purchase for the system.
Much like other classic Nintendo game, we have gradually been seeing stronger demand for complete copies of games in their condition-sensitive cardboard packaging. Below you will see two prices beside each title. The first is the average daily selling price of the bare cartridge.
The second price is the highest price in the past three months which is usually the price for a complete copy. An average price is also shared for a sealed copy if one has sold recently. The list is ordered by the balance of the two prices. Note that some of these games are not rare in the sense that there are not many available, but rare relative to demand, which makes the games expensive. This North American and Japan only release features multi-directional shooter gameplay very similar to the Super Nintendo originals.
It also seems to be one of the hardest games to find in a complete or sealed condition which explains the wider gap between cart-only and complete values. The game was still a relative bargain before , but it started dramatically climbing in value from that point. Developed by Hudson Soft and Published by Konami, Ninja Five-O has one of the Gameboy Advances hardest to come across and highest priced official retail releases in the aftermarket these last decade or so.
Though the Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando and Shinobi-inspired action platformer reviewed positively among critics at the time, its sales, limited advertising and strange release in only the US and PAL territories failed to reflect that. However, the solid combination of old-school gaming inspirations was a major factor in our selection of Ninja Five-O as our top Action pick for our Game Boy Advance Hidden Gems all the way back in Around , things really kicked into gear, and like most titles on this list, a complete boxed copy will run for quite a bit more and the mint cardboard trend becomes a higher priority, but the price of a stand-alone cart is nothing to scoff at either.
Complete copies, as you can imagine are even more elusive. There are very few copies, loose or otherwise, that even show up on eBay. However, die hard Game Boy Advance collectors do also host private sales for items like this and Complete copies have been known to sell privately for many hundreds of dollars. Even European version of Sega Rally are pretty hard to find.
Check for Sega Rally on eBay. While the demon taming and fusing mechanics of the SMT series predate the massively popular Pokemon series by many years, Pokemons success and all ages presentation was hard to ignore at the time. Couple that with middling reviews and two versions Light being the alternate and you end up with Dark Version being the harder game to come by. But a lot of the recent CIB units have been sold in Buy-It-Not listings, so its possible that they could have gone for more in an auction.
Car Battler Joe is another one of those gems that were pretty inexpensive when you could find them. Though Joe saw a release on the Wii U Virtual Console, prices on both the cart and boxed copies have stayed strong.
The Gameboy Advance was surprisingly home to a handful of first person shooter games that pushed the system to its limit in many regards. Despite it being a positive technical showcase for the system, the game reviewed rather average due to its rather generic design and premise. It was reported that the game was originally supposed to be a tie-in to the Al Pacino and Colin Farrell film The Recruit but this fell through, most likely resulting in the game turning out the way it did.
Super high demand. Pokemon is a popular franchise, the games are fun, and now that Gen 1 and 2 games are entering the "nostalgia zone" it's rising in price Same reason why Zelda games are ridiculously expensive.
The game was worth every penny. Current spike is probably due to the new one for the switch being advertised. I've noticed each time a new Pokemon comes out the older ones get a bump in price for a while. Game Boy games are generally one step above junk-tier prices here aside from rare things like Akumajou Dracula Dark Night Prelude Just to rub some mixture of wasabi and pepper spray into this I remembered I replied to this last year about Pokemon.
Someone brought up the GB pricing problem and so on with the Pokemon games again yesterday or day before on another site and I had pasted this whopper of a jump. There is no reason at all for this other than sheer stupidity mixed with free money being thrown around. How's this make you feel sick to your stomach?
If the paste isn't showing well due to sizes. Why so much on a game that was the most printed title on GB outside of like Tetris?! Other stuff is just as ignorant Pokemon is now poke-crack habit.
I only hope as this stupidity expands it finally breaks the so called 'it is not a bubble' people say about the sustained pricing abuse on old games. This WILL drive off all but the most deep pocketed and stupid of collectors. I think prices are up across a lot of different popular series. It is, but Pokemon is the one getting the most abused at least from the Nintendo side of the fence at least.
It really sucks, but no, it's not isolated to Pokemon as it's far more wide spread and aggravating. I'm hoping it's not long term as it'll really aggravate me if these crooks have ruined the last Nintendo system not to get exploited to hell and back. So it's not even the expensive ones taking the hit, it's the spectrum of it now. I do like to have the CIB copies if possible, but most of the time I just want to play the game so a cartridge or disc is good enough. As you even said there are huge numbers, millions of copies of each release out there, doubled down when you figure some just overlap for that trade factor.
I think the fears aren't so much a some, but a large fact when the recent irrational surge beyond what would be seen as normal. I don't like VGPC as they're not accurate not accounting for partial completeness, condition, etc, but still when a game has k copies or millions, it won't scatter too far.
And looking at the line graph on anything a game would have been in to into , it's looney tunes. It makes me reflect back to the arguing back in those NA days and I'm thinking around User Info: Element My guess would be supply and demand. As for the price, it's almost a decade old, so buy used.
Why bother making a signature? User Info: Sxmfct. User Info: butterball Check profile for contacts. More topics from this board Where do i go after i defeat the 4th gym leader? It fetches an astronomical price if it's new but it's still not enough to topple its Golden counterpart. This is barely a game, but it was a console release so we're including it. Aside from storage, it could also be used to trade Pokemon between the two versions.
This one's high value comes down to the fact that it was only available from select locations and only a handful of units were ever produced. There's also a caveat here. Ho-Oh makes another appearance on our list, and this time it's even more prominent. Not only is this the revamped edition of the original Gold version for the Nintendo DS, but this particular entry comes with a collectible Ho-Oh figurine.
It even featured primitive animation and recorded reactions, and had mood swings. This was pretty major stuff two and a half decades ago. A new-in-box version goes for a lot. This version's higher value could be attributed to the fact that players were able to catch both legendary Pokemon Groudon and Kyogre as well as Rayquaza, with that not being possible in this generation's initial entries.
Everything about the Red version of Pokemon is iconic. Not only is its mascot, Charizard, unarguably one of the most popular Pokemon of all time among fans, but its titular protagonist would go on to star in a number of comics and animated spinoffs.
This would make him almost as popular a character as Ash Ketchum himself.
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