The most expen$ive retro titles of all time.

Jon (guest) said:
I was lucky enough to get Panzer Dragoon Saga for £70 when game station still sold retro games. Worth every penny.

Given the rarity of the game, I have to ask this - did you get it in the GameStation in Watford? I saw it there for that exact price four or five years ago.

Jon (guest) said:
Darxide for the 32x is 1 of the rarest i've heard of, it was only released in europe at the end of the 32x's short life and goes for £1000 and up.

That's well ridiculous. You deserve to be shot if you drop a grand on a computer game. £40 is bad enough!

I've seen several SNES RPGs go anywhere from $80 to $135, these include Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Final Fantasy 4 & 6, Secret of Evermore & the Mana series, Illusion of Gaia as well as it's sequal Terranigma...try looking up the Lufia games on SNES as well.

I've heard the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on the one SNES cartridge is worth around $600 or more.

My loose Chrono Trigger cartridge cost me around £40 (can't remember the exact amount). I feel like a mug even paying that much for it.

I'm not familiar with that lingo...Mug=Sucker/taken advantage of?

Yeah, that's basically it.

So by loose you mean it's out of the box? That's actually not to terrible for Chrono Trigger in that condition.

As in - all I have is the cartridge. No box or anything, just the cart.

It's interesting i don't think i have ever paid out my arse for a rare retro game, i would like to say a fair few of my games have appreciated in value since owning and could imagine a fair few Wii ones could appreciate as well.

Here is my collection of games that i think "could" be worth something to some lonely geek in 50 years time, have in mind that while some of these games are common i have boxes (Good/mint) and instructions aside for the ones *'ed;

N64
Mario Kart 64
No Mercy
Conkers Bad Fur Day
Majoras Mask
Perfect Dark
Mario Tennis*

Dreamcast

Soul Calibur
Crazy Taxi 2
Dead or Alive 2

GB/GBA

Metroid 2*
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Fire Emblem
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Sonic Advance 2
Sonic Advance 3
Mario Kart Super Circuit

Gamecube

Ikaruga
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Game boy player

Wii

Tatsunoko VS Capcom
Sin and Punishment
Metroid Prime Trilogy (Sealed)
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn

Granted i know some of these won't fetch more than the going RRP of time of release, and some of them are definitely more common but given time i think some of these games would be worth a buck or two. I think all Official Nintendo games go for a good quid or two somewhere down the road.

I think that now in the world of downloads (Virtual Console,arcade etc) that some games would depreciate, but it wouldn't stop those collectors!

As for that Video Game Values site i would like to say that is a great site, problem with me is that its for the NTSC market so PAL copies could be more/less depending.

If you were going to get a game right now that could be worth something i would say it would be xenoblade chronicles, if you see it cheap i would pick it up for the sake of it!

( Edited 13.03.2012 22:41 by Flynnie )