INSANE Video Game Auction Prices
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2020
- $114K for Super Mario Bros.! $19K for Goldeneye! $50K for Punch-Out! We run down the latest crazy sealed game auction prices.
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What do you think about some of these game prices? Are they justified long term or is this just a speculative FOMO bubble at this point? Star Voyager!!!!
Pat you nes punk lol love the show
Out of sheer speculation, do you see the value of Super Donkey-Punch appreciating or depreciating in value?
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A few will go up a lot. Most will decline within a decade. That Super Mario Bros will go up. I could see the rarest copies going for a half of a million by 2025.
Have you considered this mite just be money laundering pat?
I don't care about graded games. They do not look as good on a shelf. With that said, many people value these old games and their paper boxes/manuals as we move into the digital age and things continue to change drastically. With that said, these recent price spikes are suspicious.
I'm getting the impression that selling and buying of sealed graded games at insane prices is a money laundering scheme...
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Agreed
It's very damaging in my opinion to the overall pricing of retro games that we play.
there's better way to do that .. just buy gold lol
I agree.
'Put that money in your 401K.' More educated words could not have been spoken...
I’m more of a ROTH IRA guy.
@@ChokeslamToHell Yes, I just know so many millionaire and multimillionaire friends who forgo their 401K's to invest in collectibles. Oh wait, no they don't!
Game worth $100 cib... $113900 worth of cellophane! Lol!!
Mr. Videogames Just doesn’t make any sense. Same with record collectors buying sealed vinyl. Lots of “resealed” fakes out there. Not a wise investment.
There’s a very genuine explanation for this....someone has figured out time travel and is retrieving these old games to make money now...
😂🤣😀
I thought that too but the money wouldn't line up....tha5s why they keep changing the way money looks...because of the time traveling
Get VAN DAMME ON THE CASE
This is clearly a speculative bubble in the making, sell your sealed games while you can to take advantage of these wealthy idiots who don't know what to do with their cash.
i do think sealed games will have value regardless , it WILL go down because i think more and more will start showing up, but they will have value more so than a non sealed
There's no bubble to burst if the buyer and the seller are working together, or are even the same person.
Pat's "good friend" Tim Atwood probably has boxes of these in his garage.
Miyamoto is probably laughing his ass off at these crazy people paying this much, for a game Nintendo might still have pallets of somewhere in their warehouses...
I don't think Nintendo would have any of these still sitting around anymore. They've most likely long since been discarded. However, it is entirely possible that there are several dozens of real collectors that have held onto these games over the decades. We really don't know and we can't know until it comes to the surface.
@@dontegraves5051 We need that Indiana Jones warehouse reveal with all the minty treasures in crates just waiting to be gazed at!
@@dontegraves5051 Considering I work in a warehouse I can pretty much guarantee its entirely possible there is pallets of games sitting around in some warehouse affiliated with Nintendo, or under the Nintendo umbrella. Things get moved around in distribution, put into a corner because its in the way, collects dust and is forgotten about. I found a jet engine from the 1950's at work hidden under a cover since the 1990's.
Don’t forget about that story about Nintendo giving an elderly lady a brand new still sealed 1989 GameBoy because her old one broke and she didn’t want to have to learn how to use a DS. I guarantee they have a warehouse full of their old stuff
games have gone way up in price since those stimulus checks arrived.
This is insanity.
Literally just a second or two before Pat said "hundreds" in reference to the amount of sealed Goldeneye games still out there sitting in sealed cases.... I said "hundreds of em". There has to be anywhere between 20 and 30 sealed cases sitting around with however many came in a case of N64 games (6?). Literally the first time someone realizes they have a case of these, that cracks the case and has each game graded... this price will hit the floor. Maybe some of the cases got a little crushed on one side or something... maybe 3 of the 6 don't get good grades... but they have to be dozens of these that if found and graded would be similar examples.
The SMB3 thing... I mean my god... there has to be thousands of these... hundreds upon hundreds still sitting in sealed master cartons. I can see a little more value in REV 0 where the names of the stages were changed, and other minor things.. but not huge amounts.
Sealed atari 2600 games... I mean comon.. pac man was so wildly popular, it might have even MORE sealed examples lying around than even SMB3
These prices are not really justified in terms of the rarity or significance of the item. I could see maybe pristene exmples of like test market sealed NES games going for big bucks... but none of this stuff.
This is an example of big money coming into the domain, that do not fully understand it. These prices are all anywhere from majorly inflated to just outright nuts.
FF7 is another example of a game that had the greatest hits designation, meaning it sold a crap top of original copies before it got re released as a greatest hit, and that sold crap tons of copies. There are thousands of those still out there sealed.
Nothing more than rich people putting a dollar amount on their nostalgia. Some millionaire out there grew up playing Donky Kong on Intellevision. The "insane" part isn't that somebody with a boat load of money bought it. The insane part is the economy is SO unbalanced that there are people in the world who CAN afford to do this while others struggle just to pay their bills.
Meanwhile i'm cool with a repro-cart or Emulation, BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT THE GAME, AND NOT A CARDBOARD BOX.
It's 90's comic books all over again.
Same, I have a lot of original consoles and a CRT because I love the old school experience but I use flash carts or run games off a hard drive. I actually sold all the games I had except for a few that are important to me, I have no interest in collecting anymore.
I like the boxes, but will by repro ones for the rarer stuff. Since it will only ever be for my own use, there's no harm.
I collect loose because I don't care about the box and I save a ton of money. I only emulate the overpriced shit.
I care too about the cover art, the box and manual, even old magazines in which I read reviewed games I loved even if I hadn't the money to buy; because it's a part of the ritual, the fond memories of my childhood, and I don't think you should make fun of it using caps and talking about 'cardboards', just because you don't care. You make your point, but could have been a little more thoughtful.
Yeah who cares about the box. And I never buy a loose game over $80. For everything else there's the Everdrive.
Why not list that Pac-Man game on the auction, that would make a fun premiere.
I agree, that would be a great punk move. B-)
I can only imagine the rush that retro game stores are gonna get with people bringing in boxes of non rare NES games and then get pissed when they are offered $50 for the entire box. "THAT JUST SOLD FOR $100,000 ON EBAY!!! THIS STUFF IS WORTH AT LEAST 10K!"
imagen if you had to pay 20% fee on ebay items
Then Ian says this is a Luna store not eBay ma'am.
19k for goldeneye? WTF
Wonder how much my cartridge only copy is worth 🤔
@@leecroft7311 30 bucks
It's called child trafficking. Look up Wayfair and see what I'm talking about.
100Bucks the Wayfair actually have some proof behind that. This has no proof whatsoever and you just saying that is pure speculation without proof.
Jasonovian But a sealed boxed copy is going for 19k... lol
aw bruh. was they.....SEEEEEEEEEALED !!!???!
The vaaaaaluuue!
My Father gifted me a SMB3 after a business trip. Precious Memories for a 9-year-old in 1989.
People are looking for safe places to put their money in these uncertain times. Banks pay next to 0% interest on savings and the Stock Market is an unpredictable roller coaster. So people put their money in physical items that grow in value - precious metals, real estate, classic cars and collectibles.
Plz keep this going this is very enjoyable to watch
Someone on a facebook group was selling a sealed Yoshi's Island with the hangtag on it for like $4k
"How much would you pay for framed paintings? $4.00? $4.00!" -Crazy Eddie
Crazy Eddie was huge here in NYC. “HIS PRICES ARE INSAAAANE”
like comics, once it all bubbles out, it's really only those first early editions which will matter.
I have a sealed copy of Mike Tyson's Ear Biter.
I like how Pat gave 3 reasons for justifying some of these prices. Pac Man checks the two most important boxes and has kept its value because of it and hes still surprised even though it meets his criteria
It doesn't meet the criteria. The game is ASS common even sealed and that is a terrible version of the game. And it hasn't "kept its value" -- the most valuable copy that was sold on the auction house was the first one. The others all have gone for far less and it will continue to fall as more come on the market.
I think his point was that they made so many copies of the game that it wasn't rare enough to be worth that much. He even says he found a sealed copy for only a few bucks once.
Love the Crazy Eddie reference, I remember watching those commercials on WOR on cable here in Chicago
The best part of all of these crazy auctions is that they in no way really affect actual open and loose game prices, thankfully. Only speculators and people who really took damn good care of their games could really sell into this market. This market is legit wallet suicide unless you're smart enough to buy in early and sell out as fast as you can.
I love that people pay these prices. I don’t pay any more than £10 for a retro game and £50 for a console. I don’t really care if it’s boxed, let alone sealed, just as long as it works and it’s fun to play
Honestly, Pat should just get his best stuff graded and sold to build a nest egg and then just get buy it back once this market crashes. If fools want to spend money, let them.
Mike Tysons punch out 50k GTFOOH.
There are many cases of sealed Pac-Man Atari 2600 games out there. A fool and his money...
No kidding. They made millions of that game. It wouldn't surprise me if there are hundreds still sealed out there.
Something just doesnt smell right with these prices, especially with the 2600 games. Theres gotta be something more to this, like people selling stuff back and forth, some kinda of money laundering, something cuz these prices just do not make sense. Pac Man 2600 is one of the most common games on any console. Im sure theres PLENTY of sealed copies out there. Yeah, a good chunk of them, even brand new, will be in bad shape but still, this just doesnt make any sense to me. An idiot and their money I guess...
I bet sellers/collectors want this being the next big trend so they can make a living selling graded and sealed games. I think it will hurt the overall pricing of games in the future?
Thanks Ian and Pat... CUPodcast is #1
Contra is unquestionably tier A - one of the few OG games that stills hold up with the times - I’ve never known anyone who has played and doesn’t love it 👊🏻. (Not to mention the most historic cheat code ever)
I think he means in terms of broad appeal to non gamers, super mario or pac man are extremely iconic and recognizable to almost everybody, his point was that in 60 years they will still be famous and possibly hold their value whereas nobody will know what what contra is.
Steven Clark His main point is that Contra is a GREAT game but it’s not historically significant.
No offense but I hate it.
everyone seems to forget the 20% fee HA puts on ALL ITEMS
The website now includes the 20%. All of these include that 20%.
There was a guy on eBay about 10 years ago who was selling sealed Atari games by the box they were shipped to his store in. I don't remember if there were 5 games in a box, 10, or whatever, but I can tell you there are a lot of Pac Man out there. There are a lot of Spiderman out there. He rarely sold these games separately, but he sold me a copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I had graded by VGA high. I wish I would have bought more. Do not pay high money for these games.
F*ck me sideways... we have a *physical* Ian... welcome back my friend!
I read an article a year or so ago that the fantastically wealthy have run out of things to spend money on. I guess this is a solution.
Star Voyager was one of my favorite 2600 games. Until a couple of years ago I had no idea it was released on NES. I almost bought it for $2 loose, but I left it.
The thing with MTPO are insanely rare in the early versions. Rev-a Round SOQ is pretty much the earliest version you can find sealed. The no reva - there are only 2 known to exist factory sealed and there isn't a confirmed white bullets Tyson (1st print), although there is 1 thought to exist from an image that has been passed around.
Pat makes a great point about the price of a Donkey Kong arcade cab compared to the Intellivision cart for $5k.
This is great news guys. I also own a sealed/graded Pacman 2600. I ❤️ this channel, it's like no other 😉
btw a guy here in sweden went to a location (they used to work for Bergsala and print, manuals, boxes and put them together for the games in the Swedish NES market) in early 2000 that had plenty boxes stacked on top of each other like a card deck to be put together for NES like donkey kong, zelda, metroid etc- and what was told from him was that he got offers on them was 300-600 euro/dollar each. I think thats what they are worth, not more. I can find the video of him, he has one here on youtube- with his collection.
Ah Crazy Eddie's... good times, good times.
This is complete stupidity. These aren’t atlus games people, these are games that sold in the millions! I hope people lose their shirts on these “ investments “. We should start putting foil stickers on these games, go get them graded and put them on the shelves next to our death of superman comics. 😂
Why the pack-in game for the NES could ever be worth more than a few bucks even CIB is beyond me. It’s the most common game for the system! It’s like finding out CIB Combat carts for the Atari 2600 were worth enough to pay for a college degree.
Around 2005 I came across a sealed copy of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out at a random cell phone store as well as several other sealed NES games on sale for $50 each. I thought about purchasing it, but I didn’t have an NES at the time and decided to save my money. I most likely would have opened it like an idiot. Not sure what the true value was at the time, as I wasn’t up on game collecting.
lmao, speculative fomo bubble is accurate. cash in now!!
What are you trying to achieve with sealed games? Do you want to keep them sealed? Have the experience of opening them and it being your 'new' copy? As an investment surely precious metals would be a safer bet? I just don't get it at all.
Donkey Kong looked like a blurry ginger bread man on the 2600..my dad still has a crazy Eddie keychain
ridiculous prices galore. this channel is f****ng great.
Games that are less than 2 years out on not being on storeshelves are not getting 50% to 100% price increases. This is disgusting lol
As a non collector I would not pay more than $100 for any video game even how bad I want it. It's so stupid because people don't live long enough to enjoy collections. They are worthless in the long run and people need to just stop bs sales. People just price games right.
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Pat: "It's, it's, it's...."
(Video cuts to Peacock ad where actors keep saying "Free")
I remember as a kid getting 3 copies of Mike Tyson punch for my Bday.. And my mom ended returning the outher two copies..
Sick Volvar Records shirt. What’s your Bandcamp name?
I’d argue that the Intellivision and 2600 versions of those early Nintendo games are interesting simply because they’re for non-Nintendo systems (the latter is a particularly interesting conversation piece when you remember that Nintendo approached Atari to sell what ended up being the NES here), but they’re definitely not worth that kind of money in any condition.
Crazy the prices of these games. I am the last of my friends and collector friends that still buys Atari stuff over the years being 46 growing up always has a spot for the games.
In the last 25yrs I have picked up sealed pac man games for $2 in giant boxes at the flea's with other games no one wanted just passed by.Going to shows an almost getting laughed at when i ask if they have any atari 2600 5200 7800 stuff like it was garbage to even have it on there tables (always under or on the side in boxes ). I have 2 shipping boxes of ace of aces I bought for $40 10 yrs ago I'm going to crack open even if they get 9.4 9.6 that is some big money the way its going. Thanks for the videos i had no clue this was even going on .
Pat was clearly taking notes during the Reserved Investments video on the same topic, it's almost verbatim what Shawn was saying.
A fool and his money are soon parted. This is a perfect example of that statement.
I can't see these keeping their value in a couple of decades. Newer generations are not going to care about old obsolete physical media and the desire for these games will die down causing the prices to also drop.
Now super Mario bros. 3 broke the record. US$153K
Pat, Swamp Thing NES sealed on eBay for $12k... good deal or not?
As long as a few hundred of these rich people are willing to keep buying and hiking prices on each other they will just keep passing them around to each other, and they have to be so rich the money doesn't even matter to them it is just something to pass the time.
My 8 year old son is playing Punch Out on Switch in the NES collection. Games are living on in younger generations.
i don't know about Donkey Kong specifically but there is literally warehouses full of sealed Intellivision games. For cheap.
How crazy would it be for someone to have a complete North American NES collection all graded WATA at 9.8
Weren't the original WATA graded games former VGA from Dains's collection?
I have a Donkey Kong cabinet sitting in my room, unrestored and not working. Probably couldn't get more than a few hundred bucks for it.
And regardless it's a more important and interesting piece of game history than everything being sold in these auctions.
I'd say Contra has more cultural impact than you think. Obviously it wasn't the first game to have the Konami Code but I would say it's the most associated game with it. They made a freaking Robot Chicken sketch about it for Christ sake
I wonder how much Power Punch II for NES is going for.
Sorry, what's the point of a sealed game again?
I cant believe pat got beaten on all them auctions
These prices are really insane... Like really not realistic. There is no way a sealed GoldenEye should be worth that much. Is it a scam, money laundering? Or is it just rich suckers partaking in this auction scene?
Now fast forward to July 2021 and Zelda 1 sells for $800k and A DAY LATER Mario 64 sells for $1.5 million. Jesus
I should've just invested in buying sealed nes games back in the late 80s and 90s. My dad did try to tell me to save the boxes that they will be collectible 1 day.
my friends dad had a projector xbox when i was in like grade 5 it was crazy expensive when he bought it
I can see grading Sports Cards. That's perfectly fine. I've bought and sold many of those over the years.
But grading Video Games? 1-800-Come-On-Now.
Professional Grading is the worst thing that ever happened to collecting. No one who actually loves the items gives a shit about grading!
Pat should just sell his atari pac-man tbh
Good episode
the Fed printed TRILLIONS of dollars and people
are spending a lot of money on collectibles:
most expensive mustang recently sold $3,850,000.00
most expensive comic sold on eBay $3,207,752.00
most expensive modern basketball card sold recently at auction $1,845,000.00
a football card just sold on eBay a few days ago for $1,333,333.00
some original Air Jordans recently sold for $560,000.00
a pokemon card sold at auction for $195,000.00
a magic card sold on eBay for $166,000.00
most expensive Mario so far ONLY $114K
as cars, comics, coins, games, shoes, toys, etc.
are experiencing "alternative asset" inflation as
fake printed money seeks to hedge the future
macro that points towards loss of purchasing power
which means the games look like they are going up
relative to the adjusted value of money based on fear and greed
so compared to all other categories,
sealed video game artwork boxes
appear to have the most upside :)
PS it's not "games" it's really ONLY
FACTORY SEALED 25 to 40 year
old MINT artwork soft boxes as
cartridges and manuals
have yet to spike upwards...
Cant wait to see Pawn Stars I bet some dude tries to sell an Nes world championship cart next 😉
Rick Harrison, "I'll give you $36, you know a lot of people don't know about this and it's going to sit on my shelf for a long time and take up space."
Pat get some games graded and do a Completely Unnecessary Unboxing!
Completely Unnecessary Heritage Auction
Remember that game chasers episode where they had the boxes of sealed f-zero snes games, shit what would that be worth.
In reality it’s their loss. Unless it’s considered a valuable relic one day. If you were to take the museum approach, a video game museum wouldn’t let you take carts off a wall and play them it would be display. And a future videogame “library” building would use a digital archive. So would the museum NEED little Sampson? Or would they just make an NES cart shell, slap a sticker on it, and frame it without a game board in it because it won’t be played? The “average teenage bedroom/basement from the 70s/80s/90s/00s/10s etc” at conventions or in a museum would be a more realistic exhibit. And not every kid had watta sealed games 😂
If these people think they can get a better return on these games than in the stock market or real estate, let them do it. I feel the risk would be much too high, but it's their money.
What can I buy brand new today, sealed, relatively cheap, that will be worth $50k in 30 years time?
This SCREAMS publicity stunt by WATA. Set up auctions to promote and spread WATAs name, make everyone think WATA is the new gold standard, buyer(s) reimbursed and WATA eats an auction fee for the sake of publicity and hype. I dont know exactly how to describe it and its very farfetched lol. WATA is frowned upon in N64 collecting. (Graded games suck to me anyways lol)
Hell, I got a loose SMB/ DH in great condition that I'll sell those losers and it'll only cost them 5k😂
How much for a sealed boxed copy of Superman 64 ???
It used to be that you bought the retro game because you wanted to play it and you may have wanted the box and manual in decent condition if you could find them as that would display well on a shelf. We didn't care about the print run, aside from ugly "greatest hits" packaging. If you had the box/case, manual and any extra maps or guides that came with it (warranty cards and Nintendo Power ads were not really necessary; though nice to have) and it didn't look like crap then it was great and details beyond that were not on the average collector's radar at all.
The sad thing about a sealed game being graded is that is one less copy in circulation for someone to have to play. The old appeal of a sealed copy was "hey, this hasn't been opened so it's like I'm buying a new copy and it will be in great condition and not be missing anything."
Do it pat, quick 400 bucks. The millionaire who buys has more money than they need anyways.
According to a certain NES price list, that sealed SMB should only be worth $4.
www.neshq.com/lists/updatedrare60.txt
I can understand a high price for a really rare print of a game but the Mario Bro’s which is just a regular copy in very good condition, and it sells for almost 100k? Like what the fuck??? It doesn’t even make a lot of sense.
I mean these sealed minty NES games look nice and all but to me these are crazy ass prices.
This video should be called "Pat slowly dies on the inside"
i drink my own urin
Your taking the piss.
I got some hookers in my room
The Xbox projector mod doesn't come across as Microsoft's style. Seems a little too niche. That being said, I don't think the $4,800 it pulled down was too crazy. It looked like a very well put together mod. I think Ben Heck could pull that for some of his current gen mods.
I want to see the price on someone’s sealed Little Samson.
Honestly or all the titles I think FF7 might be the one you undersold the most. FF7 sold around 10 million copies on the PS1. Even excluding the later green label greatest hits release there was millions of OG copies sold and it's far more recent then just about anything else sold here. There has to be thousands of unopened copies sitting in shipping boxes all over the place. 1300 dollars for THE 2ND MOST COMMON PS1 GAME just because it's sealed and graded is fucking bonkers. It's also in an extra thick hard plastic jewel case so the chances of a shipping box being damaged in such a way to reduce the wata grade is even less then an NES era game which came in cardboard.