Whoa I had no idea at all my game was this rare until now. I was shook when I saw the sales numbers and what not. Got it as a gift from my mom when I was little and recently found my set while going thru old boxes. I am gonna boot it up with the included memory card soon and hoping my mons are still on there!
It's funny because this is far from rare in the PAL region and is actually pretty easy to acquire. Particularly as it came as standard with Pokémon Collseum.
Indeed ! Just checked my PAL version if collseum right away and its just sitting there with the include memory card+box. Was really a steal at the time for 60€. But strangely it has the tag of "not for solo sale" on it. Leftovers from the bundels ?
That’s too funny. Wonder why NOA did what they did with this software. Must have been some reason as Pokemon was blowing up around the time this came out.
@@elmerandrewcrowley2822 Yeah… but the point of the OP is that in PAL you could get the software itself more easily. Maybe not in the special little case but the if all you wanted was “Pokemon: Boxed (or whatever it’s fucking called)” you could.
You guys both have 1 of the approximately 1000 North American copies then... do you guys have the Gameboy to Gamecube link cable and the red and blue memory card? Probably apart of the value.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings stop saying pokemon stuff is rare. There is no such thing. Everything with pokemon in the title sold milions of copies. It's scarce because whoever has it nowadays doesn't want to sell.
I've had a copy as a kid and when I bought a gamecube again a couple of years ago I bought it again (I'm in Europe and they're not all that expensive here, especially compared to the US)
About the online features having kill switches: I recall something about one of the monster hunter games having similar features turned off sorta arbitrarily, the community came up with a bit of a backdoor solution to bring it back. Maybe someone will work out a solution to the pokemon stuff.
Huh, I never knew about that special memory card. I bought a copy a couple of years ago. I forget the price, but its below current ebay prices, but not massively cheap. I recently bought Ruby so I'll be using this game more to do mass transfers between Ruby and Sapphire (Assuming it allows me to connect two different games to the box) EDIT: Just checked my finances logs, turns out I bought it in mid 2016 for $75 AUD, which is half the price of the cheapest memory-card-less copy sold on ebay. I'd say that's a decent deal.
Good thing is you can still achieve all this via emulation so huge shout-out to the teams out there and the guys who dump their games and save files to save others time and money. Can also be achieved via a modded Wii which is far cheaper and fun to mod to get all this going.
I'm not really listening to the video so I'm just giving my opinion on this. I think the US version is rare because you had to order it from the Nintendo store in NYC and they didn't really advertise it anywhere except maybe Nintendo power magazine. So people couldn't just randomly see it in a department store and pick it up
In Europe, Pokemon Box came with standard copies of Colosseum. That why it’s not very rare here at all. Even I own it, it’s one of only four Pokémon games I have.
Pokemon Box, the first thing I ever bought with a credit card. Didn't even have a GameCube at the time. I just read in Nintendo Power that it was going to be a limited time thing. Got it, and about a few months later I got the system.
First and foremost, very well made video! Very professional and cool. Secondly, It’s hard to imagine that 10k sales means there’s only 1000 left, that’s insane speculation. Already assuming 90% are trashed? That’s ridiculous… I mean, a lot more than 10% still exist of the rarest NES games are still around. Pokémon Box sucks ass as a product, I’ll definitely feature it on “it’s expensive but is it good?” Lol kind of obvious answer. Finally, about the pichu knowing surf - I hope nobody wasted that kind of time, that’s ridiculous. You can already get pikachu to learn surf in Pokémon stadium, use mewtwo and somebody else good as 2/3 in your team, pikachu has to be on your team so leave 3rd slot for him… get through the level 100 cup, and bam, he knows Surf. I gave this lvl 3 pikachu a thunderstone, thunderbolt, Thunder, and seismic toss, and this surfing raichu was a solid member on my lvl 15 team!
Lol I remember ignoring this game hundreds of times at game stores, it always went for like $15 used at gamestop and I thought it seemed stupid. But, I have the Pokemon Colosseum pre-order disc with Jirachi on it, so that's the jewel of my collection and I'm happy with it.
I remember Box. You'd get special pokemon bc of it. When I went to New York in 2006 for the Journey Across America (my brother & I were the 1st winners ever) this major Serebiiforums member named "PsyUmbreon" was there giving out the Pichu and all other pokemon from Box along with eggs for high IV bred pokemon, unheard of at the time. I was too young to appreciate to the fullest what I was getting for free as an annoying 12 year old
I learn so much every time I visit this channel! 🤯 No one asked, but please continue informing us anyway! 😊 I enjoyed all the visuals and legit gasped at that resell price point. 💸💸💸
I can’t believe there’s only about ~1000 copies of the U.S. version left! One of my elementary school friends had this game, so I assumed it was relatively common. I’m kicking myself for not taking advantage of buying this back when it used to go for about ~$100-$200 on eBay…
My mom got me this game off the website back in the day as a birthday gift, not realizing it wasn't really a game, and I didnt have a gamecube. Its still mostly intact in the basement
It's because of your video here that I chose to hunt down a copy of the game - I don't have the case and manual, only the disc, but that's find for me for now. It's just so fun to play Pokémon Ruby on my TV :)
Here’s a crazy idea: Nintendo releases a mini console, similar to the NES and SNES Mini from a few years ago, but it is dedicated to Pokémon games. Maybe the first 4 generations or so. It could include all of the games from those gens, and a way to transfer Pokémon between the games and some sort of internal offline storage system, like Pokémon Box. You could also connect it to the 3DS and Switch, and use the internal storage to store your Pokémon from newer and current gen games. It could even be shaped like a Pokédex. It could literally be a physical National Dex. It would be the perfect way to satisfy fans of all generations, and to preserve your favorite games and your living Pokédex forever. It would be awesome. But you know, Nintendo, so…
Also, taking it a step further, it could function like a Nintendo Switch. Have a docked mode, as well as a handheld mode so you can play/trade/battle on the go. It would have all of the GB/GBC/DS titles pre installed, and maybe even incorporate dlc so it can support future generations of games. It could come with an updated (offline) version of Pokémon Home that can connect to the pre installed games, as well as new titles to keep it seamless. It’s a lot to ask for, but a kid can dream.
I remember a ton of commercials for this. Sapphire was my childhood game. I remember seeing it at Target, but never really wanting it bc I just reset the games and played them over again so many times I never felt super precious about my pokemon -- ive never got rid of a game in my life really. funny to think if I got this a a kid Id be sittin on 1k rn
I paid £87 on eBay for a mostly-complete Pokemon Colosseum Mega Pak which came with this (had the beat-up outer box, a GameCube but bizarrely a purple one rather than the black on the box, Colosseum and Box double pack and a GBA to GameCube cable, only thing missing was a memory card), which now seems like an even better deal! Plus the seller was a well-known UK charity shop so the money went to a good cause :)
Very late to this video, but if you're okay with installing CFW on a 3DS, an offline utility does actually exist (built into PKSM). I backed up all my Pokemon in it before moving them into Pokemon home
I need help. I have received the pokedex in FireRed and have three Pokémon yet I cannot store Pokémon in Pokémon Box due to the error that I have to receive the pokedex first. How can I fix this?
I still have my copy. It's in complete condition, has a couple scuff marks on the plastic but it's nearmint open but all documents and items are still there
Got mine at the world championship 2004, didn't know it would be valuable. Still have it to this day, but the memory card has my name written on the stickers haha
I bought the disc on its own for £10 back in 2016. I've stored my Living Dex on there and then my copy of FireRed completely died. I miss my save file but my work is not 100% lost.
So I recently took a picture of my game collection with this and every other super rare GameCube and Wii title and sent them to DKoldies with 2000 OBO, please itemize. They requested I type the list.
If you play adventure mode. Do you use your Gameboy as a controller? Or are you able play with a Gamecube controller after connecting your GB to the Gamecube.
I had to think about this one for a moment. I believe I used the GameCube controller to control Adventure Mode, but I'd have to boot it up again to confirm that 100%.
Look. I know I am late on this. SUPER LATE, but my life got turned, flipped upside down the last few months, so cut me some slack. Anyway, on the subject at hand. I have heard of this game, but never got around to sitting down with it as I never owned a Gamecube. It is an enigma for sure. Great video as always, Kevin. Keep up the awesome. :)
Good video. You put in a lot of effort into this and I am jealous of your skills. I actually have this game, I remember asking my parents to buy it for me, then never actually using it because it was so boring. I stumbled across it recently when moving storage boxes, and decided to look it up. Never would ever guessed it was worth 1000 dollars. Not really sure what I should do with it. I have a couple other 'rare' games, but nothing at that price, lol
Yeah, it's crazy how much the price has spiked over the years. It was in the $200-300 range a year or two ago, but GameCube games are especially popular right now in the retro collecting circuit, so I'm sure that has something to do with the price spike. VGChartz is sited in the video for where I got the baseline sales information, but Pokemon Dungeon and a handful of other sites reported on it as well. Outside of Japan (Europe and the U.S.), it's estimated 0.01M copies were sold. It was hard to find exact numbers for everything, but the UK version was a lot more accessible and sells for much less aftermarket. A number of sites also reported that 1/10 copies sold outside of Japan were the U.S. version, so it's an educated estimate based on that and sales listings from the past five or so years. As far as I'm aware, Pokemon Box is the most expensive aftermarket title for the GameCube, outside of non-retail discs like the GC display kiosk demos or things of that nature. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@WhoAskedYou Cool! Man, I am wondering if I should send it in to get graded/slabbed. I know that's reserved for sealed or cib (bigbox in this case) games. I don't have the big box, but it's barely been touched, has all the inserts stickers and memory card in case... If it is such a rare game and I have no intention of playing it, maybe I should do it just for preservation against the accidents or disc rot you mentioned. 1000 copies... How many more do you think are like mine, purchased and then forgotten in a storage box?
@@WhoAskedYou I always wonder about sales listings on sites like ebay- how do you know if that copy of, say, chrono trigger hasn't been passed around by the collectors circuit several times over? Is there a unique serial number or something to keep track of who is holding what? There ought to be one, it would be pretty helpful, haha
Graded copies definitely go for more. The grading scale is pretty rigorous, but if you think it's in really good condition, it may not hurt to send it in. There's probably some way of tracking serial numbers on it or something, but I didn't look into it that extensively. I was just aiming for a general estimate when doing the research on sales, since there's so little information available about it. I'm sure there are a decent number of copies that are sitting around in storage somewhere, completely forgotten.
The worst part about this video is how dated it is. In 4 years Pokemon Box doubled its value and now it's $2000. I don't want it but yet my Pokemon\Gamecube collector in me does.
haha, I bought this one years ago randomly on a flea market. And when i tried it I realized it wasn't even an actual game, so I brought it to a used item store and exchanged it for something more valuable. I forgot what it was actually. Some Worms game I think
To be honest, if you compare general used game prices between the US and UK, American games are absurdly more expensive almost always. I suspect it’s mostly due to artificial inflation, rather than accurately representing scarcity or demand, but it honestly sucks.
got it for free when I signed up for some nintendo online stuff. only problem is that i can't use it because i dont own ruby or shaphire or a link cable
I still have this game all the way back from when it was new. I have like 900 pokemon stored on there from my years and years of replaying FRLG/RSE+colosseum and XD
No joke, some years back I saw this “game” available for next to nothing. Didn’t pick it up. Don’t like Pokémon and certainly didn’t have any use for a storage management… thing. Even now, knowing what it cost, I have zero FOMO.
@@keiyakins It likely ended up with a reseller who sold it to a shmuck willing to shell out a grand for, I don’t even know what to call this, software?
I'm pretty sure i got it for free on club nintendo back in the day, the memory card in the UK was just bog standard grey one. Also pretty sure you can play the later games on the UK version of pokemon box, i played Leaf Green and Fire Red, it took a while for it to transfer the rom from the cart over the link cable but it did work, though it's possible i'm just remembering loading times for the later games for box mode.
I remember borrowing this game just to get a Jirachi, never thought about it again after that. Funny how such an impotent "game" can become ridiculously expensive, just bc it's related to Pokémon.
I found a sealed copy at a pawn shop earlier this year and it was only $5 so this is my personality now
Dear God that is luck. Amazing find!
You're from r/gamecube also, aren't you?
@@therealPinta77 maybe...
Dear fucking god. Congratulations, and fuck you.
Are pawn shops a good place to look for gamecube items?
Fun fact, the Zigzagoon with Extreme Speed is the one most often used in competitive, with Belly Drum.
raichu got it's most useful coverage with surf
You can trade those back to your gen 3 copys??
@@koolaids7538 no
Whoa I had no idea at all my game was this rare until now. I was shook when I saw the sales numbers and what not. Got it as a gift from my mom when I was little and recently found my set while going thru old boxes. I am gonna boot it up with the included memory card soon and hoping my mons are still on there!
Any updates?
@@TheJacoliexp yup! They are all still there! Even the dioramas I made with them way back when lol
It's funny because this is far from rare in the PAL region and is actually pretty easy to acquire. Particularly as it came as standard with Pokémon Collseum.
Indeed ! Just checked my PAL version if collseum right away and its just sitting there with the include memory card+box. Was really a steal at the time for 60€.
But strangely it has the tag of "not for solo sale" on it. Leftovers from the bundels ?
@@shadowhunterrx Yeah It would have been from a bundle that also included a Black GameCube console. That's how I got mine.
That’s too funny. Wonder why NOA did what they did with this software. Must have been some reason as Pokemon was blowing up around the time this came out.
the single box release, not included with Colosseum is still quite rare.
@@elmerandrewcrowley2822 Yeah… but the point of the OP is that in PAL you could get the software itself more easily. Maybe not in the special little case but the if all you wanted was “Pokemon: Boxed (or whatever it’s fucking called)” you could.
Got this with the colloseum mega pack, still got the reciept of only paying £50😳
yeah same, idk why people say its expensive it really isnt
You guys both have 1 of the approximately 1000 North American copies then... do you guys have the Gameboy to Gamecube link cable and the red and blue memory card? Probably apart of the value.
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming I have everything but the memory card, but even then my version is a pal one
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming It was sold outside of north america in other english speaking countries the amount he paid was not in $ either.
@@Emsha North American version is $1000+, PAL version is like a tenth of that I believe and the Japanese version is worth next to nothing lmao
Love this video! So cool to see an overview on this rare title's history!
Thanks, guys! Glad you enjoyed it!
Extremely rare. Like 20 copies on eBay right now, 2 years after this video was posted.
Not rare, just pricey. There’s a difference. Lucky I got mine for $300 several years back when that was there going rate.
@@kaipography lol the title literally days "the rarest gamecube game." 🙄
@@Gameboy-Unboxings stop saying pokemon stuff is rare. There is no such thing. Everything with pokemon in the title sold milions of copies. It's scarce because whoever has it nowadays doesn't want to sell.
I've had a copy as a kid and when I bought a gamecube again a couple of years ago I bought it again (I'm in Europe and they're not all that expensive here, especially compared to the US)
About the online features having kill switches: I recall something about one of the monster hunter games having similar features turned off sorta arbitrarily, the community came up with a bit of a backdoor solution to bring it back. Maybe someone will work out a solution to the pokemon stuff.
You can basically copy-paste old mons into new games, so there's no need for backdoors, just alot of soldering
Huh, I never knew about that special memory card. I bought a copy a couple of years ago. I forget the price, but its below current ebay prices, but not massively cheap. I recently bought Ruby so I'll be using this game more to do mass transfers between Ruby and Sapphire (Assuming it allows me to connect two different games to the box)
EDIT: Just checked my finances logs, turns out I bought it in mid 2016 for $75 AUD, which is half the price of the cheapest memory-card-less copy sold on ebay. I'd say that's a decent deal.
I recently got an aussie copy same price, only just the disc and blank cover. I'd say it's worth it for me though.
Good thing is you can still achieve all this via emulation so huge shout-out to the teams out there and the guys who dump their games and save files to save others time and money. Can also be achieved via a modded Wii which is far cheaper and fun to mod to get all this going.
Wait why do you only have 400 subs?! I learned so much from this video!!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
It's weird that it's so rare in NTSC. In PAL regions it's really not that rare. I still have it right here.
I'm not really listening to the video so I'm just giving my opinion on this. I think the US version is rare because you had to order it from the Nintendo store in NYC and they didn't really advertise it anywhere except maybe Nintendo power magazine. So people couldn't just randomly see it in a department store and pick it up
Found one at my local retro game shop in great condition for $1600 and now I own the holy grail of Pokémon games.
In Europe, Pokemon Box came with standard copies of Colosseum. That why it’s not very rare here at all. Even I own it, it’s one of only four Pokémon games I have.
Unless you live in the uk. Where Pokémon box can literally be purchased for £20 ish.
Pokemon Box, the first thing I ever bought with a credit card. Didn't even have a GameCube at the time. I just read in Nintendo Power that it was going to be a limited time thing. Got it, and about a few months later I got the system.
First and foremost, very well made video! Very professional and cool.
Secondly, It’s hard to imagine that 10k sales means there’s only 1000 left, that’s insane speculation. Already assuming 90% are trashed? That’s ridiculous… I mean, a lot more than 10% still exist of the rarest NES games are still around.
Pokémon Box sucks ass as a product, I’ll definitely feature it on “it’s expensive but is it good?” Lol kind of obvious answer.
Finally, about the pichu knowing surf - I hope nobody wasted that kind of time, that’s ridiculous. You can already get pikachu to learn surf in Pokémon stadium, use mewtwo and somebody else good as 2/3 in your team, pikachu has to be on your team so leave 3rd slot for him… get through the level 100 cup, and bam, he knows Surf.
I gave this lvl 3 pikachu a thunderstone, thunderbolt, Thunder, and seismic toss, and this surfing raichu was a solid member on my lvl 15 team!
Lol I remember ignoring this game hundreds of times at game stores, it always went for like $15 used at gamestop and I thought it seemed stupid. But, I have the Pokemon Colosseum pre-order disc with Jirachi on it, so that's the jewel of my collection and I'm happy with it.
I have that as well
I’m baffled and annoyed they never found a way to have Gen 2 Pokémon transfer over thru Pokémon box and the GameCube
I remember Box. You'd get special pokemon bc of it. When I went to New York in 2006 for the Journey Across America (my brother & I were the 1st winners ever) this major Serebiiforums member named "PsyUmbreon" was there giving out the Pichu and all other pokemon from Box along with eggs for high IV bred pokemon, unheard of at the time. I was too young to appreciate to the fullest what I was getting for free as an annoying 12 year old
I learn so much every time I visit this channel! 🤯 No one asked, but please continue informing us anyway! 😊 I enjoyed all the visuals and legit gasped at that resell price point. 💸💸💸
Thanks, Cella!! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
I can’t believe there’s only about ~1000 copies of the U.S. version left! One of my elementary school friends had this game, so I assumed it was relatively common. I’m kicking myself for not taking advantage of buying this back when it used to go for about ~$100-$200 on eBay…
I live in germany and just ordered the colloseum bundle for arround 100€ which now seems like a steal but this is a good video dude
see, this is why i love youtube. i randomly find out about something on another website, then i go to youtube to visually see what its all about. lol
This is in my flips grail list, along with ncaa14, rule of rose, and a coogi sweater lol
My mom got me this game off the website back in the day as a birthday gift, not realizing it wasn't really a game, and I didnt have a gamecube. Its still mostly intact in the basement
for a channel that has a 1k subs this is made really really well.
Nice one kevin! I remember this game but I never owned it was cool taking a look into what it actually was! Also I love your set up!!
Thanks, Isla!!
Great video Kevin! Loved the lighting and visuals, and especially the argument about physical media preservation. Who asked you? I ASKED YOU!!
I'm glad somebody asked! Thanks for watching, dude!
crazy i have one of the 1000 copies still surfacing and it’s mint condition. finna hold this for a few more years
I'd get rid of now while the market is still hot. The nostalgia for the box will undoubtedly die and reduce by at least 50% in value over time
That memory card is fire not gonna lie.
LOL I wasn't even thinking about how the Pichu isn't transferable unless you delete Surf
I traded in this game at a local store and they were perplexed and shocked that it actually existed. Now I kinda wonder if I should’ve kept it
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It's because of your video here that I chose to hunt down a copy of the game - I don't have the case and manual, only the disc, but that's find for me for now. It's just so fun to play Pokémon Ruby on my TV :)
OMG people pay over $1000 for this in the US?! I can find it for £30 on ebay in the UK - that's really crazy.
Calling BS
Unless the ones there are PAL or some sht and that's why no one wants it
@@TheBrandonn it is PAL, but that doesn't mean no-one wants it lol, people would want it for the same reason you'd want NTSC
I wanted Box back then because I had all 5 GBA Games and a living dex, so I wanted to instantly complete the Pokédex in all 5 games.
Here’s a crazy idea: Nintendo releases a mini console, similar to the NES and SNES Mini from a few years ago, but it is dedicated to Pokémon games. Maybe the first 4 generations or so. It could include all of the games from those gens, and a way to transfer Pokémon between the games and some sort of internal offline storage system, like Pokémon Box. You could also connect it to the 3DS and Switch, and use the internal storage to store your Pokémon from newer and current gen games. It could even be shaped like a Pokédex. It could literally be a physical National Dex. It would be the perfect way to satisfy fans of all generations, and to preserve your favorite games and your living Pokédex forever. It would be awesome. But you know, Nintendo, so…
Also, taking it a step further, it could function like a Nintendo Switch. Have a docked mode, as well as a handheld mode so you can play/trade/battle on the go. It would have all of the GB/GBC/DS titles pre installed, and maybe even incorporate dlc so it can support future generations of games. It could come with an updated (offline) version of Pokémon Home that can connect to the pre installed games, as well as new titles to keep it seamless. It’s a lot to ask for, but a kid can dream.
I remember a ton of commercials for this. Sapphire was my childhood game. I remember seeing it at Target, but never really wanting it bc I just reset the games and played them over again so many times I never felt super precious about my pokemon -- ive never got rid of a game in my life really. funny to think if I got this a a kid Id be sittin on 1k rn
I paid £87 on eBay for a mostly-complete Pokemon Colosseum Mega Pak which came with this (had the beat-up outer box, a GameCube but bizarrely a purple one rather than the black on the box, Colosseum and Box double pack and a GBA to GameCube cable, only thing missing was a memory card), which now seems like an even better deal! Plus the seller was a well-known UK charity shop so the money went to a good cause :)
when my pop died i found a copy of this in his box of GameCube games
Very late to this video, but if you're okay with installing CFW on a 3DS, an offline utility does actually exist (built into PKSM). I backed up all my Pokemon in it before moving them into Pokemon home
Same! A cheap alternative that works better IMO
Man people be crazy, I got a Pokemon Box by just painting an Amazon box like a pokeball. Some guys gotta make do
Call it rare and list it on Ebay. I'm sure it'll sell!
What's with the lack of uploads? Your videos are great quality
For real this guy makes some high quality videos
Its very cool to see that Brigette was reused for Bank.
I always like things like that :p
I need help. I have received the pokedex in FireRed and have three Pokémon yet I cannot store Pokémon in Pokémon Box due to the error that I have to receive the pokedex first. How can I fix this?
Speaking of, I have a brand new copy of the Japanese version. Unopened and sold to me for around $150 USD.
ExtremeSpeed Linoone can be seen now and again in competitive Pokémon.
I want to try to purchase this eventually despite the price...I don't need it for any reason other than just wanting it in my collection.
For the historical significance alone, it's a really cool piece to have in any collection. Best of luck when you decide to track down a copy!
@@WhoAskedYou Thank you!
I still have my copy. It's in complete condition, has a couple scuff marks on the plastic but it's nearmint open but all documents and items are still there
I don't really care that much about the game itself, I just want the Extremespeed Zigzagoon and the Surf Pichu :')
Got mine at the world championship 2004, didn't know it would be valuable. Still have it to this day, but the memory card has my name written on the stickers haha
I bought the disc on its own for £10 back in 2016. I've stored my Living Dex on there and then my copy of FireRed completely died. I miss my save file but my work is not 100% lost.
So does this mean if you play rub & sapphire threw box you dont have to change your battery in your gba game?
Wow, I bought a copy of Pokémon Box 10 years ago for 100 USD and I thought it was too much back then!
A year later and they’re going for $1700+
Yeah, it's crazy how high the price spiked!
I got the GameCube bundle at the tail end of the GameCube lifespan.
Glad I kept this game... in the box of course, lol
I always beat myself up for telling my family I didn't want it as a kid. Good on you for holding on to it!
So I recently took a picture of my game collection with this and every other super rare GameCube and Wii title and sent them to DKoldies with 2000 OBO, please itemize.
They requested I type the list.
If you play adventure mode. Do you use your Gameboy as a controller? Or are you able play with a Gamecube controller after connecting your GB to the Gamecube.
I had to think about this one for a moment. I believe I used the GameCube controller to control Adventure Mode, but I'd have to boot it up again to confirm that 100%.
Look. I know I am late on this. SUPER LATE, but my life got turned, flipped upside down the last few months, so cut me some slack. Anyway, on the subject at hand. I have heard of this game, but never got around to sitting down with it as I never owned a Gamecube. It is an enigma for sure. Great video as always, Kevin. Keep up the awesome. :)
Thanks, dude! Glad you liked it :)
@@WhoAskedYou Hey. You do good work, Kevin. I am more than happy to help.
The wingull army has begun
I wish I knew that when I had my copy because I can’t find it and im thinking I may have sold it
Good video. You put in a lot of effort into this and I am jealous of your skills. I actually have this game, I remember asking my parents to buy it for me, then never actually using it because it was so boring. I stumbled across it recently when moving storage boxes, and decided to look it up. Never would ever guessed it was worth 1000 dollars. Not really sure what I should do with it. I have a couple other 'rare' games, but nothing at that price, lol
Do you have the source as to the 1000 copies left claim? And would you really consider it the rarest?
Yeah, it's crazy how much the price has spiked over the years. It was in the $200-300 range a year or two ago, but GameCube games are especially popular right now in the retro collecting circuit, so I'm sure that has something to do with the price spike. VGChartz is sited in the video for where I got the baseline sales information, but Pokemon Dungeon and a handful of other sites reported on it as well. Outside of Japan (Europe and the U.S.), it's estimated 0.01M copies were sold. It was hard to find exact numbers for everything, but the UK version was a lot more accessible and sells for much less aftermarket. A number of sites also reported that 1/10 copies sold outside of Japan were the U.S. version, so it's an educated estimate based on that and sales listings from the past five or so years. As far as I'm aware, Pokemon Box is the most expensive aftermarket title for the GameCube, outside of non-retail discs like the GC display kiosk demos or things of that nature. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@WhoAskedYou Cool! Man, I am wondering if I should send it in to get graded/slabbed. I know that's reserved for sealed or cib (bigbox in this case) games. I don't have the big box, but it's barely been touched, has all the inserts stickers and memory card in case... If it is such a rare game and I have no intention of playing it, maybe I should do it just for preservation against the accidents or disc rot you mentioned. 1000 copies... How many more do you think are like mine, purchased and then forgotten in a storage box?
@@WhoAskedYou I always wonder about sales listings on sites like ebay- how do you know if that copy of, say, chrono trigger hasn't been passed around by the collectors circuit several times over? Is there a unique serial number or something to keep track of who is holding what? There ought to be one, it would be pretty helpful, haha
Graded copies definitely go for more. The grading scale is pretty rigorous, but if you think it's in really good condition, it may not hurt to send it in. There's probably some way of tracking serial numbers on it or something, but I didn't look into it that extensively. I was just aiming for a general estimate when doing the research on sales, since there's so little information available about it. I'm sure there are a decent number of copies that are sitting around in storage somewhere, completely forgotten.
Idk about it only being sold in Pokémon center in U.S I remember seeing them back in EB games when I was younger
This is legit my first GameCube game. Still got it! It was damn near $100 AUD! I got it from EB Games though.
The worst part about this video is how dated it is. In 4 years Pokemon Box doubled its value and now it's $2000. I don't want it but yet my Pokemon\Gamecube collector in me does.
awesome and entertaining video! i had no idea this was made for the gamecube and another reason im sad i wasn't born during the gba era
Man. I have a copy of this somewhere gonna have to start digging.
I’m glad I bought my copy for about $200 like 5 years ago
When you wrote Pokémon Pokèmon I had to close the video
Underrated channel, nice English subbed.
They were common in Canada, at least in a Walmart store in surburb
proud to comment that i bought my european copy for £40 which is about $45. it’s not as rare as the US version but still pretty rare.
Got it back then with Colloseum & Pokemon TV.
0:45 Only $1000? My guy I found a CIB copy for $5000!!!
Wow never knew the value of this game, I'm pretty sure I still have one somewhere
Damn I’m really about to drop 1500 on this game
Dude, you deserve so many more views. Subbed!
I don't remember getting a special memory card here in the UK.. my memory card was grey with normal stickers.
haha, I bought this one years ago randomly on a flea market. And when i tried it I realized it wasn't even an actual game, so I brought it to a used item store and exchanged it for something more valuable. I forgot what it was actually. Some Worms game I think
Is this version any different from the one that came with the Colosseum/Box duo pack?
Fun channel . Do you still make content ? Was very informative and a great way to see the game becuz now it’s doubled in price…
really enjoyed your Pokemon distribution serious a lot. 10/10 content!
To be honest, if you compare general used game prices between the US and UK, American games are absurdly more expensive almost always. I suspect it’s mostly due to artificial inflation, rather than accurately representing scarcity or demand, but it honestly sucks.
Love my copy, in fact, I should check my storage.
Hey, Why did you stop uploading RUclips videos a year ago? You have a pretty cool RUclips voice.
got it for free when I signed up for some nintendo online stuff. only problem is that i can't use it because i dont own ruby or shaphire or a link cable
Anyone else get surprised by mom or dad who rented this for you and had no way to use it. Lol
This game is at Cex store in the Netherlands for 125 euro.
I still have this game all the way back from when it was new. I have like 900 pokemon stored on there from my years and years of replaying FRLG/RSE+colosseum and XD
haha xd you used the software for its intended purpose xd haha lol xd
@@cashnelson2306 pokemon XD is a game, smart ass
the tax write off joke got you a sub and like 🤣
No joke, some years back I saw this “game” available for next to nothing. Didn’t pick it up. Don’t like Pokémon and certainly didn’t have any use for a storage management… thing. Even now, knowing what it cost, I have zero FOMO.
Hopefully it ended up in the hands of a pokemon fan who will cherish it.
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@@keiyakins yeah for a grand, from someone else who was smart enough to pick it up
@@keiyakins It likely ended up with a reseller who sold it to a shmuck willing to shell out a grand for, I don’t even know what to call this, software?
cool blog bro, so you're telling me you saw a game and didn't buy it? rivetting
Yo what it's like Spiderverse style alternate MatPat how freaky
I think in Spain the colosseum bundle costs arround 20€ in cex 🙄
You didn't explain why you wanted it so badly. Just for those Pokemon that have special moves?
didn't even know this was a thing
I'm pretty sure i got it for free on club nintendo back in the day, the memory card in the UK was just bog standard grey one.
Also pretty sure you can play the later games on the UK version of pokemon box, i played Leaf Green and Fire Red, it took a while for it to transfer the rom from the cart over the link cable but it did work, though it's possible i'm just remembering loading times for the later games for box mode.
I remember borrowing this game just to get a Jirachi, never thought about it again after that. Funny how such an impotent "game" can become ridiculously expensive, just bc it's related to Pokémon.
Can't be that rare if I have it.