Rare Video Games Auctions, Sales & Pricing

While the item doesn't have any providence to speak of, its still pretty cool.

The seller says:

The holy grail of Earthbound/ Mother collectibles. Autographed by the creator of the series. Hand signed by the man himself. Seems to be signed in 1985, which pre-dates the whole Mother series! Item is in great condition for it's age. There are a few light indentation marks on it's surface, and a few corners are just a tiny bit dented, the few flaws it has are hardly noticeable.

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Seller has several NFR DS Games, some decent BINS too.
NES Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Twisted Metal Sweet Tooth Clown Mask
The Legend of Zelda Sheik Collectible Statue
Portal 2 Custom Wheatley
Limited Edition Hulk/Pepsi Original XBOX
Super Mario Bros. F1 Race Limited Edition Game & Watch
Nelsonic Nintendo Super Mario World Video Game Watch
Cheapish Sega Dreamcast Hello Kitty Pink Console
Bizarre $18,000.00 Tom Whalen Super Mario Bros Poster
Vintage Nintendo Super Mario Brothers, Mario Riding Skateboard Metal Pin
Epic Hologram Super Mario Brothers Wallet
Nintendo Mario Brothers 4 Bottles of Vintage Shampoo
Super Mario Bros. The Movie Action Figure Bob Hoskins

The Sega VR was a planned, but never released Virtual Reality accessory. Due to negative reactions to consumer testing and poor quality assurance results, the headset never passed the prototype stage.

Four games were apparently developed for the system, each using 16 Mb cartridges that were to be bundled with the headset. One of these was Iron Hammer, which our very own Nicola owns.

You can check out a vintage CES video of the game in action here.

Currently, up for auction is a cartridge that allows you to test functionality of Headset. According to the seller, this is the only one found so far.

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NES Prototype Bad News Baseball
Gameboy F-1 Pole Position Proto
Game Boy Prototype Dragons Lair The Legend
Complete SNES Fun N Games
Club Nintendo Gamecube Luigi Controller
SNES Breath of Fire Brand New Factory Sealed
NES Castle of Deceit Complete
Mostly Sealed Gameboy Lot
Gameboy Micro LE Deluxe Box
1982 Pac-Man Pillow
Konamistyle Exclusive Limited Edition Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles Set
Club Nintendo Limited Notebook

Magna Carta 2 is a 2009 RPG which received mediocre reviews but does have a nice fan following.

The Collectors Edition was released only in South Korea where the game was developed and had a limited run of 1,000 copies.

Currently there are two avilable on eBay from the same seller. One is new and sealed and the other is open and used.

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Prototype 2 Press Kit - The actual game isnt even out yet.
Sega Skeleton Saturn - These were the final models to be produced in Japan (and hence the world), with a see-through body and matching controllers. Apparently they have compatibility problems with Space Harrier and Metal Slug.
Call Of Duty Black Ops Launch Kit
1991 Sonic The Hedgehog Promotional Enamel Pin Set
Skylanders Legendary Pack - Dear god, look at the price.
Nintendo Mario Promo Golf Ball Set
Diddy Kong Racing Display Airplane

Nightmare Busters is a cancelled SNES beat ‘em up from Arcade Zone (a french studio). When the game wasn't published, the company closed down and cancelled their other projects. However, it was ported and eventually released in 2004 for cell phones as Flynn’s Adventure.

It has been dumped for some time now, and reproductions are widely available.

Aside from reproductions from the usual sources, there are a lot of these Super Famicom versions out there and they seem to have a very nice production value.

There is an auction for one here and the price is absolutely absurd.

The game is actually slated for a licensed release from Super Fighter team in the near future.

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Zelda Skyward Sword Demo Version Not for Resale - If i remember correctly this actually came with a press kit and included a bunch of documents.
Super Mario 64 Factory Sealed VGA 95
Blizzard Starcraft 2 Tychus Findlay Marine Statue - Sideshow released this 18-inch tall statue of Terran Marine Tychus J. Findlay in 2007. However, this is an employee edition, numbered 353/550.

Wildwaters (also know as “Extreme Kayak” and “X-Stream”) is a cancelled racing game that was in development by Looking Glass Studios for the Nintendo 64 in 1998 / 1999.

The project was announced at E3 1999 by Ubisoft (that was interested as a publisher) while the studio was working on Destruction Derby 64 (published in the same year), but sadly it was never finished.

Wildwaters 64 was very promising as Looking Glass were able to create an engine with real physics running for the waterflow through the river on an N64, but it needed more time and love which eventually ran out. Five different gameplay modes, including Arcade, Time Trial, Championship, Finals and Versus Battle were planned for the game.

Some months later, on May 2000, Looking Glass Studios went out of business during a financial crisis related to their publisher at the time, Eidos Interactive. Wildwaters / Extreme Kayak vanished forever, along with their other promising N64 racing game, Mini Racers.

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Credit to Unseen64 for more info and ingame pics

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Huge Vintage Mario Display - Overpriced, but cool and I've never seen one like this before.
Sealed SNES Super 3D Noah's Ark - How does one authenticate a seal on an Unlicensed SNES game?
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time Link with Epona Figure - The price on some Zelda figures always blows my mind.
N64 PAL Snowboard Kids 2 - One of the rarer Nintendo 64 PAL games.
Nintendo Super Mario Bros Thwomp Dossun Cushion Pillow - This is pure awesome.
Some sort of homemade Atari 2600 swappable EPROM cart
Call of Duty World at War Stunt Jacket - Pretty neat looking and rare. Only given to people who did motion capture work on the game.

While I would never buy this myself, it seems pretty cool. The seller advertises it a prototype for an item used as a real life reward for COD Eliter subscribers, but I can find no refrence to it anywhere.

Anyone happen to know any more?

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Sealed Virtual Boy Nester's Funky Bowling
Sealed Virtual Boy Panic Bomber

At some point Earthbound became one of the more expensive SNES titles. It really make no sense, as the game isn`t that rare and while I admit it is a fun game, there are much better titles in the Super Nintendo library.

Right now a loose cartridge is pulling around $150.00 and nice CIB examples can fetch $400+. I know it`s all supply and demand that drives the prices, but this is probably the worst example of overvalued titles since Final Fantasy 7 on Playstation 1 a few years ago.

Anyways, someone just recently listed a VGA Graded Earthbound. Since the game was not shinkwrapped, this Qualified title means that it has been authenticated and verified by VGA that it was never played.

The auction has no reserve and has climbed to $2,000.00+ already with a full week left. It`s one of those auctions that will probably leave me scratching my head, but is fun to watch anyways.

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Fun Fact: I was once told I missed out on purchasing five NIB copies of Earthbound for $20.00 each, someone else grabbed them a week before. My runner up prize? 50 sealed copies of Killer Instinct for $5.00 a pop.

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EarthBound Anthology Art Book - Details on the book here.
Nintendo Wide Boy - This is one of the original version of the Nintendo Wide-Boys (Wide-Boys are devices that are plugged into either an NES, SNES or N64 so you can see the Game Boy game on a TV, thus saving developers eyes from having to stare at the little screens all day long).
Telegames Personal Arcade - Plays Colecovision and Sega SG 1000 games.
Sonic The Hedgehog 20th Anniversary Pocket Watch Complete Set
1991 Sonic The Hedgehog Umbrella
SEGA Dreamcast DC "Still Thinking" Hoodie - From what I understand Sega has occasionally given these out over the past several years.
Red Dead Redemption Dynamite Crate
Donkey Kong 64 Not For Resale NFR Cart
Gears of War 3 1/25 Exclusive Fossil Watch - Prize in the GameStop GOW3 Sweepstakes.
17 Atari Jaguar Promo Cards
Game Boy Prototype Kwirk (Quirk the Chilled Tomato)

The Net Yaroze project started in March 1997 and was Sony’s attempt to allow bedroom coding for the PS1, making it something of a predecessor to Microsoft’s Xbox Live Indie Games. Basically, a dev kit, the $750 USD package contained a special black-colored debugging PlayStation unit with documentation, software, and no regional lockout. A computer was still used however to write the code, compile it, and send the program to the PlayStation.

This auction is for a sealed system.

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Playstation 2 PS2 Pearl White Console
Sundance Dark Of The Sun Vectrex Console - SE 1 of 3.

Here's a game you probably never heard before: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Another EA game so guess what, another EA online exclusive offer to get a REAL Signature Edition copy. This was announced back in December and there are only 2,000 copies of it worldwide. According to the official site, "All Prismere Troll figures in the Signature Edition will be signed by either Todd McFarlane, R. A. Salvatore, or Curt Schilling, are numbered 1 to 300, and normally retail individually for $175.00."

All the copies they had for this specific edition have since been depleted for all 3 platforms. All that remains is a Special Edition and a Collector's Edition which will probably be there for a while. At least 3 copies have been sold online so far and the game hasn't been out yet. Expensive Edition worthy title! The game is set to be released in the states in February.

PS3: Sold for $625

360: Sold for $600

and another for the 360 for $600

Update: gameSniped commenter winds has this to say:

Just a heads up, but there is actually another significantly more rare edition called the Exclusive Edition. The store selling these signature editions apparently accidentally oversold the Signature Edition by 12 copies (making it 312). To make up for it, they emailed all 312 purchasers a chance to upgrade to 1 of 12 copies of a new “exclusive edition”. It would include everything in the Signature Edition, except instead of a 1 in 300 lithograph, they would receive an alternate 1 in 12 lithograph. As well the troll doll (numbered 1 to 300 for the signature edition) would not be numbered (sort of a downgrade there). There is one of the 12 up for sale now on ebay here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingdoms-Amalur-Reckoning-Extra-Exclusive-Signature-Edition-Xbox-360-2012-/250969281891?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3a6eef5563

This seller has quite an epic list of titles. Not just crap like Earthbound Zero either, but the majority of Limited Editions and real origional new releases done over the past few years.

Fun fact: The seller was once called a dinosaur in the NES Collecting scene. That make me sad as I remember him from before he had a complete set. I must be getting old.

See them all here.

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StarTropics NES Factory Sealed w/H-seam - Cheap NES Sealed Title.
Sealed PAL SNES Super Pang
PS1 PAL Metal Gear Solid MGS Limited Premium Package

It's not everyday that iOS game gets a physical release. Very very few of them actually makes it out of the digital download. Canabalt is one of those simple but very addicting game for the iOS platform and the game now has a physical release for C64!

There are two versions of C64anabalt available; one with a SID chip conversion of Danny B.'s original score by Mikkel Hastrup (Encore), and an alternative build featuring music from the PC indie game ThrustBurst by Andreas Slotte (Ghormak). Unfortunately it wasn't possible to fit them both into a single 16KB ROM, so we've made two versions available to order (more on that in a bit) or download.

Please note that C64anabalt is compatible with NTSC C64's, but lacks the static parallax background cityscape (the background scrolls instead) and it stutters slightly at high running speeds (due to the NTSC machine having less CPU time available). The game also plays fractionally faster than the PAL version. None of these issues severely affect the play of the game, but it should be noted that the game was coded specifically for PAL machines.

The dove-grey cartridge is packaged in a box designed by Adam Saltsman and comes complete with a printed manual.

RGCD is willing to ship this game worldwide so if you're interested, head over to their online shop. This game is supposedly limited.. It cost about $31 USD shipped.

via Joystiq

Its almost embarrassing to do a Ken Griffey item as a feature, but I have to admit I like this press kit. From the fake turf, to the sealed box of Frosted Wheaties and the inflatable N64 bat.  Cheap too.

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Nice Boxed Megadrive 2 + Mega-CD 2 PAL
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 press kit sealed
NES Wayfair Midilines Midi Game
BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL 15th Anniversary BOX
Vinyl Nintendo poster 46inch x 65inch
Nintendo 64 Store Display Vinyl Mario Poster 34 x 90
XBOX Halo Special Edition Green Console in Original Box
Infocom - Zork Users Group - 6 buttons (complete set)