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Old 10-20-2011, 12:28 AM
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How much I paid and how much my most expensive game is worth are two very different things


I very rarely pay over £100 for any game. There was a time when we considered £130 for Steel Battalion to be expensive, and then along came the slew of Guitar Hero / Rock Band bundles, followed by extremely expensive CE's...

These days it seems commonplace to pay over £100 for a lavish CE. A few recent ones I can think of where I have paid around £100 include Resistance 3, Gran Turismo 5, and Killzone 3, not to mention games I have paid more for such as the Black Ops Prestige Edition, MW2 Prestige Edition, Halo 3 Legendary Edition, and Halo Reach Legendary Edition etc... Skyrim and Uncharted 3 will be forthcoming games where I will be paying upwards of £100


But let's forget CE's for a moment. The most I have ever paid for a single game is £230, and that was for Steel Battalion on the eve of the release of Steel Battalion: Line Of Contact. I paid twice the release price for the original game a year after its release as I wasn't aware that Line Of Contact came with it.

Aside from CE's and Line Of Contact, the most I have ever spent on a standard game is about £130 for a factory sealed copy of Pokémon Crystal off eBay. It was the last Pokémon game I required for a full UK set, therefore I was willing to pay the premium on that. I have also been known to pay £100 for several factory sealed N64 games, but no higher

Which brings me back to what I said at the top of my post - My most expensive games I own ar my factory sealed N64 games, where I have personally been offered four-figure sums for certain games. Paper Mario is obviously the pride of my N64 collection, but I also have some very rare sealed copies of other classic games such as Mario Kart 64 and Mario Party 2, to name but a few

Second to these would perhaps be my sealed GameCube games, where I have been offered some obscene triple-figure amounts for certain titles. Mario Baseball is in very high demand!


Out of a collection of over 1,500 games, I estimate that at least 250 of them could easily fetch £100 on eBay, and of those I guess at least 50 or so of them could achieve higher than £200+ (and that's still not including any expensive sought after LE's or CE's!)
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Old 10-20-2011, 02:23 AM
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$300AUS inc shipping for my Street Fighter IV Comic Con 2009 TE stick (only 500 made, I think?).

Stick was great until the joystick became unusable after a few months. Still havent gotten around to trying to fix it yet, unfortunately.
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Old 10-20-2011, 10:08 PM
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My most expensive console was my Halo Reach Xbox 360, £250 xx
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Old 10-21-2011, 03:26 PM
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I'm pretty used to paying around £250-£300 for X360 LE hardware. They're not usually the first things I think of when I'm asked what the most expensive item I own is. But the good thing about most of these LE consoles is that they tend to more or less hold their price
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Old 10-21-2011, 06:12 PM
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Mine is the read dead 360 console in my collection cost me £1400 and that was cheap compared to the other 2 that are out there, the first one sold for £4000.
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Old 10-21-2011, 07:03 PM
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Pfft, I could only wish to spend that kinda money in the one go xx
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Old 10-21-2011, 07:53 PM
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I'm not really that much of a big spender, instead I have an eye for the bargains and a decent amount of patience!

My most expensive addition to my collection(but also one of the best bargains) is my sealed/mint AC2 Black Edition on PS3, which cost me £80 with free shipping!
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Me neither, although I am pretty good at fishing out bargains (when I have the cash) xx
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My most expensive game is a mint copy of Mark of the Wolves on Neogeo AES (JPN). I bought it on eBay for US$450. At the time our dollar wasn't the best so it worked out to around AUD$650!

It's still my pride and joy.
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Old 10-26-2011, 05:26 PM
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My most expensive game is a mint copy of Mark of the Wolves on Neogeo AES (JPN). I bought it on eBay for US$450. At the time our dollar wasn't the best so it worked out to around AUD$650!

It's still my pride and joy.
In THE past i have had about 70 boxed neo geo aes games like pulstar kof 1994 till 2003 and metal slug 3 and 4 and Sonic wings 3 and allot more
I have Buy them in Japan when i whas traveling there ( have been 2 times in Japan )
Pulstar i had Pay about 400 euro's for ( and That whas à Great price )
But this collection have Cost me rally allot lol
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