Why Are Pokemon Games So Expensive?

Pokemon games have skyrocketed in price lately. Why?
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[@mathewricafrente5984]

Honestly, I'm really happy I managed to get legit copies of Platinum, HeartGold, Black & Black 2 for a total of $210 before the prices got jacked up.

[@ajflink]

I still own Pokémon Emerald when it originally came out with the battery replaced two years ago. For the price of it now, you may as well be getting mugged.

[@derekr3895]

I used to buy DS pokemon games for about $7 each. Even when prices were in their $30s/$40s. There is no shortage of supply for these games so the prices being so high doesn't really make any sense.

[@SeethingSimp]

Why "honestly" - you're not venting some controversial topic

[@lordjaraxxus5418]

@@derekr3895 I blame demand.... Every place I go with Pokémon games tend to sell out within a day of being put out in the storefront.

[@Strashky]

that price is already double what i paid for those 4 together when i bought them. just shows how insane prices became

[@rileyk5228]

Sealing and grading games is so absurdly idiotic

[@iframes2d]

I agree 100%

[@Ningsoong]

​@@s2dI agree 200%

[@SMCwasTaken]

Fr It's basically people gaslighting themselves into thinking a sealed box is worth 1000 bucks

[@OttonFilms]

really depends. An extremely good condition of any game that is 20+ years SHOULD be perserved. 5 million US copies only, 90% of those are now lose and beat up, I bet the percentage of really good condition CIB or sealed pokemon games are in the 1-3%. I constanly play through my games, with emulation now why run the risk of damaging a very good collectable? Its a sort of unpopular opinion but I think it's idiotic to have a simplistic ideology to view CIB/Sealed games as anything more than a collectors item. If you really, really want to play the game with original hardware there are TONS of loose copies going for a fraction of the price of CIB or sealed games. People who are trying to actually play the game aren't paying for CIB/sealed copies lol. I grade games that will never be opened, and are very collectable items. Not to scalp them or resell, just to catelog and keep them safe. Finally, grading works as a system to show conidtion differences. Out of all the CIB copies that survived a child not completely destroying them, one that has high coesmetic damage, should not be put in the same price range as a prestine condtition box. Just like overpay for a low mileage very clean collectable car is much higher than a car that is rusted and high milage. No one is taking away from your ability to play the titles.

[@aporue5893]

@@SMCwasTaken I don't think any game is worth that much [my opinion]

[@OliverSkatt03]

“I wanna have fun like I used to 20 years ago” *puts unopened game in a sealed case hoping it is worth more money* Nah bro, you sit on the games. You’re not enjoying them like you used to. 🤣🤣

[@SMCwasTaken]

He probably has a big belly hiding in his body

[@pulser08]

Nothing makes me laugh more than when people "collect" sealed product. Like that's not collecting, it's just long-term scalping.

[@snappysausage]

@@pulser08 If you're broke just say so 🥺

[@aaisusgamingchannel]

@@snappysausage "if you're broke just say so" 🤓found the scalper

[@lukaskidd4621]

Sealed games that are older NEED to be preserved. Also, they will be the new antiques.

[@frostbittenwinds9703]

I bought my friend a $60 copy of Platinum literally weeks before the price inflated astronomically in 2020 and at one very brief point in time I had three of the world's authentic copies of Pokemon Platinum--definitely the highlight of my life!

[@animosity3771]

ain’t no way bro pressuring us to buy BOTH versions of BDSP 💀

[@MaiSakurajoestar]

I thought I lost my old platinum and soul silver copies a couple years ago, then one day my aunt was vacuuming her house and found my games underneath her couch. Was a happy day to get those back, and relieved I didn’t have to buy new ones.

[@AJGAMING004.]

was the save still there?

[@danny9732]

Similar thing happened to me. Thought I lost my case with my ds and copies of diamond, heart gold, black, white, and white 2. Turns out I had just left the case at my grandmas house and she had it in the cabinet under her tv for years.

[@supersayianshrek5455]

I'm not paying $1000 for a game I can steal and play on multiple devices for free.

[@ronalburgos3855]

Insane I got pokemon fire red and left green at target for 19.99 each. Even today May 14 2024 I still have them even the boxes. Emerald Rudy Sapphire I got them all those years from e-bay all originals but there were way cheaper then

[@Jesse12489]

Nobody asked you.

[@lynnietoes]

facts

[@takcleberry]

@@Jesse12489 cope

[@VanJR.]

Which is why this wouldn’t apply to you

[@matthewskyle1]

It is crazy that games that sold millions of copies are now worth 5x their original price. Especially ones that werent super popular.

[@enthused7591]

The population in 2000 was around 6 billion and it's 8 billion now. It'll be 9 billion in 10 years and Pokemon keeps growing in popularity. Plus as inflation causes cash to be worth less and less, old Pokemon games get lost, broken and trashed every day. It's just like buying an old collectible muscle car. They were $2,500 new but cost $50,000 today. Too many people who have money want one, and only 10% of them are still around.

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

Nintendo share holders should sue. they are wasting resources fighting copyright in court when they could just port the games for a decent price to switch like its just insane at this point a company hates its customers so bad

[@konata8657]

the way I see it if the game isn't available as a rerelease or something like a virtual console by the publisher and the only way to get it is through secondary market with insane prices there's nothing wrong with pirating the game. or if it's a Nintendo game because that company is one of the worst gaming companies out there

[@guilhermecaiado5384]

Absolutelly not They should reprint the original cartridges and implement retrocompatibility on consoles. Nintendo DS is the most sold handheld because of the retrocompatibility with GBA. Just like PS2 is the most sold table console because of retrocompatibility with PS1 (and the ability to play DVD)

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

@@guilhermecaiado5384 i use my ds more then switch its an amazing console

[@kevinnguyen3389]

Crazy how much the prices have sky rocketed. I got a complete LeafGreen in 2017/2018 for $30 (here in Canada). In just a few years, I've seen complete Pearl/Diamond go from $30 to $65

[@jeanpitre5789]

I bought Heartgold in 2013 for like 45 bucks as a loose used cartridge and thought that was a ripoff because it was used, but now I think it's like over 120+ bucks.

[@sovietninja6865]

People are artificially raising the prices out of greed

[@kurs3d280]

I got a near new open box sapphire at a pawn store for 5$ I was so hyped and it was a real copy

[@sploosh0627]

I lucked out, in 2012 I got a loose copy of fire red for $20 but I've gotten the games as they came out since gen 4 and it's a bummer seeing the price shoot up. my suggestion for anyone trying to play gens 1-7 is to just buy a 3ds and homebred it.

[@primecalibur]

Flash carts are a solid option to play things on the hardware, cheaper than picking up game after game

[@enthused7591]

I've resorted to buying replicas, but if Pokemon would just give us physical re releases of 2010 and older games at $39.99 they'd make a quick billion dollars lol. Hopefully they understand that and put something together. I'd go spend $1,000 on physical games if they released everything from red version through Platinum again

[@somerandomguy8541]

It's not the same for me tbh

[@AJGAMING004.]

@@somerandomguy8541well what can you do these days 😔

[@Transientimage]

I think the 3DS games will really start to take off in the next year or two. Even the Japanese versions as they have multiple languages on the cart. But games like BDSP I dont think will ever be expensive given the poor reception and the fact a day 1 patch is required for the game to even run at a decent state and unlock many of the features like the underground and contests. Being that the SWSH DLC included games sold so poorly I think those games will be the last pokemon games to ever reach a truly high physical price as the all digital future will be upon us by the next decade.

[@ajflink]

It's almost impossible to get it from online auctions, especially on Ebay, most times below 200 USD because within the last 24 hours. They will delist the item and immediately start a new bidding with a slightly higher starting bid. It's stupid! If you want X amount of money for something, just but that price up for someone to just buy instead of auctioning. Seriously, I got very close to getting Pokémon Platinum factory sealed for only around 165.50 USD. Then, within 3 hours of the auction ending. They delist the item and auction it off again with a slightly different page and one extra image starting at 15 USD more than the original auction. To make matters worse, these auctioneers tend to complain about people complaining about defects in this supposed mint condition items. You posted it as New or Brand New. You have no excuse for people calling you out.

[@jeanpitre5789]

Why is delisting an auction allowed? That seems like it should be grounds for banning an account.

[@ajflink]

@@jeanpitre5789 No idea.

[@TheReZisTLust]

​​@@jeanpitre5789in case someone mistakenly put the wrong info is my guess

[@AlexanderShelestov]

I guess it's like with artists lived in Medieval: many people can draw better nowadays, but everyone wants to have an old and famous picture in their collection.

[@guilhermecaiado5384]

But that wouldnt make to be a crime to own a print of monalisa as a decoration

[@decegrease]

My man is sitting on a $50 chair holding like a grand in old Pokémon games lol

[@COTTFLIX]

Far more than a grand

[@lukaskidd4621]

*A* grand? In his hand, yeah, probably. Behind him? Way more.

[@decegrease]

@@lukaskidd4621 ye that's why I said "holding"

[@ultifur]

They're worth a grand to the small minority of people that would pay that, it's like art collection, the value is in the heads of the community that indulges in that hobby, it's a fake value. to me who enjoys the actual games, it is a free .gba file Google search away that then goes onto my £60 emulation handheld

[@MaxihVG]

I'm glad I started collecting the pre-switch Pokémon games just for pure love to the franchise. Never thought the prices would be these high

[@alicefox7076]

I know for some people having “real” carts are a big deal but I’m WAY happy with my 208 in 1 cartridge that I got for like $20 that includes ALL DS Pokémon games and haven’t had any save problems

[@xrthvr4108]

It has a time bomb and one day it’s gonna stop running games, I suggest you take the SD card out and save the .SAV files routinely once a month

[@alicefox7076]

@@xrthvr4108 nope, had it over 6 years my guy 1 of which was spent in my car in the hot Nevada summer heat…ZERO ISSUES

[@frostjack5456]

​@@xrthvr4108or install ysmenu

[@alicefox7076]

@@xrthvr4108 wrong! Had it over 6 years with no problems

[@JtwasLuck]

@@xrthvr4108 he can also install YSMenu to get rid of the timebomb (if it has one).

[@Juuchan17]

I'm glad I got my copies of mostly all the DS games back when I was able to, like in the late 2000s/early 2010s for decent prices (around $30 for each legit cartridge). This isn't counting the ones I played, but lately I make sure to get the Double Pack on opening night for any two-game generation.

[@cliffturbo2146]

I wish I could go back in time and get them. I now have Soulsilver (A friend of mine gave it to me), but I have more nostalgia for Heartgold for some reason😆

[@vitgerivaz]

The problem is that with current generations, You cannot get the whole game on the cartridge. The "Complete" version of pokemon SV only includes the 1st DLC on cartridge and a code for the second. Unless there are future reprints, you will never be able to get the full gen 9 games on a cartridge.

[@michaelbrown7455]

You wonder why people are learning how to emulate. It's free, simple to download, and contains features like inserts for cheat codes and speed up that the OG copies don't offer. Not being able to evolve Kadabra is worth the hassle.

[@johnradford1148]

I wonder how feasible it would be for Game Freak or Nintendo to reprint and reissue Gameboy and DS cartridges. Like not make new remakes, but literally reprint new copies of old games. Yeah I imagine that the proprietary hardware and factory tooling to reprint decades old games have long been retired, but given the outrageous prices in the second hand market, there is a sizable market and demand that I think would justify whatever trouble it would be. Plus this would help crackdown on counterfeit and bootleg copies and emulators (no hate to the emulators, Nintendo literally gives us no choice😭). Sure there’s the Virtual Console, but there is an untapped retro physical market.

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Nintendo is one of the most greedy gaming companies out there , they’d never do something like that 😂

[@filiporvik2782]

I do get wanting the boxes and papers etc, but I’ll never understand collecting games I like in shiny boxes I can’t open to play them. That’s the whole point.

[@ChfHappySack]

I got pokemon emerald when it first came out when I was 10. Played the hell out of it and loved it. A few years later I kinda just fell out of pokemon so I sold it for $5 to some neighborhood kid. Many years later, 2016, I wanted to relive my childhood experience. I bought an authentuc copy for $35. I'm SO GLAD that I did now that I see it sells for $200-$250. I also have an authentic Leaf Green I purchased (also 2016) from a local game shop for $20. It currently sells for about $100. I have a mini investment in 2 simple gameboy cartridges holding a 5Mb file each, valued at $350. That's insane.

[@phillipbotter6470]

Lemme know if anyone buys that for how much yall think its worth lmfao. Shits worth 25 cents. Millions of these games were made. Supply and demand my ass yall are on crack.

[@ChfHappySack]

@@phillipbotter6470 Just went to ebay and searched "Pokemon Emerald Authentic". Filtered the results by sold items. I just saw 10+ listings sold for $190. Eat my ass.

[@SMCwasTaken]

DON'T invest in Pokemon games You're enabling scalpers

[@dellstudio10]

@@phillipbotter6470People do buy them for that much. That’s why the prices are so high. The market determines the value and the market has valued these games at there current price. If they weren’t selling for hundreds of dollars they wouldn’t be listed for hundreds of dollars. Supply and demand is real. If there were more copies available than buyers then the prices wouldn’t be so high. The people that want to own these games outpaces the supply which created the high prices.

[@ultifur]

​@@SMCwasTakenI realised nobody actually hates scalpers, they hate that they can't get involved in the racket

[@MarioMasterProductions]

Scott the Woz: "Nintendo" *gets punched in the face*

[@lateusbetelgeuse]

bro I usually don't watch this kind of videos... and now I remember why. I felt asleep watching youtube and woke up with your video on and now I feel like I have to spend hundreds of dollars before it has to be thousands in a few years. nevertheless very enlightening your last comment, I'm definitely going for it cuz they're still very cheap (I got my sealed pearl for $22 on ebay a week ago)... it's now or never

[@ArceusRules]

Thank you for this. I appreciate the explanation of this And it makes me more aware of this for my future. Great video. Would love to see more like this.

[@Omar-uj9xw]

As a proud owner of Silver/Gold/Crystal, Black 2, and Gale of Darkness, I see this as an absolute win 😭🙏

[@pokezillafan312]

Unfortunately my old silver save file got corrupted from the battery dying, I never got BW2 bc I thought Pokémon was for children at that time and my XD disappeared somewhere 😢

[@Ameni2d]

I managed to get a complete copy of Pokemon Black in a Cex store for £30….. I was so shocked I screamed in the shop lol

[@markbeach8996]

Absolutely stupid leaf green carts are 100$ + rn

[@add69420]

So you buy 2 of each and keep one in the sealed box?

[@teamofone1219]

It’s because of an artificial scarcity not many people are willing to sell their games or don’t even know they have them laying around the house. Resellers are taking advantage of this so they can charge whatever they want and collector will pay any price even if they know it’s bs.

[@ganymedehedgehog371]

No it’s actual scarcity. Artificial scarcity would be if there was a secret stockpile of games that could satisfy demand but is held regardless. There’s more people that want copies than there are people willing to sell their copy.

[@Qwerty10254]

Sounds like very real scarcity to me

[@guilhermecaiado5384]

No, its how the world works. A MClaren F1 is worth 16 million pounds now, and used to be sold by less than 1. Works of art can reach infinite, you cant just buy monalisa. A rare thing that people want costs more Just like a diamond, a real big one is rare and expensive, but a fake one can be made to cut glass as a tool. But to games, the companies could make more and make consoles compatible, and keep preservation, like is being made with movies. But they choose the greed route

[@kh2rp671]

I just got into these pokemon stuff, I was cleaning some drawers and found some game my boys used to play. I'm a ebay reseller and looking for stuff to sell, I found atleast 7 pokemon games. I will keep it now instead of selling.

[@fatcatfroggie]

Welp, time to sell my kidneys and finish my childhood collection

[@gordystillman5713]

I feel terrible about having tossed my boxes for Gen 1 through 3 as a kid. It wasn’t until 3ds carts that it remotely looked like keeping the cases was important.

[@RobotGuy405]

bdsp specifically are already becoming quite spotty when it comes to availability. Anytime I see a Switch game sale with them included they're likely the first 2 games that sell out. The 3DS games as well are all already going for about what they retailed for when they were new, which is only going to go up with the eShop closure.

[@thatoneguy8801]

150 bucks for pokemon crystal is very small price to pay for a slice of my child hood. Especially nowadays

[@CSLow_]

When the pandemic hit, I decided to use it as an opportunity to play through my copy of Emerald and recapture a little of that childhood wonder. Then, I thought it would be cool to raise a team and carry them through to the subsequent generations and play through those newer Pokemon games I never experienced; make my pandemic a sort of exciting, nostalgic adventure/challenge. I traveled to various game stores around where I live and bought myself a DS, 3DS, and a copy of Platinum, X, Black 2, and Ultra Moon. Blows my mind finding out years later how valuable and sought after these games are, but for me the true value of these games are in actually playing and experiencing them.

[@PhilippeSymons]

To be honest, I don't particularly care whether it's an authentic copy at these prices. But what I do care about is that: - transferring pokemon to the next gen works - connectivity to games like pokemon colosseum/XD works - The clock RTC works If you can sell a repro that does all of this, I'm buying. However, for the GBA, I've heard the ez-flash omega definitive edition flash cart can do all of these things. Therefore I will probably look at that. For DS games, I think the reproduction carts probably work fine as the DS has its own clock

[@_stardustcolors]

i used to have cartridges of both black and white when i was little (iirc i was given black and my brother was given white) but i don't have them anymore (i lost black a very long time ago and lost white along with my old broken 2ds a few years ago too), so since i now have a new modded 2ds (same model and colour as my old one, original model in pink and white) i've just resorted to piracy atp (please don't crucify me)

[@blueseadreamon1]

I was doing spring cleaning and came across a Crystal pokemon (Not for resale). It's in fairly good condition. Do you know how much it would be worth? It's currently in auction on a fb group for 600$CND.

[@TheJuice401]

do you have paypal at all id be interested

[@drop9482]

I still have an original copy Pokémon Saphire with it’s original box, as well as some other games from the DS era in their boxes. Anybody know where I can get more information on what I can get for that?

[@krispychiken5279]

It's worse cause in a few years the 3ds Pokemon games are gonna go for the same prices for no reason, also thank you for showing me Buyee as I've been able to find Japanese Pokemon games for cheap!

[@ilovepepperpizza3152]

Black and white are alr going up to those prices

[@expiredmilk09]

I found a legit Platinum copy that looks brand new, with a manual, and a working game, all for $40 at half price books. This was back in 2021, when the spike had already been in place. I got really lucky. Now I'm just trying to complete my collection by finding and buying missing cases for my games.

[@Katieluv2sing18]

Dude i've been asking this question for years! Thank you for this video!

[@Johnpaulhdz]

I remember buying diamond, pearl and platinum for 40 dollars 5 years ago. Now its like 60 for just one of them

[@Manueltion15]

You mentioned lost games amounting to a larger price. That makes sense and now the price for BDSP has went up because I lost both copys

[@yaycupcake]

I grew up with Pokemon in the 90s and have all the old mainline games up through the 3DS era physical, except LeafGreen which sadly I lost as a kid. I used to have some of the spinoffs but my parents made me sell them if I wanted to the new games... Sucks because that only got me maybe $20 but if I had them now, I could get much more for them. I kind of want to pick up copies of the old games I don't have, as well as a hard copy of the Switch titles, but I'm also not really a huge collector type, and don't have a ton of disposable money to throw around. That said, if I want to play the old games again, I'm fortunate enough to be able to read Japanese well enough to play one of those copies with no issue. I actually played SoulSilver and Black in Japanese before they came out in English (I think I bought copies at an anime convention) and I did totally fine, and I'm significantly better at Japanese than I was back then. If I do want to pick up old games, I'll honestly probably go with the Japanese versions.

[@edmundandlucy]

I would love a copy of XD Gale of Darkness for Gamecube but the price is so high. Hoping one day for a port of Colosseum and Gale of Darkness for Switch

[@urbanhazard3788]

recently got one at a good price i own complete colosseum game and battle revolution one sealed ntsc one in my collection and now xd gale of darkness pal ntsc versions are 185-400 dollars in price

[@alucard8433]

I got mine a few years ago for 80$ i felt like i got ripped off but kinda glad i only paid that much now lol.

[@philip0544]

Colosseum and XD will never come back, calling it. I'm pretty sure they're the last games tpci would ever rerelease, they don't even like to acknowledge that they exist at all.

[@Calruxio]

When i was a kid i would always get the newest mainline pokemon game and several side games. Over the years i only missed out on Blue, Silver, Crystal, Soulsilver, and Black 2. I still need to get Blue, Silver, and Crystal but i got Soulsilver and Black 2 a couple years ago. I got Soulsilver CIB, pokewalker for a good price (150 i think) and i got a rare untouched copy of Black 2 CIB and came with it's preorder bonus coin. It was a sealed copy but its seal was broken. The plastic layer was ripped off at the corner. The game box was perfectly fine and i picked that up at about $200. I still need some of the more obscure side titles for my collection though.

[@asl6304]

Without the pandemic factor being at play (with people thinking the world was imminently ending and that they would be stuck indoors and so, should have something nostalgic), I can only think of the current Pokemon games' quality and inflation being the cause of still very high prices. I hope at some point to get Black 2 US version with case and manual just for the completionist in me and at around $25 which I'm pretty sure is not happening anytime soon lol.

[@jeanpitre5789]

Correction. If you did not download pokemon bank BEFORE the 3DS servers shut down, you will NEVER be able to trade a pokemon up from Emerald all the way to Scarlet. It's simply no longer possible. Thats only doable for pokemon fans that already had a 3DS and Pokemon bank before the server shutdown.

[@rigoti]

Correction. You can still get pokemon bank using an easily modified 3DS.

[@Zilear]

About 5 years ago I found a legit copy of Ruby for 20 dollars, and around the same time I found a legit Japanese copy of Heart Gold on Amazon for 17 dollars. I do have legit copies of almost every DS and GBA Pokemon game now. Most of them are from my childhood.

[@thesauceboss2610]

Are they still worth anything if you have the case but not sealed?

[@markmontes4736]

As a kid I had everything between leaf green up to black and white (including spin offs). Then my idiot self left my ds with case full of games on a bench at the mall within a store and while I was still in the store someone swiped it by the time I walked back across the store, a sad day indeed

[@Marcos0ne]

Thanks man, I still have them

[@MarioBeart]

The final advice is very wise. We better hurry up buying some newer games we take for granted. I want to do a second run on Gen 7 games but I was lazy ("Yeah, whatever, I'll buy it next year when I have time..."), now I'll buy it sooner.

[@whiteboyangel4838]

I didn't get it until I've got into sneakers. Spending 200 on some shoes make u understand why people do on a game

[@PelucheProductions]

I don't have a CIB emerald but, I am happy getting a NFR version with a metroid fusion NFR together at a deal. I even managed to get a SoulSilver pokewalker CIB copy for half of what they go for nowadays, was even nearly all brand new no damage either. So I am happy on that (:

[@guilhermecaiado5384]

What people dont realize is that the lack of retrocompatibility and greed of companies overlooking preservation is what is creating scarcity. If nintendo kept doing nintendo advance cartridges and making nowadays consoles retrocompatible with it, they would keep selling billions instead of 7 millions of pokemon emerald games. But piracy is a must, digital on emulation or fake cartridges, since the company that own its rights is not making. Just like diamond, we need to cut glass, so technonoly had to make the fake one, so the real ones are used on jewerly.

[@Left4Bill]

I traded my Heart gold with the walker into GameStop when I was in middle school. They gave me $3 for it...

[@JillBudgie]

good thing i have all the og games CIB in my collection probably just missing the lets go pika and eevee games, and the ultra sun and moon dual pack

[@Manueltion15]

I got Pokémon silver on the 3ds back when the EShop was still open. I wish I could get other ones that way

[@Kairos88]

I still have my originals for Blue, Gold, Crystal, Sapphire, and leaf green. Looking at prices now i should get emerald now while i still can lol.

[@czirhdz825]

Just bought a Pokemon emerald CIB but don’t know if it’s authentic how can I find out

[@josh.9782]

Im so disappointed in my younger self for selling pokemon emerald with the box for like $60. Thankfully i still have soul silver with the pokewalker, pearl, platinum, and all the gen 5 games with the boxes.

[@estebangutierrez8647]

Is eBay the best platform to buy any retro gameboy console/games?

[@louisebarker3731]

my first pokemon game was yellow in 1998 at age 15. i was a on and off pokemon game buyer till the ds era where i started buying both versions.i’m so glad i bought all the pokemon gb era off the eshop before it closed because a year after it closed i found my original pokemon silver gb cartridge battery had died.😢

[@OmniSaiyan-dd5bo]

I need a legit copy of Pokemon Emerald for $400, so I can hunt Shiny Deoxys legitimately.

[@perryb3263]

I wonder if part of the reason too, is so many like me who 31, never sold their Pokemon games, and intends to keep them till death, as just recently I bought replacement save batteries, as the ones in the 2nd gen games, do to the clock/ aka RTC, lasted 12-15 years if lucky, where as 1st gen batteries can last up to about 35 years if lucky, and while on that subject, the 3rd gen Pokemon games use a cart battery only for the clock, so that battery going dead alone, wont erase your 3rd gen data, just that the games have game play issues without a working clock battery

[@_emory]

Because value is subjective, and you’ll have to unalive me to get my blue version from me

[@Xizfu]

Silver and soulsilver are objectively the inferior verisions

[@larsnars427]

been holding onto ny sapphire since i got it back in 05😭😭😭 never giving it up

[@LandofHeros2234]

And this is why companies should continue to produce older games

[@BadatNick2263]

I bought a copy of Pokemon White 2 recently on EBay for like $20 (which I knew was a red flag, but I was willing to risk it). It turns out it was a bootleg hard copy of Pokemon Volt White 2. At first, I was upset, but it was actually a nice surprise. The game was refreshingly more difficult than official Pokemon games, had plenty of quality-life-of features, and was compatible with trading with my actual Black 2. I guess the moral of this story is that good things can come out of bad ones lol.

[@minigomes8240]

I got pokemon platinum for 72€ in this year i also got pokemon sun for 25 pokemon omega ruby for 38 and pokemon sword for around 30 and pokemon violet for 45

[@joshuacaleau2328]

*Kicking self for getting rid of childhood video games.*

[@parkourguyyy]

I felt unbelievably happy when I picked up a copy of heartgold for $60 at the beginning of the pokemon go craze. only one gamestop in my area had it, and I still have it to this day though I dont play it anymore

[@JackCooper243]

I bought Pokémon Fire Red, Emerald, and Heartgold in boxes for a total of over £500. They aren’t even in mint condition. I’m still happy I have them though. I never owned a Kanto Gen 3 game, my ruby copy is busted and my sapphire copy turned out to be a fake.

[@VioletBoy1969]

do bootleg carts allow trading between other bootleg/ real ones?

[@alucard8433]

I have had no problems with trading repo to repo, and repo to authentic in gens 3, 4, and 5. I have only ever owned 1 repo for gen 2 and the game barely worked, couldn't trade no clock etc.

[@dragonslayer21]

Good video, I am so deflated that either my copies of crystal, sliver, blue, yellow,red,green and gold, and ruby are missing or worse my friends stole them. I am hoping I can find them

[@gabrielalvarez9590]

I buy my Pokemon games at a flea market across the border in Mexico. Got soul silver for 70 bucks🗿

[@jaiyden250]

I’ve always wanted to collect every pokemon game. I looked into the Japanese copies and they’re so inexpensive compared to English copies and I’m seriously considering buying them. Would you recommend it?

[@paulopacheco7768]

When I learned how expensive this game can be I became very grateful for my mom always telling me to always keep the boxes in case I ever wanted to sell them. Now I have 4/5 gba with boxes and lots of other ds that worth quite a bit

[@Alma-B]

who would sell their crystal for only 100 and gold/silver for 30-40 💀💀

[@MLPGamer44]

Even in 2007, my mom got me a emerald cartridge, which was an Australian bootleg and would crash or freeze. I can’t imagine trying to ding an authentic emerald copy today.

[@johndixonkingdom]

My sons first Pokemon game is scarlet and now he's hooked. He wants to play the old games. Good job i grew up with Pokemon and own them all.

[@dragonbike471]

i'm selling my pokemon games for $650 tomorrow 10 pokemon games which from ebay i think if it was in great condition and with the boxes i could've gotten it for $1.1k but i stored all my games in a case but the boxes are somewhere in storage or destroyed depending how my dad handled all my game cases i had when i was a kid. Soul silver, heart gold, Green/red, plat, white and black, white2 and black2, platinum, mystery dungeons something. Should i be doing this. I kinda need the money right now but not really. I'm just wondering if they are going to skyrocket in price again in a little while.... I might as well be my own little collector but i dont understand collecting something that i can play on my Miyo mini 2

[@dragonbike471]

i also dislike how pokemon has been lazy and nintendo for not improving their console

[@jxdas5847]

I'm collecting at the minute long time player here and I'm finding it incredibly hard to find authentic games boxed

[@b-rad1170]

It drives me nuts that I lost my copy of emerald in my old room…

[@nethanielpetrillo9537]

That's very good to know Skul, 10/10

[@kaox44]

I'm happy with MINT used POKÉMON CIB. SEALED copies runs into the resealed issue. FYI, even "English" version cost more in Japan (most Asian countries)...not sure why.

[@RayenDark]

I kept every copy of pokemon since I was 10in the days of red/blue. Simply because I didn't have the heart to trade in the games to buy others. I even have all the spin off games like XD gale of darkness etc. I can just go back and grab the special pokemon or old friends from way back in the day and bring them to the current games. I still had the old Follow Me Magmar on my soul silver game and can now enjoy this special girl in the current Indigo disk.

[@ggletsplay5041]

I grabbed a all of the ds and 3ds pokemon games back a while ago. They were like 20-40 bucks each used. Sad to see the price spikes on all of these for folks who just want to play them.

[@ranproxy6912]

I'm so happy I decided to buy HeartGold at GameStop a few years back. As far as I can tell, it's real. Passed the light test and everything. It was about $45.

[@hannah60000]

Was it loose? Not too bad, but ridiculous if it was loose…

[@danielcm4237]

I remember back in 2019 when I bought Pokémon White + Pokémon FireRed (loose) for 303 reais, which converting to dollars is around $60,00

[@marioaugustoribeiro619]

Eu já tinha uma cópia do SS, e White. Aí uns 7 anos atrás eu fui atrás de pegar os que faltavam da terceira e quarta geração. Que sorte que eu acabei dando, pq hoje os preços estão altíssimos kkkkk

[@danielcm4237]

@@marioaugustoribeiro619 Rpz, vc deu sorte msm kkkkkk Da Gen 5 pra trás tudo encareceu. Dos jogos de DS, os que eu peguei foi o Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, White e Black 2

[@marioaugustoribeiro619]

@@danielcm4237 No momento eu ando revirando a casa procurando onde tá um Emerald original que comprei do meu amigo por 50 conto, espero que n tenha perdido, se n vai ser triste kkkkk.

[@wizkalifa650]

I have all of the main line games some loose some CIB and I am sooooo happy about it I also started collecting pokemon limited edition consoles which I keep sealed

[@Trixie_Lavender]

I have Emerald, Red Rescue Team, HG, and SS with their boxes 😱 Pokéwalkers are somewhere. I almost never play them, so it is tempting to sell them and use an emulator if I want to play them

[@mike-A299]

I'm thankful that I got a copy of Heart Gold for £15 off of Craigslist in 2015. That'll never happen again!

[@quiethate]

Me sitting here getting these games for free on an App Store app.

[@birdofclay9581]

I was happy to come across a copy of Pokémon X for about 25 € last year. Both box and cartridge looked kinda beaten, but the game ran just fine. Nowadays I´m generally more of a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon guy. I got Blue Rescue Team in box about a decade ago (and recently replayed it), bought Super Mystery Dungeon back when it came out in 2016 and found Gates to Infinity for about 10 € (cartridge only) last year. Still haven´t played any of the Explorers games; people always recommend Explorers of Sky, but the prices for that one specifically are rough.

[@needszeebs6942]

Honestly, the thing I think a lot of people miss is that Pokemon games have always been kinda expensive (at least relative to the other games for said system). I remember buying a loose Sapphire cartridge in like 2010 from a flea market for like $30-$40 CAD. My Silver cart I bought in 2016 for $40. And I got a loose copy of HG in like 2019 for around $60. What's interesting to me is that some games have a significantly wider gap between loose and CIB. Like RBY for example, carts are pretty cheap around $40 but CIB in good condition can be upwards of $400. Whereas Emerald carts are like $200 and CIB is around $500-$600. I think the games that have more expensive carts are games people actually have interest in playing, whereas some of the older CIB games are collection pieces, rather than actually intended to be played (RBY/GSC)