SNES Wild Guns - rare game?

Liquid Snake

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I've seen this game goes $200+ for bare cart on Ebay. Are you serious?

I remember I sold my complete copy here for about $50 in 2003.............:(
 
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It sort of is I guess. What's the word 'semi-rare/uncommon'? I'm not really sure. I guess it's a rare one. Great game, lots of fun...Another of the unfortunate 'victims' of the SNES sky-rocketing price hikes.
 
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I didn't realize the value of this was so high either. I just scoped out ebay's sold auctions. The manual alone has been selling for $100 and the empty box sold for $150-$200! I guess this is what happens when all the snes kids grow up and get good jobs.
 
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SNES crap is super hot right now and Natsume stuff is all out of control, couple that and this Video Grading bullshit that everyone is falling into and that makes the value skyrocket. I hope this bubble busts and people's collections are worthless. I'm tired of hearing about " Oh I bought two copies, one to play and one to keep sealed, I like the art" Then get a poster of the cover then.
 
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You can get this for a fraction of the price on the Wii Channel... no box or paper manual!

BTW, great game :)
 
Kid Panda

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Tarma said:
You can get this for a fraction of the price on the Wii Channel... no box or paper manual!

BTW, great game :)
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I'm surprised that these games coming out on virtual console hasn't helped the price drop, but oh well.
 
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kidpanda said:
I'm surprised that these games coming out on virtual console hasn't helped the price drop, but oh well.
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VC games don't collect dust the same way as the original carts I guess.
 
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kidpanda said:
I'm surprised that these games coming out on virtual console hasn't helped the price drop, but oh well.
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Dude look at the site your posting on. Old farts like us will always prefer hard copies instead of strictly digital downloads.
 
El Maricon Loco

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Nah, expecting VC to drop SNES cart values is a pipe dream. Hope you guys all got in your SNES collections when the market was based in reality. I'm tempted to start unloading my SNES shit before it goes pop, but considering the amount of morons still skyjacking prices, I'll hold out a while.
 
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Wild Guns was 50 bucks when I got my copy about a year and a half ago. It doubled overnight immediately after it was featured in Game Grumps.
 
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Vice I think your on to something. It might be time for me to unload my megaman X's, Final Fantasies and Mario RPG. Since they're almost worth their weight in gold.

ViceMikey said:
Nah, expecting VC to drop SNES cart values is a pipe dream. Hope you guys all got in your SNES collections when the market was based in reality. I'm tempted to start unloading my SNES shit before it goes pop, but considering the amount of morons still skyjacking prices, I'll hold out a while.
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I have one with it's box I got off ebay for $14 years ago. I just looked it up last month and was floored by the price. I'm gonna offload mine on ebay soon I think. I got the game because of Diehard Gamefan magazine's review of it.
 
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My friend got it for 25 bucks at Video Games New York years ago and people know VGNY for jacking up the price of their games. We played through it three times that night and I was never able to find another copy and I sure ain't going to now with the way people have been pricing it.

I also wonder why no other publishers made more Wild Guns/Sin and Punishment type games on the original Wii. I know there's a Wii-Ware game but I heard it wasn't that good. You'd think the nunchuck and Wii-Mote pointer combo would make more run and gun games like that. I would have loved to have seen Konami re-do the arcade version of G.I Joe with those controls.
 
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I picked it up loose a few years ago for around $40 on eBay, which I thought was really high. Now it's just crazy.

I'm sad that I missed out on Mega Man 7, the price on that one's been going nuts lately too.
 
mainman

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You know now that I think about it Wild Guns reminds me of updated Blood Brothers.
 
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That's one of the few SNES titles I play rather often. I think I still have the box and the manual somewhere in the closet with the rest.
 
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Liquid Snake said:
I've seen this game goes $200+ for bare cart on Ebay. Are you serious?

I remember I sold my complete copy here for about $50 in 2003.............:(
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aww shit that's a goddamn shame right there man. just imagine, if you had waited ten years to sell it, you could have made 150 more dollars! AND ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS WAIT TEN YEARS TO MAKE AN EXTRA 150 DOLLARS!
 
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aww shit that's a goddamn shame right there man. just imagine, if you had waited ten years to sell it, you could have made 150 more dollars! AND ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS WAIT TEN YEARS TO MAKE AN EXTRA 150 DOLLARS!
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I'll give you $150 if you can give me ten years back on my age.
 
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kidpanda said:
SNES crap is super hot right now and Natsume stuff is all out of control, couple that and this Video Grading bullshit that everyone is falling into and that makes the value skyrocket. I hope this bubble busts and people's collections are worthless. I'm tired of hearing about " Oh I bought two copies, one to play and one to keep sealed, I like the art" Then get a poster of the cover then.
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It sure has to Ninja Warriors Again,Rocky and Pocky 1&2.Even the sfc version can be a little pricey.There's been times i like to pickup wild arms,but playing it of the flashcart or through the wii/vc is enough for me.
 
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It sure has to Ninja Warriors Again,Rocky and Pocky 1&2.Even the sfc version can be a little pricey.There's been times i like to pickup wild arms,but playing it of the flashcart or through the wii/vc is enough for me.
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Love ninja warriors again, even way way more so than the arcade version. Only negative is the solo player only feature. The price of this cart is not so bad as it is by far more common.
 
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I had to sell PAL SNES collection (after painful deliberation) a few years back after being made redundant vs unable to find work.

I had PAL CIB copies of Ninja Warriors, Mega Man 7, Final Fight 2 & 3 and Super Turrican 2 to name a few. I did research on them at the time to see how much they were worth and turned up nothing. Literally. Presumably due to their rarity. I'd searched for them months before selling for pricing ideas, ballpark figures etc and found zero.

In the end I put them all up, individually, at around £40 - £60 a piece (starting bids) on eBay, only for them to finish at prices I'd not comprehended possible for SNES games. Ninja Warriors alone ended at around the £300 mark. As did Mega Man 7.

SNES collecting has been nuts for sometime now. Probably just retro Nintendo collecting in general tbh. Seems it has a bigger pull/attraction > SEGA which is worth much less by comparison...
 
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I just go with collecting Super Fami stuff these days. It's much cheaper overall and they work just fine on an American SNES if you cut the tabs in the cart slot.
 
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For such a "rare" game, there sure are enough copies of Ninja Warriors on eBay at the moment :rolleyes:
 
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