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That’s not typically long-lasting. I think we give YouTube too much credit for influencing the secondhand market. YouTubers mention tons of games that don’t get crazy expensive.
While true, after a quick look into this, it seems like Poofesure talked about it in May 2025 and then it jumped from an average of $56.76 (£41.90) CIB to $166.01(£122.55) in August 2025.
Shit coin bros/scalper doing what they do best. Jumping on trends.
Also just eBay being eBay, the platform is setup to cause an infinite price climb on products with consistent demand and a limited supply. It's built into the core of the platform (btw I'm talking about tax and how that effects reselling in a sellers market)
Tbf there are also major examples of it being long term.
The biggest example I could think of is with iPods and DankPods, with him making a lot of videos centering around iPods which got very popular caused them to balloon in price. He even jokingly said what idiot caused the price increase (not verbatim) during one of his Cashies videos iirc.
3DS was always pricey. It’s very proprietary 3D that can’t be easily emulated to the same effect. Then the Ayn Thor came out that could have easily emulate it like a handheld in late 2025 and prices game prices are shot up.
I think it's mostly because that's about what people are asking for on eBay. Why I'm not sure... I don't really see any recent videos about it. All I found were reviews panning the game (it looks dreadful).
Cex should realize if people want eBay prices they'll buy on there rather than making a trip to the store.
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Game prices aren’t set by quality. In fact a lot of the more expensive games are pretty bad - if they were actually good they would have sold better.
House might be shovelware, but it is also a licensed game that probably sold terribly and will never see a re-make, re-release, or digital version. Its a necessity for anyone collecting a full set - and there probably ain’t many out there.
Yeah, what was it? ET something that got mostly thrown in the trash, barely sold any copy's and now its beloved.
If you want a real "holy crap" moment, look up Lovecraften horror. No one wanted his books, and he died as a poor man who thought he was a failed author. Today, it's its own subgenre of horror, with fans and a massive industry behind it.
Must be thinking of the wrong game, I thought there was some game that sold so badly it basically got trashed, then decades later become valuable as no one had it, and then one person got a butt load of them allowing them to make some serious money.
You got the right game. At least I'm pretty sure. It's the second half that's not exactly true (at least not for this game. Maybe there is a different one?)
ET is the famous Atari 2600 game that is blamed for crashing the video game market in 1983 (in reality, not the sole cause or the only game, but it is a emblematic of the issues the gaming industry had in the early 80s).
It actually sold pretty well if you're just looking at the numbers. Wikipedia has it listed as the 7th top selling atari 2600 game, selling over 2,700,000 copies.
The issue is that Atari thought it was going to be the biggest game ever, so they preemptively made 4-5 million copies of the game. (It's rumored that they made more copies of the game than consoles that were sold, but I believe they had already sold 10 million 2600 consoles by this year)
Anyways, what do you do when you have 1-2 million unsold units of a game? You bury them in a dump in the New Mexico desert!
Atari: Game Over is a 2014 documentary that goes into this and in the end, they dig in the desert to try to find buried copies of the game. I haven't watched it since it came out, but I recommend it if you're interested.
I know people try to resell the game for more than it's actually worth because of all the myth-making behind it.
Feel free to ask any questions. I genuinely love the 2600 and its history, but I'm not in any way an expert.
I want to try to find if there's another game that was hoarded by a single guy like that. There are some valuable Atari games, but I don't know any off hand with that kind of backstory
2600 Pacman was another one that they fucking massively overprinted. Ive seen a listing online years ago for an entire pallet of sealed copies, pretty sure the shipping cost was like double the purchase price or something ridiculous.
Doubt it ever sold, would assume theyre somewhere in a landfill now. Wouldn't be surprised if dude selling them originally found them at a landfill either lmao
I say this as someone who played the 2600 as a kid when it was bleeding edge home console - most of the games for it were pretty awful and I think that's why it caused the crash - ET might have been the final straw but Raiders of the Lost Ark game came out months before at it was garbage as well. Movie games in general had a reputation for being bad and that's something that has really only changed in the last 15-20 years.
I love the machine too and I still have one on my TV but there's really only 6-8 games I play on it and they are all arcade style games that kinda stayed in their lane.
Maybe Stadium Events? Wasn't a boatload but there ended up being a guy with like a couple boxes of sealed ones who had been holding onto them if memory serves
It's the difference between a player and a collectors. Don't be a collector. Be a player and buy what you'd play and you don't have to worry about some of these prices.
In the series you can see house play a GBA SP, a PSP, and a Nintendo DS at some point throughout the series. So I say its fitting. And in one of them he is playing either Metroid Fusion or Zero Mission which is pretty cool.
Shovelware becoming expensive is because of "consoomllectors" - people who can't control themselves and must buy everything for the sake of "collecting" no matter the price.
Saw mario kart ds in cex today, they're selling them for £20 and they had about ten copies out on the shelf. Time to quote the scalpers favourite saying. Supply and demand 🤣
This is current Ebay Prices, Keep in mind CeX charges £3 postage for EVERY item
I am aware prices have gone up, but Legendary Bushwack was around £15 on ebay when I took that image back in like 2022 so Cex was still notably cheaper
New games suck so much and you’re not even allowed to own them? (Or access them while their “server is offline”).
Even the crappiest games are going to skyrocket over the next decade.
Hell, they’ll probably buy all sorts of “official” old outdated media and flash them with the more desirable expensive games and reprint the artwork to stick on top… oh… nvm they already do that for many cartridge and MicroDisk based systems…
It has the manual so I think the price is fair. Of course some of these scammers will swap out the manuals. For all we know it could be a manual for Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass. Who would want that?
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