Hide your wallets and feast your eyes! Here’s a list of fantastic rare video game items on eBay right now.
GAMES
NES – Devil World (Good Condition) PAL Version. This isn’t the rarest game out there. It’s just fun to see, since it wasn’t released in the US.
SNES AERO FIGHTERS COMPLETE MINT!!!
Magical Chase Turbo Grafx 16 North American Version!
Dynastic Hero CD Game Turbo Grafx Turbo Duo US version
SYSTEMS
SUPER FAMICOM BOX Nintendo Hotel System +5 games Apparently growing up in Japan meant getting sweet little gems like this system in your hotel room. I’m jealous… Anyone know how common these were?
Nintendo NES Console “DELUXE SET” Complete Rob Robot
ACCESSORIES
Nintendo NES**BRAND NEW**FREEDOM STICK**Nes controller If I had more space, I’d never post this one and would be bidding on it instead. I’ll admit, I have a weakness for vintage wireless accessories.
Nintendo NES**BRAND NEW**MEGA CONTROLLER**Bandai
Nintendo 64 N64 Custom PINK / WHITE controller ! Look ! Yeah, you know you’re a hardcore collector when you buy a custom pink N64 controller.
Sega Channel Adapter for Sega Genesis Peripheral RARE
COLLECTIBLES
WE LOVE KATAMARI VERY RARE PROMO TOY PS2
VINTAGE SUPER MARIO BOX 16 FIGURES LOT yoshi,luigi,toad I don’t know what’s better, the box or the lot of figures!
1991 Nintendo General Mills Mario Magic Motion Rulers
NINTENDO WII RARE EMPLOYEE ACCESS KEY TO COMPANY DOOR ?
1998 super mario 64 cardboard cutout
original 2004 halo 2 cardboard cutout
VINTAGE Nintendo embroidery pattern, Skateboard Mario +
VINTAGE Nintendo embroidery pattern,Party Mario Bowling
VINTAGE Nintendo iron-on: Mario Madness, Peach + Toad
World of Nintendo Large Retail Sign Nice!!
Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run Autographed Baseball SNES
Back in 1994 or so, Nintendo released a Ken Griffey Jr branded Baseball Game for the SNES. As part of the promotion, they had a contest, with one of the top prizes being official signed Ken Griffey Jr Baseballs.
I was lucky enough to win this contest as a kid. Now I’m ready to part with this baseball and hope it finds a happy home.
The ball is in MINT condition. (Any scuffs you may see are from the poor photos/ Baseball cube.
The ball is Nintendo branded, with green and white colors.
So far as I can tell, there is no other branding on the ball (ie, I don’t think it’s a Rawlings ball)
Playstation 2 PS 2 Blue Neon Sign Ex Cond Works 42″
Nintendo Zelda Action Figure Wind Up Rare Original MINT
Mario and Luigi Collectable Dolls
Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Kraft Cheez Whiz Jar 1989 Snubbing your nose at a 20 year-old empty Cheez Whiz Jar? The last one of these that I saw on eBay ended April 18, 2010 at $124.99 USD.
As a collector, I don’t think I could ever morally justify buying a complete video game collection. I enjoy the hunt for each game way to much. However, I’m downright curious to see what a complete collection of loose N64 games is worth. If you’re also curious, feel free to join me in watching the following auction on eBay:
NINTENDO 64 GAME / SYSTEM LOT has every N64 GAME MINT!!
As a note, the seller ownerage1 states that he’s selling everything to raise funds for college. That’s probably a good more for him, but having done something similar myself while in college, I have to say my heart goes out to him.
As always, there are presently a number of fantastic video game items on eBay. Here are a number of them from my watch list.
Collectibles and Other Unique Items
World Of Nintendo Poster – 1992 Kellogg’s Super Mario
XBOX 360 Halo ODST Controller SIGNED by Bungie Studios
Check out the rest of the fantastic collectible items being sold by goodgamemedia as a fundraiser.
XBOX 360 Halo 3 McFarlane Controller SIGNED by Bungie
Gears of War Lancer SIGNED by EPIC Games
etc.
Nintendo Worlds of Power Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden , etc
Nintendo Mario LCD Watch MINT Rare Vintage Original
Nintendo Mario Yoshi LCD Watch MINT Rare Vintage
Nintendo Killer Instinct Leather Jacket w/belt complete The belt attached to this jacket is a sure sign that the wearer means business.
World Of Nintendo Florescent Sign
Rare Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 35mm film trailer Check out the trailer below.
Halo ODST 1 of a Kind Helmet by Sean Bradley @ 405th
Vintage 1989 Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Plastic Mug
PAC-MAN VINTAGE CUP MUG HOLOGRAM TYPE 1980 COOL VG COND
Original Xbox Store Kiosk! Playable display w/ extras!
nintendo nes test station
Rare & Interesting Games
NES Nintendo FACTORY SEALED RPG Lot AD&D All 4 Games
SEGA GAME GEAR – 30 IN 1 – GAME ULTRA RARE!!!! Oh the beloved multi-carts!
Nintendo Slalom FACTORY SEALED BRAND NEW NES Black Box Forget about Stadium Events! Sealed game collectors are simply nuts. This sealed copy of Slalom is at $404.00 USD with over 4 days to go!
Neo-Geo AES Blazing Star ** NON CONVERSION ** complete Presently at $740.00 USD with over 4 days left!
eBay has some treasures in store for retro gamers and collectors. I’m personally excited to see how much the complete copy of Shantae for Game Boy will go for at auction rather than being listed with an absurd BIN price. Also of interest is the M8 below that’s getting a bit of bidding action. Enjoy!
Spotted on eBay
NINTENDO 64 COLLECTORS DISPLAY SET (good condition) Pretty nifty looking kiosk. I wonder how long the controllers lasted on these.
Vintage NES Nintendo Super Mario Bros. 2 Note Pad
Custom Marvel Legends GREAT TIGER from Punch-Out NES I’m not sure what inspired “Joe of War” to create this particular character. Heck, I’d love a King Hippo. However, you have to respect the retro gaming love.
Seller’s Description: Hello and welcome toy enthusiasts! You are bidding on a Custom Marvel Legends GREAT TIGER from Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out the video game! He was built from a Kraven Marvel Legends 6 inch figure. His gloves are partially sculpted. I also sculpted his turban, jewel in turban, mustache, and goatee. All of it was sculpted with Aves Apoxie sculpt. The chest tattoo is a tribal tiger head done in black. Check out the tiger paw print on the butt of his pants haha! Figure is still posable and comes with stand for display. He was repainted with Testors and Citadel acrylic paints. The last picture shows my work in progress for the figure. Feel free to send me any questions, but NO I do NOT ship outside of the U.S. Check out my custom figure blog here: http://joeofwarcustomactionfigures.blogspot.com/
11X17 PEACH Nintendo Original Sketch Pinup -DaiKon Art
Cosplay Final Fantasy VIII 8 Sword Gunblade Squall
Nintendo PowerFest Poster and Ticket (The BIN of $400.00 USD or Best Offer isn’t totally unreasonably when you consider that the custom framing & matting job itself probably cost the seller $100.00.)
NINTENDO 28 SUPER-SIZED DOMINOES 22 MARIO LUIGI TIN
Shantae (Game Boy Color, 2002) RARE, NM w/ BOX Pretty rare to see complete.
Heavy Rain for PS3 – Rare Press Kit
Nintendo M8 Store Demo Display NES RARE m82 snes
Turbografx 1991 CES booth display **ONE OF A KIND**
Vintage 1980′s 4 foot NINTENDO store display sign RARE
Atari 2600 Demonstration Boards & Documents
Nintendo Mario LCD Watch MINT Rare Vintage Original
Nintendo Mario Yoshi LCD Watch MINT Rare Vintage
Playstation 2 PS2 Test Debugging Station | DTL-H30001 (BIN of $179.99 or Best Offer and the seller has 10+ of them currently.)
Have you spotted a rare video game or collectible that hasn’t been featured here yet? Feel free to submit it to sales@GamesOgre.net
Plus, check out the clearance category for items priced at 40% off! And if that isn’t lovely enough, you’re always welcome to use the “Best Offer” feature to make a reasonable offer on other items in the store. Hopefully, you can find something to give your favorite retro gaming veteran.
Here are some fantastic retro gaming and collecting auctions that I’m watching on eBay. There’s some real museum-quality history popping up here, which is one of the reasons I love collecting and am nuts about eBay. Enjoy!
Games & Accessories
Blockbuster SNES Donkey Kong Country Competition Cart
Nintendo NES NTF2 Test Cartridge Version 1.1
Nintendo NES Joystick Test Cartridge
Nintendo NES Power Pad Test Cartridge
Nintendo NES Port Test Cartridge
Atari 2600 Atlantis II 2 CIB and Contest T-Shirt This insanely rare listing of Atlantis II has been graced by it’s owner (eBay seller scrabbler15) with a couple videos. The videos do a fantastic job of giving the game’s history…and I must say, they also put a smile on my face due to their sheer geek factor. (Ended May 15, 2010 at $6982.82)
Nintendo Game Watch Donkey Kong signed Shigeru Miyamoto
Collectibles, Promo Items, & Misc
Vintage 1990 Nintendo Mario Fabric Panel NEW!
Rare Atari Console Prototype Nolan Bushnell 7800 eBay seller knowwhatimeanvern gives a fantastic history of this “signature searies” Atari 7800 shell:
I acquired this wonderful item several years ago and am now offering Atari collectors the rare opportunity to add this prototype to their collection! You will likely never see this item up for auction again. Please note, this is a pre-production prototype – there are no electronic parts inside. This project was cancelled before the boards were manufactured.
Mr. Vendel provided me with a firsthand look at the history of this amazing Atari 7800 Remake project that was ultimately cancelled. From its ashes rose the successful Atari Flashback plug and play console line.
“Yes, I designed the case along with Tom Palecki of Pear Design whom I brought in to finalize things and run off 8 cases – 10 were actually made as I had two special pearl white ones designed specifically for myself and another for Mark Diluciano with whom I commissioned to create an exact replica of the Gerber files of the original Atari 7800 1984 PC board so that it would fit into the casing.
The project was commissioned by O’Shea Ltd as they had approx. 1 million Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges and wanted to bundle them in with a new console, so they wanted to product approx. 250,000 consoles.
O’Shea approached Nolan Bushnell about doing a “signature series” – I have Nolan’s signature on file from him signing my Atari Pong arcade, we created a digital scan and added his signature to the case label.
The project fell through after that as O’Shea tried to source a factory to front all of the money to product the consoles, none would do it and in 2004 Atari directly asked me to produce a console for them, but had to have something ready within a 10 week window, so using an off the shelf NOAC chip the Atari Flashback 1 console was created.
Of the 8 cases, 6 were delivered to the client as per the contract along with the wooden low production test run molds (aluminum of high grade steel would’ve been needed for doing a full 250,000 pc run, the wooden molds were good for about 20-25 test runs only.) 2 grays stayed with me, which I later sold, but kept the pearl white unit along with the source molds built to create the wooden molds (2 units) of the 8 gray units, half were done with the Atari logo, the other half were done with ProSystem logo on them.”
I asked Mr. Vendel if a production Atari 7800 board could be installed into this prototype shell:
“Almost — the LED light-window on the new shell is much different from the original Atari 7800, so the motherboard needs one minor change – the LED and its stalk need to be removed and the led soldered back on and about 1/2 of the height of what it was originally at.”
More information on this prototype can be found at the following links:
RARE FINAL FANTASY ORB ONLY 50 MADE eBay seller felixollie does a great job explaining the origins of this prize:
This contest was run for the original Final Fantasy RPG designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi of Square for the Nintendo NES.
This awesome collectable is a must-have for the serious collector and Final Fantasy enthusiast. Only 50 Final Fantasy crystal orbs were made and distributed worldwide. It is made of solid lead crystal. The crystal orb is etched with the legend ‘Final Fantasy’; a shield with a crossed axe and sword are etched above. This can be viewed when looking through the crystal orb. The orb has been signed by the artist, Kusak.
Included with the Final Fantasy crystal orb are: 1990 Sept/Oct Nintendo Power Magazine issue 16 which features contest and Final Fantasy crystal orb prize, original box and packaging, and certificates which came with Final Fantasy crystal orb. All are in excellent condition. The orb itself is in perfect condition; no visible scratches, nicks, cracks or signs of wear. Any imperfections in the photos are natural characteristics of this solid crystal piece. This rare orb weighs approximately 1 lb 8.8 oz, and is a bit larger than a baseball.
Be among the 50 lucky people in the world who own such a desirable collectable!
I acquired this wonderful item several years ago and am now offering Atari collectors the rare opportunity to add this prototype to their collection! You will likely never see this item up for auction again. Please note, this is a pre-production prototype – there are no electronic parts inside. This project was cancelled before the boards were manufactured.
Mr. Vendel provided me with a firsthand look at the history of this amazing Atari 7800 Remake project that was ultimately cancelled. From its ashes rose the successful Atari Flashback plug and play console line.
“Yes, I designed the case along with Tom Palecki of Pear Design whom I brought in to finalize things and run off 8 cases – 10 were actually made as I had two special pearl white ones designed specifically for myself and another for Mark Diluciano with whom I commissioned to create an exact replica of the Gerber files of the original Atari 7800 1984 PC board so that it would fit into the casing.
The project was commissioned by O’Shea Ltd as they had approx. 1 million Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges and wanted to bundle them in with a new console, so they wanted to product approx. 250,000 consoles.
O’Shea approached Nolan Bushnell about doing a “signature series” – I have Nolan’s signature on file from him signing my Atari Pong arcade, we created a digital scan and added his signature to the case label.
The project fell through after that as O’Shea tried to source a factory to front all of the money to product the consoles, none would do it and in 2004 Atari directly asked me to produce a console for them, but had to have something ready within a 10 week window, so using an off the shelf NOAC chip the Atari Flashback 1 console was created.
Of the 8 cases, 6 were delivered to the client as per the contract along with the wooden low production test run molds (aluminum of high grade steel would’ve been needed for doing a full 250,000 pc run, the wooden molds were good for about 20-25 test runs only.) 2 grays stayed with me, which I later sold, but kept the pearl white unit along with the source molds built to create the wooden molds (2 units) of the 8 gray units, half were done with the Atari logo, the other half were done with ProSystem logo on them.”
I asked Mr. Vendel if a production Atari 7800 board could be installed into this prototype shell:
“Almost — the LED light-window on the new shell is much different from the original Atari 7800, so the motherboard needs one minor change – the LED and its stalk need to be removed and the led soldered back on and about 1/2 of the height of what it was originally at.”
More information on this prototype can be found at the following links:
I have a fantastic fiancee. One of her many fine qualities is her love for thrift shopping and retro gaming. The two of us hit up about four different Goodwill stores this weekend. Sure enough, we found a fantastic number of retro gaming items for cheap. We passed up a number of items too (mostly PS1 systems, sports games, etc.).
Naturally some of these items will go into the collection and the rest will hit my eBay Store. I’m especially excited to have found Mario Teaches Typing for PC and all of the old-school Blizzard games. I’m holding onto those. Plus, the Quest for Glory PC games by Sierra were a fantastic find. A collector friend of mine was happy to add those to his collection.
The moral of the story here is that Goodwill is still a solid place to hit if you’re a retro gamer.
Here are a few pretties from my eBay watch list that I figure my fellow video game collectors will enjoy:
Games/Accessories:
Radiant Silvergun (Saturn) SS RARE NO RESERVE!!! Currently at $160.00 USD and climbing. (Ended April 24, 2010 at $165.00 USD)
RARE NES Game Action Replay GAR save Nintendo games!! I simply love my GAR. I picked it up in a lot of 8-bit Nintendo stuff about a year ago. Beat a level, save, beat a boss, save… It’s a pretty simple idea for us now, but doing this is the 80s was unheard of. Little did any of us know that this sweet gem would have allowed us to finally beat impossible (and beloved) games like Battletoads or Double Dragon III…or give us extra opportunities to make insane jumps in Ninja Gaiden. (Ended April 22, 2010 at $97.00 USD)
ATARI LYNX P.I.T.S FAHRSCHULE/ NEU * NEW /NO ATARI 2600 (Ended April 24, 2010 at 375.00 EUR; about $481.50 USD)
MagiCard Ultra Rare Blue Label Atari 2600 Cartridge R10 If you thought Air Raid was the only rare Atari 2600 cartridge to keep an eye out for, think again. Here’s one more to watch for. (Ended April 24, 2010 at $6766.67 USD)
*SIGNED* World of Warcraft Collector’s Edition The seller states that this was signed by the development team. It’ll be interesting to see what this goes for. (Ended April 27, 2010 at $530.00 USD)
Rare Atari Jaguar Battlesphere Game Currently at $367.00 USD with 5.5 days to go on auction. (Ended on April 28, 2010 at $385.00 USD)
Collectibles:
Vintage Super Mario Bros. 2 Nintendo NES glass mug HUGE
UNUSED Q-BERT & FRIENDS COLORING BOOK 1983 (Ended April 23, 2010 at $9.99 USD)
Super Mario Pillow Vintage Nintendo 1989 Collectible Is it wrong to want this? (Ended April 24, 2010 at $92.00 USD)
NINTENDO 64 OCARINA IN TIME STORE DISPLAY (Ended April 29, 2010 at $29.00 USD)
Sega Genesis Store Kiosk with rare DS-16 changer This is one great looking store kiosk. And for me, the best part is seeing how the DS-16 was incorporated.
