Gameboy Color Pokemon games... why do the prices vary so much?!

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Just curious. I've been holding onto the boxes/manuals for all of my old GBC games, and I just now decided to look since someone had Blue without the manual/case.

So... I see 'new' copies of Yellow/Blue/Red for over a hundred... I'm just curious why that is, exactly? Collectors??

I've got Pokemon Yellow (mint, no manual, no game), and Pokemon Red (mint, manual, no game), as well as the Pokemon Trading Card Game (complete, mint). Ofcourse, the manuals for the original pokemon games were generic and covered the other games.

Kinda wish I didn't give GS the games... I also had Silver and Gold (I think), as well as Blue.

Or, what's worth the most, exactly? Is it just a handful of people that think these are valuable or is it just getting more and more rare? Really curious. I was big on Pokemon back when it started.

I also remember a few years ago, telling someone on here I had Red/Blue and Yellow all complete and the person was essentially ecstatic. I had no idea why, but was saddened when I realized I didn't actually have them complete.
 
Many are bootlegs, many aren't, and in general it's just hard to tell nowadays depending on who you buy these games from.

But really the main reason is because of the large volume of bootlegs that came out during the GBC/GBA era, that it's hard to put an actual number on a legit one. Many of the cheaper ones are blatant bootlegs and sell for very low prices.
 
[quote name='Squarehard']Many are bootlegs, many aren't, and in general it's just hard to tell nowadays depending on who you buy these games from.

But really the main reason is because of the large volume of bootlegs that came out during the GBC/GBA era, that it's hard to put an actual number on a legit one. Many of the cheaper ones are blatant bootlegs and sell for very low prices.[/QUOTE]

Interesting. I never expected the GB to have a piracy issue.

Kinda hard to gauge the value of these boxes though. Looks like they range from $20 and up, variably.
 
[quote name='Rhett']Interesting. I never expected the GB to have a piracy issue.

Kinda hard to gauge the value of these boxes though. Looks like they range from $20 and up, variably.[/QUOTE]

It has always been a big issue in other parts of the world, mainly Asia, but it mainly became a problem here in the US mainly because of eBay, and then it just started to flood over as bootlegger after bootlegger saw how profitable it was, and now there's huge companies that even have physical stores in the US that they ship stock to, and the sellers ship the stuff from the US to give the illusion the stuff is not bootleg, but in reality it is.

It's quite a sleazy, but what can you do.
 
Boxes for popular GB games are pretty rare. I've sold a mint, complete Pokemon Red in the past for $40. Judging by the fact that the game is only worth about $15, I'd say the boxes should easily fetch $20 - $25.

Essentially, cart only pokemon games come in three pricing tiers. The prices on the games themselves normally vary so much because the carts that have new batteries are always sold at a premium. Below that in price you've got carts that are guaranteed to work but do not have new batteries. Then, even lower in price you've got carts where it has not been pointed out in the description that they were tested.
 
[quote name='Doomstink']Boxes for popular GB games are pretty rare. I've sold a mint, complete Pokemon Red in the past for $40. Judging by the fact that the game is only worth about $15, I'd say the boxes should easily fetch $20 - $25.

Essentially, cart only pokemon games come in three pricing tiers. The prices on the games themselves normally vary so much because the carts that have new batteries are always sold at a premium. Below that in price you've got carts that are guaranteed to work but do not have new batteries. Then, even lower in price you've got carts where it has not been pointed out in the description that they were tested.[/QUOTE]

I appreciate all the information, guys!

Maybe I can make some money off these... They've been sitting in the bottom drawer of my dresser for going on 10 years now, heh.
 
I have all the pokemon GBC games except for pinball and red in boxes and mint/complete. I am not sure what I should do with them, a part of me wants to keep them, but if they get really high on ebay I might consider selling, especially if the value is over what I originally paid for each game.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']I have all the pokemon GBC games except for pinball and red in boxes and mint/complete. I am not sure what I should do with them, a part of me wants to keep them, but if they get really high on ebay I might consider selling, especially if the value is over what I originally paid for each game.[/QUOTE]

You should easily be able to fetch $40 - $45 on each of them. Most people threw out their boxes for these games, so its hard to find them CIB. Spin-offs aren't worth much, though, only true Pokemon games are.

EDIT: Also, Gamestop/EB/Babbages/Software, Etc. trashed pretty much every Pokemon box that got traded to them, so they also contributed to the problem of finding these complete.
 
Yeah thats a lot when it comes to multiple games that I will probably not play again, I can have a friend replace the batteries for cheap to further boost the value.

I guess people were so excited to get the game they just trashed the box/manual...

I wouldn't sell GBA and up, which I also have every (RPG Pokemon game) complete, and I could have had more due to clearance sales. But since GBC games do not connect with the newer games, its kind of pointless to keep them around when the value is really high. I don't think I am going to want to play through these games again, much too tedious when there are newer better versions of Pokemon out.

Most of the games have also been remade, and I don't see how the originals are superior to the remakes since you can't connect them to the newer games, they are stuck in their own generation. At least with the GBA games, if you want to playthrough them again you can at least transfer your Pokemon to the newer generation DS games when you are done. There is pokemon stadium and stadium 2, which connect only to the older games, and those are a lot of fun, but I don't think that is what is raising the value on these games.

I also have the strategy guides, the original ones, lots of them, I guess I could be making good money on all this stuff.
 
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