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The more rare, obscure, or just a guilty pleasure, the better. Maybe you grew up with it, maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, any reason is fine.

I'm looking for a new game to play, but I'm running out of games to collect!

My favorite is games for original DMG, but you're welcome to include Color it'll advance games too!

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[–] starcat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just looked at the prices on eBay and I have no idea what's going on over there. Are those accurate going-rate prices? I'm pretty sure I bought mine off the "games no one has ever heard of and will not buy" sale rack once upon a time, haha!

I had no idea there were sequels! Thanks for that bit of info

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For ebay prices are sometimes meaningless unless you filter by "sold items". But yeah looks like they're going for around $100-$170

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Price Charting has it broken down by type. That site isn't 100% accurate by a long shot (notably it doesn't really factor in condition), but it's helpful for a rough idea. I saw it had the complete game at over $400.

I'm guessing the game is popular with collectors for being a "rare gem" of the Game Boy library (since it's both rare and actually a pretty good game). Clicking around, I see it in some rare Game Boy Color game lists—along with Shantae, which I strongly considered picking up back in the day from Electronics Boutique for like $20 and decided "nah."