The Nintendo DS has been available for a little more than three years in the US but some games and limited edition bundles are already rarities and collector's items. Below is a list of the rare and expensive Nintendo DS games and bundles that are selling for more than the initial MSRP.
Metallic Rose Nintendogs Bundle
This bundle was released for the 2007 holiday season and includes a special edition Pink Nintendo DS with a paw print and a copy of Nintendogs Best Friends. The bundle originally sold for $149.99 in stores but Nintendo had a hard time keeping them in-stock because they were so popular. The Bundle now sells for almost $100 more than original retail price.
See Current Pink DS Bundle Prices
Monopoly / Boggle / Yahtzee / Battleship
New Price: $70 Used Price: $45This game came out the first month of the DS's release. It has four classic board games on one cartridge. These same board games can be purchased separately as different GBA 3-in-1 packages, but this four game pack sells for a premium. The game sells for almost $40 more than MSRP and $50 more than the other 4-in-1 board game compilations.
See Current Monopoly / Boggle / Yahtzee / Battleship Prices
Electroplankton
New Price: $68 Used Price: $43Electroplankton made its first appearance at GDC 2005 as a demo of what the DS could do. A DJ "played" the game and made some music during a presentation by Nintendo. The game was actually released in the US in January 2006 but only through online retailers and the Nintendo World store. The game developed a very devoted, niche following who are willing to pay top dollar to make some music.
See Current Electroplankton Prices
Tetris DS
New Price: $60 Used Price: $40Nintendo released this Tetris game for the Nintendo DS with 10 player local play, online multiplayer, and many Nintendo themed levels. The game sold more than 2 million copies worldwide but Nintendo doesn't sell it anymore. Tetris fans have to pay almost double the retail price for a new copy of the game.
See Current Tetris DS Prices
Clubhouse Games
New Price: $50 Used Price: $40Released in late 2006 by Nintendo, Clubhouse Games is a collection of 42 card games, board games, parlor games, and action games. The game was part of Nintendo's "Touch Generation" series of games for the DS. Unlike other games in this series which sell for years and years, Nintendo has stopped publishing the title and it is very hard to find in stores.
See Current Clubhouse Games Prices
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21 comments:
How much do you think Electroplankton's price was boosted due to its inclusion as a stage in the most recent Smash Bros foray?
Very good question. If you look at the price history for Electroplankton it does look like the price was on a steady increase from March of this year until May. I don't know if it was because of Smash Bros or not, but it probably at least partially related. The game was expensive prior to Melee coming out though.
I LOVE my Boggle DS and would probably not sell it for any sane amount of money. The DS version Monopoly is mediocre at best, and I'd prefer the Game Boy Color version (a port of the NES version) any day.
Also, I have to point out that the Tetris DS prices are dampered by a ton of Asian bootlegs on eBay. Last I checked, the other games on this list have not been bootlegged.
you could always buy them on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tetris-NINTENDO-DS-NDS-lite-Game-NEW_W0QQitemZ270258133776QQihZ017QQcategoryZ100800QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Tetris DS for $20
Most likely, the demand for Electro PLankton wasnt just Smash Bros...it's been featured in a few youtube video...particularly that one with the iphone band...
You forgot to add the Nintendo DS Gold - Zelda Phantom Hourglass edition! I lost mine and to replace it I had to pay $220 when the original was under $189.
Clubhouse Games is one of the best casual titles for DS, in my opinion. It's tragic that it's not being printed currently. Some things could've been done better, but all in all for catching the attention of regular folks, showing off CG has worked wonders.
LOL. This is why people pirate. Publishers screw customers over by releasing limited amounts of games and then stop publishing and refuse to publish more. What other recourse is there?
There should be a law that if you offer to buy at fair price, a game from a publisher and they refuse to sell it to you, that you are allowed to pirate it. Makes perfect sense.
...Except it would cause the price of games to skyrocket because a publisher would have to always have a title on hand in case the demand were above zero.
They don't stop making games because they like to be assholes, they do it because the demand isn't high enough to merit pumping millions of dollars into another run. If the demand were there, you'd have your game.
It sucks to place a higher value on a good than Joe Schmoe, but it's economics; sometimes you're on the right end of the demand curve, sometimes you're not.
Rare? Bah, only if you're against downloading ROMs.
Well it seems to me that the demand is still there, but the publishers are providing the supply. Obviously, there has to be some other factor involving the non-production of say Tetris DS if the demand is certainly there.
I worked in ASDA in the UK on Music and Video for two years, and the Monopoly game, the Tetris game and the club house games were all on sale for verryyy cheap. Eventually we reduced the prices to as low as £5 as no one wanted them! It feels strange to me to see them as "rare collectibles" as our shelves we jam packed with them a year or two ago.
The Zelda DS w/ Phanton Hourglass is way more expensive and rare than the pink Nintendogs DS.
FYE in Arundel Mills in Baltimore has Club house games....it never sold when i worked there...
HA! i got that club house games free from the offical nintendo magazine! Awesome!
Nintendo isn't publishing Tetris DS anymore because they lost the license to the Tetris name. I believe Hudson has it now.
I finally bought a ds(two actually) when nintendogs bundle and zelda were released. I also bought Tetris DS (from hong kong)off ebay for 20 bucks not long after. When it arrived it looked like an official game except the coloring of the info looked slightly faded. I had also purchased another game from the same seller and on that games info it had '?'s where it should not have and that was the give away that it was for not an official game. I contacted someone else who bought the game and they said they played it and it was the full game. Anyway, I wanted the real thing and bought another copy. I traded in both games to the gamestore(since I couldn't return to ebay) and they both rang up super mario but they just thought it was a glitch and took them. So if you are ok with bootlegs spend 20 bucks or pick up my used copy at the game store maybe.
Here in Italy Tetris DS is avalaible in nearly every games store at normal price.
:)
Hmm the three games that I know are Hard to find Rare Games are...
- Hotel Dusk Room 215
- Hero's of Mana
- Mario & Luigi Partners in Time
I have learned to try and pick up games that are made by 3rd Parties first as those seem to disappear faster than 1st Party titles although with Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, I'm not really sure why they stopped printing that title.
I knew I should have bought a copy of Tetris DS...
Looks like they reprinted clubhouse games, you can buy it new at amazon.com for $19.99 with free ship
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