10 Video Games So Rare It Explains Why They Are Potentially Worth So Much Money
There are a few video games out there, that if you have them in your parents' attic, you are definitely going to want to pull them out and see if you can get some money out of them (after you play them one more time, of course.)
What's it worth? Between $2,600 and $41,300. You could get $10,000 for the box alone.
What's it worth? The gray cartridge will get you between $8,500 and $20,200. Only 26 gold cartridges were made, and the last time it was sold on eBay, it went for $26,677.
What's it worth? The Campus Challenge cartridge can probably fetch between $14,000 and $20,100 since, as far as we know, there's only one copy of it in existence.
What's it worth? If you have an opened copy of this combo game that was created for an exercise bike with a TV built in, you can get about $1,500. If your copy hasn't been opened yet? Expect closer to $3,700.
What's it worth? Because of some confusion over the versions and the art work for this game, you can get anywhere between $400 for an opened copy, and $6,900 for a factory sealed one.
What's it worth? This special cartridge, made for a a traveling competition, all but disappeared after 1994. Since then, two PowerFest cartridges have turned up. The first in 2006, and it sold for $10,000. Then, in 2012 another version surfaced and was sold for $12,000, and then put on eBay with bids reaching $23,000. Unfortunately, the high bidder pulled out, and it eventually went for $10,988.
What's it worth? Air Raid was a weird game, from the weird "T" shape of the cartridge to the blue case, and the fact that it seemed that no one had a box or instructions, and there seemed to be only 12 copies known to exist. Since the name wasn't anywhere on the cartridge, some people wondered if Air Raid was even the name of the game. Then in 2010, someone read an article about the weird game, and found his copy, complete with box, and sold it on eBay for $31,600
What's it worth? The game is pretty self explanatory; the player takes the role of Moses and attempts to cross the Red Sea, avoiding fish and other obstacles. Only a few hundred copies of the game were produced and were available only by mail order. In 2007, someone found a copy of the game at a garage sale and bought it for 50 cents. Five years later he went on to sell it for $10,400. A few days later, a shop in Philly realized they had a copy and sold it for $13,877.
What's it worth? Atlantis was a fairly popular game for Atari in the early 1980s, and instead of doing what video game producers do now, and producing endless sequels, the makers of Atlantis held a contest, where people would send in pictures of their high scores, and then they would get a copy of Atlantis II. Since it wasn't mass produced, the game can get you between $5,000 and $7,000.
What's it worth? In reality, the game isn't outrageously valuable, but it has such a good story behind it. The story went that Atari had so many of the games, which was considered to be simply awful, were buried in a landfill in New Mexico. They stayed buried until April 2014, and now they are considered collectors items. When the dug up versions of the games went up on eBay, the highest bid reached $1,537.