Why is ninja five o so rare

Anything else is bootlegged. The gap is just that significant. One thing that I noticed in your write-up of Pokemon Emerald that bothers me a little: you say that Emerald is the only game where you can get Rayquaza, which is incorrect. It can be captured in both Ruby and Sapphire as well. Hate to come off as nitpicky, because aside from that awesome article! Legendary Dan - Thank you for the correction.

I never realized Rayquazza could be caught in Ruby or Sapphire, but I've seen the videos now. I fixed this comment in the article. Good update for me. Thank you for letting us know about that missing game. Sonic Battle? What clown wrote this article? It's not at ALL rare, there's dozens of them for sale that no one wants.

I just got Meteoid: Fusion at a fleamarket. I asked a friend about it and he said its a pretty rare game to find so if it's as rare as people say it is how come it's not on the list? It's a version ubisoft who published the game outside japan sent me when i contacted them about the glitch issue 10 years ago.

Anyone interested? The article is about rare AND expensive games. We rank the list by most expensive and not number of copies produced because number of copies isn't really known. Most of the games on this list are relatively rare not a ton of copies available but they are also popular so there is lots of demand.

There are several games on the list that have millions of copies Pokemon Emerald and Zelda Minish Cap but they are still very sought after so they are pretty expensive. Shantea is not on this list because it is Gameboy Advance games only. They literally said 'Advanced' instead one time out of I didn't care to count how many. You don't need to point that out like they don't actually know what it's called. Funny, I actually have the majority of these.

Or most of these for that matter, especially the Pokemon games given their popularity. But I guess therein lies their value. Medabots I can understand, since the games were sort of obscure so a limited run was expected.

Same with Mega Man Battle Network, since again, first game in the series so probably pretty obscure too Post a Comment. Login Create Account. Search Prices Marketplace. Articles about rare video games and video game collecting. Author: JJ Hendricks Labels: gameboy advance , most expensive games. Isn't it "Game Boy Advance" not "Advanced"? Thanks for the question July 30, at PM dyreschlock said I don't think Ikaruga was ever released on GBA.

Oops, that was a typo. It was supposed to be Medabots Matabee. I have fixed that now. July 30, at PM Unknown said July 30, at PM Anonymous said July 31, at AM Unknown said Lol the pokemon game i think is the best is pokemon shiney gold cause its like pokemon fire red and pokemon gold put together thats what makes it so sick xD August 11, at PM Mike said March 6, at PM erros xbox said Thank you for information!

Much like its older Gameboy and cartridge based siblings, Game Boy Advance prices will vary dramatically between loose cartridges and complete as well as even sealed copies for games. Something to take note of for collectors new to GBA or cartridge collecting in general is the widespread distribution of counterfeit carts for the system. The low cost of materials make it so these carts are easy to pump out. Be sure to do your research before going in on a bigger or more popular purchase for the system.

Much like other classic Nintendo game, we have gradually been seeing stronger demand for complete copies of games in their condition-sensitive cardboard packaging.

Below you will see two prices beside each title. The first is the average daily selling price of the bare cartridge. The second price is the highest price in the past three months which is usually the price for a complete copy. An average price is also shared for a sealed copy if one has sold recently.

The list is ordered by the balance of the two prices. Note that some of these games are not rare in the sense that there are not many available, but rare relative to demand, which makes the games expensive. This North American and Japan only release features multi-directional shooter gameplay very similar to the Super Nintendo originals. It also seems to be one of the hardest games to find in a complete or sealed condition which explains the wider gap between cart-only and complete values.

The game was still a relative bargain before , but it started dramatically climbing in value from that point. Developed by Hudson Soft and Published by Konami, Ninja Five-O has one of the Gameboy Advances hardest to come across and highest priced official retail releases in the aftermarket these last decade or so. Though the Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando and Shinobi-inspired action platformer reviewed positively among critics at the time, its sales, limited advertising and strange release in only the US and PAL territories failed to reflect that.

However, the solid combination of old-school gaming inspirations was a major factor in our selection of Ninja Five-O as our top Action pick for our Game Boy Advance Hidden Gems all the way back in Around , things really kicked into gear, and like most titles on this list, a complete boxed copy will run for quite a bit more and the mint cardboard trend becomes a higher priority, but the price of a stand-alone cart is nothing to scoff at either.

Complete copies, as you can imagine are even more elusive. There are very few copies, loose or otherwise, that even show up on eBay. However, die hard Game Boy Advance collectors do also host private sales for items like this and Complete copies have been known to sell privately for many hundreds of dollars. Even European version of Sega Rally are pretty hard to find. Check for Sega Rally on eBay.

While the demon taming and fusing mechanics of the SMT series predate the massively popular Pokemon series by many years, Pokemons success and all ages presentation was hard to ignore at the time. Couple that with middling reviews and two versions Light being the alternate and you end up with Dark Version being the harder game to come by.

But a lot of the recent CIB units have been sold in Buy-It-Not listings, so its possible that they could have gone for more in an auction. Car Battler Joe is another one of those gems that were pretty inexpensive when you could find them.

Though Joe saw a release on the Wii U Virtual Console, prices on both the cart and boxed copies have stayed strong. The Gameboy Advance was surprisingly home to a handful of first person shooter games that pushed the system to its limit in many regards. Despite it being a positive technical showcase for the system, the game reviewed rather average due to its rather generic design and premise.

It was reported that the game was originally supposed to be a tie-in to the Al Pacino and Colin Farrell film The Recruit but this fell through, most likely resulting in the game turning out the way it did. Originally released in PAL territories only, the Treasure-developed action platformer released in in said regions and was published by Swing! However, in copies of the game, entitled Scary Dreams in the US that were published by Conspiracy Entertainment, started popping up in limited quantities online and on small store shelves.

The games are the same but reports, as well as the production dates on the US boxes, suggest that the game may have been planned for a US release initially and never had the final shipment pushed through with. Reviews from outlets at the time are scarce but many of the gameplay features show early ideas that were most likely inspiration for gameplay ideas in Treasures more notable cult followed Astro Boy Omega Factor that had already come out the year before.

It should come as no surprise that the crown jewel of the GBAs Castlevania trilogy has stolen a spot on the rare and valuable list. Featuring more of the iconic Metroid-vania style that Symphony of the Night brought to the series, Aria continues the tradition and shows how refined the ideas of Koji Igarashi and his team has become at the time. While its groundbreaking predecessor has been ported to almost anything with a screen and a user interface of some kind, the first system Doom II came to after its set of home computer releases was the GBA in The initial western GBA release of the 7th game was well received by critics and was also the highest selling internationally until Awakening was released.

Pokemon games have always shown to retain their value over time and Emerald is no exception. It features a tweaked version of the story line from Ruby and Sapphire as well as loads of new gameplay additions and small quality of life improvements.

For those that have been on the hunt for a sealed copy, the recent rise in Emerald has been a frustrating development. The other games I don't track as hard and haven't been looking out for as long, but none of them pops up very often. Other late games seem to be easier to find. Pretty sure Ultimate Beach Soccer is still far rarer than that variant.

I wonder if the rares are actually rare. If they truly are rare, something extraordinary must have happened, like the container that they were shipped on sunk to the bottom of the ocean or the warehouse that was holding them caught on fire.

There are 3 kind of 4 that I'm having a hard time finding Little League Baseball - I've seen one for sale once Ultimate Beach Soccer - Mentioned above I have the only North American manual I've ever seen, and like I said, never even seen the box Here are a few more exceedingly rare ones:. I could name probably 30 games that you'd have a tough time finding over a 6 month period even if you were searching every day like it was your job.

There are probably another 50 that are really tough, but not "ultra-rare". Good list there, agree with it.

I wish I still had sega rally, it was so backwards in its design to the point I think the track turned not the actual car, but it was still decent. You probably won't like me getting into foreign stuff, but trying to bag Pinball Challenge Deluxe or Pinball Advance which were seemingly smaller run UK only releases can be a real bitch.

Tanooki - There are actually 3 different variations of those Nicktoons 4-packs! I want to believe you saw that other 4-pack colloquially know as "The Movie 4-pack" so badly!!

But my guess is it was one of those other two. Naked Warrior yeah, the sealed Bee Game guy ran out of copies a week or two back, it seems like. That's the listing I eventually found where I could check what the box actually looks like. But it's possible that even if they produced X thousand of all these games, they didn't all make it to market, or they may have sat around not selling for a few years then just been disposed of.

Someone could be sitting on a shipping container of 'em waiting for the right moment to sell, they could be in a forgotten corner of a forgotten warehouse somewhere, or they could've just been junked. How do you tell? Curious if anyone knows how these things ever get found out. Junking them, you have to pay someone to haul it off.

If you call a liquidator, they will happily take it off your hands for free and you might even get paid a little. Sure, but if the liquidator can't sell em, what then?

Naked Warrior Thanks for the knowledge! You know, I'm not a big "variant" guy I mostly go for standard issue stuff, but I saw your comment and tonight I'll take a look thru my collection and see if I find any more I don't spend a lot of time in the "Collecting Guides" section I just figured you might remember even if you weren't specifically looking out for them.

There's no good way to find them besides I only had the 3 "always" ones and one Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Yeah, the sticker shows up on quite a few games actually. You do see it on Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire too, but I know they were printing those games still with the old SoQ several years after release; I wouldn't have thought Super Dodge Ball would be a game that got late reprints.

I wonder if rather than being applied at the factory Nintendo just made them available for retailers to slap on games they already had? That would explain why they're often very haphazardly applied as well.