A Nintendo fan stumbled across Ebay listings for rare GameCube game Pokemon Colosseum, priced at over $75,000 in one instance. These listings were posted online through Ebay, with the fan sharing the prices that these resellers were asking for. These figures for the rare Nintendo GameCube game were mocked by those who saw the listings, insisting it wasn't worth what it was put up for.
The GameCube game in particular was a rare variant of Pokemon Colosseum, one of the Pokemon franchise's GameCube-exclusive spin-offs that was developed by Genius Sonority. This game allowed players to capture a variety of Pokemon that weren't available in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, many being those that hailed from the Johto Region like Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, just to name a few. It also had an exclusive bonus disc for pre-orders in North America, where it gave fans a chance to download Jirachi to their GBA games. This variant of the game was spotted online in a listing on Ebay which went for an absurd amount of money.
Gamer Makes Incredibly Nostalgic GameCube Discovery
Posted on the r/GameCube subreddit by MastaTyTy, they showed off two listings of these games, one being already opened and the other factory sealed. The first listing saw that had the opened box showed that it was running for $75,000 USD, while the other listing for the factory sealed copy was going for $145,000 instead. Many users who saw the pictures of the listing mocked how the reseller expected someone to pay what almost amounts to a new car for an older piece of gaming history, with the original poster also noting that they were blown away with the prices for these rare GameCube games.
Along with disparaging the marked up price, MastaTyTy expressed an ongoing
Read more on gamerant.com