The original Xbox stopped production in 2005 and since then some of the hundreds of Xbox games have become rare and sell for quite a bit to collectors. Even some of the not so rare games can still fetch high prices if they are popular enough and backward compatible (every game on the list but 1 can play on the 360). Below is the list of rarest and most expensive Xbox games and what makes them so valuable.
Rare Xbox Games
Marvel vs Capcom 2
New Price: $170 | Used Price: $70Marvel vs Capcom 2 is a fighting game for Xbox that has Marvel superheroes like Wolverine and Captain America fighting Capcom characters like Mega Man and M. Bison. The game is relatively hard to find and extremely popular. The game plays like Street Fighter and is considered one of the better 2D fighters ever made. The popularity of Marvel movies, the recent release of Street Fighter IV, and the time tested game play all help make this the most expensive game released for Xbox.
See Current Marvel vs Capcom 2 Prices on VGPC.com
Steel Battalion with Controller
New Price: $160 | Used Price: $81Steel Battalion is a Mech game that was sold with a large specialty controller. The controller tried to replicate being inside a Mech and had nearly 40 buttons. Because the controller was so large the game retailed for $200 and only limited quantities were produced. The initial production was close to 2,000 units but the game was re-released, adding a few more copies to the market.
See Current Steel Battalion Prices on VGPC.com
Grand Theft Auto Trilogy
New Price: $65 | Used Price: $31Grand Theft Auto Trilogy includes GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas in one package. The game wasn't released until November 2005, the same month the Xbox 360 launched. Most retailers quickly dropped support for Xbox titles after the 360 launched so the game was never fully supported. The game is backward compatible with the 360 and even with its high price is a relatively cheap way to play three GTA games.
See Current Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Prices on VGPC.com
Halo Triple Pack
New Price: $55 | Used Price: $50Like the GTA Trilogy, Halo Triple Pack is a bundle of games sold as one package. It also came out too late in the Xbox's life to get full retail support. The Halo bundle includes Halo 1, Halo 2, and the Halo 2 Map expansion. Xbox 360 owners keep the price high because all three discs included in the package are backward compatible.
See Current Halo Triple Pack Prices on VGPC.com
Sniper Elite
New Price: $55 | Used Price: $34Sniper Elite was released on the PS2 at the same time and neither version sold very well, but the Xbox version is the rarer of the two. The game is entirely based upon stealth and using long range weapons. The sniping is more realistic than most FPS games because it takes into account wind, your breathing, and even gravity's effect on the bullet.
See Current Sniper Elite Prices on VGPC.com
Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy
New Price: $54 | Used Price: $20Jedi Knight Academy sold quite well and there are quite a few copies available, but the game is very popular with Star Wars fans and received very good review scores. You play as a student at the Jedi Academy and complete missions assigned to you by Luke Skywalker and other Jedi. The game also has a network multi-player mode so you can compete with other Jedi in training.
See Current Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Prices on VGPC.com
Sonic Mega Collection Plus & Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
New Price: $50 | Used Price: $37A Platinum hits title that includes classic Sonic games and 300 levels of Monkey Ball puzzles. The game sold for $19.99 when released (like all Platinum Hits titles) but now the game sells for nearly $40. The game released in December 2005 and like other late generation titles it wasn't carried by many retailers.
See Current Sonic Mega Collection Plus & Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Prices on VGPC.com
Jurassic Park Operation Genesis
New Price: $50 | Used Price: $34Jurassic Park Operation Genesis is one of the more uncommon Xbox games. You have to recreate the Jurassic Park theme park by creating dinosaurs, building rides, and attracting guests. Just like the movie, the dinosaurs can attack the guests if you don't keep them safe. The game received mediocre reviews but it's rarity makes it expensive.
See Current Jurassic Park Operation Genesis Prices on VGPC.com
Fatal Frame
New Price: $49 | Used Price: $24Fatal Frame is a survival horror game where your only weapon is a camera. When you snap pictures of the ghosts you can away their soul and protect yourself. The game was ported to the Xbox from the Playstation 2 but did not sell as well on the Xbox.
See Current Fatal Frame Prices on VGPC.com
Airforce Delta Storm
New Price: $49 | Used Price: $14Airforce Delta Storm is the sequel to Airforce Delta for Sega Dreamcast. The game is one of the hardest to find Xbox titles because of a small print run. Used copies of the game are relatively cheap, but sealed copies still sell for $50 even seven years after release.
See Current Airforce Delta Storm Prices on VGPC.com
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
New Price: $43 | Used Price: $22The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection includes Hyper Street Fighter II and Street Fighter III on one disc. These were the only Street Fighter games released on the Xbox. Street Fighter IV increased the price for this game during the last several months as fans bought the game to hone their skills before the release of fourth game in the series.
See Current Street Fighter Anniversary Prices on VGPC.com
Barbie Horse Adventures Wild Horse Rescue
New Price: $40 | Used Price: $26Barbie Horse Adventures sells for more than $25 in spite of its horrible reviews and being called one of the worst games of all time on X-Play. Penny Arcade also immortalized the game in a comic because it is backward compatible while other, more popular, games are not. This is the only collectible Barbie game ever made because it is hard to find and people want to see how bad it really is.
See Current Barbie Horse Adventures Wild Horse Rescue Prices on VGPC.com
Other Expensive Xbox Games
- Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast - Used Price: $41
- Star Wars Knights of Old Republic 2 - Used Price: $24
- Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2 - Used Price: $22
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 - Used Price: $22
- Worms 4 Mayhem - Used Price: $22
- UFC Tapout 2 - Used Price: $19
- Capcom Classics Collection Vol 2 - Used Price: $19
- The Guy Game - Used Price: $17
- Land of the Dead Road to Fiddler's Green - Used Price: $16
- F1 2001 - Used Price: $16
- Frogger Beyond - Used Price: $15
Rare Xbox Games for $10 or Less
- Outlaw Golf 9 Holes of X-Mas - Used Price: $1
- Outlaw Volleyball Red Hot - Used Price: $1
- Outlaw Golf Holiday Golf - Used Price: $2
- Outlaw Golf 9 More Holes of X-Mas - Used Price: $1
- Dragons Lair 3D - Used Price: $6
- Loons Fight For Fame - Used Price: $4
- Totaled - Used Price: $5
- Spikeout Battle Street - Used Price: $10
- Kakuto Chojin - Used Price: $4
Used prices are the average sales prices on eBay, Amazon, and Half.com between December 1st, 2008 and February 26th, 2009. New prices are the average sales price for a sealed copy on the same websites during the same time period.
The list is ranked by average sales price during the last three months. All the games are not rare (hard to find with small quantities available), but relative to demand all of these are in short supply.
26 comments :
Barbie Horse Adventures is definitely a surprise
The best is buying Street Fighter Anniversary Collection new at EB for $10 or something because of clearance a few years ago & watched how the price went up, up & away
shenmue 2! shenmue 2! this is all.
Today i bought Airforce Delta Storm @ Gamestop for $19.99 Dollars. Also, Loons fight for fame for $5.99. Was that a good deal.
If those games were used, you paid just about what you would expect to pay. They are both relatively rare but used they are not very expensive.
Thank you. Sir.
Woot, just picked up Marvel Vs Capcom 2 for Xbox (pal)! Not cheap but, less than the price up there. Dunno whether to sell it or not now... would the price generally increase?
I don't know PAL games as well as NSTC ones, but I am fairly confident that Marvel vs Capcom won't be dropping in price. I don't think Capcom is going to re-release the game for the Xbox. Especially the PAL one because the Xbox just wasn't that popular.
I don't know if it will increase, but I don't think it will go down.
you forgot metal gear solid 2 for the xbox
My sister has the barbie one used and I have the jedi knight academy one as well as knights of the old republic 2 used
This blog makes me laugh. The only games which are truly rare are limited pressings and promo editions. There are 2 titles here which have been flooding the used markets with factory sealed copies for months in both Europe and the States. Where were these "ultra rares " lurking all this time? Who decides these are rare? Ultimately distributors, people like the person behind this blog and YOU- Theres no such thing since 5th gen consoles hit the stores. Its an overused term for what are essentially just mass produced products.
Why are sought after games always rubbish? Oh that’s right because distribution was cut short before more money was wasted. If you pay these kind of prices for old games, You have more money than sense.
Anonymous - many of these games are not considered the "best" games on Xbox by any means. But there are reasons that these games are "rare" as I explain in the article.
"Rare" is also a relative term. There might be 100,000's of copies of some of these games but the market price is fairly high meaning there aren't as many games as maybe the market was willing to pay for. A few of these sell for more when they are new then the MSRP price.
My Point was its obvious distribution of crummy titles is deliberately manipulated to creat a false market. Its an older story than the wii. People should boycott these prices.
Several Christmases ago, I discovered a game called Bible Trivia for Xbox and bought one to save for posterity because I knew it would be an instant rarity -- considering the old Wisdom Tree games for NES were also. I took it home and looked it up to discover it was actually going for a much higher price online like Half.ebay.com and decided to buy up every copy in town I could find. I went to Kansas City for a Christmas vacation and also bought every copy I could find there -- I ended up selling all of them $10-15 more than what I paid for them, within a week or two and kept one for myself.
Correction: "The Bible Game" was the title.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/marvelvscapcom2/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary%3Bread-review
How do you explain the poor rating there then? If it's one of the finest fighting games that exist that is.
How about Otogi 1 and 2, Shenmue 2, Armed and Dangerous, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Manhunt, Tom Clancy triplepack(splntrcell,ghostrcn,Rnbw6)and Silent Hill 2. All very good and rare!
an evil feeling enters the room . . . a force that starts to peel the paint off the walls but you don’t see anything doing it, it slows your breathing. BAM! you hear something in the next room but you know your the only one there. you can’t see it but you feel it. horror games on xbox 360 . .
Any estimations on what one complete copy of one of every original xbox game (NSTC) would be worth? And the games all work good and have perfect cases (no sticker residue or cracks)
a complete collection of xbox games with all accessories would go for thousands but you would need to sell it in the right auction & put a reserve price on it
@anonymous - A complete Xbox game collection is worth $4,000 if you add up the value of each game. It would probably sell for about $3,200 though because game lots usually sell at a discount compared to the individual items.
@anonymous - On average auctions with reserve prices sell for less than auctions without reserves. If you had a complete collection you should list it without a reserve price so you can get more money out of it.
Marvel VS Capcom is the rarest game ever? I saw it at an EB games last week
@anonymous - Marvel v Capcom is not as rare or expensive as it once was. But at one point it was the rarest Xbox game, definitely not the "rarest game ever" at any point in time.
i have over 100 original xbox games some of which are listed here as rare anyone wana make me an offer? lol
i have been looking for totaled for a while now! never found it. :(
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