Rare PSP Games | Most Expensive Playstation Portable Games

VGPC.com has daily updated prices for every Playstation Portable game and most PSP consoles and accessories. Our Playstation Portable price list includes more than 470 games. Below is a list of the most expensive Playstation Portable games and most popular PSP games on our site.

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Most Expensive Playstation Portable Games

Game Name	Recent Price
History Channel Great Battles of Rome	$99
Winx Club: Join the Club	$42
Class of Heroes	$32
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$31
G-Force	$30
NCAA Football 10	$30
Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament	$30
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce	$29
Samuri Shodown Anthology	$29
Rock Band Unplugged	$29

10 Most Popular PSP Games

Game Name	Recent Price
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops	$24
Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core	$14
Dragonball: Evolution	$14
History Channel Great Battles of Rome	$99
Resistance: Retribution	$23
Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions	$10
Midnight Club LA Remix	$22
Final Fantasy	$10
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories	$7
Daxter	$4

About Playstation Portable

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The Sony Playstation Portable (also referred to as PSP) was released in North America on March 24, 2005. The Playstation Portable is the first handheld system to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary method for storage. The system has become the most successful non-Nintendo handheld video game console selling over 50 million copies. With such features as a large viewing screen and capability to connect to the Playstation 3, other PSP's, and the Internet. The Playstation Portable has once again shown the world Sony is a superb video game provider.

Rare Gameboy Advance Games | Most Expensive GBA Games

VGPC.com has daily updated prices for every Gameboy Advance game and most GBA consoles and accessories. Our Gameboy Advanced price list includes more than 1,000 games. Below is a list of the most expensive Gameboy Advanced games and most popular GBA games on our site.

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Most Expensive Gameboy Advanced Games

Game Name	Recent Price
Animaniacs Lights Camera Action	$99
Decathalon Advance	$39
Pokemon Fire Red with Wireless Adaptor	$34
Ninja Five-O	$32
Bookworm	$33
Final Fantasy VI Advance	$33
Doom 2	$31
Super Mario NES Series	$29
Dragon Ball Z Buu's Fury / GT Transformation	$27
Pokemon Leaf Green with Wireless Adaptors	$24

10 Most Popular Gameboy Advanced Games

Game Name	Recent Price
Anamaniacs Lights Camera Action	$99
Final Fantasy VI Advance	$33
Pokemon Emerald	$20
Pokemon Fire Red	$22
Super Mario Advance 4	$29
Pokemon Sapphire	$16
Decathalon Advance	$39
Super Mario NES Series	$29
Super Mario Adcance 2	$12
Sword of Mana	$9

Updated prices: February 23rd 2010

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About Gameboy Advanced

The Nintendo Gameboy Advanced (also referred to as GBA)was released in North America on June 11, 2001 as the sucessor to the Gameboy Color. Boasting a processor capable of 32-bits it was able to produce graphics comparable to that of the Super Nintendo, the Gameboy Advanced became a very popular handheld console worldwide selling over 81 million copies. With titles like Super Mario Advance and the Pokemon series as well as all the Gameboy Color titles which could also be enjoyed on the GBA Nintendo has once again proven to the world that it is a premier video game provider.

Now Tracking 91 Campus Challenge & 94 Powerfest

Two More Rare Games On VGPC

We recently added two more very rare games to the VGPC database with their most recent prices, 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge and 1994 Powerfest (Nintendo World Championships II). There is only one known copy of each of these games but we added them to the site so everyone can see what they sold for that last time they sold.

Powerfest 94 is now the most expensive Super Nintendo game on our site at $10,000, beating Donkey Kong Country Competition by a factor of 20!

At $14,000 1991 Campus Challenge is the second most expensive Nintendo NES game behind Nintendo World Championships Gold.

Greatest Video Game Garage Sale Ever

Many gamers go to garage sales hoping to find a few cheap games for their collection and maybe get lucky and get a really good deal. Rob Walters found games worth more than $50,000 dollars at a garage sale! Including games like 1990 Nintendo World Championships, 1991 Campus Challenge, 1992 Campus Challenge, and 1994 Powerfest. Below is the story of Rob's legendary garage sale find and the games and memorabilia he found.

In August 2006 Rob was driving by a garage sale in New York and decided to stop to see what they had. He spots a table with some video games on it and walks over to see what he can find. The table is full of sealed NES games, new SNES games, and a bunch of other gaming stuff. Rob quickly asks "Who's garage sale is this? And how much for all these games?" The seller says "I will sell everything for $40." Rob quickly pays the $40, grabs all the games on the table and even grabs a few games from the hands of other garage sale shoppers.

As he is leaving and chatting with the seller, the man casually says "I have tons more stuff inside that I'm not going to sell." Rob doesn't think much of it and goes back home to see what he had bought and what it is all worth. This table had five copies of Starfox Super Weekend which Rob knew were special but didn't know much about them. He looks up the prices on ebay and sees that they sell for $200-300 each. That's $1,500 for just those five games! Some of the other sealed games in the collection are easily worth $40 by themselves.

Rob decides he needs to go back to the seller's house and see what other "stuff" he has.

Rob knocks on his door and says he needs a Super Nintendo to play some of the games he bought and was wondering if he had one to sell (Rob really did need an SNES). The seller says he does and invites Rob inside. They start talking and the seller says he has boxes and boxes of Nintendo games and memorabilia in his attic and would love to show Rob some of the stuff.

First he shows a pristine condition 1990 Nintendo World Championships Gray cartridge. Rob said he "has never seen a better condition copy, it was perfect." Then the seller grabs some other games and throws them on the couch. He just threw the only known copies of 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge and 1994 Powerfest on his couch!

Rob decides to be honest with the seller, "This stuff is really valuable. I can help you sell it and we can split the money." The seller says he doesn't want to sell it publicly because he used to work for Nintendo and isn't supposed to have these items. Rob says "I will give you $1,000 cash for everything you have and I won't ever tell anyone who I bought this stuff from." (Rob brought a bunch $1,000 with him just in case he had the chance to buy something) The seller agrees and Rob takes his new fought collection home.

The collection of items Rob purchased is worth well over $50,000 in today's market. 1991 Campus Challenge recently sold for $14,000. Powerfest 1994 sold for $10,000 about four months after the garage sale and the NWC Gray cartridge sells for $5,000. Rob basically paid $1,040 for stuff that is worth 48 times that!

Below are pictures of the games and other collector's items Rob purchased at the garage sale.

1992 Nintendo Campus Challenge System
One of two 1992 Nintendo Campus Challenge cartridges ever found. The game is hooked up to a Japanese Super Famicom and as you can tell is much bigger than a regular SNES game.

1994 Nintendo Powerfest System
The only copy of the 1994 Nintendo Powerfest ever found. This cartridge is attached to a Super Nintendo console and is also much bigger than traditional cartridges. The 1994 Powerfest was sometimes referred to as "Nintendo World Championships II". The person who sold this cartridge said only 12 were made and 11 were sent back to Nintendo to be destroyed.

1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge Cartridge
The only 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge cartridge know to exist. This was used in Nintendo's 1991 campus tournament which travelled to about 60 college's and spring break destinations. The cartridge looks like an original NES with part of the top missing and an extra long circuit board.

Five Starfox Super Weekend Cartridges
These are rare cartridges that Nintendo used in a video game competitions hosted by Nintendo Power. The magazine briefly sold them to the public in very limited quantities.

Earthbound NES Cartridge
This is similar to the Earthbound game that sold on ebay about a month ago for $1,415. It might be the same cartridge but I couldn't verify this. The NES promo game was made for trade shows like E3 and was never released as a Nintendo NES game.

1992 Campus Challenge Jacket
The seller of all these items said this jacket was one of twelve ever made. They were given to some Nintendo staff. The "Campus Challenge" logo was on all 12, but the seller had the "Super Power 92" added himself.

Nintendo Powerfest Promo VHS Tapes
VHS Tapes giving a run down of various Nintendo events. In Rob's own words they are "1990's lame but still interesting"

More Nintendo Powerfest Promo VHS Tapes
More VHS tapes of Powerfest events.

Nintendo Vase - 1992 Campus Challenge Award
A vase that was made to be an award for a 1992 Nintendo event. The winner never claimed the prize. A vase seems like a strange prize for a game tournament. I don't think gamers are the type to keep fresh flowers, but maybe I'm stereotyping gamers too much.

All images came from Jollerancher's Pixelpipeline Gallery. Thank you Rob Walters for answering some of my questions. Additional information comes from a digitpress post by Rob after buying the games.

What One Tweet and One Link Can Do

The recent article I wrote on the VGPC blog about my adventures buying Nintendo World Championship became quite popular. At the peak 6,600 people were reading the article per hour! It all started with one link on GameSetWatch and one message on Twitter.

June 23rd - The NWC Gold article was published. During the first seven days a few loyal readers commented about the purchase and we had our usual 300 visitors per day reading the articles on the blog. This is what I expected because I thought only video game collectors would find the article interesting.

July 1st - GameSetWatch posts a link to the article in their GameSetLinks article series. During the next 8 days only 47 visitors come directly from this link.

July 2nd 9:34 AM - A user on twitter, KyleOrl, tweets about the purchase with a link directly to the NWC article.

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July 2nd 5:39 PM - Brandon Boyer from Offworld.com posts a tweet about the article after reading KyleOrl's tweet. This tweet also shows up on the Offworld.com website.

July 2nd 11:30 PM - Kotaku writes an article about the $17,500 video game purchase and traffic spikes. Almost 1,400 people visit the site during the next hour and traffic remains elevated for the next 24 hours.

Hourly Traffic After Kotaku Article
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July 3rd - A few more gaming websites post articles about the NWC Gold purchase. By the end of the day 15,000 people read the blog and there are 68 comments on the article.

July 4th to July 5th - Traffic to the site slowly drops over the Independence Day weekend. On July 5th there are about 3,700 visitors.

July 6th 1:32 PM - Yahoo writes an article in their video game section about the "clinically insane" purchase.

July 6th 6:00 PM - Later that night the article becomes the most popular article on yahoo and is show on the yahoo.com home page. 6,600 people click the link in the yahoo article during the first hour. By the end of the day 23,500 people have visited the blog.

Hourly Traffic After Yahoo Article
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July 7th - We receive five interview requests about video game collecting and buying the Gold cartridge specifically from publications like Nintendo Magazine in UK, TheStreet.com, and WXLP radio station.

The publicity the article and video game purchase generated was quite a shock to me. I didn't think anyone outside the gaming community would care but people were very passionate for and against the purchase. Some people thought my kids would be ashamed of me - "I am sure that when your kid grows up he will be ashamed that his father wasted money that could have payed for medical bills, tuition." While others thought it was great, "Congratulations!! I know how it feels to have such wonderful part of history."

The most interesting part of the whole situation was seeing how one link on a website and one tweet can lead to so much more.

Charts Showing Visitors To VGPC Blog During Article's Popularity

Below are charts showing the number of visitors to the blog before, during, and after the article's popularity.

Hourly Visits to Blog After NWC Article
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Chart With Numbers Showing Visitors To Blog
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NWC Gray Auction, A Radio Interview & iphone App

There is an auction on ebay right now for a 1990 Nintendo World Championships Gray cartridge. I'm very interested in seeing how much this game sells for compared to the Gold version. The auction started at $100, which is great. I love low starting price auctions on these really rare games. We really get to see the market price.

Interview About NWC Gold Purchase On Radio

On a side note, I am going to be interviewed tomorrow morning at 10AM EST by a radio station in Iowa about the Gold cartridge I purchased. The hosts of the show are gamers and wanted some more information about the purchase. If anyone is interested you can listen online here. It will be my first time on radio so I'm a bit nervous. It should be fun though.

iPhone App With Video Game Prices

Lastly, a website we worked with for a while (VideoGameTrader.com) launched an iphone app that lets you bring your video game prices with you on the go. The app is $0.99 and you can download it here. We didn't help create the application at all, but we do provide some pricing data for it. The prices are NOT the same as ours so we cannot guarantee their accuracy or even say exactly how they are determined. But we have used it for a while ourselves and think it can be very helpful while you are shopping at flea markets, garage sales, or other places away from your PC.

Right now our price charts don't work with the iphone because they don't have flash support, but we are looking into some different ways to show the charts without flash so iphone users can use all our site's features.

Interview: Rare Game Collector With 16,000 Games

I had the opportunity to interview Jason Wilson, better known as DreamTR in the video game community. He owns nearly 16,000 games and has one of the largest collections of rare and one-of-a-kind items in the world. Below are excerpts from the interview with pictures of his collection and most valuable games.

VGPC: You go by DreamTR online, but what is your real name and where do you live?
DreamTR: My name is Jason Wilson and I live in Nashville, TN

VGPC: How many video games and systems do you own?
DreamTR: At least 15,000 games, which might be closer to 16,000 now. I have no idea how many systems I own. I also own about 100 arcade and pinball machines.





VGPC: What do you do for a living that lets you buy that many games?
DreamTR: I own a video arcade called Game Galaxy in Nashville.



VGPC: And how much do you think you've spent over the years amassing that amazing collection?
DreamTR: Not as much as everyone thinks. I think it is around $100,000 during my lifetime. The collection is worth 4 times that amount now.

VGPC: Of those 16,000 games, how many do you consider to be "rare" items. Things like test cartridges, games with only a few copies, etc?
DreamTR: I don't think test cartridges are tough to get. I have about 1,100 game prototypes for all my systems. I also own a Gold Nintendo World Championships, a Gray one, Blockbuster Genesis Competition cartridge, and the only Nintendo Campus Challenge ever found. I own the "rares" for practically every systems.

VGPC: Do you think you have the biggest video game collection in the world?
DreamTR: I am sure as far as "different" items go, I am up there. Anyone can pick-up multiples of games and count them towards their "collection", but my collection is of "different" games and not duplicates.

VGPC: What do you think are your 5 most rare items?
DreamTR:
Legend of Zelda NES prototype because nobody else has seen that type of PCB before.
1990 Nintendo World Championships Gold. It is basically the "holy grail" of gaming.
1992 Nintendo Campus Challenge NES. This is the only one known to exist.
First production unit off the line of the Turbo Grafx 16 System
Sock the Cat Rocks the Hill SNES. The only known version of this in the world

Nintendo Campus Challenge Screenshot


Zelda Prototype Cartridge


Nintendo Campus Challenge Cartridge


VGPC: Are those also the most expensive items or are some other games worth more?
DreamTR: The most expensive are probably the Gold and Gray Nintendo World Championships, Nintendo Campus Challenge, and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Maybe the Virtual Boy TV Boy would fetch a high price too. I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting. It's hard to assign values on some items when there are only 1 or 2 ever made.
Gray and Gold Nintendo World Championships Cartridges Together


VGPC: What is your favorite game in the collection?
DreamTR: 1990 NWC Gold because it took me so long to get.

VGPC: Is it true that you owned seven NWC Gold cartridges at one time?
DreamTR: Yes. I located everyone on the Nintendo Power list back in 1999 and bought as many as I could.

VGPC: If you had seven at once, why did the one you have now take "so long to get"?
DreamTR: The NWC cartridge I own now was actually in Iraq for a long time many years ago.

VGPC: What is the secret to getting so many one-of-a-kind items?
DreamTR: Having good contacts. Not low-balling people. And not alienating people that have these items for sale.

VGPC: Will there be rare games in the future or are they becoming a thing of the past because of changes to the industry like disc based games, downloadable games, etc?
DreamTR: It's definitely going to change, but video games will still be "collectible", just on a different level.

VGPC: Do you have any advice for collectors who are just starting out?
DreamTR: It's a lot easier to complete collections nowadays with the internet and the fact that high production numbers are all over the place. I would say scrounge flea markets, garage sales, and put WANTED ads up on Craig's List. That helps tremendously in this economy.

VGPC: Thank you for the interview Jason.
DreamTR: Thank you JJ