Top 10 Retro Video Games That Sell on eBay (2026 Sold Prices)

A gray Super Nintendo cart, pictured all by itself. It sold on eBay on October sixteenth for twenty-five hundred dollars. But search it, and the results include lots of cheap brand-new reproductions. Plus, a little round gadget one thrifter found in a basket of buttons and pins. Without it, one game here sold for less. So today: ten video games selling on eBay right now, ranked by real sold prices. What each one sold for, how to spot it, and how to tell a real one from a fake. Let's jump right into it.

So here's how we ranked them. For every game, we ran eBay's Sold Items filter and logged its most recent used sales, up to twenty per game, all from the last ninety days. Loose carts, discs only and complete copies count. Sealed copies, Japanese and European versions, and reproduction carts don't. Then we ranked by the median, the middle sale, so one crazy sale can't move it. Quick vocabulary: loose means just the cart or the disc. C-I-B means complete in box: the box, the manual and the inserts it came with. And there's no official standard for complete, so read the photos, not the letters.

Number ten: Chrono Trigger, for the Super Nintendo. Square made it in 1995 with a dream team: the creator of Final Fantasy, the creator of Dragon Quest, and Akira Toriyama, the Dragon Ball artist. It's been re-released on PlayStation, DS, phones and PC, so collectors chase the original cart. Its last twenty used sales, October eighteenth to twenty-eighth, had a median of two seventy-seven fifty. Most loose carts went for about two hundred to three hundred. Boxed copies jump to about seven hundred to nine hundred, and one complete copy sold October eighteenth for twelve ninety-seven. A complete box is black, with the cart, the manual, a registration card and two double-sided posters. And fakes are common, so check the board inside. A real US board says Nintendo, a year, and the code S-N-S-A-C-T-E-zero. One Reddit collector, u/CtRho123, spotted a stack of Super Nintendo games behind a Goodwill counter, with Chrono Trigger and EarthBound in it. Quote: "I was figuring they were re-pro's." They opened them up to check the boards. "All authentic."

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Number nine: Pokemon HeartGold, for the Nintendo DS, from 2010. It's not rare. HeartGold and SoulSilver sold more than twelve million copies together. The money is in the big box, because every copy came with a Pokewalker, a little Poke Ball-shaped step counter that talks to the game. Its last nine used sales, October second to twenty-sixth, had a median of three fifty-five ninety-nine. With the Pokewalker, they sold for about two-fifty to five hundred, and the top one, complete with the walker, went for four ninety-nine ninety-nine on October second. One without the walker? Two hundred ten. Here's the tell: a real HeartGold cart is black, not gray. If it's gray, it's fake. A US label ends in I-P-K-E-U-S-A, and the back of the cart says N-T-R-zero-three-one. But no single check is proof. And that gadget from the start? One thrifter, u/Liadeathbell138, found two working Pokewalkers at a thrift shop. Quote: "When I saw one in the loose 'buttons and pins' basket I said 'no way that's what I think it is!'"

Number eight: EarthBound, for the Super Nintendo, 1995. It flopped in the US, about a hundred forty thousand copies, even with a two-million-dollar "This game stinks" ad campaign, scratch-and-sniff ads included. Now it's a cult classic. Its last nineteen used sales, October twelfth to twenty-eighth, had a median of four hundred. Loose carts mostly sold for about three-forty to four seventy-five. But in the box? A complete copy sold for twenty-two fifty on October twenty-seventh, and a boxed copy with the Player's Guide went for thirty-two hundred on October fourteenth. That's two sales. From three feet away, look for the oversized box, much bigger than a normal Super Nintendo box, because the Player's Guide came inside, with scratch-and-sniff cards. And here's a weird one: the US label doesn't say "Made in Japan." That's a misprint on every copy, not a sign of a fake. The fakes are the brand-new carts in the same search, so open it up and look for S-N-S-M-B-zero on the board. One collector, u/Zealousideal_Air6964, found one at their local GameStop. Quote: "I immediately assumed it was fake, but took it apart today and found out it was actually authentic."

Number seven: Haunting Ground, for the PlayStation 2. Capcom, 2005, a survival horror game that critics call a spiritual successor to Clock Tower. Its re-release on PS3 only came out in Japan, so in the US the PS2 disc is still the way to own it. Its last twenty used sales, October seventh to twenty-eighth, had a median of six-twenty. Complete copies mostly went for about five-thirty to eight hundred, and one sold complete on October twenty-sixth for seven ninety-nine ninety-five. Disc only, about three-thirty to four-twenty. From three feet, it's a plain black PS2 case, which is exactly why it hides in the PS2 bin. So flip the disc over. A real one has a silver data side. A dyed, colored data side means a burned copy. And check the serial on the spine and the disc: S-L-U-S, two-one-zero-seven-five.

Number six: Burning Rangers, for the Sega Saturn. Sonic Team made it in 1998, and it was among the last five Saturn games released in America, slipped into stores with, as IGN's Levi Buchanan put it, "zero fanfare and low circulation." It's one of the thinnest on this list: only ten used US sales since August second, with a median of six seventy-three twenty-five. Most complete copies sold for about six hundred to seven seventy-five, and a mint one with all its inserts sold October twenty-third for seven-fifty. Copies with problems, sold as-is or with just the disc and manual, went for about three-fifty. The big trap is the Japanese version, which sells for a small fraction of that. So check the serial. The US disc says eight-one-eight-zero-three. G-S at the start means Japan. And they do still turn up. YouTuber Mr. Wright Way went to his local GameStop after hearing a bunch of Sega games had been traded in, and the most impressive item in the haul, according to Time Extension, was Burning Rangers.

Number five: Magic Knight Rayearth, also on the Saturn. Working Designs translated it and released it in 1998, more than two years late, and it was the very last Saturn game released in North America. It had only a very limited print run. Its last twenty used sales, August tenth to October twentieth, had a median of eight fifty-nine. Complete copies mostly sold for about seven hundred to a thousand. Disc only, about four hundred to four-fifty. And a copy with everything, stickers included, sold October twentieth for fourteen forty-nine ninety-nine. So here's what complete means: the long box with the reflective foil, the disc, and a big full-color manual whose last page folds out into stickers. The disc comes in three art versions, Hikaru, Umi and Fuu, made in equal numbers, so none of them is rarer. And just like Burning Rangers, the Japanese version is a different, much cheaper game. Lauren Sisselman at GoCollect wrote about passing on it back in the day. Quote: "I even held the game in my hands at a local Costco."

Number four: Rule of Rose, for the PlayStation 2. A 2006 survival horror game that Sony passed on in the US, so Atlus picked it up. Then a moral panic in Europe got the UK release cancelled. And with so few copies published, it's become one of the more expensive games to buy second-hand. Its last seventeen used US sales, October fourth to twenty-seventh, had a median of ten twenty-five. Most complete copies sold for about nine seventy-five to fourteen hundred. Disc only, about five hundred to five-fifty. And one copy sold as eBay Refurbished, in excellent condition, went for twenty-four twenty-eight on October twenty-sixth. Now the catch. In 2024, a sealed shipment of the European version reportedly turned up in Italy, and sealed European copies sold this month for two twenty-five to two-fifty. So check the region. The US copy has the Atlus logo and the serial S-L-U-S, two-one-four-four-eight.

Number three: Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sega Saturn, 1998. Sega first made only twenty thousand North American copies. They sold out, and a few thousand more were made. Sega had already moved on to the Dreamcast, and the game has never been officially re-released. Its last sixteen used sales, August twenty-seventh to October sixteenth, had a median of eleven fifty-six fifty. Complete copies mostly went for about nine eighty-five to thirteen hundred, and one complete in box sold October sixteenth for twelve hundred. But copies missing a disc or the manual? Four-fifty to five-fifty. So that's the check: it's four discs. So open the case and count all four. "Azel" on the cover means the Japanese version. And match the serial, eight-one-three-zero-seven, on every disc.

Number two: Kuon, for the PlayStation 2. A 2004 horror game from FromSoftware, years before Dark Souls made them famous. Agetec brought it to the US, the print run was small, and FromSoftware fans now chase it. Its last eighteen used sales, September second to October twenty-eighth, had a median of fifteen ten. Most complete copies with the original case and manual sold for about eighteen hundred to twenty-three hundred, and one sold October twenty-eighth for twenty-three hundred. The disc alone, about six hundred to nine hundred. And copies with a reproduction manual or case, about twelve hundred to sixteen hundred. So that's the detail that moves the price: the manual. Reproduction manuals exist, and some even say "reproduction" inside the cover. From three feet, it's a plain black PS2 case with the Agetec logo, serial S-L-U-S, two-one-zero-zero-seven.

And number one: Hagane: The Final Conflict, for the Super Nintendo. Hudson Soft released it in the US in 1995. It's a cult classic, and its low sales turned it into an extremely expensive cart. There's a rumor it was a rental-store exclusive, but plenty of carts turn up without rental stickers, so it was likely sold in stores, just not many. Only seven used US sales since August ninth, with a median of twenty-five hundred. Carts alone sold for fifteen hundred to about twenty-five hundred, and one sold October sixteenth for twenty-five hundred. Complete in box: three thousand, and thirty-three fifty-five on August twenty-ninth. Now, the fakes. The same search turns up lots of cheap brand-new reproductions, and Nintendo Life names Hagane as a game where you should ask to open the cart. A real board is marked Nintendo with a year. And yes, they do turn up. One Redditor, u/ThePNWGamingDad, quote: "the best find I made at a garage sale was Hagane for the SNES. Paid a dollar for it with a bundle of other games."

So, the top ten. Number ten, Chrono Trigger, loose carts about two hundred to three hundred. Nine, HeartGold with the Pokewalker, two-fifty to five hundred. Eight, EarthBound, three-forty to four seventy-five loose. Seven, Haunting Ground, about five-thirty to eight hundred complete. Six, Burning Rangers, six hundred to seven seventy-five. Five, Magic Knight Rayearth, seven hundred to a thousand. Four, Rule of Rose, the US copy, nine seventy-five to fourteen hundred. Three, Panzer Dragoon Saga, all four discs, nine eighty-five to thirteen hundred. Two, Kuon, eighteen hundred to twenty-three hundred with the original manual. And number one, Hagane, fifteen hundred to about twenty-five hundred for the cart. So, what's the best game you've ever found in the wild, or the one that got away? Tell me down in the comments. And if this one helped, a like helps it reach more resellers. Have a blessed day.