BARGAIN Hunt

Your guide to the rising world of retro prices

COVER STAR Sonic Adventure

this outing for the famous blue hedgehog is one of the more common dreamcast games, and as such remains reasonably priced with ebay Buy It Nows asking anywhere between £10 and £20 depending on condition, and if you wish to avoid the notorious broken boxes that plague the system’s games.

Jungle Strike

The sequel to Desert Strike sold a bucketload on the Mega Drive 25 years ago, keeping the game common and low-priced, with even boxed and complete copies normally for around £10 . Other versions vary, with a boxed edition of the SNES port going for double that at least, on par with the Amiga CD32 disc release.

SPACE Station Silicon valley

Boxed copies of this Nintendo 64 game can generally be obtained between £20 and £40 depending on condition, with cart-only prices hovering around £10 . It’s a similar pattern for the Game Boy Color release.

Blade runner

Even a mint boxed copy is unlikely to set your bank balance back more than £30 . It’s well worth investigating.

MEGA MAN ii

Not the most expensive Nes cart, but not exactly the cheapest, either. the first Mega Man sequel clocks in around £10-20 for the loose cartridge, and up to £40 for mint boxed copy.

HOW Much?! MEGA MAN X2

talking of Mega Man, a boxed copy of this snes game sold recently on an ebay auction for an eye-watering £720 – plus £3.35 postage. the condition of the box looked average at best, so we’re bemused as to why such a high price was commanded in this instance. september 2018 also saw just the manual for this game fetch over £100 . It would appear that Mega Man plus snes still equals mega money.