BARGAIN HUNT

Your guide to the rising world of retro prices

THE COVER STAR

PILOTWINGS

The original remains amongst the very best of SNES titles and a boxed PAL release shouldn’t set you back more than £20, with loose copies going for as little as £5. The US NTSC version goes for a little more, so why not treat yourself to a boxed Japanese release, with its lovely cover art, for around £10?

GARGOYLES

A loose cartridge of Gargoyles should set you back around £30, ignoring the ones for under a tenner from China which look in suspiciously good condition. Boxed copies do not surface often and can fetch up to £130.

TOP GEAR

Boxed copies with instructions shouldn’t set you back more than £20 and loose copies go for just a few quid. A bundle of the original and its first sequel, boxed and in good condition, went for £51 late last year.

BATTLETOADS

A notoriously difficult game to play, finding a boxed PAL release isn’t easy either, though one went for only £36 a few months back. Finding a loose cartridge is not so tough – expect to pay £25-£30.

SUPER MARIO 64 DS

Boxed copies can go for as little as £5, so even if you have the N64 original, you may want to add it to your collection, if only for the brilliant minigames.

EXCITE TRUCK

You can pick up this Wii launch title for just £3, so why not create a visual timeline by displaying it alongside Excitebike for the NES and Excitebike 64?

HOW MUCH?! GODZILLA

Our collector Matt Taylor pointed this out as an example of rising prices. A few years after its 2015 release in the West (it’s known as Godzilla VS in Japan), this would cost you no more than £10 but it now regularly fetches over £130.

Prices correct at time of print