Monkeygift

On 9/1/2023 at 1:17 PM, fcgamer said:

It's apples to oranges making comparisons like this across regions though. 

I'm just saying that those are incredibly valuable in their country of origin. If he's willing to sell in the U.S. he may get a few hundreds but who knows?

On 9/1/2023 at 7:30 PM, cyberguile said:

Did those sell ?

Well, in Korea they simply can't be found so collectors that have those games are holding on to them like crazy. Only extremely high offers could "maybe" make them sell.

In Korea, this would easily fetch in the thousand $ btw.

11 hours ago, fcgamer said:

That doesn't make it rare though. Likely these are just priced to primarily be display / trophy / showcase pieces, again a technique with which I'm very familiar.

 

That shop I go to (which is a gaming coffee shop also. Really cool place) has very fair prices for everything I've purchased. But trust me on that, anything on cartridge that was released prior to 2000 here in Korea is now insanely rare as the generation that grew up with that are now making good money and are going nuts hunting this stuff down.

Some rare stuff available in a shop in Seoul. Although all that is over 1K. The Sonic I think goes for like 2200$.

Anything "cartridge" in Korea is now very rare and/or super pricey, probably beyond prices any foreigner's willing to pay.

On 12/24/2022 at 6:36 AM, phart010 said:

My guess is that there’s a healthy amount of stock in Korea and the Koreans are oblivious to any demand that exists outside of Korea. So the games haven’t come up out of their hiding places 

There isn't. I live in South Korea and those games can't be found in any shops anywhere. They are at best in private collections and extremely sought after by locals and therefore fetch very high prices here.