Current Events > How do I know if a game is a reproduction?

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Apparently, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES sells for an excess of $100. I picked up a copy about five or six years ago for $15. It was really just insurance to make sure I'd have a chance to play Ninja Gaiden 3 in case the NES game proved too expensive.

Now, I'm having a hard time believing that the price of a game could jump like that in such a few years. So, it has me wondering if my version is authentic or not. Or maybe it did jump. Maybe 5 years is what it took to go from being a novelty game toward the end of the SNES lifespan to, "Whoa. This is rare. I could sell it for $130 to collectors."

In any event, I intend to keep my copy. I was just wondering if there was some easy way to decipher between the real and the unreal.

Gotta open it and check the board.
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Burgess posted...

Gotta open it and check the board.

Nope.


Thanks for answering. I'll just let it be a mystery then.

Prices for video games have gone up significantly recently. A good way to tell what's a reproduction cartridge is by looking at the cost of the game relative to others. The good eBay sellers who sell reproduction cartridges will have it listed that their game is a reproduction cartridge. Repro carts weren't that popular that long ago, so you stand a good chance of the game being legitimate. I know I certainly didn't pay $150 and $300 respectively for Mega Man X2 and X3.
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Alucard188 posted...

Prices for video games have gone up significantly recently. A good way to tell what's a reproduction cartridge is by looking at the cost of the game relative to others. The good eBay sellers who sell reproduction cartridges will have it listed that their game is a reproduction cartridge. Repro carts weren't that popular that long ago, so you stand a good chance of the game being legitimate. I know I certainly didn't pay $150 and $300 respectively for Mega Man X2 and X3.

Most of the online ones are labeled as reproductions if they are ones. It's difficulty (maybe impossible) for me to go back and retroactively see what the game sold for five or six years ago.

Suit yourself.
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I will say this much, if I knew that video games would transition from "old" to "rare" or "classic," I would have stocked up on them back in the Funco Land days. It's very crazy to have laid eyes on games that would later sell for three or four times the cost.

I passed up an opportunity to get Clayfighter 63 and 1/3: Sculptor's Cut simply because I wasn't feeling it. All the sudden, it's a game which sells for hundreds because it was a Blockbuster rental exclusive.

Even relatively unknown games have skyrocketed in price. I bought Alisia Dragoon (Sega Genesis game) mint/CIB maybe 4 years ago for 25 bucks and now it's selling for like 120.
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