Drumstick wrote:This is what they went for (excl. postage):
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - £140
Kirby Air Ride - £89
Skies of Arcadia - £78
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - £72
Pokémon XD - £72
Mario Superstar Baseball - £69
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - £56
Zelda: Twilight Princess - £45
Ikaruga - £42
I went through a phase, around 2007ish, where I tried to hoover up most of the GC's big name/first party titles.
Consequently, I own all of them on that list bar Kirby's Air Ride. That's a gap in my collection, largely because it was considered to be duff so I wasn't desperately trying to find it. I also passed by the Mario Party games (think the one with the mic is rare now) as well as that weird pinball game, Odama. Had the chance to get the latter for £40 but decided it wasn't ever going to get played.
Though saying that, I'm pretty sure I haven't played Ikaruga yet, and because at this time the GC was now competing with the 360 and Wii, I didn't get very far in Fire Emblem or Mario Baseball either. The latter I bought because someone here (melatonin maybe) said that only 3000 PAL copies were made, so I snapped it up for £35 when it was in a dwindling GC section in Ganestation around 2008. I'm actually surprised that's not the most expensive game on that list, as I'm fairly sure it must be the rarest, though baseball isn't as attractive to gamers here as Fire Emblem.
Not all of the titles were picked up years later though. I got Skies and Paper Mario when the console was still going, and absolutely loved them. NGC gave Skies a glowing review and suggested it would sell poorly or maybe be hard to find in the future - a fate that befell the DC version - so I went out on launch day during my GCSEs to go and get it.
I do feel a bit guilty having the games on my shelves back in the UK. For those games I played and loved, I wouldn't part with them until digital versions became available. For the others, I do wonder if the deeply buried smugness that I own such rare, hard to find titles, outweighs the fact that I effectively probably have about £700 just sitting there unused.
Though also, on the other hand, when I come back to the UK next March, I'm sorely tempted to go and do the same for the Wii U titles I missed out on by moving here abroad years ago.
EDIT - Don't think I played Pokémon XD either. I bought it because Nintendo cynically made it the only way to get some Pokémon in the Gen 3 and Gen 4 games (until Heart Gold/Soul Silver came out), but it was just too similar to Colosseum to face starting, so on the shelve it remains.
