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00:03That's quite a gentlemanly landing, sir, befitting only of a U.S. president.
00:08The gentleman in me goes off the clock at 5 p.m.
00:12Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're digging through our closets and attics looking for those childhood games we forgot
00:18about that suddenly have the potential to help us with our bills as adults.
00:22It's true what they say. The grass is always greener, and you don't really know what it is you have
00:30until it's gone. Gone.
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00:45Yakuza Dead Souls
00:52Sega already had a crime soap opera that made you eat ramen between beatdowns, but then they handed Kiryu a
00:58shotgun and filled Kamurocho with zombies.
01:01Dead Souls is the spinoff a lot of fans bought because it was weird on purpose.
01:06The completely over-the-top guns in familiar streets, but with a tone that feels like the series sneaking out
01:11after curfew.
01:12Unfortunately, it also sold like a side quest.
01:15The retail print was smaller than the mainline games, so complete copies quietly parked in the $80 to $100 range,
01:22while loose discs set around $60 to $75.
01:25While not shockingly expensive, don't worry, we'll get to those, it's still an oddity for such a recognizable series.
01:32The surprise in the price is that a licensed-feeling detour from a series people actually owned became a mid
01:38-tier collectible just by staying odd and staying out of reprint jail.
01:52Gunstar Heroes
01:54Treasure's Genesis run and gun still plays like the cabinet is on fire.
01:59Filled to the limit with two-player chaos and bosses that refuse to behave, turn it into a game a
02:04lot of households actually kept.
02:05Loose carts are still in the friendly $50 to $70 neighborhood, however, the shock is the box, with complete in
02:13box jumped to $150 to $200 because 16-bit cardboard does not survive well.
02:18You kept the cart because it was good, but you lost the manual because you were 12, and now the
02:23missing paper is the punishment.
02:25Gameplay was never the rare part, the complete set is.
02:30Treasure made a classic that still gets cited whenever someone wants to explain why the Genesis felt louder than the
02:35competition,
02:36while collectors made a homework assignment out of finding the sleeve that still looks like a Saturday morning instead of
02:41a yard sale casualty.
02:43Fire Emblem
02:44Radiant Dawn
02:53This is the late Wii Fire Emblem a lot of strategy fans actually finished and kept in their library rotation.
03:00Bigger armies and a Tellius wrap-up that ate whole evenings made it feel like a proper event, not a
03:05leftover.
03:06Nintendo didn't hide it, but they also didn't keep it in print forever.
03:10Loose copies sit around $80 to $90, and complete ones climbed into the $95 to $110 in pristine condition,
03:18which is modest until you remember this was supposed to be a used bin game.
03:22The real surprise is just how fast a well-liked sequel became a hold-on-to-the-box title once
03:27the series exploded on later hardware.
03:30You might still have Ike in a Drawer, but the aftermarket noticed before your closet did.
03:34It's not scarce like a rental exclusive, it's scarce like a game everyone assumed would stay cheap because it was
03:40popular.
03:48Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve 2
03:58Square took Mitochondria and a New York concert hall and made a horror RPG that felt like a blockbuster in
04:04the wrong department.
04:06A lot of people bought the first one, so naturally plenty of those same people bought the sequel because Ayo
04:11was still cool and the fights got meaner.
04:14Neither prints was tiny, but complete copies still climbed.
04:17Parasite Eve Loose is around $50 to $70, while complete in box is $100 to $130.
04:24And Parasite Eve 2 Loose is $65 to $100 and complete in box $140 to $180.
04:30If you own one, you'll want the other, but own both complete and you have a two-game goldmine on
04:36a series Square barely reprints.
04:38You thought you were buying late 90s Weird Square, but it turns out you were also buying future listings with
04:44Opera Lighting.
04:45Separately, they look like used CHOP games, but together, they start acting like a set.
05:01Xeno Gears
05:08The Square RPG that tried to smuggle a thesis into a PlayStation jewel case, complete with giant robots and dinner
05:14table arguments about faith, that still makes Disc 2 feel like a contact sport.
05:19Plenty of fans kept it because it felt important even when the budget ran out of map.
05:23Especially now, since loose copies sit around $90 to $110, while complete in box lives in the $150 to $200
05:31range.
05:31That's not lost media pricing, it's decades of cult classic building over the generations' level pricing.
05:37The surprise is how normal this used to look on a shelf in a resale shop.
05:41But then, Xenoblade made the family name famous again, and a complete Xenogears stopped being a $20 impulse.
05:48You kept Xenogears because the story and the world stuck with you, while the collectors kept the manual because the
05:54story wouldn't fit on the back of the case.
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06:163D.GameHeroes
06:24From Software, before the Sermon of Souls went mainstream, produced a cheeky PS3 love letter that looked like a Zelda
06:30cartridge exploded into polygons.
06:33A lot of people grabbed it on a whim because the joke was obvious, and sales were fine, but not
06:38forever.
06:39Complete copies now hold $110 to $140, while loose discs and badly used copies sit around $70 to $90.
06:47The surprise is that a wink at 8-bit nostalgia became a mid-deer collectible once digital storefronts got messy
06:54and the physical discs started looking like a souvenir.
06:56Most players bought it because it was cute, but the market and collectors kept it because cute plus finite is
07:03a dangerous mix.
07:04It's the rare FromSoft box that wants you to smile instead of suffer, but then charges you anyway, which itself
07:10might be more punishing than any Souls boss.
07:19Metal Wolf Chaos
07:20We Americans will never yield to such evil.
07:28FromSoftware returns again, only this time the President of the United States is a mech and the solution to every
07:34problem is missiles.
07:35An Xbox Japan to cult pipeline that had not only a surprising number of importers, but later a lot of
07:41fans that actually played.
07:43And then, the meme caught up.
07:45Loose copies wander $60 to $90, while complete in box jumps to around $100 to $150.
07:51The biggest surprise isn't that the game is weird, but that a Presidential Rampage Simulator became a collectible because people
07:57quoted it louder than they reprinted it.
07:59You might own a copy for no other reason than you love mech games, and sadly, the aftermarket owns the
08:05punchline now.
08:07Metal Wolf Chaos did receive a re-release on PS4 and Xbox One, but even those copies are beginning to
08:13climb in price, because it seems freedom will always carry a heavy cost of roughly around $80.
08:20Let's party!
08:23It's good to be home.
08:26Super Metroid
08:34You, me, and every gamer alive knows why Super Metroid is special.
08:39The planet feels bigger than the map, and the sequence breaks still turn speedrunners into pixel-perfect gremlins.
08:45A ridiculous amount of people own this cart, but clean, complete copies are the plot twist, as loose is relatively
08:51normal at $70 to $90, while complete in box jumps from $300 to $400,
08:57because SNES boxes don't enjoy basements.
09:00The game is common enough that you might still have Samus in a drawer, but the cardboard isn't as durable
09:06as the cart.
09:07Nintendo made a masterpiece while also making packaging that disintegrates if humidity even looks at it.
09:13Super Metroid doesn't make you hunt for a secret print.
09:16It makes you hunt for that sleeve that somehow survived childhood, which is a very expensive way to learn that
09:22iconic and complete are not the same word.
09:41Not only was this somehow the second game starring 50 Cent, but it was also the licensed shooter starring 50
09:47Cent that managed to be a damn fun game and a vast improvement over its predecessor.
09:52A lot of copies went out because celebrity games sold on name recognition alone, but then the joke aged into
09:58affection and even nostalgia.
10:00Used and loose discs sit around $70 to $85, while complete in box jump from $85 to $100 or even
10:07higher.
10:08Nobody expected this to be a mid-tier collectible except the people who played and loved it.
10:13The gameplay is still fun in a mid-2000s kind of way, but licensing means we'll never get a remastered
10:19update.
10:20You might have bought it because it was $10 in a bin, but today the aftermarket heard you wanted to
10:25replay an unexpected classic and started a bidding war over the keep case.
10:29Fellow Patriot, who lied, stole, and killed for my country.
10:36And I never made a dime.
10:39Folklore.
10:40It may not be long before the boundaries between life and death.
10:44Indeed, the destinies of men will be dissected and explained to us by modern science.
10:50Here's one that recently saw a massive jump after the announcement of the closure of the PS3 storefront.
10:56Japan Studio built a PS3 action-adventure that looks like a storybook, but fights like a tour through other people's
11:02grief.
11:03So, of course, it sold poorly.
11:05However, the people who actually played and finished Folklore would not shut up about it.
11:10Word of mouth made complete copies climb to $150 to $180, while poorly maintained still sits around $80 to $100.
11:19You might own it because the cover was pretty and intriguing, but pretty plus low sales are how a quiet
11:24game gets loud at checkout.
11:26The tone is sincere, but sincerity didn't move units in 2007, and now basic copies are the reason the complete
11:34ones cost more than the memory of playing it.
11:36What is this place?
11:38It's familiar.
11:40It's so melancholy.
11:42Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
11:53A mountain of people owned Castlevania Symphony of the Night on disc at and long after release, and that's why
12:01the current price feels like a prank.
12:03Despite being playable for years after the initial run thanks to digital re-releases, disc copies alone run $80 to
12:10$100, while complete in box sits $150 to $230, which is a lot of money for a game that used
12:18to live in every used game case under Castlevania.
12:21Complete black labels got scarce the ordinary way.
12:24Life.
12:25Everyone who played it opened it, and despite Konami reprinting the idea across multiple platforms, they didn't reprint your original
12:32jewel case.
12:33If you happen to still have the map inside the case, but somehow folded it the wrong way, that crease
12:38is now part of the appraisal.
12:40What is a man?
12:41A miserable little pile of missing manuals.
12:45Ha!
12:46Mankind!
12:47A cesspit of hatred and lies!
12:50Fight for them, and die for their sins!
12:54Conker's Bad Fur Day.
12:56Well, there I am.
12:59Conker the king.
13:02King of all the land.
13:04Who'd have thought that?
13:06Rare created a cute and fuzzy squirrel and let him swear at the N64, and quite a lot of households
13:12had this because the shock value sold.
13:14These days, however, complete copies are now $250 to $350, with loose carts still sitting at anywhere from $100 to
13:23$130.
13:24The jokes were never in short supply, but that box that had to survive a teenager was.
13:30Everyone owned the game because it was a platformer with South Park humor, but now collectors want the cardboard all
13:35that crass humor came in.
13:37Nintendo later reused the idea to great effect, but they never used this exact drunk squirrel presentation ever again.
13:44Keep your expectations in check while trying to relive your childhood, because the squirrel already squandered them, and all the
13:51typical rental stickers of the era don't help the surviving boxes either.
13:55Through what they say, the grass is always greener.
13:58And you don't really know what it is you have, until it's gone.
14:05Puppeteer.
14:06Listen, every head has a little bit of meow-jig to it.
14:11Japan Studio can't catch a break and returns to the list again, this time with a PS3 platformer that looks
14:18like a stage play and plays like someone handed you a spotlight.
14:21A poor release window kept sales low as the shadow of the PS4 upstaged the production.
14:26Loose discs exit stage left at $120 to $150, while a complete in-box climbed to the box seats and
14:33looked down on the production for $180 to $220, which is a lot for a game that felt like a
14:40cult object on day one.
14:42Those who skipped the showing at release realized pretty quickly that the game they initially ignored doesn't stay cheap once
14:48the shelves and theater seats are empty.
14:50Players bought it for the handmade aesthetic, but that handmade feeling never got a second physical life, so the first
14:56one started acting like theater, memorabilia, and a curtain call for your wallet.
15:01Soften me, Timber! The one perfect beauty in this hideous world! Gone! Ha ha! Fall for darkness! Ha ha!
15:11Spider-Man Web of Shadows.
15:13You have it, don't you? You know what that does to you? You know how it can change you.
15:20In all honesty, almost any of the Marvel games of the 7th generation could have easily fit this slot, but
15:26the now cult classic Web of Shadows has become more in-demand than pictures of Spider-Man for the Bugle.
15:32And then, it got delisted, and the easy digital backup disappeared.
15:37PS3 copies are the ones that jump the most, with bruised and beaten copies swinging in at around $80 to
15:42$100, while the pristine red and blue complete in-box is $110 to $180.
15:48Plenty of people owned it, but even fewer people can buy it in like-new condition now, so the disc
15:53you forgot in a drawer is doing numbers.
15:56It is a messy snapshot of mid-tier Marvel games before the movies standardized everything.
16:01The store page vanished, and since Nostalgia hates an expired license, the catalog of classic Spidey outings got significantly smaller.
16:09With great power comes an even greater price tag.
16:12You stand walking around with some alien ringworm crawling around in your guts.
16:17It's not like that.
16:18Whatever helps you sleep at night, kid.
16:21Silent Hill
16:23What is this?
16:25What's going on here?
16:29Fog and that radio still do more work than half the later marketing, which is how a lot of PS1
16:35owners ended up with this in the first place, and then treated the box like any other Friday night horror
16:40rental.
16:41Black Label Complete Copies still asked $220 to $310, with even loose discs charging $140 to $190, because even famous
16:52games get beaten, stuffed next to Tony Hawk, and left to collect dust in the attic.
16:57Konami kept the name alive across remakes and sequels, but they didn't keep this exact case in print, so the
17:04version that started the town is now the version that costs real money if you want the manual and the
17:09disc in the same case.
17:10If this one is already in your collection from day one, congratulations, you own a landmark title and a possible
17:17future listing.
17:18The Otherworld charges admission now, and it only accepts cash, and lots of it.
17:23As young people moved away, the people figured they'd been summoned by the gods.
17:29Evidently, things like that used to happen around here all the time.
17:33Chrono Trigger
17:34Chrono Trigger remains one of the undisputed goats, full of wonderful characters, and a time travel story that still feels
17:41generous in a way later epics keep trying to replicate without matching the warmth.
17:45This was a normal SNES RPG a lot of kids actually received for a birthday, which is why complete copies
17:52are asking $800 to $900, and even loose cards at $220 to $270, which still feels like a glitch in
18:01the timeline.
18:01It sold well, and people loved it, but the boxes evaporated anyway because SNES Cardboard is allergic to being $30.
18:09You might own the cart and think that settles it, but the Collector Premium lives in the map flap and
18:14the box that somehow didn't get crushed in your childhood bedroom.
18:18Square crafted a masterpiece, but time made it expensive, which is a rude punchline for a game about not wasting
18:25the hours you already had.
18:27Castlevania Dracula X
18:28The SNES Rondo cousin has a reputation for being rarer than it is, which is a polite way of saying
18:35plenty of copies exist, but complete ones still don't feel that way at checkout.
18:39The cart alone can run from $200 to $250, while complete in box double jumps into the $1,000 to
18:47$1,500 range because the box is the actual boss fight.
18:51It got whispered about like a secret when it was really just a late, pretty Castlevania that kids bought, loved
18:57for a weekend, and then destroyed the packaging in the way kids destroy everything with a whip on the cover.
19:02The sharp 16-bit bite is what made it special, and the difference between owning a copy while also having
19:09the original packaging became entirely different religions after the cardboard took the damage meant for Dracula's castle.
19:16Futurama
19:16I've sold Planet Express to Mom!
19:19Gah-gah-gah-bubba-dude!
19:21Also, why are you wearing that funky hat?
19:24You are?
19:26All this?
19:27No reason!
19:29Hmm, that was odd.
19:31Mighty odd.
19:32The Futurama game not only has the original voice cast, but even looks like the show, which should have been
19:38enough to stack it next to every other early 2000s tie-in that people forgot in a week.
19:43Instead, it sold like a cancelled episode.
19:46That combination is how a licensed platformer sneaks into the 230 to 280 complete in box range, with loose copies
19:54at 140 to 180.
19:56Fans who bought it usually liked it, but there just wasn't enough of those people, and nobody is pushing for
20:02a complete physical reprint of a 2003 cartoon game when the easier move is to pretend the Planet Express crew
20:09never left the TV.
20:10Fans bought it because they genuinely loved the show, but the scalpers own it now because that shipment never came
20:16back around.
20:17Good news, everyone!
20:19Futurama is back on the air, but the video game tie-in has been hit by hidden delivery fees and
20:24fine print.
20:26Oh!
20:32Panzer Dragoon Orta
20:34Sega's last great rail shooter arrived late in the original Xbox Hardware's life with a western reprint that felt like
20:41a polite handshake,
20:42which is a miserable way to treat a game that is still gorgeously entertaining, and the clip people point to
20:48when they want to explain why the series mattered.
20:50Loose discs wander $150 to $250, while complete in box soars from $400 to $600 because the complete set never
20:59had a long afterlife, and the art is half the reason anyone cared.
21:03Plenty of Xbox kids might have owned this and still let the box go the second GameStop offered them $12.
21:09You might still have the disc somewhere, but collectors want the artwork you took for granted.
21:14Sega took years to treat the series with respect again, but true fans always did, and assuming the cover survived
21:20the move from the TV stand to the closet, you could give this dragon another chance to fly.
21:25Earthbound
21:27Earthbound will always show up on lists like this for no reason other than retroactive appreciation.
21:33The quirky RPG came in a giant box with a scratch-and-sniff guide that still smells like a dare,
21:38and plenty of kids had the cart even if almost nobody kept the cardboard intact through a single move.
21:43Loose copies sit around $300 to $400, but complete in box with the guide talks $1,500 to $2,000
21:51plus,
21:52which is an obscene number for something that's sold in regular stores next to other games with constant re-releases.
21:58It became an attic treasure because the marketing object was huge and fragile, not because it was sold out of
22:04a trunk.
22:05You might still have the cartridge, but the collector wants the sausage sticker sheet.
22:09Nintendo gave the world an underappreciated classic, while the aftermarket turned it into an extra mortgage payment
22:16for you to simply hold a physical piece of your childhood in your hands.
22:19Do you own any of these rare games, and would you part with any of them for some extra cash?
22:24I have more than a couple of these myself, and I don't think I could ever bring myself to resell
22:29any of them.
22:30Share the rarest games in your collection in the comments.
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