EB Games announced earlier this week that it was now accepting game trade-ins for all retro games, accessories and consoles starting with the NES all the way up to the Nintendo Wii U and everything in-between.
There was obviously a bit of scepticism, as whilst game trading on newer games is quite a simple process, it’s a lot more nuanced for retro games as you need to really know what something is worth, and that can often depend on condition, whether it’s complete and there’s also a lot of fake cartridges out there too.
Whilst I’m by no means a retro collector, or have a lot of knowledge around the worth of old games, there’s a lot of people out there who do, one being ‘livingaretrogaminglife’ on Instagram who has an incredible collection that you can check out HERE.
EB GAMES RETRO GAME TRADE PRICES
The Insta user was offered the below for each of the complete games (I’m sure there’s probably an EB World bonus on top, but obviously that doesn’t make a heap of difference.
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong’s Quest (SNES) – $10
- Metal Gear Sold: Snake Eater 3D (3DS) – $11
- The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap (GBA) – $16
- Silent Hill 2 (Xbox) – $17
- Banjo Tooie (N64) – $21
- Virtua Fighter 3TB (SEGA) – $3
- Yoshi’s Island (SNES) – $21
- Pokemon Black 2 (DS) – $20
- Pandora’s Tower (Wii) – $21
On the console side, these are the trade-in values we’ve heard so far.
EB GAMES RETRO CONSOLE TRADE PRICES
- Nintendo Wii U Console With Gamepad + Sensor Bar – $70
- Nintendo 64 with Cables and Controller – $80
- PlayStation 2 Slim – $82.50
Now whilst I agree that the average person going to trade in their old games probably isn’t a collector, it does probably expose the issue with trading retro gaming goods as opposed to newer titles, with the values on the below games being fairly shocking, even if they were loose carts let alone complete games.
It’d be interesting to see how EB Games is working out the value and if there’s any difference based on the quality or completeness of the game.
Obviously, we don’t know what they are doing with the games and how they’re choosing to sell them. If they end up offering them at reasonable prices, this might end up good and well, but we’ll keep following to see how this pans out.
