How much do you think a complete US Genesis Collection would sell for?

[JRedmond3]

Just a question out of curiosity, I'm probably about 600 games away from that mark.

Edit: 2nd Question, has anyone ever even sold a complete Sega Genesis collection? I've seen a complete NES one and maybe Nintendo 64 but I've never seen a Genesis or SNES collection for sale.

[Genesis Knight]

Only complete Sega collection I've seen is a JPN Dreamcast lot, and US 32X lots fairly frequently (as it goes).

[streetsofrage]

id say around 5000$

[gamevet]

Are you living in Europe?

The $ goes in front of the number.

[streetsofrage]

Are you living in Europe?

The $ goes in front of the number.

sorry grammar nazi lol

[gamevet]

sorry grammar nazi lol


:p

[mick_aka]

id say around 5000$

That seems damn cheap for a complete genesis collection, I didn't get much less than that when I sold off my first complete PAL Saturn collection in 2003.

[17daysolderthannes]

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...dollars.

[TheEdge]

I would say $6,000

[XeroShinobi]

Are we talking CIBs or just loose cartridges? If it's the former, you're looking at around $8000, if it's the latter, $3000-$4000.

[jerry coeurl]

It would probably be worth around $5000, but I doubt you'd clear 2 grand in the selling process. There's just too many crap games on ANY console to justify spending several thousand dollars for a complete collection. I have seen a few complete NES sets listed on eBay and they never seem to get any takers. Most likely because people don't want to spend six to eight thousand dollars on a handful of good games swimming in a sea of turds.

[17daysolderthannes]

There's just too many crap games on ANY console to justify spending several thousand dollars for a complete collection. I have seen a few complete NES sets listed on eBay and they never seem to get any takers. Most likely because people don't want to spend six to eight thousand dollars on a handful of good games swimming in a sea of turds.

That's true, both the SNES and Genesis have shit tons of sports games that barely differ from year to year and you really only need one of each to get the full experience. Not only this, but there are tons of games that have aged poorly (Hard Drivin) or were just mediocre clones of other games. Most people that want complete sets are all about the hunt anyway, so there isn't much point in selling them complete.

[havok666]

Agreed with some statements above. There isn't much of a point in owning a "complete" collection for the Genesis. First of all, it would take up way to much real estate and there are way too many games not even worth 50 cents. Just keep your collection to games that your actually going to play instead of hoarding.

[grolt]

The reason why I like the Master System so much as a collector's console is that it hardly had any third party (and even then, they were mostly SEGA developed games in disguise to try and attract other third parties) games and a limited number of sports titles. Thus the quality/quantity ratio tips very high on the quality side. Almost every game is very good and worth owning. With mass market success though, that ratio gets eaten to all hell by shoddy third party ports or an unbearable run of sports games. Genesis was THE sports console, so I'd venture to guess there are more sports games on the Genny than any other cartridge console (the PS or PS2 probably has it beat because of the sheer lifespan of both systems). While I've been picking up the sports games I don't have casually whenever I find them for a dollar or so, it's probably a lost cause. They play like shit, they clutter the shelves and even the cases look terribly generic with just matted photos of whatever star is pimping out the game. Ugh.

[ninjabearhug]

The price would depend on two things in my opinion.

The first thing would be the method the collection was sold. If you just chucked the whole lot on Ebay in one big job lot you'd be lucky to reach $2,000. Resellers would be interested but they'd want it cheap enough to make maximum profit. Genuine collectors would look at it and think of all the hassle of reselling all the games they already had, plus it takes the fun out of collecting buying everything in one go. If it was stripped down and listed separately on forums etc, then you'd make a lot more money. People are willing to pay large amounts of cash for rarer games in decent condition. Then you just job lot all the commons/crap games on Ebay to finish up.

The second thing would be how complete the collection was. Some games are worth a LOT of money if they are complete and in decent condition. If the seller had Outback Joey, Miracle Piano and the Blockbuster World Championship cart (all needed for a complete Genesis collection as far as I'm concerned), then they would easily clear $11k on those items alone.

[Elusive]

Who would buy an entire collection, just like that?

I suppose you could take an average per-game flat price and multiply by the number of games you have. Why, are you planning on selling everything?

600 games away? I didn't think there were 600 games released for the machine - not in one region alone, at least.