The hell was so special about this one? I remember copping it at Future Shop for like 30 bucks in the late 2000s. The game itself was fine, decent soundtrack, fast action typical of any Mario Kart racer, good graphics, the predictable Nintendo quality. Then a few years later, it was like overpriced on Ebay or Amazon or something for a boxed/complete copy. Why in Hades did this become so expensive? Just artificial fake-value markup typical of Nintendo's products? Or was there any sort of special reason that this particular Mario Kart on GBA became such a coveted item?
Adult babies became a profitable market.
This. There are legions of men ages 28-45 who are desperate to relive childhood/adolesence
There’s tons of copies out there; unboxing an untouched one is, for collectors, like traveling back in time.
Why is X so expensive?
Slowly diminishing numbers of physical copies after DECADES in the wild, false scarcity created by hoarders and scalpers, and Covid giving tons of bored people extra money to burn that inflated the market.
Also some idiots will pay any price for "old" or "retro" stuff.
No idea, that Mario Kart specifically to me is the worst one (still a good game, but the worst Mario Kart). Everything is just expensive these days due to hoarders/collectors/dudebros trying to turn a profit.
Are you so ignorant that you don't know how collecting works?
Mario Kart is popular. Super Circuit is not popular but it is in the Mario Kart series. Therefore, it is now a commodity.
Collectors are losers though. Plus Super Circuit was quite popular in its time. I knew kids in high school who had a GBA around 2001-early '02 who rocked Circuit much like those Tony Hawk handhelds. Point is, it wasn't uncommon or unpopular at all. Mario Kart was always popular no matter which console or handheld considering its mascot & flagship status. Ain't nothing special about Super Circuit compared to the rest of the series. If anything, Double Dash was the one Nintendorks love to hype up constantly (even though it was garbage compared to MKart64).
Because people didn't like it when it was contemporary, so now it's chic to put it on a pedestal.
The GBA hype at this point has to be from zoomers who didn't already play these games right?
While the games are decent and library is good I feel like anyone who had the GBA contemporarily already played these games to death
The retro market in general being so inflated is from people who never played the games. From resellers slapping on the post-covid tax, to the ecelebs hyping up old shit they've never touched, to the zoomers listening to them.
GBA is just old enough to be part of the collection now.
>GBA is JUST old enough now
Having connections with people in that sphere, I have found out that even WiiU games which are just outright not retro are now getting to that point where collectors are rushing to get the good ones. GBA has been in that area for years now.
All of the good WiiU games got ported to Switch anyway. Dumb collectors.
Must be a US thing. Just buy a European copy for peanuts.
But a European cartridge won’t work in an American GBA system.
The GBA is region free. As are all Nintendo handhelds except the DSi (for enhanced games only) and 3DS.
>25 quid cib
wtf im buying euro games from now on
wait you fricking lied, it's cheaper on American ebay, some dutchisraelite is trying to sell one for £70
cart only games are always dirt cheap, its with the box that costs a fortune.
Any companies that offer repro boxes/manuals without them being obvious? Have a bunch of loose carts I could sell.
There's a boxed copy for £22/$28 BIN in that image. If you think that's "a fortune" by retro game standards then you're not paying much attention.
>its with the box that costs a fortune.
Wait, is that what OP's actually b***hing about? No shit CiB is expensive for GBA games, little kids did not care about the flimsy ass cardboard box and insert for a 1"x2" game cart, and it was usually the first to go if they didn't have room to store it. I remember putting the 3 or so I owned into a tiny plastic bin in a desk drawer and my GBA would go right on top.
If you really care about having the case and manual you can get a reproduction off of etsy, those are pretty damn good nowadays due to hyperautists scanning and measuring this stuff out with industrial equipment meant for real products. Or one of those hard plastic cases from custom game cases or whatever. Otherwise, don't bother with that shit, it's never going to be as important as the game itself.
>Why did this game become so expensive?
Because bandwagoning homosexuals kept asking "why did this game become so expensive?"
I have never seen a physical copy of it, or of most gba games except poke ones or trash games
people wanting to take advantage of the next dumb butthole. simple as.
worst mario kart
>nintendies
That’s why
I'm sorry that nobody wants to buy your copies of Fireshark.
It’s by far the worst one in the series, control wise; literally unplayable unless you use someone like Donkey Kong or Bowser.
It was supposedly a hybrid of MKart64 and OG SNES Mario Kart. Except it was just a test in portable patience. There were no angular hills or up & down tilting so every level was just a left or right 2D plane with a still background. You had to memorize every twist & turn in the damn tracks, aka lose over & over again until you got it right. I remember how hard the ghost stages were in particular. Other Kart games like Sonic All Stars and CTR eclipsed it by a mile.
all stars came out 9 years later, sonics only kart racer at the time was sonic drift and its sequel
I lost my copy, also lost Yohsi's Island
Oh well