teknohed Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Hi. I am making a series of videos on the value of classic video game libraries over the last 20 years.. I have already completed 3 and I have received some feedback from forum members like @TPR and @groundtrooper that some of my data was not as accurate as it could have been. In the interest of improving this I wanted to share my current numbers here and get feedback from the collectors on the Odyssey 2 Forum. My numbers are based on the Price Guide included in Billy Galaxy's book Collecting Classic video games. It was my belief that using these as my source of truth would avoid anyone arguing over the validity of these numbers, but that has not been the case. So, I'd like for you to take a look at what I have so far and, if you're interested, give me some feedback BEFORE I spend 20 hours making a Odyssey 2 video. Here are the numbers. This list is ranked by the games that had the largest change in value over time. It is not sorted by rarity. I want to include rarity for context, but it is not a list of "most rare games": Title CIB Price 2002 CIB Price August 2022 Percentage increase Rarity Nimble Numbers Ned $10.00 $27.48 174.80% Atlantis $60.00 $131.30 118.83% Pachinko! $12.00 $25.00 108.33% Computer Intro! $17.00 $32.89 93.47% Attack of the Timelord $13.00 $24.99 92.23% Smithereens! $14.00 $26.48 89.14% Demon Attack $60.00 $112.00 86.67% Dynasty $10.00 $16.38 63.80% Keyboard Creations $14.00 $22.49 60.64% K.C.'s Krazy Chase! $12.00 $19.06 58.83% S.I.D. The Spellbinder $18.00 $28.43 57.94% I've Got Your Number $10.00 $13.58 35.80% Thunderball! $10.00 $13.50 35.00% P.T. Barnum's Acrobats! $18.00 $24.01 33.39% Type and Tell $15.00 $18.74 24.93% Killer Bees $35.00 $34.99 -0.03% Monkeyshines! $15.00 $13.47 -10.20% The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt $50.00 $42.51 -14.98% Pick Axe Pete! $18.00 $15.06 -16.33% Q*bert $90.00 $75.00 -16.67% Turtles $50.00 $39.99 -20.02% Quest for the Rings $50.00 $39.99 -20.02% Conquest of the World $50.00 $39.37 -21.26% Frogger $95.00 $69.00 -27.37% Super Cobra $90.00 $65.00 -27.78% Power Lords $300.00 $195.51 -34.83% Here is a link to a google sheet with these numbers. If you're interested please leave me comments on any errors, discrepancies or inaccuracies and I will take that into consideration when working on the video. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metarog Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Q-Bert, Frogger and Super Cobra were not released in the USA for the Odyssey 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknohed Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 2 hours ago, metarog said: Q-Bert, Frogger and Super Cobra were not released in the USA for the Odyssey 2. Ah, that is good information. My assumption was that since the price guide was published in the us, the games listed would be teh US versions. I will be sure to mention that for each of those games as I discuss them in the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 On 8/31/2022 at 1:43 AM, teknohed said: Ah, that is good information. My assumption was that since the price guide was published in the us, the games listed would be teh US versions. I will be sure to mention that for each of those games as I discuss them in the video. There is no difference, you plug a game in and it works whatever the region. Some of the later European releases designed for the 7400 work just fine on the 7000 / odyssey 2 - only about 3 are not optimised for the original console and I think only one is completely unplayable, and some of the Wikipedia mentions of it is wrong, keep meaning to edit it but too lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknohed Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 (edited) Hi Again Everyone. Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I am going to start working on this video now and hopefully have it finished by next friday. Here is the final list ranked by Gain / Loss over the last 20 years: Title CIB Price 2002 2002 Price Adjusted for Inflation CIB Price August 2022 Percentage increase Rarity Atlantis $60.00 $99.00 $178.10 79.90% Very Rare Nimble Numbers Ned $10.00 $17.00 $30.00 76.47% Rare Pachinko! $12.00 $20.00 $25.00 25.00% Rare Keyboard Creations $14.00 $24.00 $28.00 16.67% Rare Computer Intro! $17.00 $29.00 $33.00 13.79% Uncommon Demon Attack $60.00 $99.00 $112.00 13.13% Very Rare Attack of the Timelord $13.00 $22.00 $24.00 9.09% Rare Smithereens! $14.00 $24.00 $24.00 0.00% Very Rare K.C.'s Krazy Chase! $12.00 $20.00 $19.00 -5.00% Uncommon Dynasty $10.00 $17.00 $16.00 -5.88% Uncommon S.I.D. The Spellbinder $18.00 $30.00 $28.00 -6.67% Very Rare Type and Tell $15.00 $25.00 $21.00 -16.00% Rare I've Got Your Number $10.00 $17.00 $14.00 -17.65% Uncommon Thunderball! $10.00 $17.00 $13.00 -23.53% Common P.T. Barnum's Acrobats! $18.00 $30.00 $22.00 -26.67% Very Rare Killer Bees $35.00 $58.00 $35.00 -39.66% Rare Conquest of the World $50.00 $83.00 $49.00 -40.96% Uncommon Monkeyshines! $15.00 $25.00 $14.00 -44.00% Common The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt $50.00 $83.00 $42.00 -49.40% Rare Q*bert $90.00 $149.00 $75.00 -49.66% Not Published in the US Quest for the Rings $50.00 $83.00 $40.00 -51.81% Uncommon Turtles $50.00 $83.00 $40.00 -51.81% Very Rare Pick Axe Pete! $18.00 $30.00 $14.00 -53.33% Uncommon Frogger $95.00 $157.00 $69.00 -56.05% Not Published in the US Super Cobra $90.00 $149.00 $65.00 -56.38% Not Published in the US Power Lords $300.00 $495.00 $196.00 -60.40% Extremely Rare I have also included rarity as listed on this site. While this video isn't about rarity, I would like the rarity to be accurate. Please let me know if anything here seems out of whack. Thank you all again. Edited September 2, 2022 by teknohed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknohed Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 Thanks for much for you help on this everyone. I'd be curious to know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimj Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Looks great. I'm surprised the the value of so many games went down. I thought more people were into retro video game collection so values would go up. But maybe the Odyssey2 is still unknown enough to avoid that problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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