A journalist unveils the best-selling NES games to stop rising prices

After discovering with some astonishment the recent stratospheric sales of a copy of Super Mario Bros. For $ 2 million or the newest super Mario 64 awarded to more than 1.5 million the same currency, Journalist Seth Abramson , especially specialized in retrogaming statistics, s is put in mind to twist the neck to a trend out of control which does not rest according to its calculations on ... very few things:

If neither the scarcity nor the quality of the products do not lead what is today an eight-digit market - in the process of becoming a nine-digit market - which is the engine of these sales? Some criticisms say that market manipulators are behind all this; others claim that it is simply a few multimillionaires a little animal ; Others say that the players of the upper middle class are the main engines of this market.

what is expensive is beautiful

If the spectacular price increase would go back to 2019, it does not hesitate to incriminate the companyWata Games , the one that evaluates the state and therefore the scarcity of the games in question, before granting them a note and to protect them in a now famous transparent box. Before the opacity of the process, Abramson has just made public a consequent article in which it delivers valuable information:

This market is first a sellers market, rather unscrupulous and ready to sell an article for two or three times its real price, without any consideration for its rarity. Any seller currently working on the evaluated game market is well aware that his own margins depend on the fact that buyers do not have access to a lot of information.

The journalist has therefore carefully listed the most available NES games on the market, a story to relativize this spectacular price outbreak , which affects as you can see the most common titles.

The first figure specifies the number of copies sold at auction since 2019, the second (in parentheses) that of the games sold at least reached the score of 9.0 at WATA GAMES :

• (1) Super Mario Bros. 3, 65 (35)
• (2) Friday The 13th, 37 (27)
• (3) Dragon Warrior, 36 (14)
• (4) Super Mario Bros., 33 (15)
• (5) Kirby's Adventure, 29 (22)
• (5) Tetris, 29 (17)
• (7) DR. Mario, 28 (18)
• (8) Ninja Turtles mutant teenage, 27 (12)
• (8) Wario's Woods, 27 (19)
• (10) ZELDA II: The Adventure of Link, 24 (11)
• (11) The Legend of Zelda (Classic Series), 23 (14)
• (12) Donkey Kong Classics, 22 (19)
• (12) Startropics, 22 (13)
• (14) Super Mario Bros. 2, 21 (12)
• (15) Can not Mission II, 20 (17)
• (15) Metal Gear, 20 (10)
• (17) Pinball, 19 (12)
• (17) Tetris 2, 19 (11)
• (19) The Legend of Zelda, 18 (8)
• (19) Magmax, 18 (11)
• (21) Airwolf, 16 (14)
• (21) Cybernoids: The Fighting Machine, 16 (11)
• (21) Flight of the Intruder, 16 (14)
• (21) Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode, 16 (6)
• (21) Super Spike V'ball, 16 (10)

The Proof Games site is now a mission to hold this exhaustive accounting, this list will be the subject of regular updates, and will contribute - maybe - to make a semblance of reason in a market that rocks little by little in a certain form of madness ...