On this special episode of Game Life I get rid of Peter,

and talk to you about two of the

rarest games on the Gameboy.

[Peter] Help me.

Don't help him, he's fine.

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Now as many of you may already know

I am an inveterate collector of old videogames,

so what I thought I would do with you guys today

is maybe show you a couple of new games that I have,

give you a few tips on collecting

and yeah, maybe I'll brag a little bit

about some of the best deals that I have ever gotten.

So we're going to take a look at two games today

for the Gameboy family of systems.

First, I would like to talk about Ninja Five-O.

Now as you might gather from the title,

yes this is a Gameboy Advance game

about a ninja who is also a cop.

It's by Konami, it's actually a great game

and that's why it's so desired.

People really want to play it because it's really

one of the best action games on the Gameboy Advance.

Now, if you just have the Ninja Five-O cartridge,

you are probably going to pay $150.

That is how desired this game is.

If you've got the box and instructions as I do here,

we're talking $300 or more.

People tended not to keep the boxes

and the manuals for their old games,

and that really went double for Gameboy games

'cause people would throw the box out

and take the game with them in the car,

so to have the box and manual for games

like this becomes really important.

Now how much did I pay?

Wasn't 300 and it even wasn't 150.

I actually found this in a secondhand store

in Boston for 12 bucks a couple of years ago

and boy, did my eyes bug out of my head when I did.

Now let's take a look at one more game.

This is Kid Dracula and it is

for the black and white Gameboy.

As you might imagine, you play a little tiny

version of Dracula running around a castle

and setting fire to bats or whatever it is

that a child Dracula would do.

This as you might notice is also by Konami,

and because it stars Dracula you might guess

correctly that it's a spinoff of the

very popular Castlevania series.

So if you don't have Kid Dracula on the Gameboy,

your collection of Castlevania games is not complete.

Kid Dracula was done with a really low print run,

and again people really want to play this game

which means that the cartridge itself is gonna

set you back about 50 bucks.

Here's the kicker.

The box and the manual in good condition like this

is worth $400 or so.

Where did I get this, you ask?

I actually found this in a videogame store in Manhattan

that is known for having really high prices

on everything, but here's the trick guys.

When you go into a high priced videogame store,

don't immediately get bummed out.

They have to be right every single time

they price something, but you only have

to get lucky once.

Look up the prices on everything

and you might catch a deal like I did with Kid Dracula.

I paid $50, but it's really worth about eight times that.

And those are two of the coolest

videogame items out of my collection.

Now what I want to hear from you guys

is about the best deals that you've ever gotten,

so make a video response to this, drop it in the comments.

Show me some of the best deals you've

ever gotten on old videogames, and hey

if you've got a videogame where you really

don't know if it's worth anything, what it's worth,

make a video response, show it off, and ask

and if I can, I'll get in there in the comments

and let you know what I think it would go for.

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