In My Collection is a series where I take some pictures and talk about the physical media I own, try to remember how much I paid for it, the current value of the item and where and when I obtained the item. Physical media forever!

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Publisher: Nintendo

Year of Release: 2005

System: Gameboy Advance

Item Type: Loose with Manual

Price Paid: $120

Current Value (Pricecharting): $65.69(Loose) + $24 for the manual

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is a good example for me of the wild fluctuations in the valuation of video games. I bought this game back in June of 2022 on the app Mercari. Check out Mercari if you haven’t, you can find some good stuff on their service sometimes. Around that time (as you can see from the Pricecharting chart below), the game was valued around $90 with the manual being an additional $30 or so. So, from those numbers, you can see at $120 I paid about what the going price was for the game and the manual approximately 2 years ago.