These games could be worth tens - or even hundreds - of thousands of pounds if you happen to have a mint and sealed copy.These games could be worth tens - or even hundreds - of thousands of pounds if you happen to have a mint and sealed copy.
These games could be worth tens - or even hundreds - of thousands of pounds if you happen to have a mint and sealed copy.

Valuable Retro Video Games: These are the 10 old console games that are worth the most - including over £720,000 for Legend of Zelda

If you have one of these games hiding in a cupboard or drawer then they are worth more than their weight in gold.
By David Hepburn
Published 16th Mar 2023, 15:22 BST
Updated 26th Apr 2023, 11:30 BST

The word record for the highest price paid for a video game was smashed recently when a mint copy of the Nintendo classic Legend of Zelda dwarfed the price previously paid for another Nintendo title – Super Mario Bros.

Retro games are now big business, with bidders from around the world competing to add the rarest titles to their collection.

So if you you have a box of old NES or Atati games in the loft it’s worth dusting them off and seeing if you have any of the most valuable titles.

Sadly the big bucks tend to be paid for mint editions that have never been opened or played, but you never know…

Here are 10 of the games that could make you a fortune, as identified by the experts at TouchCasino.com.

So if you you have a box of old NES or Atati games in the loft it’s worth dusting them off and seeing if you have any of the most valuable titles.

Super Mario Bros. 3 comes in fifth place at £126,427. Having planted the seed for over 200 spinoff games, the industrious plumber brothers Mario and Luigi have graced our screens for almost 40 years and show no signs of stopping. Released in 1993, Super Mario Bros. 3 is a fan favourite, with rare, sealed copies for the NES console fetching high prices online.

5. Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3 comes in fifth place at £126,427. Having planted the seed for over 200 spinoff games, the industrious plumber brothers Mario and Luigi have graced our screens for almost 40 years and show no signs of stopping. Released in 1993, Super Mario Bros. 3 is a fan favourite, with rare, sealed copies for the NES console fetching high prices online. Photo: Contributed

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Pioneering game publisher Atari has the first non-Nintendo game in this list with the much-loved Paperboy, released in 1985. Valued at an impressive £118,790, it's an arcade classic in which players take on the role of a paperboy dropping off his papers in a stylised suburbia.

6. Paperboy

Pioneering game publisher Atari has the first non-Nintendo game in this list with the much-loved Paperboy, released in 1985. Valued at an impressive £118,790, it's an arcade classic in which players take on the role of a paperboy dropping off his papers in a stylised suburbia. Photo: Contributed

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Another big-selling Nintendo game which now has had multiple outings on numerous platforms and formats, if you have a mint and sealed copy of the original Super Nintendo racing game Super Mario Kart lying around, it could fetch you £50,910.

7. Super Mario Kart

Another big-selling Nintendo game which now has had multiple outings on numerous platforms and formats, if you have a mint and sealed copy of the original Super Nintendo racing game Super Mario Kart lying around, it could fetch you £50,910. Photo: Contributed

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One of the earliest games available for Nintendo's NES system, Duck Hunt challenges players to use a light gun to take shots at flock of unfortunate birds. A mint copy now fetches £36,468.

8. Duck Hunt

One of the earliest games available for Nintendo's NES system, Duck Hunt challenges players to use a light gun to take shots at flock of unfortunate birds. A mint copy now fetches £36,468. Photo: Contributed

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