I know the feeling! The temptation of getting generating any sort of money resembling a decent profit off on an old piece of property is something that I've experienced many times- it hasn't been until my more recent years when I've understood the gravity of my actions from a much wider perspective. Additionally; to think that my parents never forced me to sell or throw away the majority of my childhood property like their society instilled into them, and yet I still sold so many precious things of my own volition! Some things truly are priceless (and not in the collector's sense).

Wise words! Why I certainly would like to still be in possession of much of the items that I've sold over the years for one reason or another, I do recognize that I really didn't need most of them, nor did I need a large collection- collecting is addicting and fun, but expensive and difficult to maintain over time, especially if you can't use most of it on a daily basis. Still, my old copy of Shantae is a rare exception to this rule that meant a great deal to me both as a game I really do like and a rare, historical timepiece that I never should have parted with.

oh my; I can't count the number of times when I said "I don't play/use this very much" and then immediately (or eventually) regretted my decision to sell it no matter how much or little money I received in the process- money which was instead used on mundane pursuits such as bills, groceries or loans to family members. Video games, dvds, action figures, collectibles- there's too many times I was quick to do so for sure.

Wow, that is a lot for one of their trade-ins! I don't think I've ever gotten that much credit for a single game in all of my trade-ins. I remember that I was sold a bunch of interesting/rare PS2 titles to a retro game store (Mr. Mosquito, Under the Skin, Mad Maestro, etc.) and got around $90 for them- a week later though when I regretted selling them, I returned to potentially buy them back only to find that they'd already been re-sold.

It's certainly not easy, I'm sure of that- with the recent closure of the 3DS eshop, we've seen 3DS games soar in price, so I can't imagine what many GameCube games are going for these days. Back around 2016 when I sold my copy of Shantae, the "last game" I needed for my "Collection" was a game that the seller wouldn't sell for less than $700- that's when I realized that I'd never be able to continue buying retro games at those kinds of prices. Good luck to you in getting them back, friend!

Oh, I had the original Halo for some time but was persuaded to trade it in when I was so bad at playing it! Looking back, perhaps the Warthog vehicle wasn't so difficult to operate, but those are both indeed great games that I'm sorry you regret selling.

Oh, I had that one too! I never knew it was rare and valuable until the week I decided to sell it in the mid 2010's.

I'm sorry to hear that; the GameCube really did have an interesting catalogue of titles! I think the rarest GameCube games I ever owned (before selling them, of course) were the Phantasy Star 1+2 Special Edition and that Zelda Collection that they released.

Wow, that sounds very interesting and unique! Special editions and limited releases are probably among some of the toughest pieces to ever recover- I wonder of its value these days. I really wish the supply for all of these games and systems was much higher back in the day to avoid these extreme prices of today.

Hmm, that's an interesting question; when I think of owning an authentic, physical game I tend to hardly ever play them and really don't care about the value, so I suppose a custom-made copy would be feasibly worth my time- I know that Shantae for the GBC does indeed have those newer edition releases that WayForward created within the last 10 years or so, but still an authentic copy feels like a truly marvelous timepiece regardless of value and that special feeling would be hard to emulate through a custom creation unfortunately.

Oh, GameStop trading- I've made that mistake more times than I'd care to admit- even when Ebay exists it still presented itself as an option despite the obvious downsides... I suppose that sometimes we humans repeatedly end up doing things that we'll regret for little reason or lack of reflection.

I'm glad you were able to get it back!

Wow! That's a really complex; I hate it when physical copies don't exist or when it's rarer to find them since digital copies of a game were the primary distribution method. Digital games really don't give you the feeling of ownership, and many of them are really only licensed to us in a sense anyway.