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Dikitain posted...

If you had a subscription to Nintendo Power back then, you could have rented one with three games for three days for a reasonable price (I think $29.99). That is where most of the ones on the market came from, because I doubt many people wanted to go out and buy one after renting it and having to deal with all the crap.

That is how I tried it out.

I picked mine up from Toys R Us about 4 or 5 years after it came out. They were fire selling them brand new in the box for like $70. I was curious what it was like so paid that price, even at $70 it felt a bit overpriced. I assume it was just back stock that Toys R Us had that never sold that was sitting in a warehouse for a few years.

Turns out that buying them at that price would end up being a steal because now a new in box one has way more value on sites like Ebay. Even used they go for like $170 or more and that is if they are nowhere near mint condition.