You had store variants, not for resale cartridges, games meant for the military, and so on.

With how old and rare these games are, none of the rarest titles cost under $3,000.

All values are based onPriceCharting’scomplete price at the time of writing.

Shantae and Miriam emerging from a Nintendo Switch surrounded by gold coins.

When no complete price is available, the loose price will be used instead.

10Donkey Kong Jr.

Math - $3,447

Who Could Have Guessed The Poor Sales Of A Donkey Kong Math Game?

Samus, Sonic, Pokemon Colosseum’s Wes, and a black GameCube surrounded by large stacks of gold coins.

Math is one of the most disliked Nintendo-developed games on the NES.

Educational games have never been popular with mainstream gamers and likely never will be.

Frankly, these wouldn’t be considered adult games now, but they were back in the day.

Split images of Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition, Barbie Groom and Glam Pups, and Yokai Watch 3.

One look at its release date should tell the story.

Contestants played Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer, and finally Tetris.

That’s right, second place, and there were 25 winners.

Little Samson, Nintendo World Championship and Mega Man 5 Screw.

Now, that’s a low number.

This blatant Ninja Turtles knockoff didn’t go anywhere, but a sequel followed regardless.

Little Samson is another Taito-published game created by ex-Capcom developers, and it shows.

Pikachu and Mega Man emerging from a DS surrounding by coins.

Thetitle still holds up today, but Taito strikes again, as copies are very rare.

Collecting for the GameCube is becoming a more and more expensive hobby every day.

Today, we’re picking through the rarest and priciest games.

Using the slot machine in Hot Slots.

Once again, you played three games.

A very odd choice to include Pin Bot, but the cartridge itself is even more elusive.

Only one exists today, at least in public hands.

Having to avoid a tornado in Cheetahmen 2.

The reason for this is that during the NES’s early years, five screws were the standard.

As such, games within that 1987 time window have both three and five-screw versions.

You’re probably familiar with World Class Track Meet, the game that came with the Power Pad.

The first level of Little Samson.

Are you going to have to empty your wallet, or are you sitting on a gold mine?