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Factory Sealed Retirement Plan

With the recent absurdity surrounding grading factory sealed games that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I decided to compile a list of sealed games in my collection that will definitely, assuredly, without a shadow of a doubt let me retire early. As if our generation could ever retire.

I have a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger. Something tells me it isn't the right one though.
I have a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger. Something tells me it isn't the right one though.

I don't know why I never opened some of these. A few are for collecting reasons. Many are byproducts of working at game store in the mid-2000s. Some truly just belong on a pile of shame. And a bunch of weird PS4 & Vita games were a gift from Shane Bettenhausen after I mailed him some Dollar General exclusive Mississippi Mud Pie Oreos. True story.

Here's the list from oldest to newest.

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You jest but some of these are genuinely kinda rare right now (Sin & Punishment, I'm looking at you!)

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The secret I found sellers doing on eBay is to mention "ready for wata" and then list the game easily 100-200 dollars more than its worth.. if you did that with each game...

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Include "from Giant Bomb's The Marino Collection" in your auction descriptions.

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I wish I had a complete copy of Drill Dozer, let alone a sealed one. That's probably the one I'm most jealous of, love that game.

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Well this Demon's Souls Deluxe Edition is $600 and it's not even sealed. When we get the eventual awful Netflix adaptation I'm sure it'll get boosted a couple more hundred at least.

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That's a lot of sealed games. I think the only one I have is the big box deluxe Broken Age from Kickstarter. I own that digitally on a lot of platforms and haven't played through it on any. I wear the T-shirt a lot, though. It's a good one.

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The best I have is a PS1 Metal Gear Solid VR Missions that is still in the wrapper that has no stickers on it - clean, unbroken wrapper with no wear. But, that is only worth like $70; maybe, a bit more since it is so unmarred by time.

What to hear a funny/sad story...in 2015 I could have bought a home for $565,000. Where I live I could now put it on the market for $1.7 million. If, sold that would have been a really good return on investment for real estate. That like x3+ the value in six years!