LOL why the HELL is 3d tetris so expensive on ebay?!?!?!

Actually 3D Tetris is pretty uncommon as it wasn’t well received. I never saw a copy for under $35 even in 2012. The last 6 years have caused every game (except Virtual Fishing which was $80 back then and is now like $60?) to skyrocket on VB.

I noticed a price increase with all the games. I look up current prices for the series I do and my jaw has dropped a few times.

Seam wrote:
so i cant seem to find my copy 3d tetris and i thought to myself, oh, no biggie, last i checked they were like 12$ on ebay. now people are trying to sell them for 80-100 dollars LOOSE!!!!!!!!! what the hell has the virtual boy scene come to.. i understand waterworld and jack bros of course and space invaders etc … but 3d tetris? really? give me a break

Welcome to the future… thats all i can say.

Are you sure you are not confusing “3-D Tetris” with “V-Tetris”? I think 3-D Tetris has always been on the higher end of the VB spectrum in relative terms. V-Tetris on the other hand has always been one of the cheaper titles, particularly among the Japanese-only releases.

Seam wrote:
so i cant seem to find my copy 3d tetris and i thought to myself, oh, no biggie, last i checked they were like 12$ on ebay. now people are trying to sell them for 80-100 dollars LOOSE!!!!!!!!! what the hell has the virtual boy scene come to.. i understand waterworld and jack bros of course and space invaders etc … but 3d tetris? really? give me a break

V-Tetris is suuuper cheap, even brand new in box. And it’s great fun.

3-D Tetris is interesting, I like the puzzle mode more than the endless mode. Once you finish all the puzzles, the endless mode isn’t all that fun.

But just like every console, there are games that didn’t do well, so not very many copies got printed. Now, decades later, some of the most expensive games are some of the least enjoyable. It’s a paradox.

Of course it’s not the case for every rare game on every console. But Waterworld on VB? Yes.

Seam wrote:
.. I understand waterworld and jack bros of course and space invaders etc … but 3d tetris? really? give me a break

What is it you understand about the high price of games like Waterworld that you don’t understand about 3D Tetris? If one game’s price doesn’t make sense to you, it stands to reason that other games with high prices wouldn’t either.

As for finding copies for $12….well I’ve watched the VB since it was released and have collected for it for years, and I’ve never seen it for anywhere near that price at any time. Seems like an isolated case of extremely good fortune, not the norm.

I could maybe see it being super cheap around the period that stores were desperate to rid their VB stock and VBs were selling at Toys ‘R Us for $25, but not really any time outside of that period. CheapER, maybe, but never a cheap game.

All the games were cheap in that sort of time period. 3D Tetris and Nesters bowling (to a lesser extent) got more expensive then the cheaper games over the years. My guess is they had a smaller print run.