Will a Sega Mega Drive become collectable?

[JonB]

Right, I have a WORKING Sega Mega drive II with 2 working controllers, games are irrelevant here.

Now this must have come out circa 1994. I know it's only 13 years or so old, but there has gotta be only a few still working, most of my mates Mega Drives gave up the ghost long ago.

My wonder is, will these items ever become collectables? I don't wanna sell mine yet, I am still waiting for the elusive time when they are really hot property, hence why mine is stored away in a nice environment.
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[cc123]

Give you £10 for it
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[Itchy]

nope somebody on here sells loads of the stuff megadrive stuff that is , electronics rarely appreciates ,

and the chipset is so cheap to produce argos are now making mini megadrives as big as the thumb pads which contain complete games.
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[JonB]

Yeah, I know they can still be replicated, but they would never be as good as the original, especially in say collectable terms. This is the Sega Mega drive.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Given time probably. But probably decades time (ie, when you retire and get nostalgic for a play on one), and probably only then for one boxed with all the manuals.

All the best

Keith
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[Phil_G]

hark at johnny-come-lately with the megadrive II - i got a megadrive I here and if i dug hard enough, i would probably find the menacer light gun too
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[angryjonny]

Gave my Megadrive 1 away some years ago. Still got my N64 though - that must be worth a bit. They only sold about half a dozen of them

[Phil_G]

which is three more than the sega saturn or the Mega CD ever sold
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[Finglonga]

I still have a Master System, Mega drive, Mega CD, Sinclair Spectrum 64K, Playstation, XBox and XBox crystal all in the original boxes with shit loads of games. Doubt they will ever be worth anything as there were millions made.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

The only time things like that will really appreciate is if they come with complete original packaging and manuals, etc.

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Eying his loft full of boxed Atari, C64, Pet and Spectrum gear. Just need a Dragon 64, an Aquarius and a CPC464 for the set
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[cagiva gezzer]

Got my MD1 sat on the shelf ready for ebay. Even if i only get a £10 for it and the games it's better than binning it.

Then again, an afternoons entertainment playing sonic is worth far more than £10....

Noticed today that Robby's meagadrive ebay shop is closed.
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[T1z3R]

they are still way too common in fairly good condition to be rare yet. give it a few years when most of the mega drive generation have cleared out their lofts and binned most of them.
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[carvell]

I'd say that it will be, but only in 40 or 50 years, if it's mint, in an undamaged box with manuals etc.

That pong game is from christ knows when, and you can pick them up all over the place.

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-PONG-COLECO-TELSTAR-VIDEO-GAME-CONSOLE_W0QQitemZ190066560372QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4315QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

Starts at £10, no bids.
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[TOM M]

Well i sold an original mega drive, 3 controllers and around 30 games on ebay last year and i got £48 for them. Which surprised me
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[LUXY DJ]

id say the original 8-bit nintendo will be

& maybe even the master system

but i can see dreamcast being a future classic collectable

was 1st online console & was a good console overall but ps1 had more games & just more hype

neo geo & jaguar could be others aswell
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[Jenks]

i got mega drive II, with loads of games ect, and a master system I and II, with about 50 games!
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[cc123]

Alex Kidd was a great game, wasted many a childhood day playing that. Got a good emulator on the PC for all my Megadrive, SNES and Amiga urges.
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[killa]

The really early one had Alex Kidd as the inbuitl game.
It also had a snail maze game, you had to press certain buttons for it to work.
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[techierob]

If you've got an amiga cd32, a 3DO, a philips CDi or an amstrad gx4000 knocking about then they might be worth something. A megadrive is worth about as much as a vintage VCR.
If you want to play megadrive games, then you're best off sticking with the emulators. There might come a day when megadrives are as rare as rocking-horse shit, but probably not in my lifetime

[Robby]

Megadrives will never be worth anything, same as master systems. They were very well made to begin with, and everyone had one. Meaning everyone still has one in the loft, and they all still work.
The rarer and better games (spiderman venom, the shining force games, the chaos engine, true lies etc) are worth between £10 and £20. Any sonic game will sell fast at market value, even spinball.

I closed down my shop because I'm starting a new job where I work normal hours and I won't have time to go to the post office any more. Even so, there wasn't a lot of money in it, average profit was a bit over £1/game.

If you look back the only stuff worth anything is the rare stuff in excellent condition. A boxed mega CD will get you £40, same for a boxed 32x, although you'll probably need to fix it first.

Old consoles. Not a great investment.

[killa]

I used to love that Home Alone game
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[tribal_tiger]

Gamestation always have a stack in their window normally for £20 or £30 with a stack of games with them.

The only thing they seem to sell for a fair amount of cash is the good ole Neo-Geo. Looking at a good few hundred quid!
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