Art Lean
Noob
Not that I need them as I own them in a box in storage somewhere, but out of curiosity I decided to look up on eBay as to whether there's any value in the jankiest games in the MK franchise, and to my utter amazement MK4, MK Mythologies and Special Forces are all apparently worth shit-loads (for an MK game at least)! Granted I don't know how readily they sell for these prices, but MK4 on PS1 and N64 seems to be listed for £50-£70 on average, Mythologies on both between £60-£200 and even the horrific pile of shit Special Forces is £60-£70 and a few have watchers.
I realise they're old so by their very nature they're a more limited commodity as time moves forward, but it's not like they were rare, hell Special Forces is not just awful but was also deliberately released as a bargain bin filler on launch day. Weirdly the still-thoroughly-exclusive MK Gold on Dreamcast doesn't seem to hold as high a price as bog-standard MK4 on either PS1 or N64, averaging more between £50-£60 when surely there must be less copies of that game in circulation? Ultimate MK3 on the Saturn, again surely a smaller rarer release due to the sales failure of the system, is on average £25.
I also checked out MK3 and Trilogy on PS1 and they only seem to sell for around £10-£15. Bizarrely the good spin-off Shaolin Monks isn't worth a thing. So considering how badly Mythologies and Special Forces played (which I dare say isn't even opinion-based, like MK4's merits might be, those two spin-offs literally play really horribly irrespective of at least MKM's contributions to the story), what on earth is the logic behind the collectable prices, why would anyone actually pay, say, £100 for something that's just objectively awful?
I realise they're old so by their very nature they're a more limited commodity as time moves forward, but it's not like they were rare, hell Special Forces is not just awful but was also deliberately released as a bargain bin filler on launch day. Weirdly the still-thoroughly-exclusive MK Gold on Dreamcast doesn't seem to hold as high a price as bog-standard MK4 on either PS1 or N64, averaging more between £50-£60 when surely there must be less copies of that game in circulation? Ultimate MK3 on the Saturn, again surely a smaller rarer release due to the sales failure of the system, is on average £25.
I also checked out MK3 and Trilogy on PS1 and they only seem to sell for around £10-£15. Bizarrely the good spin-off Shaolin Monks isn't worth a thing. So considering how badly Mythologies and Special Forces played (which I dare say isn't even opinion-based, like MK4's merits might be, those two spin-offs literally play really horribly irrespective of at least MKM's contributions to the story), what on earth is the logic behind the collectable prices, why would anyone actually pay, say, £100 for something that's just objectively awful?
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