Nintendo Gameboy or Sega Mega Drive?: Huge retro gaming auction comes to Canterbury
Gamers and collectors can also get their consoles and games valued!
Are you stashing a valuable retro gaming classic under your bed? Have you battled with Zelda, learned your A, B, X with Mario and zippy-zapped with Pikachu? Well, it could be time that you laugh your way to the bank with your old friends!
Canterbury Auction Galleries is hosting a huge online vintage and retro gaming auction on Friday 28th & Saturday 29th March 2025, where collectors and gamers can head to the auction house in Station Road to check out the items before taking part in the digital auction from the comfort of home!
Viewings of the consoles and games takes place on Wednesday 26th (12pm-5pm) and Thursday 27th (12pm-7pm) of March before the auction, so be sure to get along and take note of what you’d like to bid on.
But there’s more - if you were an early adopter of computer games and consoles, chances are that you could have valuable items hidden away somewhere. Best of all, seek advice from a trustworthy specialist, such as those at the Canterbury Auction Galleries.
Think early Nintendo consoles and handhelds and their games featuring characters like Super Mario or Zelda, or Sega and Sonic The Hedgehog… there are too many sought-after retro gaming products to list, so if you have something in excellent condition, why not get it valued?
Remember it costs nothing to put something into an auction if it doesn’t sell. Just email an image and description to ted@tcag.co.uk, ring 01227 763337 or book a time to visit one of their frequent free valuation sessions. at www.thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com.
The online auction will feature consoles and games ranging from early Amiga Commodore systems, Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems, N64, GameCube, Wii, Sega Saturn, Megadrive and Dreamcasts - right up to PlayStations and Xboxes. It includes a few very special items that have been ‘graded’ by recognised authorities.
You gotta catch ‘em all!
Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s valuable. If items are well-used and battered they are probably worth nothing - condition is key. The highest prices are achieved by items in their original, undamaged packaging or otherwise carefully preserved. For instance, a sealed Super Mario 64 game in ‘as new’ condition from 1996 – one of the first to show 3D – sold for a staggering £1.1 million in 2021.
That of course is exceptional (it was one of only five launch editions released) but even everyday games can fetch useful sums if they are in mint condition and still in their box.
Recently, a huge collection of Pokemon cards fetched many thousands at the Canterbury Auction House.
In that auction, a single Pokemon TCG ‘Latias+Latios’ card, made £380 and an ‘Umbreon Evolving Skies Rainbow’ card £320. Sealed packs of cards sold for £100 upwards and many ‘legend’ and well-kept holographic cards for healthy sums.
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