With the Nintendo GameCube officially given “retro” status in 2021, longtime Nintendo fans and newcomers to these storied series have been searching high and low for the rarest GameCube games. Whether the game didn’t release outside Japan, wasn’t received well, or whichever reason, some titles on the GameCube have become much rarer than others since release.

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And with the collector’s market regularly ebbing and flowing, causing pricing shifts as we get further from the GameCube’s original 2001 launch, we’ve used pricecharting.com to track down the most expensive GameCube games available on the market today, with unopened GameCube game prices considered.

Updated on June 16, 2023 by Gabrielle Castania: The prices of games ebb and flow all the time in a collector's market, so we wanted to circle back to our list of the most expensive GameCube games to bring it up to a more current ranking. With prices current as of republish in June 2023, below, you'll find the rarest GameCube games and their prices.

15 Pokemon XD: Gale Of Darkness

Acting as a sequel to Pokemon Colosseum (a title so beloved that you'll see it in our list of the rarest GameCube games, but not for quite a while), Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness brings players into the Orre region again roughly five years after the events of Pokemon Colosseum.

Shadow Lugia is causing quite a few problems on behalf of Cipher, and the game follows Michael as he takes on Cipher admins trying to get to the bottom of the Shadow Pokemon. The final game in the Pokemon series to releasee on GameCube, you'll need quite a bit of cash to grab this dark piece of history.

14 Chibi-Robo!

Chibi-Robo is something of a success story of the modern age - the game didn't sell particularly well upon its release and was relegated to the backs of TV cabinets everywhere, but it's become a coveted collector's item since for its quirkiness, its charming visual style, and its lovable main character.

The game wasn't worth much at all until 2015, when it picked up more steam than it possibly ever had in its life. Nowadays, you'll need to really want to spend some time with this cute little robot friend if you intend to pick up Chibi-Robo.

13 Pure Evil: A Resident Evil Two-Pack

Another iconic, tenured series that remains much-beloved today, Pure Evil was a dual release of both Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero. While remakes and remasters have come out for most of the games in the series, players hoping to grab the original game as it was on release best prepare to spend.

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Two games for the price of one isn't bad, but when the price is several hundred dollars, Pure Evil becomes a real collector's item for only the most ardent of Resident Evil fans.

12 Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance

Fire Emblem has been one of Nintendo's staple series since it first began releasing home consoles, but the longer a series endures, the rarer its older titles seem to become - and such is the case with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

The ninth game in the series but only the third to release in North America, veteran fans of the series and newcomers seeking its origins will need to cough up quite a lot of cash to go back to the golden days of this tenured series.

11 Cubivore: Survival Of The Fittest

Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest was a Japan-only release from Nintendo until another developer, the now much more acclaimed Atlus, picked up the game and localized it to be released in other regions.

In Cubivore, the player controls the titular Cubivore that eats other animals and creatures in order to change, evolve, and become stronger. New copies of Cubivore have both dropped and rose in value on the resale market since 2010.

10 Wario World K-Mart Edition

Though it's now a shell of what it once was, K-Mart used to be a department store all across the US, akin to the Walmarts and Targets we know today. And in 200X, K-Mart carried a version of Wario World with an official Nintendo Power player's guide inside.

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Nowadays, it's a toss-up which you'll find more readily - a K-Mart or a K-Mart edition of Wario World - but the game, especially if unopened, is quite highly sought-after.

9 Gotcha Force

Gotcha Force is a fighting and shooting game focused on collecting gachapon toys, and then using them to battle throughout the game. The game wasn't heavily advertised when it was released, leading it to be less than successful commercially. Still, the game has quite a number of fans to this day and although it was re-released in Japan, the game is still really rare in North America.

Just getting a copy of the disc will set a hardcore GameCube collector back over $100, but many collectors want a new and complete copy of the games they pick up, which will cost the hefty sum above.

8 NCAA College Basketball 2K3

With so many sports games releasing on so many consoles, an odd basketball title may strike you as odd, but officially-licensed sports games seem to increase in rarity as time goes on, and console generations march forward.

A big factor behind this game's rarity is the fact that it uses the term "college hoops" in-game, while most basketball games of the time (even within the same franchise) used "college basketball." This one-word difference can net you a pretty penny nowadays.

7 Go! Go! Hypergrind

Go! Go! Hypergrind is a skateboarding game developed in Japan, but which never actually saw a release in that region. In the game, an animation studio is holding a contest to find the future star of their new cartoon, and the player controls a hopeful skateboarder who wants to star in the series.

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This peculiar game has skyrocketed in price since 2016, rising from only number 12 the last time we updated our list of the most expensive GameCube games.

6 Pokemon Colosseum Pre-Order

Pokemon Colosseum was a victorious expansion of a classic formula. It included burgeoning new locales, more animated character models, and the aptly named Shadow Pokemon. It really felt like a step in the right direction, and one that Genius Sorority took very seriously.

Multiple forms of this game have been released. A bonus disc was made to give you Jirachi, sponsoring the movie. The pre-order disc gave you the same deal. The listings only started to appear online around 2019, and have become even harder to come by since.

5 Super Monkey Ball Two-Pack

Super Monkey Ball 2 Pack is a bundle package of two different Super Monkey Ball games for the Nintendo GameCube. This bundle contains the Players' Choice editions of both Super Monkey Ball and its sequel, Super Monkey Ball 2.

This game is incredibly rare, and even just finding a copy for sale is difficult. A few have turned up on the market over the years, but they don't come up often, and they definitely don't go for cheap. If you manage to find a new copy of this exceedingly rare bundle, be prepared to pay $1,500.

4 Cubix Robots For Everyone: Showdown DVD Bundle

Cubix was an animated television show originally out of South Korea that had a brief window of popularity overseas in the US as well. Connor is the only kid in town without a robot, needs to fix the titular Cubix within 24 hours in order to keep him as a robot of his own.

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Cubix Robots For Everyone: Showdown also shipped with a DVD bundling of the show, and if you happen to have a copy that has both game and show combined, you've truly got something special.

3 Disney Sports Basketball

Releasing on two major Nintendo consoles of the era - the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance - Disney Sports Basketball features all the classic Disney characters we all know and love, facing off against one another in friendly games of basketball.

The game's rarity comes from the poor reviews it got on launch, especially the GameCube version - so because of this, fewer copies were sold overall. A new copy of the game is even harder to find, making this another valuable Disney classic collectible without question.

2 Pokemon Box

Box space in Pokemon games is always a highly coveted thing, so much so that we used to buy additional software for our GameCubes to store up to 1,500 of them from Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire...

... If you happened to live by the Pokemon Center in New York City, or bought a special Pokemon Colosseum Bundle Pack GameCube in Europe. Otherwise, you were out of luck, and will now need to pay the heavy price above if you'd like a copy of your own.

1 Sonic Heroes And Super Monkey Ball Duo Pack

Sonic and Super Monkey Ball have been paired up an odd number of times in series' histories - like on the Switch release of Sonic Forces, for instance - but the Sonic Heroes Super Monkey Ball dual release has gone on to become the most expensive GameCube game.

These two mega-Sega titles, Sonic Heroes and the original Super Monkey Ball, came in one pack, and the coveted collector's collection has continued to skyrocket in value since.

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