UK households urged to check attics now for any old Nintendo DS games

Some Nintendo DS Pokemon games are valuable and you could be sitting on a goldmine without even knowing it – with certain rare editions fetching hundreds on eBay

Gaming fans have been urged to search through their cupboards and unearth old Nintendo DS titles as they could be sitting on a small fortune. Games from the noughties have been selling for staggering sums on eBay, with certain Pokémon titles fetching £445.

Unfortunately, many people remain unaware their retro games could be worth such substantial amounts today, leading to some parting with them for nothing. One Reddit user disclosed: “My mum casually threw away my Pokemon Platinum copy I’d had for 16 years while I wasn’t home because she decided ‘adults don’t need that stuff’.”

Accompanying his post, he included a screenshot showing the game selling on eBay for between £95 and £445, depending on condition.

Responding to his post, one user disclosed: “My mum gave my younger cousin some of my GameCube games because she thought I didn’t play them as much and it would be nice. My uncle ended up selling them.

“But it’s okay it was only Pokemon Colosseum and Gales Of Darkness, Wind Waker, Ultimate Spiderman and a couple others. Oh man.”

Another user added: “When I moved away from home in 2008, my mother also moved into a different place two weeks later, so I made two piles of stuff before I left. One was things I didn’t need that she could throw out.

“The other one had things I valued, including my complete set of first generation Pokemon cards, all in excellent condition, a lot of first editions as well. Guess which pile my mother threw out.”

Another user added: “I had a video game collection from the NES to the Wii, plus a Pokemon card collection including a shadowless mint Charizard, I moved out of state in May and when I came to back in December to grab the rest of my stuff it was all gone.”