It would be an obscenity to open it. Pure collectors item right there.

It would be an obscenity not to play it. Pure game play satifaction right there.

I still have my Chrono Trigger game and box, although opened, they are still in mint condition, along with the maps, manual and nintendo stuffings inside the box.

It looks like it's been re-shrinkwrapped to me. Like how EB or Gamestop does it.

UPS guy: Here's your package sir, I went ahead and took the liberty of opening it for you! You can thank me later.

So buy this for a collectible, and get Final Fantasy Chronicles for the PS1 for the playing.

That should be put in a museum, man. I've never enjoyed another RPG so thoroughly as I did ChronoTrigger. It was nearly flawless.

@xot: I agree that it's an amazing game to play. But if I stumbled across a sealed copy I wouldn't open it.

To hell with "collectability value", games were made to be PLAYED, they're not vintage bottles of wine that need to be laid to rest for decades in order to reach their zenith. Plus, what the hell is "collectors' value" anyway?

I paid about €35 for my copy of Chrono Trigger - not sealed, obviously - and I doubt I'd ever pay a monstruosity like that for a game, even if the EuroMillions jackpot had just landed on me.

I am not worthy :( I seriously should have bought this game back in the day. Instead I just rented it a few... 50 times.

I'd never pay a premium for a sealed copy of a rare game. Since nobody would pay that much extra then open it, essentially what you're buying is packaging, leaving a copy of Chrono Trigger unplayed (which in itself should be a crime). Mint and complete without plastic is just the same as mint and complete with plastic. Besides, what if you decide to open it, years later, and find it was a scam all along? You open it up and find a copy of Clay Fighters.

I am happy with my opened $30 copy......but I wouldn't mind this!

wow...

I wonder if any games recently could rise to that much money after a few generations...

The sqawking of seagulls, fireworks popping in the air, music chiming in, and Leene's Bell chiming. Good Times.

I wonder who had the foresight to but it and not open it...

buy it, give it to a museum, have a portion of the place named in your honour!
are there any games museums? there ought to be

@Sollus:
Nope that's how they used to shrink wrap those games

I LOVE this game so much. I have a copy of that game sitting in the other room right now. Bought it on launch day. The box and everything inside is in mint condition, but it's not sealed like that one.-(Hey, I had to play it somehow...lol)

I hope whoever buys it already has a copy of it already. It would be a shame to open it after so long.

buy*

@JP_Neptune: Sigh.. Yeah I'll have to agree. This is like collecting comics and not reading them but 1 million times worse.

C'mon you know someone stuffed a book in there or something ;)

If you don't open it you'll never know if it's not just filled up with tissue and a copy of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Sweet 16.

@Vecha: ico? rez (dc)? kawashima's brain training? wii sports?

Eh what? Why the hell would you open it? The main reason for purchasing it at such a high price is for the collectors value, besides, you should keep this one as a collectors, then if you really want to, you can just go pay like 5$ or less and buy a used for playing.

Beside the fact that who ever does end up buying it at whatever crazy price, more than likely already owns a copy or several and is a huge fan.

I'm starting to think the seller bought a sealed copy as an investment - he was sure he could get a bucketload of money for selling a sealed copy of such a fantastic game, he probably owns another copy of Chrono Trigger for him to play, but he bought this one as an investment...and apparently it's paying off.

@Winterbringer: Looking back on that comment, it sounds quite filthy, disregard your impure thoughs. I meant it could be a scam.

Find me a sealed copy of Earthbound and you can have my right arm.

i still think CT was one of my top games ever ... up with LoZ: Link to the Past, and Final Fantasy 7 ... the combat system and the combo attacks were the best .. and the multiple endings and compelling story .. i loved it

Find me a sealed copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga, and you can have the Loch Ness Monster (and tree fiddy).

@mowh: Why in the world would a sane person buy a game NOT to play it? Like I said before, games are made to be played, they're not ornaments or assets to show off, like crystal glasses and cups that people keep in a see-thru closet in the living room. Also, games don't start degrading with time at the same speed as other items do. Seriously, how long does it take for a SNES cart to degrade itself, hundreds of years? It's plastic, damn it! The most important is what's inside, and the game code inside is simply untangible, the cart and what is around the cart is merely a medium of execution.

Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest RPGs ever produced. If Square actually still employed any of the people who worked on the game (most of them are with Nintendo now and of course Sakaguchi is with Microsoft), I'd like nothing more than for them to ditch some of the crappy spinoffs they've been making and make a new Chrono game. But in light of almost none of the original team still remaining, I'd prefer for them to get the Ogre Battle rights from Atlus and make a new one of those instead.

I can see the burns of the recent pack, that's not the plastic seal pack of a sealed snes game box. I used to buy a lot of snes games and that' not the original plastic seal.

How do you know the game is even in there?

It's easy enough to re-shrinkwrap a box.

I've seen them do it at Family Video.

Chrono Trigger factory sealed? Nice.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the seven stars factory sealed? Very Nice.
but I'd pay ALOT for a factory sealed Lufia II: Rise of the sinistrals.

@comedy:

Wii Sports?......wouldn't you have to not Open up the wii box..lol

Why is Chrono Trigger not on The VC or Psn yet?

It's a crime, I daresay. If you wanna play a classic, non-pirated game, you've gotta pay through the nose.

@Arkley: I have an idea... send em to me, I'll shrink wrap it at work, and we can con some suckaz on ebay.

@Buttah: but but but how will you play Earthbound?

Wasn't the company and logo back then just Square?

I don't think this is a real factory sealed box.

@Desgardes:

XD that one had me laughing.

Nintendo definitely needs to add this to VC. Right after they put Secret of Mana up there. Mmmmmm, Secret of Mana.

...jesus.
this unopened collection thing baffles me; on one hand, sure i wish idve kept an extra copy to sell now. on the other? the idea of having a classic like chrono trigger and not playing it makes my head hurt.

@Sollus: Not possible. The box is in too good of condition.

i'll buy it at a high price, stranger.

Hmm, this one went for $629.98. [cgi.ebay.com]

I don't really see the reason to post about this one.

I really hate my uncle for making me throw out all my game boxes. We were cleaning my basement a long time ago and he came along a box full of boxes and told me to throw them out since it was just plain retarded to save them.

From what I understand, the rights to Chrono Trigger are partially held by a number of individual, so even though Square and Enix merged, it didn't give the new company unambiguous ownership of the game. Sadly, this means a Chrono Trigger downloadable reissue is unlikely, since various members of the Chrono Trigger team now have differing format loyalties. So sad. :(

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: Probably because Square doesn't like the Virtual Console for some reason. Most likely because it ruins their business tactic of re-releasing every one of their old-school RPGs 5 times, which of course they've never done with Chrono Trigger. Or maybe it's just leftover bad blood from the messy breakup between the two. Chrono Trigger was pretty close to the end of the SNES's lifespan, if I recall correctly.

that is awesome, if the person who wins that, and opens it, should be shot

If you look closer you will notice that it's not factory sealed. There is not nintendo strip on the film, and it's quite a shoddy shrink wrap job. I know, because I used to use one all the time. Back in the day we wouls shrink wrap all our retro stuff, and it would sell quicker than when we didn't! You collectors and your shrink wrap ay?

I loved chrono trigger probably more than any other rpg I ever played. I played the crap out of that game. I had bought a copy of the game used, and kept it for about 7 years. It got to the point that it was the only game I had left for my snes and was the only reason I was keeping the system at all. But I eventually gave in and sold it to gamestop, and even without a booklet or case or anything I think I got around 40 dollars for it at the time.