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Would you include system bundles to be a singular copy? Also, I feel like you should elaborate if you mean retail or of all time.
Are you including resells?
System bundles, no. Resells, yes. I'm essentialy asking what is the Pikachu Illustrator card of Pokemon games.
There's an answer for this one, but I feel like it would be overly difficult to find. Regardless, I believe that it'd be insignificant. The reason other things can sell for so high is because many of them are extremely rare and not mass-produced, at least not to the extent that the Pokemon games were. To my knowledge, there aren't any rare versions, like special cartridges (such as to the gold Zelda NES games) or anything, for any of the Pokemon games, and none of them are super rare, either. The most rare ones are going to be really obscure spinoffs and not highly sought after games, so they're not going to sell for absurd amounts. The reason the selling prices of cards like Pikachu Illustrator is significant is because they're extremely rare. I doubt you'll be able to find a definitive answer for this one.
If we were counting the most expensive games without resellers, and only counting just the retail price, we'd probably be able to find the definitive answer, but it'd probably just be a recent title.
Then that's your answer.
Idk If it's the most expensive, but it does say its the most expensive copy of either of those two games. Japanese red/green probably is more expensive
Your question says nothing about rarity. It literally says in the article that the prices are record breaking, which is either untrue or means that they're the highest those games have ever sold for. Even if Japanese Red/Green is rarer, they haven't sold for as much as the article says Red/Yellow did.
It says record breaking multiple times, yes, but then it says "In total, the two classic releases brought in $162k – a new record for both games."
To my knowledge it is a Pokemon Red Original graded cartridge for 84,000 USD
Where does this information comes from? Can you explain why we should be confident it's the correct answer?

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The most expensive Pokemon game ever sold is, as stated in the comments, a sealed copy of Pokemon Red with a 9.8 grade from Wata. It went for 84,000 USD at an auction in November 2020, and multiple sites confirm this as the most expensive Pokemon game on record.

Newsweek
news.com.au
Dexerto
Twitter

There's always a chance a cartridge was sold privately that surpasses the price of this Pokemon Red, but the 84k auction is the costliest Pokemon game we know of.

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