FAMICOM · 1983–2003

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Dragon Buster

Famicom · 1985 · NTSC-U · Platform

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Live

sealed listings

Range

€68.08–€74.89

editorial band

Recent

€74.89

no verified comp

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Activity feed · live

Activity feed builds as the eBay snapshot history accumulates and comp data flows in. First events surface within hours of a fresh cache cycle; full velocity within seven days.

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Live listings

Active tier · Sealed. Aggregated from eBay US. Refreshes every 6 hours.

Market depth

What it's actually worth

The three-tier spread, verified comparable sales, and where this title sits inside its cohort. Live snapshot lives above in Pulse; this is the time-and-context layer.

Three-tier spread · log scale

The same game at three prices — Loose, CIB, and Sealed on one ruler. The scale is logarithmic: each gridline step is 10×, so the distance between bars shows the size of the jump between tiers.

€10

Sealed€74.89

Complete in Box€21.28

Loose€9.19

Premium structure

Sealed vs CIB3.5×

CIB vs Loose2.3×

Sealed vs Loose8.1×

Verified comparable sales · by tier

Sealed · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Complete in Box · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Loose · 0 sales

No verified comparable sales in window. Real comp data integration (Heritage / Goldin / eBay Insights) ships V15.22+.

Cohort context · sealed floor vs. cohort medians

vs. console cohort

Same console, same tier

-48%below cohort median

Cohort median €130 · 148 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

-38%below cohort median

Cohort median €110 · 134 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

Only 2 titles in cohort — below the four-title threshold for a stable median.

Cohort widens as the catalog enriches.

Sealed · price history

€75▲ 0% since 7 Jun

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Why this title

Why collectors care

The cultural context, the production lineage, the place this artifact holds in its console's history.

ragon Buster is a 1985 action role-playing platform video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan in January 1985 and Europe in May 1985. It was ported to the Family Computer (Famicom), MSX, and X68000; the latter version was later released for the Virtual Console in the same region on November 18, 2008. Dragon Buster has been ported for the PSP and is available as part of Namco Museum Battle Collection. It was followed by a Japan-only Famicom sequel, Dragon Buster II: Yami no Fūin, and was later followed by the PlayStation game Dragon Valor, which was both a remake and a sequel.

Bandai Namco GamesNamco1985Platform

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Released alongside · 1984–1986

Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
Release date: 1987-01-07
Regional / language names: ドラゴンバスター

Authentication

Is what you're holding real

Documented variants, identifying marks, and the print-vs-reprint discriminator. Pick a variant to focus the walkthrough; the Companion can talk you through your own copy.

Documented variants · 1

Reference

Production reference

No production variants are documented for this title yet. The identifying marks below cover the title's first-print and reprint signals across all tiers.

Focused walkthrough

Production reference

No production variants documented for this title yet. Identification reads against the title's known print signals across all tiers.

Sealed indicators

No documented marks for this tier yet.

Complete in Box indicators

No documented marks for this tier yet.

Loose indicators

No documented marks for this tier yet.

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Adjacent

Where else this lives

Five cuts of what surrounds this title — switch the axis to drill into the same-console catalog, the series, the era, the publisher, or ask the Companion for a personal recommendation.

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