GBA · 2001–2010

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Steel Empire

GBA · 2005 · NTSC-U · Shooter

Floor

$346.47

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Activity feed · live

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Floor$346.47

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Live listings

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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.

Premium structure

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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

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €51 · 259 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €44 · 202 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €51 · 15 titles

Sealed · price history

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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.

n the year A.D. 18XX, under the dictator Sauron, a military nation of the MotorHead Empire invaded the surrounding countries, but the nation of Silverhead stood defiantly. With the help of the ultimate weapon, No.012X Imamio Thunder, you have to blast away enemies and save the world in this port of the oft-forgotten classic Hot-B shooter for the Genesis. The game's strategy system features the ability to level up your two chooseable ships independently as you progress, and the original's throwback ship designs and frantic every-direction shooting gameplay is preserved in this remake.

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Released alongside · 2004–2006

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2004

WarioWare: Twisted!

2004

Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
Regional / language names: Koutetsu Teikoku from HOT・B · Steel Empire for the GBA

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

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Complete in Box indicators

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Loose indicators

No documented marks for this tier yet.

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Adjacent

Where else this lives

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