Contra: The Alien Wars — Game Boy 1994 — NTSC-U

GAME BOY · 1989–2001

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Contra: The Alien Wars

Game Boy · 1994 · NTSC-U · Shooter

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Range

€948.52–€1,019.31

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Recent

€1,019.31

no verified comp

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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.

€100

€1k

Sealed€1,019.31

Complete in Box€412.35

Loose€47.27

Premium structure

Sealed vs CIB2.5×

CIB vs Loose8.7×

Sealed vs Loose21.6×

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

+1078%above cohort median

Cohort median €81 · 302 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

+550%above cohort median

Cohort median €146 · 208 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

+358%above cohort median

Cohort median €207 · 51 titles

Sealed · price history

€1,019▲ 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.

elcome to 2636 the year the notorious Red Falcon gets even-with an unprecedented alien onslaught orchestrated to push the Contra forces to their ultimate reaches. Plunge through a molten massacre on a high speed voyage to the guts of the archenemy alien. Check out the side and top perspectives that engulf you in a 3-D sensation. Pick off solar slimedogs while you scale over walls swing from girders and ropes whatever it takes to defeat Red Falcon's allies. Sweat through five gut-splitting stages including the Streets of the Neo City and the Mucho Grande Badlands.

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Released alongside · 1993–1995

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1994

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Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
UPC: 083717140184
Release date: 1994-10-01
Regional / language names: Contra Spirits

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

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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