Master Karateka — Game Boy 1989 — NTSC-U

GAME BOY · 1989–2001

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Master Karateka

Game Boy · 1989 · NTSC-U · Fighting

Floor

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Live

sealed listings

Range

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Recent

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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.

Pulse · Sealed

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7-day trendBuildingHistory accumulates after each fresh eBay refresh

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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.

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 €80 · 301 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €124 · 265 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

Insufficient cohort data.

Cohort widens as the catalog enriches.

Sealed · price history

Price history is building — daily snapshots accumulate here.

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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.

arateka is a 1984 martial arts action game written for the Apple II by Jordan Mechner. It is his first published game and was created while he was attending Yale University. The game was published in North America by Broderbund and in Europe by Ariolasoft. Along with Karate Champ and Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Karateka is one of the earliest martial arts fighting games. It was inspired by Japanese culture and by early Disney animated films and silent pictures. An influential game of its era, it was one of the first to use cinematic storytelling and sound design, and rotoscoped animation.

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Released alongside · 1988–1990

Sealed €164.22

Nemesis

1990

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

Hardware specimen

First print documented: No

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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