Super Thunder Blade — Genesis 1989 — NTSC-U

GENESIS · 1988–1997

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Super Thunder Blade

Genesis · 1989 · NTSC-U · Shooter

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no live data

Live

sealed listings

Range

€183.54–€253

editorial band

Recent

€253

no verified comp

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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.

€10

€100

Sealed€253

Complete in Box€16.1

Loose€9.2

Premium structure

Sealed vs CIB15.7×

CIB vs Loose1.8×

Sealed vs Loose27.5×

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

+104%above cohort median

Cohort median €90 · 154 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

+69%above cohort median

Cohort median €109 · 120 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

+47%above cohort median

Cohort median €125 · 83 titles

Sealed · price history

€253▲ 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.

uper Thunder Blade is a shooter for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console, published by Sega. It was one of three launch titles for the console in Japan (the others being Space Harrier II and Altered Beast), as well as being one of the six launch titles for the console for its U.S. launch. It is a follow-up to the 1987 arcade game Thunder Blade. It was released for the Virtual Console on September 17, 2007. It was also included in the Sega Genesis Collection for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable in 2007 and in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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Released alongside · 1988–1990

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Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
UPC: 010086011012
Release date: 1989-08-14

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

No documented marks for this tier yet.

Loose indicators

No documented marks for this tier yet.

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Where else this lives

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