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Pulse · Loose

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7-day trendBuildingHistory accumulates after each fresh eBay refresh

Available now

Live listings

Active tier · Loose. 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.

€100

€1k

Sealed€3,800

Complete in Box€165

Loose€68

Premium structure

Sealed vs CIB23.0×

CIB vs Loose2.4×

Sealed vs Loose55.9×

Verified comparable sales · by tier

Sealed · 2 sales

€2,750Median

€3,650WATA 9.4 A+
2026-05-08
Heritage Auctions
€1,850WATA 9.0 A
2026-04-20
Heritage Auctions

Complete in Box · 1 sale

€158Median

€158HANGTAB FINE
2026-05-13
eBay

Loose · 1 sale

€64Median

€64HANGTAB VERY GOOD
2026-05-15
eBay

Cohort context · loose floor vs. cohort medians

vs. console cohort

Same console, same tier

+138%above cohort median

Cohort median €16 · 191 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

+129%above cohort median

Cohort median €17 · 250 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

+142%above cohort median

Cohort median €16 · 50 titles

Loose · price history

€68▲ 0% since 7 Jun

○ 1 verified sold comp · line = daily price snapshot

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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.

astlevania III: Dracula's Curse is a 1989 platform game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released on December 22, 1989, in Japan, September 19, 1990, in North America and in May 1992 in PAL regions by Konami's Palcom publishing label.

The North American release uses standard NES audio hardware (no VRC6) while the Japanese Famicom release uses the expansion chip — a notable hardware-variance point. CV3 NTSC-U first prints (pre-Player's Choice) are the canonical collector target. Sealed WATA 9.4 A+ trades $2,200–6,500; the Konami-branded 1990 packaging is the structurally scarce variant.

Konami1990Action-Platformer

Released alongside · 1989–1991

Disney's DuckTales

1989

Sealed €147.2

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia

Hardware specimen

Mask ROM: NES-3X-USA
Print run (est.): ~750,000 cartridges (lifetime, US)
WATA pop (featured): Pop 64 at 9.4 A+ (May 2026)
First print documented: Yes

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 · 2

First print variant

Konami Original (1990)

First-print Konami release. H-tab hangtab variant; original gothic horror cover artwork; no Player's Choice ribbon. Production window September 1990 through 1992.

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Production variant

Player's Choice (1993+)

Late-cycle reprint with the white Player's Choice ribbon flag. Cover artwork unchanged but ribbon disqualifies first print status.

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Focused walkthrough

Konami Original (1990)

First-print Konami release. H-tab hangtab variant; original gothic horror cover artwork; no Player's Choice ribbon. Production window September 1990 through 1992.

Universal indicators

01Konami branding bottom-right with the 1990 logo variant; gothic horror cover featuring Trevor Belmont and Dracula's castle.First print indicator
02Nintendo Seal of Quality 1989 revised oval variant (smaller text) — period-correct for 1990 release.

Sealed indicators

01No Player's Choice ribbon flag on box front — pre-1993 production indicator.First print indicator
02H-tab hangtab variant (horizontal die-cut slot at box top) — 1990 first-print indicator.First print indicator

Complete in Box indicators

01Manual includes the four-character introduction spread (Trevor, Sypha, Grant, Alucard) with original Konami artwork.

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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