NES · 1985–1995

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The Legend of Kage

NES · 1986 · NTSC-U · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

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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

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Complete in Box · 0 sales

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Loose · 0 sales

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Cohort context · sealed floor vs. cohort medians

vs. console cohort

Same console, same tier

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €230 · 192 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

-100%below cohort median

Cohort median €239 · 193 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

Only 2 titles in cohort — below the four-title threshold for a stable median.

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.

he Legend of Kage is a port of the 1985 arcade game under the same name. The player is armed with a kodachi shortsword and an unlimited amount of shuriken. Grabbing a crystal ball causes the player character's Kage's clothes to change to the next level in colour and thereby attain certain powers (bigger shuriken and/or faster speed); if Kage is hit while in green or orange clothes, he does not die but revert to his normal red clothes. Grabbing a scroll causes Kage to stand still and meditate for several seconds while approaching enemies drop to the ground dead.

Square EnixTaito1986Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

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Released alongside · 1985–1987

Might and Magic: Book One - The Secret of the Inner Sanctum

1987

Ultima III: Exodus

1985

Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
Regional / language names: Легендата за Каге · Legend of Kage · Kage no Densetsu

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

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Sealed indicators

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Complete in Box indicators

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Loose indicators

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Adjacent

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