SATURN · 1994–2000

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Darius Gaiden

Saturn · 1996 · NTSC-U · Shooter

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Live

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Range

€183.99–€202.39

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Recent

€202.39

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

Sealed€202.39

Complete in Box€74.35

Loose€38.17

Premium structure

Sealed vs CIB2.7×

CIB vs Loose1.9×

Sealed vs Loose5.3×

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

+376%above cohort median

Cohort median €39 · 391 titles

vs. era cohort

Same console, year ±2

+371%above cohort median

Cohort median €39 · 392 titles

vs. publisher cohort

Same console + publisher

+42%above cohort median

Cohort median €130 · 8 titles

Sealed · price history

€202▲ 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.

arius Gaiden is a 1994 horizontal-scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Taito. The fifth entry in its Darius series, players control a starship named the Silver Hawk in its mission to destroy the Belsar empire before it wipes out the population of planet Darius. Gaiden adds several new features to the core concepts of its predecessors, including screen-clearing black hole bombs and the ability to capture mid-level bosses. The game has been ported to several consoles, including the Sega Saturn and PlayStation.

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Released alongside · 1995–1997

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1995

Sealed €215.28

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Hardware specimen

First print documented: No
UPC: 021481820598
Release date: 1996-01-01
Regional / language names: Daraiasu Gaiden · Darius III · Darius 3 · Darius Gaiden: Silver Hawk · Darius Side Story · Darius Gaiden Extra Edition · Darius Gaiden Extra Version · Darius Gaiden 2

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

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Adjacent

Where else this lives

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