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GameCube's Most Valuable Games: Big Names in Europe, Oddities in America

Few GameCube games are cheap, and the dearest differ by region.

By Know Your Collection · Published 17 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

Pokemon Box screenshot — Pokemon Box · screenshot from IGDB.com

The short answer

In the UK and Europe, the dearest popular GameCube games are Nintendo's big names, led by Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance at about £179 used. In North America the list is mostly cult oddities, and one add-on, Pokémon Box, sells for about £1975 used.

There are very few bargain-bin GameCube games, and the ones worth the most are not the same in the UK as they are in America. This guide looks at the most valuable popular GameCube games in each region, using the same price guide as MyPlayersVault.

How we picked these

We only looked at popular games: ones that sell often enough for their price to be trustworthy. That leaves 62 games in UK/PAL and 480 in NTSC-U. Prices are for used, complete copies (box, disc and manual). Special editions, accessories and consoles are left out. Every price was checked against the same game two months earlier, so a short-lived spike can't sneak into the lists.

GameCube has very few cheap games

On most consoles, a large share of games sell for pocket money. GameCube is different. Only about a quarter of UK/PAL GameCube games are under £10 used, against 61% on the PS2 and 37% on the PS1. About one in eight is over £50 in every region.

Region	Games	Under £10	£10 to £30	£30 to £50	Over £50
UK/PAL	456	26%	52%	12%	11%
NTSC-U	567	17%	56%	13%	13%
NTSC-J	276	18%	58%	11%	13%

Used, complete copies, all GameCube games with a price. Price guide figures on 17 October 2026. Percentages are rounded, so a row may not add up to exactly 100.

UK/PAL: Nintendo's big names

The most valuable popular GameCube games in the UK and Europe are mostly the famous ones: Fire Emblem, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Zelda and Star Fox. These sold well, but collectors still want them, so prices hold. Twenty of the 62 popular UK/PAL games are over £50 used.

#	Game	Used	Sealed
1	Fire Emblem Path of Radiance	£179	£273
2	Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness	£171	£769
3	Pokemon Box	£139	£351
4	Pokemon Channel	£132	£369
5	Skies of Arcadia Legends	£109	£307
6	Animal Crossing	£104	£174
7	Zelda Twilight Princess	£94	£230
8	Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes	£89	£167
9	Doshin the Giant	£87	£243
10	Star Fox Assault	£81	£247

Popular UK/PAL GameCube games, used and sealed price guide values on 17 October 2026.

Two things stand out. Pokémon Channel has climbed fast: it was about £94 used at the start of September and has sat between £128 and £144 since mid-September. And sealed copies can cost far more than used ones. A sealed Pokémon XD is about £769, more than four times a used copy.

NTSC-U: cult oddities

The American list looks nothing like the European one. Apart from Resident Evil and Fire Emblem, it is mostly unusual, smaller games that many players never saw on the shelf: Cubivore, Gotcha Force, Go Go Hypergrind and Ribbit King. Their prices are much higher too. Number 2 in America is worth about three times number 1 in the UK.

#	Game	Used	Sealed
1	Pokemon Box	£1975	—
2	Cubivore	£525	£528
3	Gotcha Force	£408	£695
4	Go Go Hypergrind	£404	£584
5	Resident Evil Code Veronica X	£237	£340
6	Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus	£198	£723
7	Samurai Jack Shadow of Aku	£174	£276
8	Ribbit King	£172	£241
9	Fire Emblem Path of Radiance	£168	£340
10	Auto Modellista	£166	£212

Popular NTSC-U GameCube games, used and sealed price guide values on 17 October 2026. The sealed price for Pokémon Box is left out: it halved in September on very few sales, so it isn't reliable.

Resident Evil Code Veronica X and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance are the odd ones out. They are by far the most traded games on the list, so plenty of copies exist, yet both still sell for well over £150 used.

Why Pokémon Box costs £1975 in America

Pokémon Box isn't really a game. It is a tool for storing and organising Pokémon from the Game Boy Advance games Ruby and Sapphire. In Europe it was sold on its own with a memory card, and also in a bundle with Pokémon Colosseum. In North America it was only sold through the Pokémon Center store in New York and the Pokémon Center website, so far fewer copies exist.

The result is the biggest region gap in this guide: about £1975 used in NTSC-U against £139 in UK/PAL, around 14 times as much. This isn't a one-off spike. Its used price has stayed between about £1800 and £2000 since at least early August.

The two games on both lists

Only Pokémon Box and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance make both top 10s, and they go in opposite directions. Pokémon Box is far dearer in America. Fire Emblem is slightly dearer in the UK: about £179 used against £168. That is unusual. On the PS2, every game on both lists cost more in America.

What this means for collectors

In the UK, Nintendo's big names are where the value is. Popular doesn't mean cheap on GameCube.
Importing a cult American GameCube game is rarely a bargain: the most wanted ones cost far more than the European favourites.
GameCube games are region-locked, so an import usually needs a console from the same region.
If you're buying sealed, compare it with the used price first. On some games the sealed copy costs four times as much.
For an American Pokémon Box, check that a “complete” copy really has its case and manual. The disc on its own is worth far less: about £1212 in the price guide.