25 Most Valuable Atari Lynx Games (From 2004 to 2024)

The 4th episode in a series of videos looking at the Values of Classic Games from the 90s and early 00s. This time around, instead of grabbing the 20 year old price from a dusty old book, we are grabbing them from a dusty old website! We will take the prices of games as listed on Game Dude 's website in 2004, adjust them for inflation and compare them to the current prices charged by game dude.
There are a couple games on this list that sold for less than a few dollars back in the day that are now worth big bucks!!!
25 most valuable Atari Lynx games according to Game Dude's price guides!
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All values of 2004 games are taken from Game Dude's site archived on the Way Back Machine Here:
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Chapters:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:20 - Titles
0:30 - Intro
1:48 - List Title
1:59 - Electro Cop
2:29 - Todd's Adventures in Slime World
2:59 - S.T.U.N. Runner
3:29 - Power Factory
3:59 - World Class Soccer
4:29 - Shadow of the Beast
4:59 - Hockey
5:29 - Xenophobe
5:59 - Battle Wheels
6:29 - Rampart
6:59 - NFL Football
7:29 - Tournament Cyberball
7:59 - Lemmings
8:29 - Pac Land
8:59 - Battlezone 2000
9:29- Super Asteroids / MIssle Command
9:59 - Steel Talons
10:29 - Robo Squash
10:59 - Pit Fighter
11:29 - Jimmy Connors Tennis
11:59 - Chip's Challenge
12:29 - Desert Strike Return to the Golf
12:59 - Gates of Zendocon
13:29 - Double Dragon
14:04 - Super Skweek
14:35 - Outro
15:37 - Closing Titles

[@KeenRetroGames]

Slime World and Chip's Challenge were both created for the Lynx and ported to many other systems.

[@KeenRetroGames]

I am really glad so many Lynx games are still available dirt cheap. With the Analogue Pocket Lynx adapter coming people can build a nearly complete collection with almost all of the great games for a few hundred bucks at most. It is an accessible portal into retro game collecting, and there certainly aren't enough of those.

[@teknohed]

I agree. it is very possible to easily gat all the good games for lynx. I love my lynx. But like you say, would like to get an analogue pocket at some point with a lynx adapter.

[@KeenRetroGames]

A manual/cart copy of Super Asteroids/Missile Command just sold for $150 yesterday.

[@teknohed]

i will have to go back and release an update for these videos at some point.

[@saltysaltytears]

My brother had Electrocop back when it first came out, and it was so bad, that I felt bad for him having to play it. We couldn't afford to buy new games every month, and this was the 90s, so he was stuck with that one out on the farm for so long... I'm happy to see it went down in value. Feels like justice.

[@teknohed]

Having played more of Electrocop over the years I have sort of figured it out, but it is really baffling how they set it up. Feels like they started with Xybots but couldn't figure out how to do a 3D maze and just released it as is.

[@KeenRetroGames]

Electrocop is a great game. Sounds like a skill issue.

[@saltysaltytears]

Ha!😆

[@KeenRetroGames]

The reason Lynx games have not gone up in price in 20 years (really more like 30) is that Atari ridiculously overmanufactured Lynx cartridges. There are still several wholesalers who still have shelves and shelves full of brand new boxed and loose games.
If you take inflation into account, games that stayed the same price since 2004 have actually decreased in value by 40%.

[@KeenRetroGames]

Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Index has increased by nearly 140% since 2004, so if you had invested in that instead of video games you would be much better off financially.

[@KeenRetroGames]

I calculated what my Atari 2600 collection sold for back in the 70s and 80s. If people had put that amount of money in index funds they would have been multimillionaires.

[@KeenRetroGames]

I wouldn't call the sound better than most other systems. The Game Gear and Game Gear both have a lot more great music. Some Lynx music sounds like it came from the 2600. Some is great, like STUN Runner, but it's comparatively rare.

[@Papernails]

No love for the Lynx. You could get most of this list altogether for less than $100. I don't think I knew anyone that had a Lynx, but we definitely played a lot of Pit Fighter on Genesis.

[@teknohed]

Yeah, I think it is just not a super popular system and the fact taht most of the great games are arcade games that haven't been relevant for 30 years also contributes to the "no one cares-itis". I love the lynx, great system and great games.

[@KeenRetroGames]

The Lynx version of Pit Fighter blows the Genesis version out of the water. Admittedly, it's still Pit Fighter. But it's pretty impressive.

[@BrekMartin]

The Lynx has an 8 bit 6502 based CPU, and the system has an 8 bit data bus. It has 4 bit audio. What are you talking about? 😂

[@teknohed]

The “suzy” video chip was a 16-bit VLSI custom CMOS chip running at 16 MHz.

[@BrekMartin]

@@teknohedThat’s not what you said exactly though is it? Suzy isn’t the only VLSI either an internal 16 bit bus, but that hardly makes a 16 bit system.

[@teknohed]

@@BrekMartin I would not expect to have to tell an Atari fan to “do the math” but here we are.