With gaming becoming a more popular pastime during the COVID-19 pandemic, some video games have seen a significant rise in value, so now might be a good time to look through your old video games to see if you have a fortune lying around.
Research conducted by Paxful looked at the value of the global resale market for second-hand video games during lockdown to find out which games have been sold for the most money during this time period.
The analysis reveals that over $68,175,904 was spent on second-hand video games during the global lockdown period. Second-hand games for PlayStation 2, originally released in the year 2000, are trading for the most money overall on the open resale market.
| Rank | Console | Sales |
| 1 | PlayStation 2 | $5,896,979 |
| 2 | PlayStation 1 | $5,256,639 |
| 3 | Super Nintendo | $4,879,727 |
| 4 | PlayStation 4 | $4,873,166 |
| 5 | Nintendo Switch | $4,342,392 |
| 6 | Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) | $4,310,967 |
| 7 | GameCube | $3,797,723 |
| 8 | Xbox 360 | $3,734,129 |
| 9 | PlayStation 3 | $3,700,497 |
| 10 | Nintendo 64 | $3,400,332 |
* Data represents sales between March 2020 and January 2021. The overall number of sales across both vintage video games and second-hand games was: 3,861,263 sales.
* Sales data for second-hand games are based on loose (used) and complete-in-box (CIB) prices for each video game in our analysis.
