The 20 Rarest N64 Games (& How Much They're Worth)

The Nintendo 64 brings back a lot of memories for a lot of people. For many, the N64 represents the glory days of couch co-op gaming, sitting with friends around an old TV, blowing on the cartridge when it didn't work (even though that didn't do anything and could harm it in the long run), munching on some snacks, and duking it out in Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros.

Nostalgia aside, the N64 had plenty of notable games, many of which proved monumentally influential to the gaming industry as a whole. Some remain incredibly rare to this day, making them some of the most expensive N64 games ever and helping them to take pride of place on the shelves of collectors, luckily enough to own them.

Updated January 27, 2026, by Mark Sammut: The prices of the most expensive and rarest Nintendo 64 games have been updated to match the current information.

20 Mario no Photopi

Complete In Box Price: $595.14

Mario Paint on the SNES was a fun little game. Players could do all sorts of things, from making pictures to funny musical arrangements with sound effects. It was popular enough to make one wonder why it never received a sequel. The thing is, it did in the Mario Artist series. The problem is that it was on the Nintendo 64DD, an add-on that lets the N64 read special disks and even connect to the internet for online play. Each disk served a different function, from painting to uploading art to the web.

If owners only had the basic console, they had to make do with Mario no Photopi. Players could insert SmartMedia cards into the slots on the cartridge to upload images to the machine and then edit them with borders, fonts, and other tweaks. They could even turn them into posters, slideshows, or image-based puzzles. It's the dearest of the Mario Artist games, though that price tag might be more tolerable if players didn't also need the 64DD on top of it.

19 Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals

Complete In Box Price: $541.56

The N64 wasn't a great platform for fighting games outside of Super Smash Bros, but that didn't stop developers from giving it a try. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals brought the vibe of an early Virtua Fighter with a Transformers motif. Players picked characters from the Beast Wars show and fought their opponents in a standard fighter, albeit with alternate Beast and Vehicle forms, to add some Bloody Roar hints to the proceedings.

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It threw in an Energon resistance gauge, which players had to maintain, or their attacks would be limited if it ran out. The N64 version also had a console-exclusive boss, Megatron X. Still, its late release in 2000 and lack of attention relegated it to obscurity. The loose North American (NA) cart goes for nearly 10 times the Japanese version and 5 times the PS1 version. It's climbing higher in CIB and new prices too, nearing the 4-figure mark in one and exceeding 2-grand in the other.

18 Gauntlet Legends (Figure Bundle)

Complete In Box Price: $574.50

Here is another special edition that greatly outweighs the standard version, although Gauntlet Legends on N64 is relatively expensive regardless of which one you opt to buy. Still, the figure bundle is way more costly, due solely to its rarity. Although more CIB copies have become available since 2024, this package was almost non-existent before that point, and new versions are almost impossible to find. This release was a target exclusive, and the figure itself is actually tiny. Otherwise, the bundle came with the game and an instruction manual, so nothing too unusual.

While the N64 releases are somewhat expensive, Gauntlet Legends is really cheap on other platforms. However, none of them came with the figure.

17 Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!

Complete In Box Price: $577.47

Bomberman usually provides a great time for friends. But Bomberman 64: The Second Attack is one of the rarest N64 games due to a variety of factors. For one thing, it received poor reviews for looking rough by N64 standards and playing no differently from its classic entries, which significantly hurt its sales. Hudson Soft barely advertised it as well, so few people even knew that it existed.

Finally, it was released quite late in the console's life cycle in 2000, just 1 year before the GameCube's debut. As a result, finding a copy of the game is exceedingly difficult, although they do still pop up on sites like eBay from time to time. However, if it's going for less than $1,000, it's either likely a loose copy or the deal might be too good to be true.

16 40 Winks (Special Edition)

Complete In Box Price: $633.56

Nowadays, 40 Winks is mostly forgotten, a side effect of being a decent 3D platformer released during an era known for great ones. If you opt to pick up the PS1 version or N64 Homebrew release, you will likely not have to spend more than $100, and that amount would be too much to be honest.

However, the Special Edition costs way more, although you might be able to find it loose for less than a hundred bucks. If you want to pick up a boxed or sealed version, you should be prepared to spend big, as this edition is just rare and hard to come by. For instance, Pricecharting only has 3 CIB and 2 New listings in its history, which is very low compared to most other N64 games.

15 Worms Armageddon

Complete In Box Price: $699.99

Worms Armageddon was the third entry in the appealing turn-based tactics game series by Team17 and is arguably the best in the series. It brought in a host of new items and weapons (like the divine Holy Hand Grenade) to make destroying one's foes more spectacular. The game was released for practically every machine, from the PC and PlayStation to the N64 and Dreamcast, and even the Game Boy Color.

By being so common, people would think Worms Armageddon would be cheap to buy, and it is, save for NA N64 copies. It's the only one whose new copy prices are in the 4-figure range. Along with the CIB versions being way more expensive than on other systems, the PAL N64 cartridges are priced normally as well (around $50 for CIB). Given that the other ports are so easy to find and buy, the N64's NA prices are as ridiculous as a Concrete Donkey.

14 Rampage 2: Universal Tour (Big Box)

Complete In Box Price: $749

The original kaiju sim Rampage made a brief comeback in the late 1990s with some 3D remakes that offered the same building-smashing, people-chomping action as the old arcade game. Rampage 2: Universal Tour spiced up the proceedings with a story involving space aliens alongside extra playable monsters, international locations, and power-ups. It even came with FMV cutscenes...except on the N64, where they proved to be a technical leap too far.

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However, lucky and plucky Walmart customers were able to get special editions of the game that came with plushes of the playable monsters and keychains. Other stores offered their own goodies, like T-shirts, etc., but only Walmart stuffed them in special big boxes. With their exclusive status and goodies, they've grown pretty rare. Yet, as high as $749 sounds for a CIB copy, its prices used to be much higher.

13 Turok: Rage Wars (Gray Cartridge)

Complete In Box Price: $867.50

Though Turok the Dinosaur Hunter started life as a comic book character in the 1950s, he gained a new lease on life as the hero of a series of first-person shooters for the N64. The first three games even got remasters for modern machines, including for the Nintendo Switch. All except for Turok: Rage Wars, as it was essentially Turok 2: Seeds of Evil without the story, but with more multiplayer modes and features.

The ordinary black cartridge is easy to get hold of, costing just $15 or so for a loose copy. However, it came with a bug that made the co-op campaign unbeatable. Fans back in the day had to post these faulty carts over to Acclaim, who'd replace them with gray cartridges that fixed the issue. Since the game wasn't as popular as the main entries, few people bothered, so these improved editions are hard to come by and harder to afford.

12 San Francisco Rush 2049 (PAL)

Complete In Box Price: $1006.60

Futuristic racers were all the rage in the 1990s, from the high-octane pace of the F-Zero games to the trend-setting Wipeout series. Sadly, they petered out once the decade gave way to the 00s, where players preferred gasoline-powered motors to sci-fi super tech. One of the last notable future racers was San Francisco Rush 2049, aka Rush 2049, an Atari racer that sped through the arcades before ending up on the Dreamcast, N64, and Game Boy Color.

The handheld port wasn't anything to write home about, but the big console ports offer solid, speedy fun. The N64 version was particularly favored by critics and isn't too hard to pick up in North America. Picking up PAL copies is another matter, as they cost more than $1,000 for CIB sets. It's odd, as its Dreamcast and GBC ports are vastly cheaper, being more on par with their NTSC equivalents. The N64 port was likely a victim of timing, as it came out in late 2000 when people were looking to the next generation of consoles instead of Nintendo's aging box of wonders.

11 Stunt Racer 64

Complete In Box Price: $1,500

Stunt Racer 64 remains one of the rarest games for the console, as its retro-futuristic racing fun couldn't quite overtake the almighty behemoth that was Mario Kart 64. It was also released exclusively in the US and only through Blockbuster Video, so it's little wonder it's nearly impossible to track them down cheaply.

A run-of-the-mill loose copy of this arcade racer will set collectors back just over $300, while a CIB version fluctuates from roughly $500 to $1500. A new copy is strangely priced less than the CIB on PriceCharting, but that price is influenced by two copies that went for less than $20 and might be reproductions. Consequently, I listed the last price of a new version, which went for a bit more than $1K.