Used Game Boys in Melbourne typically sell for A$77 to A$385 (about $54 to $270). Game Boys are collected now rather than played, so the screen condition and whether the battery terminals have corroded matter more than anything else.
Selling a Game Boy in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Melbourne has around 5.1 million people in Victoria, which means a buyer pool big enough that almost anything finds someone, and close enough together that collection is rarely the obstacle. Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Melbourne
Australia Post covers everywhere, but distance pricing is real and interstate parcels cost meaningfully more than local ones.
What Game Boys are worth
What lifts the price
- Boxed examples with inserts and manuals
- Battery compartment free of corrosion
What pulls it down
- Battery acid corrosion on the terminals
- Yellowed or cracked shells
Working out what yours is worth
- Power it on and check the display for dead lines
- Note the exact model and shell colour
Getting it ready
- Open the battery compartment and check for corrosion on the terminals, which is extremely common and must be disclosed.
- Identify the exact model: original DMG, Pocket, Color, Advance or SP, and note the shell colour.
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- The battery compartment, terminals visible
- The back, showing the shell condition and any label
Put in the description
- Battery terminal condition, and whether there has been any leakage
- Whether it has been modified, backlit or recapped, and what is included
Exact model and colour: “Game Boy Color, Atomic Purple, Working”. Collectors search by model and shell colour, and some colourways are worth multiples of others. Say plainly whether the screen has missing lines and whether the battery terminals are clean.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Victoria)
Common questions
Where can I sell a Game Boy in Melbourne?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Has it been modded?
Backlit and recapped consoles are worth more to some buyers and less to purists. Either way, say exactly what has been done.
How much is a Game Boy worth in Melbourne?
Most used Game Boys change hands for A$77 to A$385 (about $54 to $270). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a Game Boy across Australia, what Game Boys are worth, everything second hand in Melbourne, or Gaming in Melbourne.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.