Used Nintendo games in Edinburgh typically sell for £10 to £50 (about $13 to $67). Nintendo titles hold value unusually well, and older cartridge games are actively collected.
Selling Nintendo games in Edinburgh
August brings a large temporary population that arrives with things and leaves without them, and September brings the students. Between them the autumn is reliably the best time to buy here and a slower time to sell.
The Old Town is steep, cobbled and awkward for vehicles, with restricted access on several streets, so anything heavy needs a conversation about where a van can actually stop. Trams and buses cover the rest of the city and handle small handovers fine.
Check vehicle access before agreeing to collect anything heavy from the Old Town. Several streets are restricted or effectively impassable for a van, and the nearest legal stopping point can be a long carry.
Edinburgh, in Scotland, has around 530,000 people, which means a steady local market where the usual things move reliably and the unusual ones are worth listing with a wider radius in mind. Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Edinburgh
Most private sales settle by bank transfer or cash on collection. Faster Payments clear in seconds, which makes a transfer as safe as cash for the seller — wait for it to land before the item leaves your hands.
What Nintendo games are worth
What lifts the price
- Complete in box with manual and inserts
- Cartridge games with clean contacts
What pulls it down
- Missing manuals and inserts on collectable titles
- Corroded cartridge contacts
Working out what yours is worth
- Check the cartridge contacts for corrosion
- Compare the label and board against genuine examples
Getting it ready
- Check cartridges for label damage and confirm each is in its correct case with the artwork insert.
- Test each cartridge boots if you still have the console.
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- The games laid out, cases and spines visible
- Any artwork insert or manual included
Put in the description
- Exact titles, and which are first-party Nintendo releases
- Whether cases and artwork inserts are present
Very light and cheap to post. Cartridges are robust but the cases crack easily, so pack them with some padding.
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.
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Common questions
Where can I sell Nintendo games in Edinburgh?
Put it on WishThrift free and deal with the buyer direct. The Old Town is steep, cobbled and awkward for vehicles, with restricted access on several streets, so anything heavy needs a conversation about where a van can actually stop. Trams and buses cover the rest of the city and handle small handovers fine.
Are the cases and inserts included?
Check each one. Complete-in-box Nintendo games are worth meaningfully more, and collectors specifically want the inserts.
How much are Nintendo games worth in Edinburgh?
Most used Nintendo games change hands for £10 to £50 (about $13 to $67). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling Nintendo games across the United Kingdom, what Nintendo games are worth, everything second hand in Edinburgh, or Gaming in Edinburgh.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.