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In celebration of Pokemon Day, big auction hubs like eBay and Goldin hosted special sales featuring rare items from series history. And while bidding on the Pokemon 151 collection at Goldin runs through March 8th, its 2026 Winter Pop Culture auction has already delivered us a new sales record for Pokemon collectibles. Specifically, a graded copy of 2001 Game Boy Color game Pokemon Crystal has sold for a record high price.
Pokemon Crystal Hits New All-Time Highest Resale Price
Released in 2001 as a follow-up to Pokemon Gold and Silver, Pokemon Crystal marks an important place in Pokemon history. It was the first game to allow players to choose a female protagonist avatar instead of defaulting to a boy in a hat. As a young female gamer, I can still remember how excited I was to realize I could pick a little pixel avatar that felt a little more like me. All these years later, Pokemon Crystal remains a favorite gaming experience. But like many early Pokemon games, its lack of modern re-release means that a copy of Pokemon Crystal is going to cost you.
On the resale market, a standard playable copy of Pokemon Crystal will typically go for at least $150 or more. But as a collectible that’s sealed and graded, the game’s price goes up pretty quickly. And therein lies the record-breaking potential for this 25-year-old game. A sealed, PSA 9.8 copy of Pokemon Crystal was recently up for auction at Goldin as part of its Winter 2026 Pop Culture auction. And it sold for the all-time highest price the game has ever seen, according to Goldin. The sale closed at a staggering $73,244, quite above and beyond typical graded sales of around $13,000 on average.
