Galileo

Galileo (ガリレオ) is a crime solving mystery adventure game based on the TV series with the same name, which featured Masaharu Fukuyama , an eccentric physics professor at the university, playing Manabu Yukawa (湯川 学), who finds himself helping Kou Shibasaki , a rookie detective focused on solving the cases that seem to have something supernatural about it, playing Kaoru Utsumi (内海 薫).

The player takes control of professor Manabu Yukawa, who is also voice-acted by Masaharu Fukuyama from TV series, solving cases using reasoning but more often relying on his knowledge in physics to prove that something what was apparent as supernatural is nothing but an elaborate hoax.

The dual-screen, touch-enabled Nintendo DS (2004) became the best-selling handheld of all time, helped by its huge and genre-diverse library. Cartridge-based DS games have held up well physically over 20 years, and complete-in-box copies of the system's biggest sellers (Nintendogs, Pokémon, Mario Kart) remain very accessible for new collectors starting out.

Gamevaro tracks Galileo for Nintendo DS with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.

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Market insights

Galileo has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning enough copies circulate to establish a reliable market price.

Complete-in-box (CIB) copies typically command a premium over loose cartridges/discs because the original box and manual are more fragile and get discarded or damaged over time — fewer complete sets survive.

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