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Policenauts [PlayStation The Best]
PlayStation · 1997
About this game
In the year 2010 mankind has built its first space colony, Beyond Coast.
Three years later the founders of the colony felt it needed to be protected, and chose five best policemen from Earth to do that: Gates Becker from Scotland Yard, the Japanese Sadaoki Tokugawa, Salvatore Toscanini from New York, and two policemen from Los Angeles: Jonathan Ingram and his best friend Ed Brown.
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During a routine patrol on Beyond Coast, something happened to Jonathan's spacesuit.
He was sucked into space and presumed dead.
Twenty-five years later, he is miraculously discovered in his life pod, alive.
He still looks like a young man, but in reality, he is fifty-five years old.
Trying to forget his past, Jonathan opens an investigation agency on Earth.
One day, his ex-wife unexpectedly pays him a visit.
She has re-married during Jonathan's prolonged absence and asks him to find her missing husband.
When she leaves the office, her car explodes, and she dies.
Determined to fulfill her final request, Jonathan prepares to re-visit Beyond Coast.
Policenauts is a Japanese-style adventure with action elements, similar in many ways to Snatcher .
The player interacts with the environment in a point-and-click fashion: positioning a cursor over an object allows the player character to examine it or perform other context-dependent actions.
There are a few puzzles in the game, but most of the time the story is advanced by visiting various locations, examining objects, and talking to characters.
Conversations usually include a selection of topics.
Action sequences are similar to those of Snatcher , but are more numerous and varied.
The player must rapidly shoot enemies moving within a one-screen area viewed from a first-person perspective, reloading the gun manually and trying to eliminate the enemy before Jonathan's health bar is depleted.
About PlayStation
The original PlayStation (1994) brought CD-based gaming and 3D graphics to the mainstream, ending Nintendo's console dominance of the previous two generations. It's now firmly in "retro collecting" territory: original jewel cases with intact manuals command a real premium over disc-only copies, and several RPGs from its later years (when Sony deliberately courted the genre) are among the most expensive commonly-collected games from the era.
Gamevaro tracks Policenauts [PlayStation The Best] for PlayStation 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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Price history
Market values by condition
NTSC-J
Recent sales
| Date | Type | Region | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | Graded New | NTSC-J | €56.78 |
| 2026-07-12 | Complete in Box | NTSC-J | €19.85 |
| 2026-07-12 | Manual Only | NTSC-J | €4.74 |
| 2026-07-12 | New (sealed) | NTSC-J | €51.62 |
| 2026-07-12 | Box Only | NTSC-J | €7.59 |
| 2026-07-10 | Graded New | NTSC-J | €56.76 |
| 2026-07-10 | New (sealed) | NTSC-J | €51.60 |
| 2026-07-10 | Box Only | NTSC-J | €7.58 |
| 2026-07-10 | Complete in Box | NTSC-J | €19.84 |
| 2026-07-10 | Manual Only | NTSC-J | €4.74 |
| 2026-07-05 | Item only | NTSC-J | €31.94 |
| 2026-06-18 | New (sealed) | NTSC-J | €47.44 |
| 2026-06-18 | Manual Only | NTSC-J | €4.45 |
| 2026-06-18 | Graded New | NTSC-J | €52.18 |
| 2026-06-18 | Complete in Box | NTSC-J | €18.27 |
| 2026-06-18 | Box Only | NTSC-J | €7.12 |
| 2026-06-08 | Graded New | NTSC-J | €51.03 |
| 2026-06-08 | Complete in Box | NTSC-J | €17.74 |
| 2026-06-08 | New (sealed) | NTSC-J | €46.39 |
| 2026-06-08 | Box Only | NTSC-J | €6.83 |
| 2026-06-08 | Manual Only | NTSC-J | €4.27 |
| 2026-05-17 | Item only | NTSC-J | €10.94 |
| 2026-05-17 | Manual Only | NTSC-J | €4.10 |
| 2026-05-17 | Complete in Box | NTSC-J | €16.40 |
| 2026-05-17 | Graded New | NTSC-J | €47.06 |
| 2026-05-17 | New (sealed) | NTSC-J | €42.79 |
| 2026-05-17 | Box Only | NTSC-J | €6.56 |
Rarity & condition
Only a handful of market sales have been tracked for Policenauts [PlayStation The Best], suggesting it doesn't trade hands very often — a sign of relative scarcity compared to more common PlayStation titles.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much is Policenauts [PlayStation The Best] worth?
Policenauts [PlayStation The Best] for PlayStation is currently worth €31.94 loose, €19.85 complete in box, and €51.62 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.
Is Policenauts [PlayStation The Best] rare?
Policenauts [PlayStation The Best] has only a handful of tracked market sales, suggesting relative scarcity compared to more common PlayStation titles.
What's the difference between loose, CIB and sealed for Policenauts [PlayStation The Best]?
Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Policenauts [PlayStation The Best], loose is €31.94 and CIB is €19.85 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.
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