{"id":135692,"date":"2026-01-17T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196327"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:55:00","slug":"random-disneys-terrible-ds-game-cory-in-the-house-is-now-selling-for-hundreds-of-dollars-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/random-disneys-terrible-ds-game-cory-in-the-house-is-now-selling-for-hundreds-of-dollars-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Disney&#8217;s Terrible DS Game &#8216;Cory In The House&#8217; Is Now Selling For Hundreds Of Dollars On eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8cbcd6e3d8496\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8cbcd6e3d8496\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"c0e42cf26f5db\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cory in the House\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c0e42cf26f5db\/cory-in-the-house.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c0e42cf26f5db\/cory-in-the-house.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"522\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cory in the House\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Disney<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this week, the 2008 Nintendo DS title Disney title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/disneys_cory_in_the_house\">Cory in the House<\/a> was reportedly on the cusp of dethroning the award-winning <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/clair_obscur_expedition_33\"><strong>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/strong><\/a> on Metacritic&#8217;s user ranking list.<\/p>\n<p>Although Clair Obscur <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/browse\/game\/all\/all\/all-time\/userscore\/?releaseYearMin=1958&amp;releaseYearMax=2026&amp;page=1\">remains out in front at the time of writing<\/a> with a user score of 9.6, as a result of this viral campaign to get Cory&#8217;s game into the top spot, it&#8217;s now reportedly led to the title&#8217;s price spiking in value on eBay. As <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/awful-nintendo-ds-game-disney-cory-in-the-house-now-selling-for-hundreds-of-dollars-on-ebay-amid-viral-metacritic-campaign\">highlighted by IGN<\/a>, the game is now being sold for &#8220;hundreds of dollars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This includes sealed listings which have sold for up to $399 USD. It&#8217;s quite a contrast to last year around November, when copies of the title were supposedly selling for under $10.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"e4138cee09cd6\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cory in the House ebay\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e4138cee09cd6\/cory-in-the-house-ebay.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e4138cee09cd6\/cory-in-the-house-ebay.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"767\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cory in the House ebay\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: via IGN \/ eBay<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, if you happen to have a copy of this DS shovelware on a shelf or packed away in a cupboard or box somewhere and it&#8217;s in decent or pristine condition, now might be the time to offload it.<\/p>\n<p>When this game was originally released, IGN (one of the few outlets to apparently <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/25\/cory-in-the-house-review\">upload a professional review<\/a> when the title launched) said it was &#8220;awful&#8221; &#8211; awarding it a score of three out of ten, and noting how the short-lived experience had &#8220;some of the clunkiest controls&#8221;, &#8220;insultingly stupid&#8221; presentation and minigames that were &#8220;hardly games at all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/ds\/related-articles:196261 @ 1768647241 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Have you got a copy of this game in your collection? Would you be willing to pay a lot of money for it? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Disney Earlier this week, the 2008 Nintendo DS title Disney title Cory in the House was reportedly on the cusp of dethroning the award-winning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Metacritic&#8217;s user ranking list. Although Clair Obscur remains out in front at the time of writing with a user score of 9.6, as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}