Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GameCube) — Price Guide & Live Deals

What this Toadstool Tour page covers

Live eBay listings for Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on Nintendo GameCube, the US-NTSC disc. Camelot developed it and Nintendo published it in 2003. It's the GameCube follow-up to Mario Golf on N64, with the same arcade-style golf and Mario cast, and multiplayer for up to four people. The handheld games in the series have their own pages: Mario Golf on Game Boy Color and Mario Golf: Advance Tour.

Use the condition chips above the deal grid to sort the feed:

• Loose is the disc on its own, or the disc plus manual. "Disc only" is the most common way this game is listed.
• CIB (complete in box) is the disc, the original plastic case with its cover insert, and the instruction manual.
• Sealed is factory-sealed or graded copies. They exist in small numbers, so this chip is sometimes empty.

The price table shows asking prices from active US listings. They are what sellers want, not what copies sold for. Use them as a starting point for negotiating, not as an appraisal.

Toadstool Tour variants: original, Player's Choice and Target

Three US versions turn up in the feed, and all three are authentic retail copies:

• The original release. Sellers often call it "Black Label" to separate it from the reprint.
• Player's Choice. Nintendo's budget reprint line, marked on the case art. It's usually listed as "Player's Choice" or "Players Choice" in the title, and asks about the same as an original in similar condition. A few sealed Player's Choice copies appear too.
• The Target edition. Sellers list a Target retailer version as "Target exclusive", "Target cover variation" or "with Bullseye Tour". It asks a bit more than a standard copy. If that version is the one you want, check the cover in the photos rather than trusting the title, and ask the seller to confirm.

The feed doesn't separate these. They all land in the same Loose and CIB buckets.

Japanese copies were sold as Mario Golf: Family Tour. A Japanese GameCube disc won't boot on a US console without a region workaround. The feed drops listings that say Japan, Japanese, JPN or NTSC-J, and Family Tour listings usually lack the word "Toadstool" anyway. PAL copies from Europe are filtered out for the same reason.

Toadstool Tour: loose vs CIB vs sealed

Loose copies are mostly disc-only. Price within this bucket moves with how scratched the disc is and how clearly the seller describes testing. Disc-plus-manual listings with no case sit at the top of the loose range.

CIB copies ask a modest premium over a loose disc for this game, because GameCube cases survive far better than cartridge-era cardboard boxes. A complete copy has the disc, the original Nintendo case, the printed cover insert and the instruction manual. Some sellers also mention "inserts", meaning the paperwork that came in the case. The spread between CIB listings is mostly case condition (cracks, broken hinge tabs, price stickers) and whether the cover insert is faded or creased.

Sealed copies ask several times a CIB copy. Graded sealed copies sit at the top of that range. The feed caps prices at $450, so anything listed above that won't show here.

Refurbished-condition listings (eBay's "Very Good - Refurbished" and similar grades) are left out of this page. Case-only, manual-only and no-disc listings are filtered out too, so every copy in the feed should include the game disc.

Saves: memory card, not the disc

GameCube games save to a separate GameCube memory card, not to the disc. There is no save battery to worry about, and an old disc saves just as well as a new one. If you don't already own a memory card, budget for one. A seller's "tested" claim tells you the disc reads. It says nothing about saving, since that depends on your card.

Spotting fake Toadstool Tour discs

The feed drops listings that call themselves repro, reproduction, aftermarket, counterfeit or fake (plus the whole-word shorthand repo). A seller who lists a copied disc as authentic will still get through, so check it yourself:

• The underside of the disc. A burned DVD-R usually shows a coloured (purple, blue or gold) tint on the data side. Compare against a photo of a known-authentic GameCube disc.
• The label print. Compare it with a high-resolution photo of a known-authentic US Toadstool Tour disc. Watch for blurry art, off-centre printing or washed-out colour.
• Price. This is not an expensive game, so fakes are less common than on high-value GameCube titles. A "Brand New" copy priced like a used disc is still a warning sign.

Toadstool Tour verification checklist by condition

Loose (disc only)

• Ask for a photo of the data side of the disc and check for deep scratches as well as DVD-R tint.
• Make sure it's the US release and not the Japanese Family Tour.
• Ask what "tested" means. Booting to the title screen is the minimum. Playing a full hole is better.

CIB

• Make sure the case is an original Nintendo GameCube case, not a generic DVD-style replacement case.
• Check that the cover insert and manual are originals, not printed replacements. "Replacement case" listings are filtered out, but a reproduction insert sold with a real disc can still get through.
• If it's sold as the Target edition, check that the photos show it.

Sealed

• Buy graded where you can, and check the certificate number with the grading company's online lookup.
• Treat raw "sealed" copies with suspicion. Resealing is the main forgery risk in this bucket, and a seal is hard to verify from photos.

Toadstool Tour buying gotchas

• Part-out listings. Sellers split CIB copies into pieces and sell the case, cover art and manual on their own. Titles that say "case only", "manual only" or "no game" are filtered out. A listing like "Case Manual OEM" without the word "only" can still slip through, so if a CIB copy is priced like a loose disc, read the description.
• Lots and bundles. Toadstool Tour often appears in GameCube lots with Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Party. Those are filtered out so the per-game prices stay accurate.
• "Untested", "as is" and "for parts" listings are filtered out.
• Seller feedback floor. The feed only shows sellers with at least 50 feedback and 99% positive. That drops a fair number of honest low-volume sellers. Search eBay directly if you're happy to buy from them.