{"id":413154,"date":"2026-01-17T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413154\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:17:10","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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413154\/","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":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cory in the House\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c0e42cf26f5db\/cory-in-the-house.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cory-in-the-house.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"522\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cory in the House\"\/><\/a> Image: Disney<\/p>\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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cory in the House ebay\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e4138cee09cd6\/cory-in-the-house-ebay.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cory-in-the-house-ebay.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"767\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cory in the House ebay\"\/><\/a> Image: via IGN \/ eBay<\/p>\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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>Have you got a copy of this game in your collection? Would you be willing to pay a lot of money for it? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: 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\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" 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\" target=\"_blank\">ign.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Disney Earlier this week, the 2008 Nintendo DS title Disney title Cory in the House was reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3716,130647,198134,1299,15470,74],"class_list":["post-413154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-disney","tag-ds","tag-metacritic","tag-nintendo","tag-random","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}