I was trying to be a sarcastic smartass. Hence the terrible spelling.

I'm a massive game collector and to be honest most Nintendo games are not overpriced. I have tallied up the cost of both my wishlist and current collection for NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, etc. Then I divided the total cost of those games according to pricecharting.com and divided by the number of games. The results were as follows...

NES $38 per cart.
SNES $84 per cart.
N64 $20 per cart.
Gamecube $45 per game CIB.
Wii $35 per game CIB.

All of these except SNES are completely affordable. Also, keep in mind that I am nuts and go after games in the $300-$900 catagory. So quite a few extremely rare games like Fire Emblem GC, Metal Warriors, and Gun Nac send averages skyrocketing. Someone with less eclectic tastes would find it much cheaper to collect older games.

People were trained by giant corporations to only ever buy things digitally. Now they are mad that things cost money. If people still bought 60% or greater of their games as physical then used game stores would be flush with games and older games would be even cheaper. What has made older game prices increase in the last 15 years is that resellers and game stores have needed to charge more in order to stay open. This is because you can't run a high volume business buying and selling used modern games when 90% of the userbase just buys digital.

For example: 10 people buy a game in 2010. 5 of them are physical and 5 of them are digital. Eventually Gamestop gets 3 copies traded into them. They then sell those games and keep their store in the black. THEN in 2020 10 people buy a game. 2 of them are physical and 8 are digital. Gamestop gets 1 copy traded into them. That's not enough copies to sell to stay open. So they raise the price. They also raise the price of all their other inventory too. This causes people to be less likely to trade their used games in because Gamestop doesn't offer enough and charges too much. Which causes them to again raise their prices.

TL/DR: No used games are not unaffordable. People that mostly buy digital are to blame for used game prices going up.

Edit: Oh I forgot to mention that in Japan used game prices haven't gone up much in the last 15 years. Nintendo workers only really look at Japan and don't give a crap what is happening in the west. Why remake Melee when it is $15 in Japan? Sure it's $55 here in the USA but why would a Nintendo worker know or care about that?

Double Edit: Also forgot to mention that it's not the Nintendo published games that are driving up the average cost of used games. It's all the 3rd party games from devs like Atlus, Natsume, and Konami that are getting hard to find. Nintendo published games outside of Earthbound, Pokemon, and Fire Emblem are some of the cheapest games on their respective platforms.