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There's another difference, and it's one we can see with SNES and NES games. For games like you've mentioned, the price-over-time chart is gonna look like a hockey stick (or at least stay on the uptrend) for a long time, but the less well known or very common games eventually hit a plateau. Take Super Mario World, for example: Its price has been between $20-$40 for over a decade. It's definitely more expensive than it used to be, when it could be had for pennies, but it's been years since the price rose significantly.
Another example: Mario Kart 64. Generally $40-60, and has been since about 2016.
Interest in something is more of a factor than just rarity. It seems today people care a lot less about NES and SNEs than some years ago and those have been replaced in hype by n64, psx and ps2 games. People's interest in these games just doesn't grow exponentially over time indefinitely, the demographic willing to fork money on old stuff mostly cares about nostalgia and whatever they played in their own childhood.