Super Rare NES game in eBay auction at $89,000

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221357006206?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

by dsyph3r • 12 years ago

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sekm• 12 years ago

For anyone who has no idea what this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships

Gonzih3• 12 years ago

I looked up it in wiki. Still have no idea what it is...

dec0dedab0de2• 12 years ago

Its a cartridge that only finalists of a competition were given.

pcurve• 12 years ago

I don't blame you. I found most Wiki entries assume readers already have pre-existing knowledge.

This video will explain shows actual game play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJY7HKJsnAI

aidenn03• 12 years ago

The price seems super high. It's not in great condition and more rare games have gone for less fairly recently.

gradstudent5• 12 years ago

Game collecting has become a thing lately and the more rabid collectors are, frankly, idiots.

marban3• 12 years ago

You could say the same about arts, mangas or Pez dispensers. Having owned and sold a large Super Famicom and vinyl collection I can definitely say that collecting is (was) way more fun than owning.

br782• 12 years ago

Do you think? Films are only 100 years old and collecting film memorabilia has been popular for some time.

Is it not conceivable that video games might be collected in the same way in 60 or 70 years time?

Young people starting to collect now might rationalising their purchases as a bet that the value of such things will skyrocket by the end of their lifetime. I don't think that's such a crazy bet.

darrhiggs• 12 years ago

Yeah, "In 2011, the same game sold at a charity auction for $11,000 (£6,600) - but it was in better condition."[1]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25878678

dec0dedab0de2• 12 years ago

what games are more rare? maybe the original stadium events?

EDIT: I said track and field originally.

aidenn03• 12 years ago

The later SNES version of the event has only 2 surviving copies.

riffraff• 12 years ago

there is a marquee tag there and I can't see anything else.

naiyt• 12 years ago

Well, at least he gets free shipping.

tux2• 12 years ago

It looks like game is $0.99 and shipping is $91,099.00 price combined for convenience. =)

RyanZAG• 12 years ago

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&rt=nc&item=2...

Why would someone bid multiple times when they already have the highest bid?

hackinthebochs• 12 years ago

Ebay only shows the leading bid any time a big is placed. So when someone bids higher than the currently visible bid, but lower than that person's max bid, the leading bidder is shown as placing another, larger bid. You end up with the appearance of someone outbidding themselves repeatedly.

tgb• 12 years ago

I'm surprised they don't show the new second-place bidding in the history, if only to make it obvious what's happening. Like if there's a starting price of 10, I bid at 100 and then someone bids at 20, then it could show me bidding 10, them bidding 20 and me bidding 21, instead of just me at 10 then me at 21.

phlo• 12 years ago

eBay's system works that way. Before oo's (I'll leave the asterisks out) bid, the highest bid amount was $89'100 by e7. oo then bid an amount between $89'900 and $90'000. At this point, eBay only displays $89'300 bid, the higher amount is retained as a (non-displayed) maximum bid. Later on, another bidder (probably ss) upped the price in $200 increments: they bid $89'300 (to which eBay publicised oo's previous maximum bid of over $89'300), then $89'500 and so on.

In this system, the highest bid always wins -- bid amount being equal, the earlier bid prevails.

br782• 12 years ago

Its takes the advantage away from people with more time on their hands.

marban3• 12 years ago

Not sure if someone will fork out 100k for a dev build of Angry Birds in 20 years from now.

userbinator• 12 years ago

The thing about this cartridge is that it's a physical object, and people can generally see more value in possessing one rather than effectively just a very large integer... someone has already dumped the ROM for this one and you can find it offered in a lot of places online.

whage• 12 years ago

let James enlighten you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM

tux2• 12 years ago

Looks fake/conterfit without label. Why anyone whould pay thousands for some game I could never understand.

pirateking• 12 years ago

Sometimes, I wish I kept my rather comprehensive collection of Squaresoft games, Nintendo consoles and games, and rare Capcom imports. I got about $2000 total for all of them a couple years ago on eBay - much less than what I thought they would be worth.

I had imagined that someday I would just be able to emulate the games on future computers, and there was no rational reason to waste space with the dusty relics I was not playing. What was less obvious at the time was that I really had little intention of actually re-playing most of these now collectibles which I had already played to a pulp. The future of perfect hardware and software emulation was as irrelevant as was impossible.

What I gave up for some quick cash was basically a life long historical record with the physical artifacts to match. It will be a bitter sweet day in the future when I visit the Video Game Museum to see my lost history. At least I still have my Marvel cards.

ericthegoodking• 12 years ago

People really have money. That's one year salary for a developer!!!!!

aaronem• 12 years ago

That's one year's salary for an extremely well-paid developer.

peterstjohn• 12 years ago

I was hoping it was a NES version of Mire Mare, myself.

pud• 12 years ago

Just a reminder that anyone can bid any amount for anything on eBay, with no repercussions.

Source: I once put a website for sale on eBay. Bids went up to $10M. The press covered it like crazy. Turned out the bids were fake.

For example:

http://www.salon.com/2000/09/11/ebay_deadpool/

There were articles about it in Forbes and Cnet also.

azth• 12 years ago

What happens in that case? Does it get sold to the next real bidder?

bnycum• 12 years ago

I do believe that the cartridge from the 94 Nintendo PowerFest is even more rare. Something like only 2 being left as they weren't given out to winners. It's for the SNES though. I remember winning a round of this competition and getting a shirt I still have, a Virtual Boy hat, and some other Nintendo swag. Maybe the shirt is worth something these days.

hackertux2• 12 years ago

The Nintendo World Championships gold cartridges are more rare than the grey ones (only 26 of them were made). The Nerd also covered it some time ago in an avgn episode. Having seen it's not a "super rare elusive game", he smashes the overglorified cartridges with a hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM

vinkelhake• 12 years ago

Just to be clear: he didn't actually smash the real cartridges. Doing that would be, well, pretty stupid.

hackertux2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the clarification. Given their value, that would indeed be foolish. Don't smash rare cartridges with a hammer, kids! That's not really the point of the video.

waterlesscloud• 12 years ago

I just like that he gives the provenance. Some sort of official registry can't be far behind.

mindslight• 12 years ago

Be careful with flash photos of those EPROMs..

Super Rare NES game in eBay auction at $89,000

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