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Old NES and five games sell for US$ 13,105 on eBay |
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One mom in North Carolina had a NES and five games rotting away in her closet. Instead of tossing them into the dumpster or giving it to the guy that loves blending stuff on YouTube, she figured it'd be better to just sell them off through eBay. Well, you know what they say, one (wo)man's trash is another man's treasure - someone out there was willing to pay US$ 13,105 for them.
She must've gone for a few hours scratching her head wondering what brought the bids up that high. Filthy-rich retro gamers? Nope. Apparently, one of the five games is one of the rarest games ever.
This game is Stadium Events (Wikipedia link), an old exercise game released by Bandai in North America back in 1987. It comes with the Family Fun Fitness mat which you use for its Olympic-event mini-games. Only 2,000 copies of this game are believed to have been produced, and when Nintendo bought the rights to the Family Fun Fitness mat technology in 1988 (and later re-released it as the Power Pad), most of the copies were recalled and likely destroyed.
Only an estimated 200 copies managed to get off the shelves and into consumer hands. Followers of the rare game trade believe that there are only 10 copies of Stadium Events left in existence, only one of which is still factory sealed.
With her selling price of US$ 9.99 for the set, the North Carolina mom clearly had no idea what a treasure she happened to have. Her copy, still with its box and looking pretty intact, was enough to land her a hell lot more than she bargained for.
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for the mom, she got a hell lot more than ten bucks for her stuff, and despite not knowing about stadium events' real value, she still received an amount proportion to the demand.
as for the buyer, his nuts probably shot though his neck after seeing an intact copy of stadium events. he may have gotten it cheaper from the mom than from, say, another collector who'd charge him an arm, a leg, and his firstborn for it.
hey look, it's my first text wall comment!
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I wonder if James (AVGN) has this game, he owns almost every single game made for NES, just doesn't for the rare ones because are hard to find and expensive. People send him donations and games, he deserves it.
Think I'll need to buy another NES console.
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I should give James my entire collection. He clearly deserves it because he what? Makes video game reviews that people have been doing much longer than he has online. He just happened to get a following like many of the now well known reviewers who rate "supposedly" bad games(some of which aren't that bad.)
No. You're just giving him items he doesn't have to go look for and purchase himself. Which he then signs and sells for more money because he used it in his video.
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Usually, I would agree with you, why should I give my stuff that I bought with hard earned money to assholes who make a living out of it?
But James is actually a nice guy, if anyone doing these things deserves it, he's the one.
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But again, it's people's choice.
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HE'S A COLLECTOR MORON!!!!
what fun is collecting ROMs, they are hardly rare.
geez.
twit!
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not saying its ok to pirate but only in cases like this
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Quote:
to quote myself above
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He wont buy it to play it but to collect it
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(the copy I had was labeled "World Class Track Meet" which is, according to Wikipedia, the same game.)
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Course, I only had one game (a Ninja Turtles one) so it probably wouldn't be worth as much as this, but still...
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1. Stadium Events
2. Baseball
3. Ninja Turtles Arcade Game
4. Super Mario 3
5. Super Mario Bros
6. Duck Hunt
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Definitely interesting, but a little disturbing also. I wonder what the buyer does for a living to be able to afford to be such a twit.
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Just remembered my Chrono Trigger and FFIV game. Should be somewhere in the house...
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She wanted 9.99 for it! give her 50 bucks and seal the deal!
$13.105...
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