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Super Rare NES game in eBay auction at $89,000
- sekm 13y agoFor anyone who has no idea what this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships
- Gonzih 13y agoI looked up it in wiki. Still have no idea what it is...
- dec0dedab0de 13y agoIts a cartridge that only finalists of a competition were given.
- Gonzih 13y agoHow many of these exist?
- doubt_me 13y agoThere was a guy on reddit who was actually a winner in the 18+ category who still has his with its label If this one is worth 90k then his must be double that
- dwild 13y agoThis one is not worth 90k. It got published on multiple news website and now there's ton of fake bid on it. In good condition it's worth 6k but I've never seen one in this bad shape, it's probably worth much less. The gold one is worth way more, about 20k in good condition.
- mike 13y agoReddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1tgxke/i_was_given_this_a_couple_decades_ago_how_much_is/ http://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1tgxke/i_was...
- Gonzih 13y agoBut bids can be done by anybody. Without any confirmation. So I'm still not sure about price.
- frostmatthew 13y ago> How many of these exist? 90 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships#Cartridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships#Ca...
- pcurve 13y agoI 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJY7HKJsnAI
- aidenn0 13y agoThe price seems super high. It's not in great condition and more rare games have gone for less fairly recently.
- gradstudent 13y agoGame collecting has become a thing lately and the more rabid collectors are, frankly, idiots.
- marban 13y agoYou 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.
- gradstudent 13y agoDo art, manga and Pez collectors pay almost six figures for beat up junk? For stuff that isn't even readily identifiable? For context, these carts have previously sold for between $10K and $20K. In much better condition too. The only conclusion I can come to is that rabid video game collectors are a special kind of stupid.
- marban 13y agoI wouldn't call collectors who act out of irrationality stupid since you have to look at the motivation behind a deal situationally — I'd just say it's on the edge of being an unethical waste of money.
- gradstudent 13y ago> I wouldn't call collectors who act out of irrationality stupid since you have to look at the motivation behind a deal situationally — I'd just say it's on the edge of being an unethical waste of money. Unethical? Huh? Ethics is concerned with morality; with right and wrong. There's nothing inherently wrong about paying large sums of money for beat-up bits of electronics. It's just plain ol' stupid.
- riffraff 13y agothere is a marquee tag there and I can't see anything else.
- naiyt 13y agoWell, at least he gets free shipping.
- tux 13y agoIt looks like game is $0.99 and shipping is $91,099.00 price combined for convenience. =)
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- RyanZAG 13y agohttp://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&rt=nc&item=221357006206 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?
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- hackinthebochs 13y agoEbay 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 13y agoI'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 13y agoeBay'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.
- br78 13y agoIts takes the advantage away from people with more time on their hands.
- marban 13y agoNot sure if someone will fork out 100k for a dev build of Angry Birds in 20 years from now.
- userbinator 13y agoThe 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 13y agolet James enlighten you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM
- tux 13y agoLooks fake/conterfit without label. Why anyone whould pay thousands for some game I could never understand.
- pirateking 13y agoSometimes, 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 13y agoPeople really have money. That's one year salary for a developer!!!!!
- aaronem 13y agoThat's one year's salary for an extremely well-paid developer.
- peterstjohn 13y agoI was hoping it was a NES version of Mire Mare, myself.
- pud 13y agoJust 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/ http://www.salon.com/2000/09/11/ebay_deadpool/ There were articles about it in Forbes and Cnet also.
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- azth 13y agoWhat happens in that case? Does it get sold to the next real bidder?
- bnycum 13y agoI 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.
- hackertux 13y agoThe 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM
- vinkelhake 13y agoJust to be clear: he didn't actually smash the real cartridges. Doing that would be, well, pretty stupid.
- hackertux 13y agoThanks 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 13y agoI just like that he gives the provenance. Some sort of official registry can't be far behind.
- mindslight 13y agoBe careful with flash photos of those EPROMs..