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Retro - Videogame Collector grabs NES sampler for USD 17,500
Tuesday 7th of July, 2009 - 17:39:05 GMT
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There are less than thirty mint copies of the game Nintendo World Championships for the original NES left in existence from 19 years ago. The mini-compilation gave samples of Tetris, Rad Racer and Super Mario Bros, but limited the playing time to 6min 21sec for all three titles – Understandable for the Mario classic, if a little stingy for the other two. The cartridge, created for a Nintendo competition, was also painted gold, which could only help its collectible status.
The NWC cartridge was originally priced at USD 25,000 on Ebay but American collector JJ Hendricks seemed to win his next best bid or nearest offer of USD 17,500. That certainly beats the £50 you might have snapped up for the right mint copy of Flight Simulator or Freespace when PC games were still distributed in boxes.
The moral of this story is to make sure your significant other will let you buy and sell videogames and keep the cardboard boxes in perfect condition – even if they might still give you earache for playing the new ones.
- Ken
(Source: Yahoo Games Blog)