Old NES sells for $13,105

[VirusType2]

Everyday folk discovering colossally valuable collectors' items amid everyday junk has been the lifeblood of antiques shows for years, but it's not every day you see a real-life gold-in-the-attic tale play out on eBay.

Last week, North Carolina eBay user lace_thongs35 thought she was putting up an everyday, 80s-era Nintendo Entertainment System (together with five games) up on the popular auction site. But less than an hour after the first bid, the price was over $6,000 -- and on Wednesday, when the auction closed, the final selling price topped $13,000.

Why? Not the console itself, but one of the games bundled with it -- a deeply obscure 1987 release called Stadium Events, a highly sought-after collectors' item. But it wasn't even the game itself that was worth the bulk of the money -- it was the original cardboard box, which collectors value at a breathtaking $10,000. Fewer than 10 complete copies of the game are thought to exist, and retro gaming aficionados consider it one of the hardest-to-find NES games ever made.

Bet you're wishing you hadn't let Mom throw out your Nintendo collection now, eh?

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/old-nintendo-system-sells-for-13-105/1389101

$13,000 for a NES cartridge. :rolling:

I'd prefer a nice mineral on my shelf.

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[Darkside55]

Damn, I've played that game, too.

 

[Warped]

wow thats a lot of money. also I want to kill my dad for getting rid of my Commadore 64 and Atari 2600. Salvation Army probably made a fortune off of it

 

[Escaep]

lace_thongs35

 

[VirusType2]

lace_thongs35

Mom?


char

 

[fishdbaz]

On the main page it says that the NES was sold for $1.

 

[Robbo]

I wish I had $10,000 to spend on a shitty game that I was never going to play. Honestly how did these people even make money let alone have the intelligence to spend it.

 

[Darkside55]

I wish I had $10,000 to spend on a shitty game that I was never going to play. Honestly how did these people even make money let alone have the intelligence to spend it.

Stadium Events wasn't shitty. You used the Power Pad with that shit; it was like Wii Fit thirty years before its time!

 

[Robbo]

Stadium Events wasn't shitty, faget. You used the Power Pad with that shit; it was like Wii Fit thirty years before its time!

..... and now..... it's shitty. In any case it still not worth $10,000.

 

[<RJMC>]

aparently the box was the most valued item