Rare Nintendo Cartridge on Ebay!!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 24, 2014, 11:01:41 pm
content: Quote(Edit)QuoteThat's just insane!! ;-)

author: Dongulus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2014, 11:35:30 pm
content: The Nintendo World Championship cartridges are supposedly among the most, if not the most, rare NES games. The cartridges were custom built for the competition and only contain some short levels from several popular games that could be selected with some switches. Collectors are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a hunk of plastic that contains small bits from several other games, each of which could be had for less than $10.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2014, 11:55:48 pm
content: I've never fully understood collectors paying that much for a game which will quite likely just sit away in a glass cabinet. But I'm not a collector, so maybe I'm missing something.Hasn't anyone made ROM copies of these?

author: wilheldp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2014, 11:56:54 pm
content: That's a really stupid price for one of the gray carts in terrible condition. The gold ones are really rare because they were only distributed as part of a Nintendo Power competition, and I think there are only 5 in existence. I think there are 100 or so of the gray ones.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 12:09:43 am
content: Already at US $30,000I'll keep watching this one. It would be fun to see $5 worth of electronics go for more than 100k !

author: brabus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 12:21:30 am
content: Now... that IS impressing.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 02:43:01 pm
content: I want to know if the winner want to adopt a nice Italian boy.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 03:43:09 pm
content: $95100 and going up. I can think of better things to pay that amount of money for, and a house is cheaper by a good margin.

author: orion242
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 04:01:25 pm
content: $95K for a single game that looks like it was dragged down the road.... People are nuts.A fool and his money are easily parted.

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 04:29:42 pm
content: I've got an old copy of Battletoads in the loft, if that's worth anything?

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 06:05:28 pm
content: Perhaps you should call Gold and Silver Pawn and ask them?

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 06:14:25 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on January 25, 2014, 06:05:28 pmI phoned Pawn Stars and they told me to feck off and slammed the phone down on me. I thought that was rather rude, so will keep my heirloom and pass it on to my future kids.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 07:53:37 pm
content: Are you sure you made clear you were selling it? They get annoyed at buyers for some reason.

author: marshallh
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 08:03:21 pm
content: Quote from: Macbeth on January 25, 2014, 04:29:42 pm

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 08:06:27 pm
content: I was just kidding about the US$ 100k. We haven't had the snipers yet. Maybe it goes for 200 or 300k^10

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 08:25:23 pm
content: Close to that $100k mark though!

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2014, 08:26:21 pm
content: Plus free shipping, how could you go wrong?

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 12:24:34 am
content: No last minute bids it seems, $99,902.00, bidder looks genuine (775 feedback), 328 bids.That is crazy money.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 10:53:51 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on January 24, 2014, 11:55:48 pmThe ROM is out there, but there is also a reproduction cart. It comes in a purple/clear casing. I believe Retro USB sells them. They work almost identical to the original carts, minus the dip switches that select game options.

author: Andy Watson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2014, 11:27:49 pm
content: Quote from: justanothercanuck on January 26, 2014, 10:53:51 pmSo, essentially, the ebay bidders are paying for about $20 of electronics hardware and $99xxxx of vintage plastic!

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2014, 12:27:16 am
content: Might be time to start hoarding those tubes of DIP IC's

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2014, 01:31:14 am
content: There's another one on ebay in much better condition. Wonder what it will go for.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=301080677503&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2014, 01:00:13 pm
content: Quote from: Andy Watson on January 26, 2014, 11:27:49 pmMaybe $5 ? It's just a tiny ROM...

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 27, 2014, 02:14:54 pm
content: Quote from: dr.diesel on January 25, 2014, 08:26:21 pmfor that much i'd want personal delivery with red carpet, rose petals and a fanfare at my front door!

author: bridgerectifier
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 04:18:12 am
content: It's a tired old phrase, but such a truthful one:"A fool and his money are soon parted"Seriously, was there *nothing* better to spend $100,000 on than a crusty old NES cart? This makes me sad; that money could be SO worthwhile to someone poor or in a terrible situation - it could radically change, or SAVE, their life; some people areextremelybad stewards of their wealth.

author: GiskardReventlov
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 05:03:17 am
content: eBay marketing ploy.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 05:07:09 am
content: I bet that guy who just spend 90grand is going to be pissed if the mint one goes for less.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 05:12:45 am
content: Quote from: bridgerectifier on January 28, 2014, 04:18:12 amAnd it's not even a good investment it's done for that.I mean who's really going to give a toss enough in 10-20 years time to pay anything for this useless thing, let alone more than what this guy paid. It's not like works of art, or an Apple 1 that will always have a large enough percentage of the population who care about such things.Once the current crop of nerds who care about this stuff are all grown up and have a life, no one else is going to suddenly care that this cartridge was used in some stupid game competition no one has ever heard of.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 05:17:33 am
content: It's his money and his to waster as he sees fit.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 05:58:42 am
content: Quote from: bridgerectifier on January 28, 2014, 04:18:12 amFrom a certain point on apparently not:http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-worldQuote

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 06:45:58 am
content: It would probably be cheaper to fly to the seller and pick it up, rather than pay the import tax on a $100,000 item.You'd have to declare the legit value to get insurance.

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 08:31:10 am
content: The thing most unbelievable is the varied number of bidders at those prices. Assuming all those bidders and bids were legit.Maybe it was an EBay marketing event...

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 10:07:21 am
content: Quote from: aargee on January 28, 2014, 08:31:10 amtbh there was a good page full of bid retractions and cancellations if you look at the bid history

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 01:20:51 pm
content: It won't sell for $99,902:-http://blog.pricecharting.com/2014/01/stevesesy-nintendo-world-championship.html

author: wilheldp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 06:04:45 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 28, 2014, 05:12:45 amI dunno...that cart is already 24 years old, and every time one has come up for auction, it has sold for more than the previous ones. The same thing is happening with Honus Wagner T206 baseball cards, and they are even more useless than an NES cart (at least you CAN play the game, even if it's a bit boring).This might be Gen X's contribution to fine art. Picasso paintings go for mega-millions. Maybe in 100 years, NES World Championship carts will too.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 07:28:38 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on January 28, 2014, 01:20:51 pmIt would be quite lame if the Nintendo crowd just bid to annoy the seller. Then again, he now knows who is trolling so when relisting he can block those sellers.