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This gamer offered $17,500 for Nintendo World Championships Gold and was fortunate enough to win it. However, the journey wasn't without a few bumps, as the first FedEX shipment was canceled (wrong address), and the seller reneged.
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TravG73
  • added July 03, 2009

22 comments // $17,500 On A Video Game

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    Really? $18K for a game that lasts 6 mins?

    gmjensen33
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    I have to go through some of my old cartridges

    Bigdog_mike
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    i need to write that fellow and tell him i have a copy of super mario bros. 3 that fred savage rubbed on his balls.

    trelk
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    Holy shit thats a waste of money..
    no wonder our economy is bad

    iGoogle
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    I aint socialist, but some people need to pay more taxes............

    norml37
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    This is a common occurrence. Odd considering that the game has had its rom dumped and only lasts 6mins, but I suppose the allure is similar to that of a classic car, old hockey card or a rare painting.... Something rare commands a high value.

    SupaDawg
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    i should have sold all my old games instead of giving them away...

    CalgarC
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    Wow. I have the original John Madden Football for the Apple IIe, on the old 5 1/4" floppy disk, with the original box and both the offensive and defensive playbooks intact. I don't know if it works anymore; I have no way of testing it (who's got a 5 1/4" floppy drive these days!?); but I wonder what it's worth?

    I even have the slip to mail off and order the NFLPA disk to get the actual players names for the '87 and '88 seasons, playbooks for specific teams, etc... I remember Joe Montana was called "Joe Idaho", the '85 Bears were called "The Blitzers", etc... Workarounds for the pre-licensing days, I guess.

    I wish I had some way of finding out if this thing worked...

    SDLN
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    The gold cartridge is considered the penultimate game collectible, Like a Honus Wagner baseball card or an Altair personal computer.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships

    bombastinator
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    That's cool.

    Mikeysfake1
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    $16,000 is nothing to some people.

    flyingkick
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    that is a lot of extra decibel.

    CiiMONSTR
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    Wow, that's the most expensive game I have ever seen

    abehammy
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    sometimes i wonder if there are nerds making reproductions of this particular game, i could do this myself and i'm not really that skilled so i know there must be many people that are easily capable of recreating these so called rare games who could even tell the difference really.

    deletethefed
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    I wipe my ass with $17500......and then then give it to the IRS

    Ish05
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    I remember when the original toys that inspired Ultimate Muscle were going fore a couple hundred dollars in japan. I played with them at my grandmas house when I was a kid.

    Agent_Alpha
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    i still remember my brother playing at the Nintendo Powerfest at the Javits Center...maybe he would've done better if he had a Power Glove :p

    bigloutech
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    I was thinking of the same thing.

    Agent_Alpha

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