Most expensive NES game ever?

[DaddyHoggy]

Title says it all really...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FACTORY-SEALED-NE ... 0594183294

[Killer Wolf]

"the holy grail of gaming"

each to their own :-/

[CheeseRedux]

"the holy grail of gaming"

No thanks, we’ve already got one.

[Disembodied]

You know, I can't help thinking that someone who is prepared to spend $13,000+ on a video game cartridge – a video game cartridge that they're never going to open, let alone play – should probably have that $13,000 taken off them and spent on something more useful instead ...

[Killer Wolf]

people started doing that sht w/ comics, some dipsht firm called CGC decided to get a markey niche by "officially" grading comics, then sealing them in a plastic box. I mean, seriously - wtf? comics are supposed to be read, why not buy a goddamn poster if you want something on your wall?

[Steve]

Well, look on the bright side. At least the postage and packing is free

[ClymAngus]

people started doing that sht w/ comics, some dipsht firm called CGC decided to get a markey niche by "officially" grading comics, then sealing them in a plastic box. I mean, seriously - wtf? comics are supposed to be read, why not buy a goddamn poster if you want something on your wall?

We live in an age of things being wrapped in plastic and "kept". It is insane now. Every other sentence in TV advertising these days is "collect them all." Especially kids adds. It is mental. NEW extra rare small lump of plastic! It transforms into a fiddly thing your child will break in 5 seconds flat! Now with ten add on sets full of easily losable pieces! 10,000 to collect, collect them all; 9.99 for a starter pack, batteries not included.

Ahhh!

[Commander McLane]

In case of this auction I'm wondering what the guy who sold the game first in that garage sale is thinking about it.

[Steve]

In case of this auction I'm wondering what the guy who sold the game first in that garage sale is thinking about it.

If I was him, I would be very, very drunk by now

[DaddyHoggy]

So it went for US$20.6K in the end - that's a lot of dosh!

[Disembodied]

What's needed here is some sort of giant fiscal rolled-up newspaper to descend and slap itself across the buyer's nose, while a firm, Barbara Woodhouse-esque voice says: "NO! No! No. Bad monkey."

[DaddyHoggy]

I'm just thinking of Brewster's Millions - where Brewster buys some incredibly rare stamps and then posts them - thus they're franked and worthless.

So the game should be opened, played a few times and then given into GAME to be sold in the £2.50 bargain bucket...

[Star Gazer]

HHhahahaahaahaahaahahahahahahaaahaaahhaaa... excellent!! Now that would be an appropriate ending to the tale, or maybe putting it down and accidently reversing over it...

[Cmdr James]

Im not a collector of anything, and I do find it odd that so many people seem happy to pay thousands for a bottle of undrinkable wine or a comic that cant be read, I do not have the kind of reaction that some people seem to have here

Do none of us have an unwatched dvd box set of Firefly, still wrapped and kept perfect? Do none of us have a cherished copy of the Dark Wheel that we would never read as we might damage it?

The people that collect could be doing it as an (potentially misguided) investment, I do know people who have traded in things like letters written by Napoleon, and like it or not, a similar market does, or may in the future exist for most rare stuff, including NES cartridges.

The other thing of course is that in a few hundreds of years from now, these private collections of 20th century rubbish will fill the great museums of the world.

[DaddyHoggy]

I've got a rare Storm Trooper Flip-top pen - still with its original Chuppa Chips lolly in it - given its nearly 20 years old now - there's no temptation to eat the lolly!

I also have a limited edition ERTL Star Trek Voyager kit, still in its cellophane - but only because I've never got round to making it!

I guess the biggie is a bottle of Rosebank Flora and Fauna whisky - a silent still - so forever increasing in value - however - I did buy two - and to the horror of the man who sold them to me I opened one and started to drink it. My argument was 1) I wanted to taste it 2) I'd just increased the rarity of the other bottle! I'm saving the other one for my 50th - will be interesting to see what it's worth in 10 years time - although I will still drink it.