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The $17,500 video game
by Mike Smith
Buzz up! July 6 1:32 P.M.
Would you pay $17,500 for this?
Think $60 video games are too expensive? You won't hear any argument from us, but you might from JJ Hendricks, a collector who just paid a clinically insane $17,500 for an obscure NES game from 1990.
The game in question is an ultra-rare, gold-colored version of Nintendo World Championships, a cartridge specially produced for use in a Nintendo-sponsored gaming contest. According to Wikipedia only 26 were created, and Hendricks calls it the "Holy Grail" of video game collectors.
The game itself has a time limit of just 6 minutes and 21 seconds and consists of three short segments from other NES games: Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and Rad Racer. Players are scored according to their performance in each game, and their scores are totaled once the time limit expires. Doesn't sound too riveting to us, but then somehow we doubt Hendricks is in it for the gameplay.
And while $17,500 might seem a bit much for a collection of ones and zeroes, Hendricks actually got a bargain: the game was originally listed on eBay for a cool $25,000.
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/p...o-game/1332488
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It is a rare item.
People collect pieces of plastic? It would of been cheaper to just find the mold and make your own copy for $2.
If I had 17.5k disposable income, I could think of a million things I'd rather buy with it.
i'd buy a pound of the ill'est bud i could find and then throw a huge ass party.
i'd buy a new car and have a small portion of its plastic devoted to recreating this video game
bs that honeybee can be bought cheap man if u goto asia...17500 lol
nothing rare about it when i saw most of my friends had one back in the 90s...
there was another system out at the time which was better than the nes, it was similar in design, and also had honeybee 100 games in 1 cartridges...
Downloaded the ROM for this last week...
It was ok. It was only worth about $11,000.
The guide for this game
http://cgi.ebay.com/1990-Nes-Nintend...3%3A1|294%3A50
lame
Where do people go to dl ROMs now
RomWorld
RomNation
Zophar's domain for the emulators.
emuPSX is a good PS1 emulator, reads ISO's off your comp.
Torrents too.
Torrents can get you the entire library of all cartridge systems in one download
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