Most expensive game ever?
A gaming enthusiast has paid a whopping £10,800 on eBay for an extremely rare Nintendo cartridge.
Despite the astronomical cost the buyer, JJ Hendricks, was happy with his purchase saying the game was the 'Holy Grail of Gaming.'
The special cartridge was created for the Nintendo World Championships in 1990, and featured three mini games of Super Mario Bros, Rad Race and Tetris.
Only 26 of the gold-coloured video games were ever made by Nintendo
Eager competitors in the U.S had to score points within a time limit of six minutes and 21 seconds for each game.
The competition consisted of eight rounds, separated into three age groups and ended with a grand final at Universal Studios.
Only 116 special cartridges were made and 26 gold versions were given out to winners and runners-up in a Nintendo Power magazine contest.
super mario
The cartridge features an early edition of Super Mario Bros
Building block game Tetris is also on the rare disk
Industry insiders consider it the rarest and most valuable Nintendo game released.
Of the 26 NWC gold cartridges produced, only 12 copies have ever surfaced, according to Edge Magazine. In 2008, a gold cartridge went for a relative bargain of £9,200.
The latest anonymous seller was hoping for £15,500 for his game but had to settle for less after the top two bids on the online auction website were found to be fake.
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Re: Most expensive game ever?
I recall a film which featured some weird kid trying to take part in this tourney.
Lets just say its slightly different to the megadrive championships
Re: Most expensive game ever?
Originally Posted by jimbo
The Wizard, and it wasn't quite that tournament, but it was a similar kind of thing.
Re: Most expensive game ever?
The wizard! Its got fred savage in it, as well as christian slater, the fat guy from seinfeld and tobey maguire.
It had the big reveal for super mario bros 3 in it.
Ahhh 1990....tHose were the days
"I've been blessed with many things in this life: an arm like a damn rocket, a c**k like a burmese python, and the mind of a f**king scientist" - Kenny Powers
Re: Most expensive game ever?
yes, just looked it up on wiki.
apparently the tourney was modelled after the film?
Re: Most expensive game ever?
will the content of it be locked becuase its pre-owned?
Re: Most expensive game ever?
erm, it may pre-date locking of content rich
Re: Most expensive game ever?
I was being sarcastic mate
Re: Most expensive game ever?
Don't worry I'm sure activision and ea got the joke....
Re: Most expensive game ever?
They are too busy swimming around in thier scrooge mcduck style bank vaults to care....
Re: Most expensive game ever?
you never know...
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