Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000 138
An anonymous reader writes Via Eurogamer comes news of possibly the rarest of all NES games selling on the auction site Ebay for a staggering 99,000 Dollars at this time, with 4 days left to go. The game in question the 1987 NES game Stadium Events was released then pulled only 2 days later. Stadium Events was released by Bandai as a test title for its Family Fun Fitness Control Mat — an early version of the technology now found in Dance Dance Revolution floor pads. But Nintendo acquired the technology for itself, just as the game was being released. The company ordered an immediate return of all copies so the game could be rebranded with Nintendo's version of the controller mat, now named as the NES Power Pad .
Rare? (Score:5, Funny)
Rare? They were my favourite Nintendo game developer!
It will not sale for this price (Score:1)
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/stadium-events-sealed-ebay-nintendo-nes/
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GGP said "NES developer", and none of those are NES games, all are from later generations. And it is true that Rare developed some shitty games for NES that were published by LJN.
Re: Rare? (Score:1)
Nin-ten-do. Not N-E-S. Read, then comprehend.
Re: Rare? (Score:1)
Nintendo Entertainment System, NES for short
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Goldeneye 64
hahahahaha
People always bring up this game as if it were good, but it was not. It was terrible. It looked like shit and it played like shit. Compared to the console games available on PCs at the time, it might as well have been Pong. Any time anyone says "oooh goldeneye" then I know they're a console scrub.
Re:Rare? (Score:4, Insightful)
Compared to the console games available on PCs at the time, it might as well have been Pong.
I played Pong on an arcade machine circa 1970, it was awesome.
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I played Pong on an arcade machine circa 1970, it was awesome.
When I was a kid I had a Coleco Telstar hooked up to a B&W TV, and I played the living shit out of that thing. But Pong just ain't fun any more. Nor do I actually want to even play Doom, say. Anything less than Quake is just too frustrating now, I need true 3D and textures or my brain just doesn't get out of bed. I still play the occasional strategy game but they're not enough like life to light up enough parts of my brain for me to care.
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I need true 3D and textures or my brain just doesn't get out of bed.
Obviously, you've never played ESB [wikipedia.org] Textures? Where we're vectoring, we don't need textures.
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Obviously, you've never played ESB Textures? Where we're vectoring, we don't need textures.
I used to own a Vectrex and a multi-game cart with every game ever made burned to a couple of PROMs (at the time, it was cheaper to get a ZIF socket than an EPROM with enough density to hold them all.) And I played a hell of a lot of Star Wars, the original vector game, in arcades. That was groundbreaking stuff for the time, along with the Star Wars game, no other game could match their fluidity. But since Tie Fighter, which was at least shaded, my desire to play it has fallen off.
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I wouldn't consider myself a grissled verteran, but I was there when the Nintendo saved the entire video game market from saturation induced destruction.
When was that supposed to have been? And what is that even supposed to mean?
when GoldenEye hit the market, I was in freshman in high-school. It provided me and many of my ostensibly poor and worthless friends who couldn't afford computers weekends and weekends of joy
I'm glad you enjoyed it. But that doesn't make it a good game. It just made you desperate.
The game was important by any measure for anyone who claims to be interested in the history of video games.
Important? Yes. Good? Only through the lens of nostalgia. Poor play control, egads.
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video game crash of 1983
Oh, you mean the video game console crash of 1983? The video game money moved to personal computers at that time, it didn't go away. Incompetent, warring console game manufacturers had their lunch eaten by upstart, cheap PC manufacturers and J.Random Shareware Programmer. So what? You could just think of it as game consoles sprouting keyboards; more users of the C64 treated it as a games console than as anything else.
maybe YOU and your rich friend(s)
Oh boy oh boy, you are so fucking far off the mark you couldn't find your ass with both han
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Oh yeah? OH YEAH!? Well, I grew up in a basement that was in a lab funded by the government to basically break super-hackers. Yeah, see, and there were aliens being bred next door. It was all going to plan, but they didn't count on my genetically mutant super-human strength, in addition to my deduction of all the best principles of martial arts soley from introspection. So there I was, probably the smartest kid in the world, unbeknowest to anyone, fighting his way out of captivety to finally make it to my s
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Quite a bit later I was able to get into Sun hardware
CDE is ok, but SunDew?
Best
console
evar.
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Goldeneye seems a bit crude by today's standards, but for the time it was a solid game. The graphics were good for 1997, the music was good, it had solid gameplay, multiplayer was fun, replayablitiy was high, the maps and levels were generally well thought out, a n00b could pick up the basics easily, and the single player mode had an engaging story line. In 1997 it's not like many people had 3D cards in their PC, nor did they have an easy way to do multiplayer with three other people as most people were s
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I take it you liked shitty games then? After all, they did develop a lot of terrible games for Acclaim and LJN.
Killer Instinct, motherfucker!
That is all.
LK
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You say that as if Acclaim and LJN were separate companies.
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LJN was one of Acclaim's labels, along with Arena and Flying Edge.
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Troll bidders (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/s... [wired.com]
Favourite quote from the article:
What can be especially frustrating about these trolled auctions is the inevitable wave of incorrect news reports that follow, suggesting that the item in question has “sold” for the wildly inflated, unrealistic, fraudulent bid amount, without even a caveat.
Re: Troll bidders (Score:4, Interesting)
The pre-approved bidder suggestion seems sketchy. EBay should just allow escrow bidders - the interest on the float alone would make the feature worth doing, and nobody who can drop 30 large on a video game can't stand to set it aside for a few days.
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nk. You'd have to be some sort of nutjob to pay that much for a game. That or have more money than brains.
I don't care how rare a game is, I just couldn't see paying more than it's original retail cost as to me it hasn't magically increased in value since it's release, and let's face the NES was little better than a 2600 of whose pixelated graphics I'm happy to let rot in the dim recesses of the days of shit graphics*.
* I never get the idiots that clamor over pixelated shit graphics in modern games either
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It's about as good as all the articles [buzzfeed.com] that proclaim all the crappy toys from your childhood are now worth thousands. And by "worth" mean that is what someone very unrealistically put the starting or buy it now price on ebay before it never sold.
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Maybe someone is willing to pay a hundred grand for some plastic and silicon...
The obvious question then becomes, would anyone notice if you flashed your own PROMs and made your own cart? A color laser print would probably pass for the label...
Sealed? (Score:1)
So how was it verified, without breaking the factory seal? They claim its unsealed, yet also verified original game inside. Also, ditch the plastic bag and tape job and authenticity sticker. Put it in a real display and sell with a certificate of authenticity.
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One mans junk, is another mans treasure...I guess
A reference to Kim Kardashian's ass?
Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge rarer? (Score:1)
Other than the window of availability, I don't get why the Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge is not considered rarer than Stadium Events since there are supposed to be fewer copies of it in existence.
Nintendo World Championships 1990 [wikipedia.org] - 90 gray + 26 gold
Stadium Events [wikipedia.org] - 2000 produced, 200 reached consumers
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On a per-game basis, NWC 1990 is the rarest, but by cartridge spec, the *NTSC version* of Stadium Events is the rarest.
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The Nintendo World Championship cartridges likely survive in high numbers because it was obvious at the time that they were special, would only be produced in very limited numbers, and therefore likely to be collectible and valuable. On the other hand, the people who were in the right place and the right time to get their hands on a copy of Stadium Events probably had no idea of what they had, and probably just thought it to be another B title from another third party company they've never heard of, and th
Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers (Score:1)
Tried using Ebay to sell some heirlooms for the first time last summer. They disregard Ebays rules, they disregard the rules you place in your own auction, snipe bid at the last second with no reputation screwing your auction then their account is somewhere in africa or russia trying to be all chummy and get you to alter the price/shipping. Worst part still charges you the 10% (9,000) in that case of Stadium Games and doesn't reverse the fine until a 1-2 month investigation has taken place in which they may
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You can't put "rules" on your auction, are you that stupid to think you can do anything like that? Let me guess you did not read any of the documentation on the side.
Ebay rules are the only ones that exist, idiots that try to add more rules are ebay newbies. I strongly suggest you READ what you are allowed to do and how to set your auction properly, and it is 100% YOUR FAULT for not setting your auction requirements to reduce the scammeras and idiots.
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please translate to English (Score:2)
"Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000"
Removing some capitalizations might make this understandable.
Why does slashdot have to capitalize EVERY word?
Fucking retards
Re:DUE DILIGENCE (Score:4, Funny)
I guess you're new here.
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This site fucking sucks.
3 days ago, I saw the same story on a video game news site. Only then, they made it very clear in their story that the ebay sale was probably a fraud. The bidding was much lower until an anonymous ebay troll with no feedback kept artificially inflating the bid.
So thanks for the news which is both incorrect and old.
Instead of bitching and moaning about it, why didn't you just submit a better summary yourself 3 days ago?
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So I'm guessing you haven't bothered seeing that therapist we talked about yet, have you? *tsk, tsk*
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What do android packages have to do with anything? And why would someone want to impersonate one?
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What do android packages have to do with anything? And why would someone want to impersonate one?
Because my hosts file told me to. It whispers to me while I sleep.
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That one made me laugh :-)
It's kind of funny - this is the first time I'm responding all week (even indirectly) to APK's crapflood against me (some days it's over 100), just because you made me laugh. This is just one example. [slashdot.org]
The really strange thing is APK keeps saying I'm downmodding him when, if I had unlimited mod points, I would mod all his crapfloods to +5 so that everyone can see what a jerk he is.
APK is (as usual) admitting he's wrong . . . (Score:2)
Al - please go talk to someone. Please? I don't know what that is you have a grip on, but it isn't reality.
Yup. Just like that. (Score:2)
Come and get it! (Score:2)
Re: God-damn. (Score:1)
Double kick in the teeth to the 3rd world employees who built these back in the eighties for pennies a day
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Re:God-damn. (Score:5, Interesting)
Or perhaps you meant "us" as in the western world? I can assure you that the elites in any given impoverished country are busy wasting wealth, too (though they tend to prefer the classics, as well). I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
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I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
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LMAO
Have you seen what we are doing to the food they eat, the water they drink? Only bottled water is safe now. We have fast food in the schools. Fuck the kids money is the only thing that matters.
In fact unless you can show a company will come out better in profits you are not allowed to stop them from doing directly dangerous things to others.
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I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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I have heard about fast food being served in schools, but it's not happening in the mid-west where I live. { I would know my kid loves fast food and hates the school cafeteria }
The municipal water here is not only safe, it is bottled and sold... probably to you.
Re:God-damn. (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
That is just wishful thinking.
Ahmed Wali Karzai for instance, the brother of Hamid Karzai, was the largest warlord and drug trafficker in Afghanistan during his brother's presidency. It's not because someone is on our side, that they're suddenly saints. In fact, Saddam was described in glowing terms by some of our politicians, to defend him against claims of genocide made by the Europeans, long before his relationship even went sideways with the US.
Also, I can assure you that many world leaders have people in the US, that can procure things for them in the US for the right fee. So even if an Ebay auction is purposefully limited to the US, it doesn't mean you're bidding against just US residents. In any case, that's probably a moot point anyway. The probability that the bidding is driven by fraudulent accounts, like someone else said already, is probably even higher still.
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If you will be the US lapdog, we will let you get away with slavery, genocide, and all other bad things that you desire.
We tried to exterminate with prejudice the native people of our lands. Hell we used Biological warfare on them.
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Biological warfare was far from new at that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
However, it's not clear whether the bio attacks on native Americans were intentional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:God-damn. (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
Because you spend every cent of your disposable income on charity, right?
If not, I'd love to know what you think is more important than starving kids. Is it a snack from the convenience store? A trip to the movies? The latest novel from your favorite author?
I also presume you live in the cheapest possible housing, subsisting on the least expensive food you can find, as you prioritize the well-being of other so much that you dare not waste a penny that could go to better the lives of poor, disadvantaged, children.
Really, if you don't, you must be some kind of unfeeling monster!
Re:God-damn. (Score:5, Insightful)
Really, if you don't, you must be some kind of unfeeling monster!
You're trying to be sarcastic, but isn't that what we are? We've deliberately hardened our hearts over the years to permit us to engage in as little charity as possible, citing responsibility. Guess we're not our brothers' keepers.
Obviously I use the we and us quite deliberately, I ain't perfect either.
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You know how many schools you could build in Kenya for $100K? How many goats you could buy for needy families? How many girls you could send to school in Afghanistan? How many life-saving vaccinations you could dispense? How many malaria nets? How many wells you could dig?
Amount of money spent on a rare collector's item, makes not one bit of difference for how much money goes to <insert favorite charity here>. Why?
Buyer could sit on the money instead of buying this item - like anyone else having that amount of $$. Or spend it (perhaps, possibly, some to that charity). Same goes for the seller.
What matters is who holds the money, and whether he/she is inclined to spend some on your favorite charity. So in fact: if seller is more inclined to give money to charity than bu
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Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this piece of grey plastic.
Option 2: Spend your spare $100K on food for your local food bank to help families in your community that are feeding their kids Cheerios for dinner. Or worse, sending them to school hungry because this month they had to put a new muffler on the car that they drive 20 miles to work.
I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
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This relies on the same bullshit theory of inflation that makes conservatives think that increasing minimum wage will lead to inflation.
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Do you know how much better you could make the world if you go volunteer instead of post on Slashdot?
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But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.
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Option 3: One or two Super aEgis 2 autonomous robotic gun turrets: dual articulating 12.7mm machine guns, a 40mm automatic grenade launcher topped off with an explosive mini-sabot cannon w/ ~2km effective radius.
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Oop, this: http://www.military.com/video/... [military.com]
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I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
Yes it does. But only if some of that $100K is actually spent on said charity.
As for option 2: I think we can all agree that <insert charity here> would be happy. But...
Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this "piece of grey plastic".
You're making the assumption that with such a purchase, that $100K would be 'lost' for the charity. But it isn't: who says that seller of this "piece of grey plastic" would not spend it on that charity? After all, that's $100K for seller to do with as he/she likes.
Sure, some of that $100K may be spent on hookers and drugs. Who knows. ;
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actually, it just depends on what the guy receiving the 100k does with it. maybe he spends it on a charity.
maybe.
you see, regardless of that transaction the 100k is still viable to end up at a charity.
(if he actually just gets that money for it anyways).
(cheerios aren't that cheap, if you eat them as meals).
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I'll take option 3.
and buy a very cool BMW i8 sports car.
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Do you own a cell phone? A pc? A television? A vehicle?
You could of kept one starving family in costa rica happy had you just sent your cash to them instead of buying all that stuff.
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Time to put my flame suit on.
Done.
You want to know why they hate us? *THIS* is why they hate us. $100K for an effing OLD VIDEO GAME?
Well, given this has been bid up to this level by a troll eBay account, they likely hate us for nothing because that's what this will amount to.
Then again, maybe they *should* hate us because we have so many trolls that we can no longer have nice things.
PS. Did you happen to bite your tongue when your knee jerked so hard? I'm guessing it hit your chin. Hope you're okay!
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Why?
Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca (Score:5, Informative)
That's your own fault. Don't buy hardware that's tied to a "free" online service. The cost of maintenance is built into continued sales. Once those sales stop, so does the funding. And definitely don't be surprised when the inevitable happens.
The same is also true of any home automation hardware you find in the big box stores. API points to a server run by the manufacturer or it requires an iOS/Android app or both.
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Don't buy hardware that's tied to a "free" online service.
Don't fool yourself and think that paid online services are any less immune to being shutdown.
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No such illusion here. But when it's "free" some people forget that everything still costs money and that it's paid from somewhere.