| ENTIRE GAME STORE CHAIN A Florida man has offered all three of
his "R.U. GAME?" stores up for sale in
one package, as well as three cars, three homes
and three kayaks (what's with this guy and
threes?)
He just wants to retire early
and drive around the country with his wife in an
RV. Sounds like the plot of Lost in America;
someone should show him the movie and he might
change his mind
eBay Price: $3,500,000.00
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ANOTHER ENTIRE GAME STORE
CHAIN Guess what? This
guy's stores are two hours away from the first
guy's. No relation between them
Neither of these two have sold
their businesses yet. Natch. Call me wary but
when you see two people simultaneously try to
dump their Florida game franchises, opening
another one doesn't seem like a sound plan
eBay Price: $2,600,000.00
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| NINTENDO PLAYCHOICE 10 During the NES years Nintendo stayed in
the arcade market by rehashing some of their
console games as 10-in-1 arcade units. Many of
them were slightly different "Vs."
versions designed to be more competitive
"Vs. Super Mario
Bros" was a slightly rearranged version of
the original that also included levels from the
Japanese SMB2. It also got its own unique cabinet
eBay Price: $895.00
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NINTENDO "SUPER
SYSTEM" They would
later do the same thing with the SNES....sort of.
The Super System was simply three Super NES games
on a time limit you had to refresh with quarters
I did not have an SNES but my
local pizza parlor had this. I may not have been
blessed with much, but I learned to get through
Super Mario World...five minutes at a time
eBay Price: $499
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| NINTENDO ARCADE OF THE BOOTLEG
VARIETY Created back in
1988 out of a hollowed-out "Clowns"
machine; has an NES inside and two Advantage
controllers for joysticks
Was featured in a 1990 issue of
GamePro
eBay Price: $1,299.00
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HANG TOUGH You're going to need to if you plan to
bite on the price for this prototype box, for a
NKOTB Nintendo game that was never made
According to the seller, it's
banged-up because it was former property of the
EGM offices, who "used it as a hockey
puck."
eBay Price: $249,999.99
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| 29 SEALED NINTENDO 64S Yes, he has twenty-freakin'-nine of the
things
All the models are here:
Original, Fire, Grape, Jungle Green,
Pikachu-Shaped -- even the rare Gold-colored
system. Plus many sealed games and every make of
controller unopened as well
Rumor has it this warchest was
created by a teenager who maxed out his first
credit card in a week, and that the whole thing
was sold off by his angry dad. Awesome if true
eBay Price: $59,000.00
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VIRUS This
was the temp name for what would become Dr. Mario
The man owned three different
Dr. Mario prototypes -- one from 1989, a
further-along one from 1990 and one with the
proper title that was used to make Nintendo Power
screenshots
eBay Price: $120,000
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| COMPLETE LOT OF PLAYSTATION 1
GAMES (1,663 in all) Not
just every game, every variant of every game.
That means an extra copy if the packaging was
slightly different
Plus Japan-exclusive titles and
a series of games called "Lightspan"
sold to schools only
And two copies of Pajama Sam,
one autographed
eBay Price: $8,200.00
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EVER 17 Now that the Zero Escape series has
achieved cult status in America (if you haven't
at least played 999, get on it now), a new breed
of fans is hungry for the creator's only other
translated title, the PC game "Ever 17"
This has been out of print
since 2006, and usually the auction price is even
more expensive than what's listed here. You're
only paying the collector if you purchase one,
so....go ahead and download it from somewhere; no
one will suffer
eBay Price: $152.48
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| ZXE-D: LEGEND OF
PLASMATLITE This Japan
exclusive came out in 1996 and included a bunch
of robot parts in the box. First you assembled
the robot, then you plugged it into the PS1 and
turned on the game. The game sensed how you
designed the robot and rendered it onscreen
That's right....the original
Playstation beat Skylanders to this sort of thing
by 14 years, and you still can't design your own
Skylander
eBay Price: $140.00
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PLAYSTATION LAUNCH TEAM BUNDLE The special bundle members of the launch
team were given. Includes a rare PS1 with a
special sticker and many T-shirts
The Polygon Man shirt was kind
of a snafu since SCEA did not have the license to
put him on anything
eBay Price: $1000
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| LOT OF OVER 100 PS1 GAMES
RELEASED IN EUROPE BUT UNRELEASED IN THE US We didn't get THIS many??
eBay Price: $659.00
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SOUNDTRACK LP FOR SUPER MARIO
BROS. ANIME MOVIE A 45 is
the only way to hear it
eBay Price: $101.00
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| PIKACHU-THEMED CHAMPAGNE
GLASSES A little outside
the demographic, don't you think?
Notice the logo is for
"The First Movie." Maybe these were for
investors to buy and clink together while they
counted their money and laughed in a French sort
of way
eBay Price: $49.99
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STUFFED FALCO LOMBARDI This one's extra-hard to get. Stuffed
versions of this StarFox character were only sold
inside Japanese crane games
eBay Price: $1000
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| GROOVY ATARI SPINNING RETAIL
DISPLAY CASE Rotates 360
degrees. Too bad it doesn't come with his living
room; it doesn't look that bad either
GameGavel Price: $750.00
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COMPLETE "AIR RAID"
FOR ATARI 2600 What
you're looking at is the most expensive 2600 cart
in the entire world. If I said that before about
another cart, it's actually this one
Given to an assistant manager
as a sample by an Atari salesman representing
obscure companies, the man kept it mint in
storage for 30 years while having no clue to its
true value
This is the only known complete
set (cart, box, instruction manual) in the
universe
GameGavel Price: $33,433.30
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| COMPLETE SET OF NINTENDO POWER
TRADING CARDS Remember
these? They used to stick six of them in the back
of the magazine during the early 90's
Ever wondered how many there
were approximately? 171
This is the first time I've
seen them all together
eBay Price: $950.00
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FIX-IT FELIX JR. One of twelve Fix-It Felix uprights
created by Disney to promote Wreck-It Ralph
Posted about two months after
the release of the movie. How'd he get this?
eBay Price: $20,000.00
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| COMPLETE US SNES COLLECTION I mean so complete that every box and
nearly every instruction manual is included, 721
in all
Originally owned by the creator
of the BSNES emulator. He uploaded all the ROMs
himself to make sure they would work
eBay Price: $25,000
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HOWARD PHILLIPS' PERSONAL
NINTENDO SWAG The proof
of the first Howard and Nester comic, Howard's
official Charter Member certificate, 50 issues of
NP and most Fun Club Newsletters mint with no
address labels, AND the ceramic Tetrisized models
of H and N
Howard, NO! Why would you give
these away??
eBay Price: $1,939.12
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| RARE PIRATED SACHEN
"PRINCESS MAKER" FOR FAMICOM Sailor Moon does not appear anywhere in
this game
eBay Price: $100
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INTELLIVISION VOICE SYNTHESIS
BROCHURE PRODUCED FOR 1982 CES Say it with me now: BEEEEEEE
SEVEN-TEEEEEN BAWWWWW MERRRRRR
eBay Price: $230.09
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| ORIGINAL XBOX LAUNCH PACKAGE This is also from Howard Phillips, who
worked for Microsoft from 1997 to 2006. Only
sixty of these Launch Packages were given out to
employees high up the ladder
Contains: the very first
submitted game disc ("NHL Hitz" by
Midway), the original Launch Team model of the
console, a replica model of the prototype when it
was supposed to be literally X-shaped...
Plus a baseball cap and plenty
of extra doodads
eBay Price: $5,000
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TERRIBLE SUPER METROID POSTER A non-official illustration created by a
small video game franchise called "Game
Players" (wonder if they're for sale on eBay
too)
In fairness, Nintendo had just
put out a Super Metroid comic where she had
purple hair, so that portion didn't come out of
nowhere
eBay Price: $14.99
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| ZELDA CART THAT PLAYS RAD
RACER INSTEAD Was it
really an error, or did someone just take a
screwdriver and mix-and-match?
The real reason the bids on
this auction reached past $100 was because this
is a rare cartridge shell that's held together by
5 screws instead of 3
So if this guy was pulling a
scam, the joke was on him
eBay Price: $119.50
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FOUR LINKED MARIO
KART ARCADE MACHINES Homina
homina homina
If I was a rich douchebag, I
would have this right in my spacious living room
eBay Price: $15,850
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| MANGIA' One of the rarer 2600 titles
It's about a boy whose mother
keeps feeding him pasta and your goal is to keep
him from literally exploding by slipping food
discreetly to your dog. But if your mother
catches you doing it she'll throw three times as
much pasta your way, making you explode faster
YouTube it if you don't believe
me
eBay Price: $1,000.00
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MISPRINTED MARIO BROS. WII The boxart for New Super Mario Bros. Wii
had the "Wii" logo foil-stamped onto
the cover sheet. For some reason the machine
missed this one
eBay Price: $85.11
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| ENTIRE SCHOOL
(used) A school in
Pennsylvania once put itself up for online
auction; the price offered was equal to the
shortfall in the cost of running it for one year
This auction was shortly
removed. Turns out public schools can't eBay
themselves; who knew?
eBay Price: $600,000.00
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