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ALMOST-COMPLETE NES COLLECTION He's only missing the actual Nintendo
World Championships and a couple rare pirate
games. Other than that, he sold it all in one
package, plus European exclusives, an M82 Display
Unit, and one of those Hands-Free disabled-kid
controllers
He didn't make a photo of the
entire thing, just in pieces, so I went with the
Hands-Free as an image. You don't mind, right?
eBay Price: $75,000
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| FIFTEEN GAMECUBE KIOSK STORE
DEMO DISCS Can you
believe these came in custom keepcases? Most demo
makers don't bother with that. They're even numbered.
It's as if they were made with the collectors'
black market in mind
eBay Price: $450
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USED COPY OF "DONKEY KONG
JR. MATH" eBay
Price: $349.99
*looks at auction result again*
*blinks twice*
........whaaaaaaaaaaa??
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| THIRTY LIMITED EDITION DS
SYSTEMS 
1. Ace attorney dsi JP-complete with game
(mint)-includes ace attorney dsi strap!
2. Maple story dsi Korea-complete with game
(mint)
3. Mario ds lite-complete unopened (mint)
4. Kingdom hearts 358/2 dsi JP-complete with game
(mint)
5. Final fantasy Crystal dsi JP-complete
6. Mew ds JP-complete (mint)
7. Pokemon worlds 2009 dsi US-complete (mint)with
box
8. Pokemon worlds 2010 dsi xl EU-complete (mint)
9. Grand theft Auto ds lite female cover
US-complete (mint)-includes chopstick stylus and
box
10. Final fantasy revenant wings ds lite JP-no
box (mint)
11. Pokemon diamond/pearl ds lite US-no box
(mint)
12. Pokepark ds US-heavy use, and surface
scratches comes wit hbox but also rough shape
13. Guitar hero ds lite US-show small signs of
use, no box
14. Guitar hero ds lite EU-box, missing papers,
(mint)
15. Green Mario Party dsi US-Mint unopened
16. IGN.com ds lite US-complete (mint)
17. Giritina diasuke ds lite JP-complete with
game (mint)
18. Pikachu ds lite JP-shows signs of minor use,
no paper work
19. Zelda ds lite US-mint unopened
20. Pokemon black dsi-complete with game (mint)
21. Pokemon white dsi-complete with game (mint)
22. World ends with you ds lite-mint unopened
23. Tokyo and Japan ds lite-complete (mint)
24. Final Fantasy 3 ds lite JP-Complete very
minor play ware
25. Gundam ds lite-complete very minor play ware
26. Navy Blue ds lite JP-not -small signs of use
with box
27. Red dsi JP-complete (mint)
28. Lime green dsi JP-complete minor play ware
29. White dsi LL JP-mint complete
....and the dev unit from the
last chapter
eBay Price: $3,650
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RARE JAPANESE TETRIS PIRATE
FOR THE MEGA DRIVE (GENESIS) Nintendo had the exclusive license for
Tetris at the time this came out
The seller did a bit of price
gouging here. It may be rare, but there's no way
it's this expensive
eBay Price: $10,710.00
Later on, another Mega Drive
Tetris -- this one signed by Alexi Pajitnov --
sold for a cool million
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| MGS PREMIUM PACKAGE You get: the game, a soundtrack CD of
past Metal Gear hits, collectible cards, a
T-shirt and a pair of dog tags
It's only recently that America
and Europe have gotten into the whole
"ridiculous collector's edition" way of
selling games. This version of MGS was Japan-only
As a bonus, the box is large
enough to hide inside and escape detection! (Actually, that's not true, but wouldn't
it be something?)
eBay Price: $169.95
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PLAYSTATION "DEVELOPER'S
DEMO CD" People who
preordered the original Playstation before it
came out were given a CD containing songs by
bands under the Sony label like Korn. If you put
the CD into the Playstation after you got it, it
would give you the tech demos shown to the
developers
The version of this CD that
most people got looked
like this. For whatever
reason, a few of them got this earlier packaging
instead
eBay Price: $149.95
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| DS CELEBI DISTRIBUTION CARD If you put this into your DS, any other
DS in the vicinity will be able to download the
giveaway Pokemon Celebi without hacking their
game. It works for any DS holding Pokemon
Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold or Soul
Silver
This is another NFR, but with
an extra notice that the retailer
"MUST" return the card to Nintendo.
Judging by the amount of Celebi cards that eBay
has boasted in recent weeks, I'll bet that
worked. "Sorry, I misplaced it. I think some
guy in Pennsylvania has it now. BRB, I gotta go
count some money."
eBay Price: $238.99
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TANDY "VISUAL INFORMATION
SYSTEM" WITH 30 SEALED "GAMES" Also known as the system that
singlehandedly killed the Tandy brand -- it sold
that badly
"Games" is in quote
marks because it never had any. With the possible
exception of the golf title, everything was
educational and encyclopedia-like
eBay Price: $338
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| THE COMMODORE 65 At one point, a more advanced Commodore
64 was in development, which played all original
C64 titles as well
It never made it out of the
lab. Years later, Commodore's inventory was
liquidated and the prototype C65s were acquired
and sold by a third party (in the days before
eBay, this party did it through magazine ads)
It's unknown how many working
models exist
eBay Price: $20,100
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BART AND THE BEANSTALK This is one of those strange deals where
the box is much more valuable than the cart. The
Bart and the Beanstalk cart, alone, goes for $3.
But with the box?
eBay Price: $399.00
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| VIRTUAL BOY KIOSK #2 Quite different from the stand-up
version seen in the previous installment. For the
space-starved video game outlet, this model was
meant for countertops
eBay Price: $765
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JAGUAR CD DEMO UNIT THAT
DOESN'T WORK The
finalized unit didn't work either
eBay Price: $59.99
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| SEALED "STACK-UP" The second and last game made for R.O.B.
is rare these days due to how terrible its sales
were
This even rarer
unopened copy was cluelessly donated to a
Goodwill, which knew better and posted it on
eBay. At least it went to a charitable cause
eBay Price: $830.00
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LEAFY GREEN WII Developer's Wii units (which can't play
regular market Wii games) have green fronts
There are actually two
different models...another kind has a hard drive
inside and allows the developer to transfer his
game directly from the computer to the Wii
without burning a disc. Those particular ones are red
eBay Price: $330.00
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| OFFICIALLY LICENSED MARIO
SHEET MUSIC 
If you don't remember "Hot
Cross Buns" being used in a Mario game, your
memories aren't faulty. This is a book of generic
school sheet music that just uses the characters
Remember when Mario taught
typing? Now Mario teaches glee club
eBay Price: $19.99
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BIOHAZARD 5th ANNIVERSARY
SPECIAL PACKAGE "Resident
Evil" elsewhere, in case you need to be
reminded
Inside this cardboard box is an
attache case. Inside the attache case are all
these things
Limited to 10,000 copies, and
includes every PS1 game in the series up to that
point, with special labeling
eBay Price: $325.00
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| PUMPED-UP SUPER MARIO KICKS From Converse
A limited edition, made for
Mario's 25th anniversary, and available only in
Japan, though they'll cover feet just as well
anywhere else
I'm sure if Nintendo could
region-lock shoes, they would
eBay Price: $329
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NINTENDO COLOR TV-GAME 6 From back before Miyamoto, when Nintendo
had no original video game ideas
eBay Price: $99
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| SAD LOOKING Q-BERT At least he's not swearing
eBay Price: $42.96
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ZELDA ORACLE OF AGES/SEASONS
PROMOTIONAL COLOR-CHANGING MUG The leaves change color based on the
temperature of the liquid within
Of all the promotional press
giveaways I've seen, this ranks among the coolest
eBay Price: $250.00
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| WORLD'S RAREST GENESIS CART Only three were made....there are far
more of the NWC World Championships cart, so I
dunno, this could be the rarest cart ever
The story behind it is much too long to fit into a blurb here, but in summary, Blockbuster
experimented with flash carts that you would burn
games onto instead of renting physical copies.
For various reasons, they didn't go through with
it
This one still has The Jungle
Book burned into it
eBay Price: $1,509.00
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"GOLD MINE" FOR THE
ATARI A very hard to find
2600 game published independently in Australia
Could you ask for a more
appropriate name?
eBay Price: $425.00
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| EARTHBOUND CAR AIR FRESHENER Because "This Game Stinks"
The average price of the actual
game on eBay is a little less than this, but not
by much
Oh baby!
Offense went up by 3!
eBay Price: $199.95
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POKEMON BOX A very rare Gamecube title that was only
sold at the New York Nintendo Store or online
Not really a game, but a
storage device for your extra Pokemon from the
GBA Ruby and Sapphire titles. It also enabled you
to play those games on the TV without a Game Boy
Player
Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2 for
N64 could do similar things
eBay Price: $283.39
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| CLAY FIGHTER: SCULPTOR'S CUT This is the most valuable commercial N64
title on eBay, especially with its packaging
intact. This was only available as a rental from
Blockbuster
The regular Clay Fighter 63 1/3
was released a few months earlier, with much of
its promised content removed due to schedule
constraints. Sculptor's Cut is the only version
worth owning
eBay Price: $560
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SUPER VIDEO ARCADE CARTRIDGE
SYSTEM (unopened!) It's
actually an albino Intellivision
Sears used to sell exclusive
models of Atari and Mattel consoles, and several
Pong machines before them, under their own brand,
Tele-Games. This was back when if Sears wanted to
re-shell your product and claim it as theirs, you
had to agree, because without Sears your sales
were sunk. Their power is considerably less
pronounced in this century
eBay Price: $435.67
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| PLAYSTATION 1 HOLIDAY ORNAMENT A promotional item mailed to retail
managers back when the word
"Playstation" sounded more like a
jungle gym than a game console
The exact year it was given out
is unknown
eBay Price: $37.00
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MEGA MAN V (Game Boy version)
DEVELOPER CONCEPT SKETCH Sagging
game profits in Japan have their developers
looking more longingly at the Western market
instead. Rumor has it Capcom is not interested in
Mega Man at this time because he's "too
Japanese."
eBay Price: $250
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| "ATARI 2600" FOR
SALE Do you want to tell
him, or should I?
eBay Price: $500
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