NINTENDO "RED TENT"
SIT-DOWN ARCADE UNIT You
may know of the PlayChoice 10, an upright arcade
cabinet that contained ten NES games that played
for a limited amount of quarter time...but have
you ever heard of this thing?
It contains eight games, but
they are on motherboards, not cartridges....so
you can't swap them out
eBay Price: $500
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SEALED "STADIUM
EVENTS" Ever since
it made national news when a woman sold her
sealed Stadium Events copy and was surprised to
get over 20 grand, more copies of the rare game
have been popping up. Typically they make $25,000
or more instantly, whether they're real or not
This guy is pushing his luck,
though
eBay Price: $500,000
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OCARINA OF TIME 3D SCROLL A Nintendo of Australia exclusive. Three
different scrolls were created, and only 26 of
each scroll were produced. In order to win one,
you had to write an essay on how you were the
biggest Zelda fan
How much would it cost to unite
them all? There's a quest
eBay Price: $481.86
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MAJORA'S MASK LIMITED EDITION
ADVENTURE SET Nintendo of
Australia produced only 1000 boxes of this super
deluxe MM release
Inside: a boxed Aussie copy of the game, a
soundtrack CD, a T-shirt, a watch, two pins and
even a Certificate of Authenticity
This one was #0982
eBay Price: $4,512.65
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VIRTUAL BOY SUNGLASSES Looking for the perfect status symbol?
You've found it
eBay Price: $99.93
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JOHNNY CAGE SUNGLASSES A promotional item for video rental
stores stocking Mortal Kombat: The Movie. The
very style Johnny Cage wears in the film!
The seller threatened to throw
it out if it didn't sell this time (evidently it
had been on the block before). Someone finally
showed pity
eBay Price: $3.49
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GRAND THEFT AUTO
IV HAND GRENADE Sent to
members of the press in 2008 heralding the
arrival of the game
It's a real grenade, just
deactivated. But maybe you can reactivate it
eBay Price: $265.00
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LEGEND OF ZELDA GAMECUBE
CONTROLLER The Legend of
Zelda Gamecube Controller would have been
released by Nuby on the occasion of Twilight
Princess, in this special box
Never made it past prototype
stage. Only two exist in the whole world
eBay Price: $2,500.00
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"THAYER'S QUEST"
ARCADE LASERDISC Just the
laserdisc? Not the whole machine? Would that play
in a regular laserdisc player?
Turns out it works. I wonder if
you can do this with Dragon's Lair
eBay Price: $129.99
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FIBER-OPTIC "GAME
BOY" SIGN You could
paint glow-in-the-dark constellations on your
wall....or you could do something far more classy
eBay Price: $999
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SUPER-AUTOGRAPHED
XBOX 360 Signed by all
the members of the Foo Fighters, plus Norah
Jones, Alicia Keys, Diana Krall, Duane Eddie,
Sergio Mendes, Katy Perry, James Taylor, and Neil
Young.......but no Jane Lynch
Whose scrawl is whose? Good
luck with that puzzle
eBay Price: $860.00
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EARTHBOUND STORE POSTER Seriously? The game itself sells for
much less than this
eBay Price: $2,499.00
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CHRONO TRIGGER STORE POSTER Some posters cost even more than that.
This was the most expensive of the lot
eBay Price: $3,499.00
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WILD GUNS You should have no problem finding the
US version of this Super Scope shooter. In
Europe, it's another matter
eBay Price: $394.91
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DREAMCAST GD-R AHA! Remember all the way back in Volume
One when a burner for
the Dreamcast's disc format was sold? We've
finally found a disc to use in it! Somebody find
that guy and tell him!
At over sixty bucks a disc, I
hope he doesn't need another
eBay Price: $65.60
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PHILLIPS IN2IT KIDCOM One of the rarest handhelds ever made;
in 1996 under a hundred were produced and tested
in Finland
The handheld was aimed at girls
and had a touchscreen, a calculator, an alarm
clock, and drawing and music programs
Not too exciting, huh? That's
what they thought
eBay Price: $399.00
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MINI RACERS The prototype for a long-delayed and
eventually-shelved N64 game
It's not like there was a
dearth of racers on the system....there was even
a "Micro Machines" game very similar to
this
The back of
the cartridge is the
most interesting part
eBay Price: $2,938.00
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"DS DOWNLOAD
STATION" CARDS Guess
what? The things you download from specially
marked "DS Download Stations" don't
come from a special wi-fi transmitter. They come
from another DS
Expect these cards to become
the hottest items in 10 years when the nostalgic
DS Collectors are roaming the Earth
eBay Price: $200
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VGA-SEALED NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS GOLD CART....in pieces..... This guy had it in his head that if he unscrewed the cart and laminated both halves of its casing and the EPROM board separately, it would be better preserved. This is only theory, not science
What I can tell you is that this sale is a good thing, because THE WRONG PERSON OWNS THIS
eBay Price: $77,000.00
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UNOPENED SHIPMENT OF LUNAR 2:
ETERNAL BLUE COPIES There
are twelve pristine Lunar 2s in each box (two
were available). Or a box full of weights
equivalent to twelve Lunar 2s
From the same account: sealed
boxes of Lunar 1s, Persona 3s, Persona 4s, SMT
Nocturnes, Odin Spheres, Shadow Heartses, Dirge
of Cereberuseses, and Dragon Quest 8s. I would
have grabbed screens but....they're all cardboard
boxes, people
eBay Price: $20,018.01
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"RATCHET AND CLANK: GOING
COMMANDO" BOXER SHORTS Talk about a paradox
eBay Price: $124.52
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"TIME OUT" VERSION
OF FLAGMAN Before
Nintendo had enough confidence to start releasing
Game and Watch devices in the US, they
temporarily licensed out four of their earliest
games to the toy company Mego, who relabeled them
under their own brand "Time Out." These
versions of the games are rarer than the G&W
ones
eBay Price: $201.00
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"THE FLINTSTONES:
SURPRISE AT DINOSAUR PEAK" COMPLETE You'd never know just by looking at it,
but next to Stadium Events, this is the
second-rarest NES cartridge that was available
for commercial use. It was only available as a
Blockbuster rental at the tail end of the NES's
lifespan
eBay Price: $1,324.99
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GAME GENIE ADAPTOR FOR
TOP-LOADING NES MODEL Because
the 1993 model of the NES had a slightly smaller
cartridge hole, people had a hard time sticking
the Game Genie into it. Anyone who wrote Galoob
to complain was sent back a special adaptor to
make the task easier
They were only given to those
who asked, and nobody knew they could ask. It all
equals RARE
eBay Price: $255.00
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NINTENDO 1995 PRESS SOURCE
BOOK BINDER The pages
inside are missing, sadly, but it's not a total
loss. The binder cover contains the only official
glimpse of the planned Kirby spinoff
character....KID KIRBY!
eBay Price: $57.15
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TMNT GAME AND POSTER, BOTH
SIGNED BY KEVIN EASTMAN I'm
a little bit miffed at Eastman right now for
being the silent one in the room when Michael Bay
said "Let's make them aliens." I'm not
paying for his autograph anymore
eBay Price: $249.99
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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SHAREHOLDER
EDITION Shareholder
Edition? That's right, Konami printed up a
completely different label just to give to their
rich friends, each one personally signed by Hideo
Kojima
"Sorry about the lousy
game. Will a free copy placate your nerves?"
eBay Price: $212.71
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NINTENDO M8
DISPLAY UNIT Push the
small red button to cycle through 16 of
Nintendo's earliest home console games. Pat the NES Punk will show you how it works
This is the first of two models
Nintendo used to promote the NES. The second will
show up eventually
eBay Price: $3,299.99
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SEGA GENESIS DS-16 DISPLAY
UNIT Sega's demo machine
was a little different. You needed a Genesis to
run it and it fit inside a large kiosk seen in an
earlier chapter
It had to be plugged in twice
-- once through the Sega CD port and again via
the attached cartridge. The store had to supply
the six games
The customer would hit a large
button to cycle through them, which is missing
here
eBay Price: $199.99
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INSTANT
SUPERCOLLECTOR IN TEN SECONDS KIT
Mint copies of nearly every
game prized by any serious game librarian are
included in this collection
But you know the one thing he
doesn't have? Gitaroo Man. The set is worthless
eBay Price: $35,000.00
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"FAT GUY GOES
NUTZOID" ON VHS eBay
Price: $15
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