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Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:13 am
by Rudy
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:13 am
by Jules
That's the one that sold for a gazillion dollars the other week! A lady sold her old nintendo along with a few games in which that game was included. Is that the same article?
Ca-razy!
I can't find the link (my work blocks all "gaming" sites)
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:55 am
by Rudy
No, not the same story, but the
sequel 
. The auction you probably refer to, and which is referred to in the article aswell, was the same game and sold for over $13,000. The person in this article read that story and checked out the games he had in his basement for over 20 years. Turned out, he had the same game... SEALED! It was sealed because he was missing a special floor mat controller to play it, which he couldn't find back then, so he never bothered taking off the shrinkwrap. That coincidence kinda payed off now...
Ironically he was planning to give his games away to goodwill this month. He changed his mind about that...
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:07 am
by Tawmis
That's just... silly.
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:26 am
by Jules
Wow.. his heart probably hit the roof when he found his sealed copy!
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:14 pm
by Tawmis
So at this point... You should buy two copies of games. One to open and play, one to keep sealed for many years later apparently...!
I remember when special comics were like that... like the Death of Superman... Yeesh.
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:49 pm
by DeadPoolX
Tawmis wrote:So at this point... You should buy two copies of games. One to open and play, one to keep sealed for many years later apparently...!
I remember when special comics were like that... like the Death of Superman... Yeesh.
Yeah, especially those comics with multiple covers. Marvel and DC wanted readers to take the Pokemon approach: "Gotta catch 'em all!"
X-Men did that even more than Superman or Batman. Honestly, those X-Men storylines confused the hell out of me. I like to consider myself fairly intelligent and well-read, but when X-Men is more complicated than books like
Dune,
Fahrenheit 451 or Isaac Asimov's
Foundation series, you know Marvel was going too far.
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:43 pm
by Tawmis
Granted, the newer stuff is lame. Yes. But the classic X-Men (before Uncanny X-Men like 200 - it was good stuff).
Re: Rare game auctions for $41,270 on eBay
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:09 am
by Rath Darkblade
DeadPoolX wrote:Tawmis wrote:So at this point... You should buy two copies of games. One to open and play, one to keep sealed for many years later apparently...!
I remember when special comics were like that... like the Death of Superman... Yeesh.
Yeah, especially those comics with multiple covers. Marvel and DC wanted readers to take the Pokemon approach: "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Not to mention some of the
Archie comics, particularly Archie's wedding to Veronica... and Betty...
P.S. It was a dream sequence.
P.S.S. I only know about this because I saw it in the library and thought I might give it a whirl. (But it was full!!! Of!!! Exclamation marks!!!!!
Seriously, I nearly drowned in exclamation marks).
