Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000

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 .

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Rare?

[dohzer]

Rare? They were my favourite Nintendo game developer!

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

I take it you liked shitty games then? After all, they did develop a lot of terrible games for Acclaim and LJN.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck you

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong Country, and other paltry offerings are generally considered to be among the worst games every created.

Re:Rare?

[Lord Kano]

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

Re:Rare?

[_merlin]

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nin-ten-do. Not N-E-S. Read, then comprehend.

Re:Rare?

[dosius]

You say that as if Acclaim and LJN were separate companies.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Those are fine, if you're a little kid and you've only ever been exposed to dumbed down console games. I'll also remind you of a few other Rare "gems" that were probably long before your time:

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Anticipation, Beetlejuice, Double Dare, John Elway's Quarterback, Rad Racer, Super Gloveball, Taboo: The Sixth Sense, Time Lord, Wheel of Fortune, Wizards & Warriors, WWF Superstars, WWF Wrestlemania.

Re:Rare?

[drinkypoo]

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?

[TapeCutter]

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.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please.

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. This was a big deal for many kids (like myself) who didn't come from a family who could afford to buy them a computer. And 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. The game was important by any measure for anyone who claims to be interested in the history of video games.

Re:Rare?

[drinkypoo]

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.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh. You don't even know about the video game crash of 1983. That's understandable, I suppose -- it was only what is probably considered one of the single-most important events in video game history.

It seems to me that enjoyment is in fact of great consideration when evaluating the importance and quality of a game. I mean, maybe YOU and your rich friend(s) enjoyed plastering the keyboard with your greasy fingers on your Pamela Anderson Doom mod in between AOL pr0n sessions, but we actually had a social life in my day.

Re:Rare?

[drinkypoo]

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.

Re:Rare?

[drinkypoo]

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 hands, a map, and a heat-seeking butt plug. I grew up poorer than kids on welfare since my mother was too proud to take government handouts, and my father was a deadbeat alcoholic with a total of three kids he didn't give a fuck about by two mothers. I was fortunate enough to grow up in Santa Cruz, which was a bastion of geekhood. For a while I had a "Big Brother" (courtesy Big Brothers, Big Sisters) who worked at Parallel Computing. He loaned me an Apple ][+ with a couple of floppy drives for some years. Later in life, I got cheap hand-me-down computers from around town, and bought cheap hand-me-down hard drives for $1/MB from a Seagate employee who ran one of the better local BBSes. So no, I was poor as fuck, and only a remarkable combination of circumstances enabled me to get into computing to the extent that I did. Quite a bit later I was able to get into Sun hardware because one of the leading dealers of antiquated Unix hardware lived in town. Everything I managed to become, I owe to my environment.

Anyway, back on topic, video games didn't go away. Nintendo sped up the recovery of the console market, but it was inevitable given market forces.

Re: Rare?

[rkcth]

Nintendo Entertainment System, NES for short

Re:Rare?

[RavenLrD20k]

Were you thinking of R.C. Pro Am instead of Rad Racer? The Rad Racer series was actually developed by Square before they came out with the better known game franchise that saved them from bankruptcy (and that they've milked to death and back ever since).

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

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 surrogate parent's doorstep.

And that's when I discovered video games. One of which was GoldenEye, which my super-brain dubbed enjoyable. I could go on for several more paragraphs defending my way of life, too -- all in the name of GoldenEye. And that's how you know I'm being honest with my self-important life which I must defend to the teeth against anonymous affronts to me childhood on slashdot.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

No. GGGP wrote " Nintendo game developer" without mentioning NES at all. There are more Nintendo systems than just NES.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you were a kid when Goldeneye came out, then you most certainly could not have experienced when Nintendo "saved" the video game market.

I used to laugh at people who said Goldeneye was good. At the same time, I was busy playing things like Quake II and Unreal, which were infinitely superior games and yet not even the best that PC had to offer. Goldeneye was like Halo. Only people who had no clue thought it was good.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Killer Instinct was fucking garbage. Worse than all of those shitty SNK Street Fighter II ripoffs.

Re:Rare?

[catmistake]

I need true 3D and textures or my brain just doesn't get out of bed.

Obviously, you've never played ESB Textures? Where we're vectoring, we don't need textures.

Re:Rare?

[catmistake]

Quite a bit later I was able to get into Sun hardware

CDE is ok, but SunDew?
Best
console
evar.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been a PC guy for a long time, and before that had memory of needing to type code in by hand from magazines to play games or to use the company time-sharing system after hours. That said, I've had many fun hours playing Goldeneye with friends, because it was a solid game. We played plenty of Quake II when it came out a few months later, but that didn't stop use from playing Goldeneye either, because you don't need a religious devotion to a single game at a time. They were different games that filled different roles. Having a bunch of drinks and sitting around a TV playing a game together is rather different than everyone sitting at your own computer, even when everyone lugged one to the same location.

If you didn't like the game, that is fine and reasonable. But don't project that to mean it wasn't good. You sound like the guys that only play multiplayer FPS games, then pretend that means that the single player part of every such game is therefore crap, regardless of what people with actual interest in single player FPS games thing (something that does factor into both Q2 and Goldeneye). Speaking of people being kids, it seems some people never grow up and experience things beyond a childish level, and not in a good way: worrying about other people having too much fun with something they dislike, instead of like most people that concern themselves with having fun themselves.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhh, they were.

Re:Rare?

[toddestan]

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 still using dialup and a NIC was still somewhat exotic. But getting together and popping in a game like Goldeneye was quick and easy fun for a small group of friends.

Granted, by today's standards the graphics are crude and low res (especially in split screen mode where you end up with 1/4 of a standard definition screen, yeech), the AI in single player mode is braindead, and the controls were always a bit clumsy and inevitably you would get "Nintendo thumb" after playing for too long. But that doesn't make Goldeneye a bad game because Unreal Tournament that game out almost a couple of years later is so much better.

Re:Rare?

[drinkypoo]

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.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

The graphics were good for 1997

Wait, what? HAHAHAHAHA! That's hilarious dude.

the music was good

Only if you like cheesy MIDI style music.

it had solid gameplay

It had shit gameplay and shit controls.

In 1997 it's not like many people had 3D cards in their PC

People who played games did. The Voodoo cards were very popular. The Riva 128 and Verite cards also enjoyed a measure of success.

nor did they have an easy way to do multiplayer with three other people as most people were still using dialup and a NIC was still somewhat exotic

Dial-up was fast enough and PC gamers (real PC gamers, not like the morons now who think "building" a plug'n'play PC is some show of skill) had network adapters. Online was the only way to play because it meant you weren't squinting at a tiny section of a low resolution television screen. It also meant that the other players, you know the ones you are trying to COMPETE AGAINST, couldn't see your position at all times.

But getting together and popping in a game like Goldeneye was quick and easy fun for a small group of friends.

Yeah, *if* you could get them all to even come over at the same time. It was much easier and better for everyone to just do direct modem to modem or internet play.

But that doesn't make Goldeneye a bad game because Unreal Tournament that game out almost a couple of years later is so much better.

Nice cherry pick, but Unreal came out only 9 months after Goldeneye and Quake came out 1 year and 2 months *before* Goldeneye. Both had far superior gameplay, controls, graphics, sounds, everything.

I remember knowing some idiot N64 owners at the time who would go on about how cool they thought Goldeneye was....until I showed them Unreal running at 1024x768 60 FPS on my PC. Only then did they realise just what a worthless little toy the N64 was.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember knowing some idiot N64 owners at the time who would go on about how cool they thought Goldeneye was....until I showed them Unreal running at 1024x768 60 FPS on my PC.

My friends and I all had Unreal, and it played fine at high resolution. Didn't stop us from playing Goldeneye. You're just butthurt that other people have different preferences than you, and have to think of them as idiots or that they've never seen anything else to protect your psyche.

Re:Rare?

[kyjellyfish]

Yeah, until they were bastardized by Microsoft, which is one of the key reasons that some of the best N-64 games were never updated.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

The only system called "Nintendo" is the NES. When people go play with their Wiis, they don't say "let's play Nintendo".

I guess you're too young to know these things though. Sorry you missed the boat, little kid.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I'm just pointing out the ignorance and lies of you console idiots with your vastly inferior games. It sounds more like you're butthurt that you grew up with shit games.

While I was playing Doom, you were still playing something crap and childish like Mario or that hedgehog thing.

Re:Rare?

[Anonymous Coward]

You and all of your friends had dual Voodoo 2 cards? Because that was the only way to play Unreal at "high resolution" back then.

Re:Rare?

[dosius]

LJN was one of Acclaim's labels, along with Arena and Flying Edge.

It will not sale for this price

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/stadium-events-sealed-ebay-nintendo-nes/

Troll bidders

[bug_hunter]

Wired's take is that the price is heavily driven up by trolling bidders
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/s...

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

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Troll bidders

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares, it's a stupid game. Go pirate and do shit on the anonymous networks. Later bitchez.

Re:Troll bidders

[cdrudge]

It's about as good as all the articles 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.

Re: Troll bidders

[Anonymous Coward]

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. To me it just shouts we has no monies and this is the best that we can do, but we'll sucker the gullible into thinking that it's somehow retro-cool, rather than it's shitastic self.

Re: Troll bidders

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently, you've never heard of this little game called Mincraft.

DUE DILIGENCE

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:DUE DILIGENCE

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess you're new here.

Re:DUE DILIGENCE

[BarbaraHudson]

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?

I still have a working NES

[Anonymous Coward]

Games, controllers, everything.

Re:I still have a working NES

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! Cool story, bro!

Eh, I'll just emulate it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably easier anyway, I'm too out of shape for exercise.

I just downloaded the ROM

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe someone is willing to pay a hundred grand for some plastic and silicon...

Re:I just downloaded the ROM

[SternisheFan]

It's worth whatever some idiot is willing to pay for it. If that idiot can later sell it for a tidy profit, well..., I guess then that was what you would call a slick entrepreneur.

Re:I just downloaded the ROM

[drinkypoo]

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Fool, meet money...soon to be departed

[p51d007]

One mans junk, is another mans treasure...I guess

Re:Fool, meet money...soon to be departed

[gmhowell]

One mans junk, is another mans treasure...I guess

A reference to Kim Kardashian's ass?

God-damn.

[CohibaVancouver]

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?

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?

Hey bidders, if you seriously have this kind of coin go spend it on something that will honestly make a difference in the life of a kid.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Next you'll be telling me I spent too much on my car or motorcycle. Don't ever get any hobbies, you might deprive someone of a school.

Re: God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Double kick in the teeth to the 3rd world employees who built these back in the eighties for pennies a day

Re:God-damn.

[Fire_Wraith]

Rich people have been spending incomprehensible sums of money on luxury goods for a long, long time. The only difference is that now some of the geeks are among the rich, and have tastes that extend into obscure and rare video games, rather than the classics like jewelry, yachts, planes, or supercars.

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.

Re:God-damn.

[CohibaVancouver]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[jriding]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[Alwin Henseler]

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 buyer is, then a high price for the item would be good news for that charity.

But lacking such info about buyer or seller, there's no way to know. So from your charity's point of view, nothing changes except for who gets to decide where the money goes.

Re:God-damn.

[CohibaVancouver]

I have read this three times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.

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."

Re:God-damn.

[stephanruby]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now you've inflated prices. You aren't helping any where as much as you think.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you seen what we are doing to the food they eat, the water they drink?

Have you? Or are you just believing what you're told without questioning it because it happens to fit in with your own preconceptions?

But don't listen to me, the chemtrails have activated the fluoride in my drinking water, so The Man is controlling my thoughts...

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

What he's saying is:
Option 3: Save your $100K
Option 4: Spend your $100K on some other worthless luxury.

Someone that was going to spend $100K on an old video game was never going to give that $100K to charity. (Or they already give more to charity that you'll ever do in your life - who knows).

But the person that previously didn't have $100K, and now does, due to selling it, may actually give some of it to charity. (Or they may spend it all on hookers and drugs - who knows).

Re:God-damn.

[KermodeBear]

Do you know how much better you could make the world if you go volunteer instead of post on Slashdot?

Re:God-damn.

[Guy From V]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[Guy From V]

Oop, this: http://www.military.com/video/...

Re:God-damn.

[the_Bionic_lemming]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[CohibaVancouver]

Money in the hands of people who know what the hell they are doing and how to truly give help to those who need it (think Medecins Sans Frontieres) goes a lot further than some volunteer stumbling around.

But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.

Re:God-damn.

[Alwin Henseler]

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. ;-) Or it may be spent on charity. Or it may be spent elsewhere, and via-via get into the hands of people who (in turn) give some to charity. But any of these things may happen, regardless of whether sale takes place or not. It's simply [buyer backs out, and spends $100K somewhere] vs. [sale takes place, and seller spends $100K somewhere].

Either way: without knowing buyer or seller, what makes you think that [buyer spending X amount of $$ on charity] is any more likely than [sale takes place, and seller spends X amount of $$ on charity] ? Statistically speaking I'd say that's an equally like outcome. Or in other words: for your charity, the amount of $$ changing hands is irrelevant, what makes the difference is in whose hands those $$ winds up.

Re:God-damn.

[stoploss]

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!

Re:God-damn.

[narcc]

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.

[Buminatrain]

Yeah I'm sure the Japanese are extremely upset.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

> Fuck the kids money is the only thing that matters

I would like to see you work for free, to provide service for others.

Oooh, now you too are talking money. How stange.

Re:God-damn.

[gl4ss]

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).

Re:God-damn.

[Lumpy]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[Lumpy]

I'll take option 3.

and buy a very cool BMW i8 sports car.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

We tried to exterminate with prejudice the native people of our lands. Hell we used Biological warfare on them.

Did we know about biological warfare back then? I know the end result looked like biological warfare. I just didn't know we had the foresight to do it on purpose.

The reason I'm asking is because I really don't know US history that well. In the US history book I studied for instance, there was nothing about the United States being a penal colony like Australia for instance (although, that was a part of US history as well).

Re:God-damn.

[drinkypoo]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[GameboyRMH]

Biological warfare was far from new at that point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

However, it's not clear whether the bio attacks on native Americans were intentional:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re:God-damn.

[GameboyRMH]

This relies on the same bullshit theory of inflation that makes conservatives think that increasing minimum wage will lead to inflation.

Re:God-damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:God-damn.

[pr0fessor]

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.

[gmhowell]

Why?

Differences?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where there any differences with the Bandai version and the one most of us are familiar with that came with the game mat, other than Nintendo branding?

Re:Differences?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you download both of the roms and find out for yourself?

This is not why "they" hate us

[Anonymous Coward]

"They" hate us because we've enslaved their entire population.

BarbaraHudson what's this

[Anonymous Coward]

On ya ac stalking/harassing/libeling http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & ya ate yer words for it? Downmod "hiding"'s ineffectual: We see it & browse below -1.

Re:BarbaraHudson what's this

[mmell]

Al! Good to see ya!

So I'm guessing you haven't bothered seeing that therapist we talked about yet, have you? *tsk, tsk*

Re:BarbaraHudson what's this

[Anonymous Coward]

Apk doesn't need that: Barbarahudson sockpuppeting troll quoted http://slashdot.org/comments.p... convinced me apk's correct.

Re:BarbaraHudson what's this

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, because pretending to be more than one poster and ranting about posts from 2010 and 2011 definitely proves you are mentally balanced, apk...

Why not listen to mmell and seek mental therapy? He's practically the only one here who wants to be your friend.

Re:BarbaraHudson what's this

[Anonymous Coward]

A short look @ BarbaraHudson's userpage here shows her obsession with apk recently in a short search. Posts shown here merely show how long it's been going on from her and her stalking harassing anonymous coward libelings of apk.

Oh goodie!

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe all of those Buckyballs will be worth something someday.

Too bad it's illegal to sell safety-recalled products in America.

Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge rarer?

[Anonymous Coward]

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 - 90 gray + 26 gold

Stadium Events - 2000 produced, 200 reached consumers

Is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or is this AC trying to garner publicity for their ebay auction?

Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Anonymous Coward]

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 or may not determine a reversal, and with their new ebay guarantee the seller accepts all risk. Avoid Ebay like the plague.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep. Between problems with shill bidding, items of dubious quality and authenticity, and now their crazy fees, I do all of my auction through real auction houses (many of which still let you bid online.)

I still don't understand how eBay thinks they can get away with charging realistic auction house fees, yet take no responsibility for the state or authenticity of the item actually sold. If you buy an item from a real auction house and pay the same fee, the auction house takes possession of the item, inspects it and warrants its authenticity. I'm sure shill bidding still happens but I've gotten way better deals at real auctions than I ever got on eBay (the whole second-chance offer thing is basically an invitation to shillers.)

I was really blown away when a question arose after the fact about the authenticity of an item sold at an auction house I use. The house actually contacted the buyer, refunded his money, and sent the item away to be independently re-certified. It turned out it was real, then they offered it back to the original buyer (he didn't want it back after this), and ended up re-selling it.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Lumpy]

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.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Anonymous Coward]

eBay allows you to put certain conditions, aka rules, on your auction.

But I do hope you feel better for going off on a rant without actually having any idea whether or not the seller was or was not following eBay's rules.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[operagost]

There's a reason I limit my auctions to specific countries. I live in the USA and, by default, only sell to the USA and Canada. I did open to the UK for one auction, but no UK bidder won.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry you are ignorant of how Ebay works. Even if I use Ebay's own settings to make my auction refuse bidders who are not in my country, they found a way to bid with foreign accounts anyways and lazy ebay took months to reverse the sellers fees for such a black and white violation of their own policy.

Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers

[Anonymous Coward]

NO! He is actually correct and you can't, if you can not check the box in the listing then you can not add any of your own "rules".

You are obviously one of those idiots that add text to the auction listing "must pay in 3 days" No Ebay gives me 7 and you can suck it.

Lumpy is correct, you don't have any clue at all as to how Ebay works. People like you need to pay a pro to do your listing, otherwise you will get overrun by the scammers.

Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[Anonymous Coward]

Right: BarbaraHudson told others to impersonate apk during her ac harassing stalkings of him http://slashdot.org/comments.p... showing barbarahudson ac trolling, stalking, harassing, and impersonating apk.

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[Anonymous Coward]

What do android packages have to do with anything? And why would someone want to impersonate one?

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[drinkypoo]

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.

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[BarbaraHudson]

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.

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.

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[Anonymous Coward]

Funnier that drinkypoo's shown agreeing with apk http://slashdot.org/comments.p... when you don't even when he gets the best of you technically validly.

Re:Stop pretending to be apk, creep.

[Anonymous Coward]

Who's a jerk who stalks apk by ac posts barbarahudson http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ? You are.

3 separate points

[Anonymous Coward]

So three things happened here:

1). Rare Recalled a defective game, specifically the NES game known as "Game Stadium"
2). Rare received a bribe of $90,000
3). In exchange for this bribe, Rare evented, on Ebay.

I think it's pretty clear that the third bit is the offensive one. Rare should not be permitted to event on Ebay.

Re:Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge rar

[GameboyRMH]

On a per-game basis, NWC 1990 is the rarest, but by cartridge spec, the *NTSC version* of Stadium Events is the rarest.

"incorrect news reports"

[Anonymous Coward]

faux nooz...explains the current political situ too

nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario cart

[user.aaaaa]

i hate them they are stupid idiots nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wii mario cart online kinda "it is expensive to keep it" (how much? about $1500 a year???) they closed wii weather channel they closed wii news channel no more nintendo only xbox nintendo SUXX sony SUXX japan SUXX they are bunch of stupid idiots [..explicit profanity, about 6 lines..]

Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca

[omnichad]

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.

drinkypoo you agree with apk on hosts

[Anonymous Coward]

"you're right about hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958) Homepage

from http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... and

"(APK) raises a good point, through packet mangling you can reroute DNS queries with users none the wiser. Since most providers don't offer any encryption (let alone authentication) of DNS queries, this is a real problem. But you can trade fingerprinted hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:33PM (#36253160)

from http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

See subject above and your own words quoted on hosts files in response to apk.

Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca

[vux984]

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.

Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca

[omnichad]

No such illusion here. But when it's "free" some people forget that everything still costs money and that it's paid from somewhere.

Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca

[Anonymous Coward]

Blackberry is part of a large consortium that wants to keep this tech open. They are trying to make secure open specs. I think Google and some other big names are involved.

I don't know why people put up with Apples closed ecosystems.

Re:nintendo SUXX big time. they closed wiimario ca

[Anonymous Coward]

Speak English, dickless.

please translate to English

[swell]

"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:Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge rar

[toddestan]

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 therefore almost worthless on the second-hand market like many of those games were - and still are, even today. So while there may have originally been more copies of Stadium Events, it's very possible fewer survive today.

Though it's likely that there's a few copies of Stadium Events still tucked away in attics and closets, owned by people who still have no idea what they have, that will eventually be unearthed. The publicity this auction may even make a few of these people go "Oh, Stadium Events.... hey I remember that game ... OMG holy crap!"

Ok, bigshot: "Eat your words"... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

"I tore apart your stupid hosts file crapola." - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)

Where? You RAN from trying recently -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you're FAIRLY given the opportunity to make good on those words of yours - you downmodded (via your many sockpuppets) & ran, lol, after your wise-ass comment on hosts here JUST before that challenge -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... quoted next below:

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"scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file " - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday January 04, 2015 @11:58AM (#48730581) from http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

I only post on them where they apply (or confronting naysayers like you). Prove otherwise!

(Oh, that's right - you're NOT BIG ON PROOF, are you? See below next...)

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"His only "legend in his own mind" was that he claimed that "his" hosts file could completely secure a windows computer. " - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday February 12, @11:19AM (#35186644)

Where did I even *once* claim hosts completely secure a computer?

Putting words in my mouth I never stated != truth, or a good argument on YOUR part. You RAN from that too!

---

"Who has independently vetted it?" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)

You tried to say it's malware/spyware too - guess what:

Answer = The BEST in the security antimalware & antispyware business currently, http://www.av-test.org/en/news... per that VERY recent test's results, who also host & RECOMMEND my program for hosts, is who -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... (Malwarebytes' hpHosts)

* You've done better? No... lol!

APK

P.S.=> You fail: "Eat your words, Forrest" & you told others to stalk/harass me by ac posts as YOU YOURSELF do, unceasingly, for years http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you DO keep sockpuppets...

... apk

You make ME laugh... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

You stalks me by ac posts & that's quoted in your words http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - who's the JERK here?

Your "points" vs. hosts show it too (in a 'journal' - not publicly since you KNOW they're bullshit) were:

"We don't need to use a hosts file to block ads (adblock does it better)" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:09PM

FROM-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

To THAT b.s., I point out how NOT BETTER it is, tearing up 4++gb of RAM & flooring CPU too ->https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/

+

By default (since advertisers KNOW most folks using "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" won't change that) adblock's PAID OFF NOT TO DO ITS JOB FULLY -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...

ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock but it's NOT ABLE TO DO THAT to custom hosts files.

You're *trying* to tell us that Adblock's vastly inferior in abilities + chews up resources LIKE MAD is "superior" to hosts that do all of what adblock does, and FAR more - with less? Please... lol!

I'm confronting YOU directly (despite your constant trollings of myself often behind my back like now from you, that I do *NOT* start 1st, until YOU pull your crap on me like usual: That's all!) for closure of this publicly so You can "eat her words" in front of us all!

APK

P.S.=> Facts above vs. BarbaraHudson's fictions & the FACT BarbaraHudson CANNOT DISPROVE that hosts do more w/ LESS, & far, Far, FAR MORE for added speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity (to an extent) vs. adblock & that hosts fix DNS security issues in DNS amplification attacks, DNS being downed, DNS being redirect poisoned etc. - et al as well: NO SINGLE SOLUTION does more & w/ less, period/fact, for all those points of mine here YOU downmodded & RAN from -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... like the troll & multiple account using sockpuppeteer YOU are... apk

APK is (as usual) admitting he's wrong . . .

[mmell]

He is adept at pointing out instances where others have demonstrated the intelligence and flexibility to consider viewpoints they disagree with (even admitting and learning from past mistakes), all the while demonstrating that he himself is incapable of even this act of basic intelligence.

Al - please go talk to someone. Please? I don't know what that is you have a grip on, but it isn't reality.

Re:APK is (as usual) admitting he's wrong . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

mmell don't tell libelous lies calling others pedophiles when it's not true http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Like when YOU called me a pedo, mmell?

[Anonymous Coward]

"SO - that automatic hostfile exploit of yours keeping the cops from finding your pictures of naked little boys?" - by mmell (832646) on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:29PM (#46931715)

See subject & that quote of yours doing that, + the link to it -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

(No denying it - I could EASILY have your ASS for it... )

APK

P.S.=> Tell us another lie & libel of myself by YOU, scumbag... apk

Yup. Just like that.

[mmell]

Thanks for living up to all my expectations of you. Now get some professional help, will ya?

Come and get it!

[mmell]

It'll be the only ass you've had since ass had you, no doubt.

Re:Come and get it!

[Anonymous Coward]

I keep forgetting apk lives in a fantasy world where all these libel and defamation torts he alleges happen to him are actually winnable court cases.

Good old apk. He actually believes you are only living outside prison by his forbearance. I think I had a firmer grasp of reality by the time I reached 9 years old, but how does he reconcile his fantasy construct with the contradictory reality he observes?

I wonder why he doesn't seek help, though...

Re:Come and get it!

[Anonymous Coward]

All mmell needs is watermelon, fried chicken, cocaine and a lawyer http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Re:Come and get it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Has everyone else noticed that apk's posts could be generated by a Markov chain? He really is little better than a bot.

Re:Yup. Just like that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Take your own advice + get legal help for your libeling others http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

BarbaraHudson: "Eat your words"

[Anonymous Coward]

"I tore apart your stupid hosts file crapola." - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)

Where? You RAN from trying recently -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you're FAIRLY given the opportunity to make good on those words of yours - you downmodded (via your many sockpuppets) & ran, lol, after your wise-ass comment on hosts here JUST before that challenge -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... quoted next below:

---

"scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file " - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday January 04, 2015 @11:58AM (#48730581) from http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

I only post on them where they apply (or confronting naysayers like you). Prove otherwise!

(Oh, that's right - you're NOT BIG ON PROOF, are you? See below next...)

---

"His only "legend in his own mind" was that he claimed that "his" hosts file could completely secure a windows computer. " - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday February 12, @11:19AM (#35186644)

Where did I even *once* claim hosts completely secure a computer? Hosts are, however, the BEST single tool for more speed, security, reliability, & more. Prove otherwise.

Putting words in my mouth I never stated != truth, or a good argument on YOUR part. You RAN from that too!

---

"Who has independently vetted it?" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703255)

You tried to say it's malware/spyware too - guess what:

Answer = The BEST in the security antimalware & antispyware business currently, http://www.av-test.org/en/news... per that VERY recent test's results, who also host & RECOMMEND my program for hosts, is who -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... (Malwarebytes' hpHosts)

* You've done better? No... lol!

APK

P.S.=> You fail: "Eat your words, Forrest" & you told others to stalk/harass me by ac posts as YOU YOURSELF do, unceasingly, for years http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

... apk

BarbaraHudson's b.s. answer

[Anonymous Coward]

BarbaraHudson stalks me by ac posts (quoted) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & her "so-called 'point'" vs. hosts = b.s. (in a 'journal' - not publicly since she KNOWS they're bullshit):

"We don't need to use a hosts file to block ads (adblock does it better)" - by BarbaraHudson (3785311) on Sunday September 21, 2014 @02:09PM FROM-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

To THAT b.s. I point out how NOT BETTER it is, tearing up 4++gb of RAM & flooring CPU too -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...

+

By default (since advertisers KNOW most folks using "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" won't change that) adblock's PAID OFF NOT TO DO ITS JOB FULLY -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...

ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock but it's NOT ABLE TO DO THAT to custom hosts files.

---

* BarbaraHudson's *trying* to tell us that Adblock's vastly inferior abilities + chewing up resources LIKE MAD is "superior" to hosts?? Please... lol!

(Hosts do all of what adblock does, + FAR more - with less!)

APK

P.S.=> Facts above vs. BarbaraHudson's fictions & the FACT BarbaraHudson CANNOT DISPROVE that hosts do more w/ LESS, & far, Far, FAR MORE for added speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity (to an extent) vs. adblock

&

That hosts fix DNS security issues in DNS amplification attacks, DNS being downed, DNS being redirect poisoned etc. - et al as well!

Fact: NO SINGLE SOLUTION does more & w/ less, period/fact, for all those points of mine here BarbaraHudson sockpuppet downmodded & RAN from -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... like the troll & multiple account using sockpuppeteer he/she is... apk

Re:Gadam.

[Anonymous Coward]

To be a compassionate human being is to be more human. We each begin on a static point into our personal trajectory. If I have known compassion towards me I will be more likely to see with compassionate eyes. This new world is always new. It has always been so. Compassion is taught as well as inherent. The eyes of a child sees all. If you move with diligent love this is known to the child ... and he or she is another closer to being the best generation of all ... on and on .... it is not so bleak a house ... there is always hope & with good reason ....

Why does apk run from the truth?

[Anonymous Coward]

Apk runs from the truth, as everyone who has read his rants knows. As soon as he is confronted about his lies he desperately tries to change the subject using one of his copypasta posts.