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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 .
Rare? They were my favourite Nintendo game developer!
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/stadium-events-sealed-ebay-nintendo-nes/
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.
It's turtles all the way down.
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.
I guess you're new here.
Double kick in the teeth to the 3rd world employees who built these back in the eighties for pennies a day
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.
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?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
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.
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.
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.
love the taste, hate the texture
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.
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."
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.
Do you know how much better you could make the world if you go volunteer instead of post on Slashdot?
Love sees no species.
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
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.
Oop, this: http://www.military.com/video/...
So I'm guessing you haven't bothered seeing that therapist we talked about yet, have you? *tsk, tsk*
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.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
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.
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.
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!
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!
Required reading for internet skeptics
Yeah I'm sure the Japanese are extremely upset.
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.
What do android packages have to do with anything? And why would someone want to impersonate one?
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).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'll take option 3.
and buy a very cool BMW i8 sports car.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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/...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
This relies on the same bullshit theory of inflation that makes conservatives think that increasing minimum wage will lead to inflation.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
On a per-game basis, NWC 1990 is the rarest, but by cartridge spec, the *NTSC version* of Stadium Events is the rarest.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
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.
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.
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.
No such illusion here. But when it's "free" some people forget that everything still costs money and that it's paid from somewhere.
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.
One mans junk, is another mans treasure...I guess
A reference to Kim Kardashian's ass?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Why?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
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.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"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
...omphaloskepsis often...
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!"
Al - please go talk to someone. Please? I don't know what that is you have a grip on, but it isn't reality.
Thanks for living up to all my expectations of you. Now get some professional help, will ya?
It'll be the only ass you've had since ass had you, no doubt.