NES Sells for 13k on eBay Thanks To Rare Game

An old NES and a couple of games, how much would you pay? $20, maybe $40 if the seller would guarantee you wouldn't have to blow into the cartridge before overtime you played. How about $13,000?

That's how much one bidder on eBay recently payed, but it wasn't because it came with Super Mario Bros. 3 (which in my heart is worth $13,000), it was because of some game called Stadium Events.

Stadium Events is considered one of the most rare games to have by NES collectors. The game made use of a "Power Pad" like accessory and was only sold in one department store in all of America. Only 2000 copies were thought to have ever been produced, and almost all of them were destroyed after Nintendo decided to purchase the rights to the game from Bandai and rebrand it for their own Power Pad. Less than 10copies are believed to have survived to this day.

The auction was originally listed for only $9.99, meaning the seller probably had no idea that they were selling the holy grail. Sounds like someone got a nice surprise.

The most I've ever paid for a game would be Guitar Hero with the drums, guitar and microphone. That was only $120 and pretty confident that it's more fun than Stadium Events. If you like old games, I have a box of Atari 2600 cartridges, I like to still play them sometimes, but if someone wants to offer me $13,000 for one of them I might be willing to part ways with it.