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.

Mario Galaxy 2 & Metroid in 2010 plus Vitality Sensor and Zelda News at E3

In a report to Japanese investors, Nintendo has confirmed that both Metroid: Other M and Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be out this year. Metroid will be out in the summer, nothing more specific other than "this year" was offered about Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Nintendo also promises to show off games for the Vitality Sensor (maybe WiiRelax?) and bring us more news about the new Zelda game for the Wii at this year's E3. If Zelda was released in 2010, it would be the first time Nintendo ever released a Mario, Metroid and Zelda game in the same year. But that seems unlikely to happen, since Nintendo is more likely to space out their big releases, they will need something for 2011 after all.

And perhaps most surprising, they announced the Wii has now become the company;'s best selling console of all time at 68 million units, passing the original Nintendo's 62 million. Also the DS has become their best selling handheld with 125 million units sold, passing Gameboy's 118 million.

I find that shocking. The original Nintendo was the system when I was younger. Everybody I knew had one. There was no competition like today, where we have three systems sharing shelf space. And Gameboy  debuted in 1989, and had an unprecedented life span of 11 years, before it was finally replaced by the Gameboy Advance. The DS has managed to overtake that in less than 6 years. Amazing.  

First Person Tetris

"Fun" might not be the word. Maybe "nauseating" would be more descriptive.

At any rate it's cool to see the NES and old school TV with some VHS tapes on top of it.

Try to play if you dare, but don't blame me if you get dizzy and vomit on your keyboard.

--;Play First Person Tetris--