Earlier this week, eBay user muresan began an auction for the extremely rare "Nintendo World Championships" game for the original NES.
There were only 116 copies of the game created, and it was never sold to consumers. The game was given out to gamers in 1990 at a special event where fans competed in games like Tetris and Super Mario.
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For some reason the press got a hold of this when it went up on auction which i believe triggered the bidding wars, I'm willing to bet the seller won't be receiving that money and it will be a re listing non paying buyer. The cart itself is in terrible condition vs the ones I have seen in the past sell for and the Highest I have seen this cart go for was about $22k and that was with the label perfectly in tact, not to mention any real collector knows the Gold version is much rarer.
its rumoured the buyer has already backed out claiming his 2year old son placed the bid.
also rumoured is that around 1200 of the cartridges were made but only 90 went public and another 26 that were made gold,its unknown where the others ended up.
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Yeah eBay sucks for these huge fake bids. They should start requiring a 10% or so deposit to bid when it gets up there. Who knows...He may have lost a perfectly legit 50k bid because of these morons.
Being a huge NES collector over the past 25 years, run a game store, and I can almost assure you, that the bid may of got that high, but it was not paid for. That is a gray version of the NWC cart. They sell for about $5k-7k on average. The gold version, which is much more rare, as only a fraction of them were made compared to the gray ones, only sells for $15k-$20k
