Was reading an article about collecters buying old vidieo games and was amazed at the prices some of them bring!
1. "Nintendo Campus Challenge '91"
Format: Nintendo Entertainment System
Highest price ever paid: $20,100
Before Sundays spent playing "Madden" in a suite's common room or reading days wasted picking off dorm mates in "Goldeneye," there was Nintendo's "Campus Challenge."
Back in 1991, Nintendo went to to college campuses across America with 30 special cartridges that gave players six minutes to rack up a high score on "Super Mario 3," "Pin-Bot" and "Dr. Mario." If students could fight through fatigue, hunger or ADD long enough to produce their school's best score, they moved on to a national competition.
Apparently, though, some notoriously sticky-fingered students came away with parting gifts. Nintendo supposedly destroyed all the competition's cartridges, but one was found at a garage sale in New York. It has been sold to several different collectors, with the highest recorded price being $20,100. If that cartridge survived, that means someone else's old roommate may have swiped one during a moment of clarity. Time to drop some queries to your old classmates on Facebook. Don't accept "Dave's not here, man" as an answer.
This is just one example to look for.
The entire article:
$20,000 for a retro video game? - 1 - - MSN Money
Bookmarks