Old vidieo games to watch for

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

Yeah, I watched a video on youtube not too long ago highlighting the top ten rare video games, and I believe Campus Challenge 91 was number one on the list. The only downside I believe was that pretty much all but maybe one or two copies were accounted for. I've posted the link for the video below, if anybody is interested in watching.

Actually a lot of the old n64 games are going up in price, i am seeing anywhere from $10-$100 each.

Originally Posted by miked

Role playing games are always a favorite. In addition the Mario series of games continue to sell well. I was selling used video games at fleamarkets and the harder to find games I would bid on 10-15 auctions for the same game. If I won one I was happy, and if I won more I was happier. The key for me was to set a max bid of the same amount with consideration to shiping and could count on winning at least one. There were times when the bidding would get silly and people would bid higher than a buy now auction available at the same time. Its like most other things that are collectable you need to know the market and current value. Mike.

Hmm.. I'll have to keep my eyes open, but off the top of my head, I don't recall any particular RPGs for the N64. I know the Final Fantasy series was popular, but they were primarily Super NES and Playstation. I'll do a little more research. Regarding the online auctions, that's something I haven't quite delved into yet. It looks promising, but I haven't worked up the courage to just dive right in.

On a separate note, I notice that you live in J-ville. Do you ever find anything interesting on the Lejeune Yard Sales website?

Originally Posted by miked

Yes I did use Lejeune Yard Sale extensively when I was selling video games and othe used stuff at the flea market, far more than Craigs List. I have found it. Lejeune Yard Sales, far less productive in producing computer scrap than Craigs List.

There are just a couple of Role Playing games in the N64 system, one was a Mario game but I don't recall the others. Mike

Ah. Well in the event that I ever make it back out there, I'll have to check the site out. I figure that site along with the J-ville Craigslist page would be a pretty good source of various low price items considering that there are always Marines coming and going from that place. I wouldn't buy a used vehicle out there, though. I've seen way too many LCpls with no sense buy brand new cars and try to soup them up or repair them on their own without professional assistance and end up ruining an otherwise perfectly good car.