Just as the rarity of old comic books make them go up in value, the same thing happens when it comes to video games. In a recent sale on Ebay, a mint-condition cartridge of Bandai’s classic NES title Stadium Events went for $2,000, the manual for $1,500, and the box (yes the piece of cardboard holding the game and manual) for $9,500! [via Geekologie]:
Antique Roadshow, eat your heart out! This might actually be a great new show for G4 — imagine digging around someone’s basement to unearth a lost copy of the NES Nintendo World Championship cartridge. That hunk of plastic once sold for around $12,000, which helps me conclude that some people have far too much money lying around.