Games That Have Sold For 10K+

[Sph1nx]

WIth the Stadium Events madness, I've been trying to figure out what else sells / has sold for at least $10,000.

So far I have:

Complete Stadium Events NES - $13,105
Gold NWC (NES) - $17,500
SNES Campus Challenge - $20,000
SNES Powerfest 94 - $10,000
EB0 NES Proto - $10,000 (Overpriced and a fluke)
Kizuna Encounter (PAL Neo Geo) - $10,000

Any thoughts on others?

[tom]

Should you include those Nintendo championship carts? they are really carts of existing games, and they were never for sale, unlike Kizuna Encounter or Stadium Events

[todesengel]

Don't forget about this one. (http://cgi.ebay.com/FACTORY-SEALED-NEW-NES-NINTENDO-STADIUM-EVENTS-NTSC_W0QQitemZ140384097750QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vi ntage_Video_Games?hash=item20af8b55d6)

[Famidrive-16]

There was also the gold cartridge for the Famicom game Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match, which sold about $10,000.

http://kotaku.com/5154042/the-crappy-10000-dollar-famicom-game

[Bojay1997]

I'm less interested in what games have sold for $10K as I am in what the stories are behind the people buying them. I can recall reading about the guy who spent $20K or so on that NWC cart in some interview a while back and thinking "this really isn't a guy who should be spending $20K on a game cartridge". Of course, he might argue that I shouldn't be spending $20K or so a year on video games in much smaller individual transactions. I guess it's just a matter of philosophy.

[HappehLemons]

Don't forget about this one. (http://cgi.ebay.com/FACTORY-SEALED-NEW-NES-NINTENDO-STADIUM-EVENTS-NTSC_W0QQitemZ140384097750QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vi ntage_Video_Games?hash=item20af8b55d6)

wow....

[Baloo]

wow....

Yeah, $41,000 is just riduculous.

[Sph1nx]

Yeah, Im waiting for that one to end.

[The 1 2 P]

Don't forget about this one. (http://cgi.ebay.com/FACTORY-SEALED-NEW-NES-NINTENDO-STADIUM-EVENTS-NTSC_W0QQitemZ140384097750QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vi ntage_Video_Games?hash=item20af8b55d6)

Damn.

[backguard]

WIth the Stadium Events madness, I've been trying to figure out what else sells / has sold for at least $10,000.

So far I have:

Complete Stadium Events NES - $13,105
Gold NWC (NES) - $17,500
SNES Campus Challenge - $20,000
SNES Powerfest 94 - $10,000
EB0 NES Proto - $10,000 (Overpriced and a fluke)
Kizuna Encounter (PAL Neo Geo) - $10,000

Any thoughts on others?

The last gold NWC went for 18.5k. (see vgpc blog).

[Sph1nx]

US $41,300.00. New record.

[scooterb23]

That's a record right up there with "Most times having balls chewed off by badgers"

[Sph1nx]

More info for the rare chance you dont know what this game is.

http://www.gamesniped.com/2010/02/26/most-expensive-video-game-sale-ever-41300-00/

[Gameguy]

US $41,300.00. New record.
Maybe the seller will get it graded and sell it within 6 months.

[Gavica]

I was sold keio sealed for around 250

[Ze_ro]

I've been trying to figure out what else sells / has sold for at least $10,000.

I was sold keio sealed for around 250

http://24.79.9.150/leejones.jpeg

--Zero

[badinsults]

I mentioned this in #vbender, but the SNES Campus Challenge did not sell for over $10,000.

[Baloo]

Wasn't it the NES Campus Challenge that sold for around $20,000?

[Icarus Moonsight]

Well, $10k today has the equivalent buying power that $500 had 100 years ago... You got to figure that any video game would sell for over $500 back then. Even SMB/DH. :D

I've sold a few for 10k+... In pennies. LOL

The first Superman comic went at auction for a million... Maybe it's just a sign of the times.

[Massimiliano]

someone on neo-geo.com bought Kizuna encounter and Ultimate 11, both for 55 000 $ in november 2009 from the webmaster

[Swamperon]

The first Superman comic went at auction for a million... Maybe it's just a sign of the times.

And now Batman's debut comic has just sold for over a million (and beat Superman, naturally). Give it 50 years and we'll see video games reaching those prices.

[joshnickerson]

And we all wonder why the economy is in the shitter...

[Insaneclown]

someone on neo-geo.com bought Kizuna encounter and Ultimate 11, both for 55 000 $ in november 2009 from the webmaster

Yup that's true. Those prices were insane.

Ultimate 11 should easily be passed the 10K range now.

[DuckTalesNES]

And we all wonder why the economy is in the shitter...

A few people paying large amounts of money for extreme luxury items is no different now than for basically all of human history.

[The 1 2 P]

US $41,300.00. New record.

Thats very impressive. Of course, I would have used that as a down payment on a house but some of us have different agendas...and bank account amounts.

[Ed Oscuro]

And now Batman's debut comic has just sold for over a million (and beat Superman, naturally). Give it 50 years and we'll see video games reaching those prices.
Dude, it's fuckin' Superman / Bamtan.

This is just fucking Stadium Events.

But anyhow, there are certainly some Japanese collectors who have paid lots of money for stuff we wouldn't think of; though I wouldn't have guessed any would come close to $10K. I didn't know of Tag Match but I did know of All Night Nippon, Archimendes Graddy, stuff like that (but those aren't close to $10K last I checked).

In case GameSniped doesn't like edoscuro@yourmother.com, some screed I wrote on their latest bit on the sale:


Hey "Truth," what Dutch and Groove are getting at is that there is no authentication for this, no official numbers, and obvious opportunities for shill bidding.

I don't like the manufactured collectibles market that gives you a cheap "certificate of authenticity," and this isn't one; but of all the stupid-ass things the "NES collector community" could have congealed around, why did it have to be this? Key word "community" in quotes because only a small number of people have their senses of nostalgia and value (or simple self-preservation for that matter) this far out of alignment. Most NES collectors are nowhere near really caring about this game, and the ante negates the notoriety of owning it many times over.

Obviously, the only people seriously interested in this thing at prices over $20K are nonprofessional investors (I say nonpro because no pro is going to think the great potential returns outweighs the real potential of this being totally destroyed by some unforseen circumstances, natural but unseen internal degradation of the game and so on; also, the Secret Service doesn't knock down doors over counterfeited NES games last I checked) taking a serious risk. Even without factoring in the possibility of more copies showing up (almost happened with Kizuna Encounter), at this price the pool of people who can ante up is vanishingly small indeed.

Obviously, with such low available stocks, the sky's the limit as to what a small group of certifiable specimens will pay. But Kizuna Encounter seemed to me to be a cautionary tale; most of the known copies passed through only one guy's hands and then another was found later. Didn't make a downward dent in the price, but you don't see the game adding value year after year at the rate some newbie collectors will think is natural after looking at this price. At some point the game's inherent worthlessness (scientifically measured in terms of artistic merit and playability) is going to limit the upward spiral in prices; inflation (20% over the last 7 years) will squeeze this purchase as an investment from the other direction.

It's just a temporary craze; the people who own it are just getting their money back, and it'll probably be a long time after the current spate of buying and selling before anybody else wants to put that kind of money into it.


A few people paying large amounts of money for extreme luxury items is no different now than for basically all of human history.
You have a strange idea of "extreme luxury."

The French monarchy didn't commission shit NES games; or the First Emperor of China either. This game would have continued to exist without the involvement of lots of money, whereas the gardens of the robber barons of the Gilded Age actually brought work to a few artists (at the expense of horribly underpaid workers, but hey something's gotta give). Point being that there are too many holes in the story of this being an "extreme luxury item."

[houstonlibrarian]

I didn't have the money to buy games and keep them sealed back then, and I don't have the money to buy them now.

[Ze_ro]

Not quite 10k monies, but apparently a copy of the unreleased Mark III game ""Game de check! Koutsuu Anzen" sold for 800,000¥ (about $9000 USD) earlier this month. More info here (http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6691).

--Zero

[scooterb23]

http://www.eliteimports.us/2020applications/uploads/bugatti-veyron-front.jpg

A true extreme luxury item.

http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/c/c5/Stadium_Events_NES_box.jpg/250px-Stadium_Events_NES_box.jpg

A label variant NES cart.

Know the difference!

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[boatofcar]

Don't game collectors have a different mentality than comic collectors though? The priciest games aren't the most important ones, those are the most dirt common ones. That most expensive games are the horrible, limited release, rare ones because those are the odd games you'd need to complete your set.

It has to do with the way comics achieved rarity. That is, through age, on a medium that decomposes easily. What is the highest value mass-produced comic book from 1985-present? I bet it's not worth 41k.

[badinsults]

I don't think you could compare Stadium Events to the first comic with Superman. I mean, Superman is a cultural icon, while Stadium Events is a rare game that obsessed collectors feel they need in their collection.

[Ed Oscuro]

Don't game collectors have a different mentality than comic collectors though? The priciest games aren't the most important ones, those are the most dirt common ones. That most expensive games are the horrible, limited release, rare ones because those are the odd games you'd need to complete your set.
Is there any particular reason this should be the case?


It has to do with the way comics achieved rarity. That is, through age, on a medium that decomposes easily. What is the highest value mass-produced comic book from 1985-present? I bet it's not worth 41k.
Also, games may indeed decompose, or at least change color. Almost all the clear plastic windows on the boxes of X68000 games have darkened somewhat since initial release, not to mention the disks can go bad. Eventually, and maybe this is decades or even centuries on out, finding working original hardware and software is going to become a real challenge. At that point, people will have bigger worries (i.e. reversing yellowing in plastic to prevent brittleness, and so on) than keeping a game sealed.