Would you have traded in that winning Vectorman?

[Ed Oscuro]

Here's a (possibly) tough call. Assume you bought a game (any game, you can pretend it's on DVD-ROM or a 16K ROM cartridge) that has a contest going on -- somewhere in the game data is a message stating that you've won the contest. However, to claim your prize you must trade it in.

In hindsight, I think most folks who would've traded in a winning Vectorman for a new (supposedly identical to production models, no signatures or anything) Sega Saturn and Virtua Fighter probably wish they'd kept that cartridge for eBay or the personal collection, all things considered. Our options are (hopefully) a bit better than that, and you can run wild with your imagination in answering the question. However...

There's a catch: While your cartridge is unique, the prize, strictly speaking, isn't: for each prize, two other people (each with their own unique carts) can win the same prize as you if you decide to trade it in (but like you, they might opt to not trade theirs in). Essentially -- what would you trade your one-of-a-kind in for? What if the other winning games aren't discovered?

In this day and age it's quite likely you could get a backup copy/ISO/ROM made/dumped even if you trade it in for the prize, so that shouldn't factor into your decision.

What would it take for you to trade in one of the winning cartridge?

[Happy_Dude]

I'd trade it for a dev unit ;)
but it would be a very tough call.
I don't have many rare games and that sort of thing would be worth a whole
wad of cash on ePay or Bidiots!.

[WiseSalesman]

$25,000? Hell yeah I would have traded it in.

Hell, I'd probably trade it in for $1000.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'd trade it for a dev unit ;)
but it would be a very tough call.
I don't have many rare games and that sort of thing would be worth a whole
wad of cash on ePay or Bidiots!.

Dev units really aren't as worthwhile as many people think...unless you're talking a rare variant. I would certainly take a one-of-three numbered and autographed (the right autograph or two, that is ;) Nintendo 64 over a Nintendo 64 dev unit, for example. Dreamcast dev units run under $2000 last time I looked, for example.

An original Famicom or Super Famicom dev unit would maybe be an exception, though :O

[Happy_Dude]

I'd trade it for a dev unit ;)
but it would be a very tough call.
I don't have many rare games and that sort of thing would be worth a whole
wad of cash on ePay or Bidiots!.

Dev units really aren't as worthwhile as many people think...unless you're talking a rare variant. I would certainly take a one-of-three numbered and autographed (the right autograph or two, that is ;) Nintendo 64 over a Nintendo 64 dev unit, for example. Dreamcast dev units run under $2000 last time I looked, for example.

An original Famicom or Super Famicom dev unit would maybe be an exception, though :OLook at the link in my sig and guess which dev unit I'd be after ;)

[Querjek]

I'd trade it in for either $2500 (at least, but could take 1000 if I got some artwork) or Super Mario RPG artwork.

[tholly]

i think i would only trade it in if the money was good enough or if i got something really, really unique in return. if it was just for a saturn system, back in the day i might have because i wasnt a collector, but now.....NEVER would i trade a highly unique game in for a common system

[jdc]

Well.....I own the standard Vectorman for my Genny. A special copy of that game? I'd trade it in for something where my focus lies.......some sort of hard-to-obtain N64 products.

[crashdummycow01]

at that time, it woulda been like me getting a ps2 game today and finding out i had won a contest within the game and the prize would be like $25,000 or whatever.... or a new console... i'd prolly not have any prob with trading it in for a prize