NWC/Stadium Events rarity

[Collector_Gaming]

I don't think its as rare as NWC.... Because NWC has a production number that we know of. 90 Grey Carts Exist and 26 are Gold.

Does anyone know how many copies were officially ran put into production of Stadium Events before they went "alright lets call it 'World Class Track Meet'"? Unless a number is released I bet there is alot more out there... Its just people don't know they have them. I am waiting for that day someone finds a long forgotten storage locker/container filled with these still in a box wrapped.

[DreamStar]

I don't think its as rare as NWC.... Because NWC has a production number that we know of. 90 Grey Carts Exist and 26 are Gold.

Does anyone know how many copies were officially ran put into production of Stadium Events before they went "alright lets call it 'World Class Track Meet'"? Unless a number is released I bet there is alot more out there... Its just people don't know they have them. I am waiting for that day someone finds a long forgotten storage locker/container filled with these still in a box wrapped.

If someone happen to find a long forgetten box of S.E in the back of a warehouse or something ,that would good as well as bad .The good side would be more people could complete their Nes collections ,the bad side would be the value would decrease on S.E.

[wiggyx]

If someone happen to find a long forgetten box of S.E in the back of a warehouse or something ,that would good as well as bad .The good side would be more people could complete their Nes collections ,the bad side would be the value would decrease on S.E.

All I see is good and good.

[SparTonberry]

If someone happen to find a long forgetten box of S.E in the back of a warehouse or something ,that would good as well as bad .The good side would be more people could complete their Nes collections ,the bad side would be the value would decrease on S.E.

Not likely, as it is said Nintendo specifically recalled and destroyed all unsold Stadium Events, as well as the box and manual to Athletic World (they opened and repackaged the AW carts, though).

[Collector_Gaming]

Not likely, as it is said Nintendo specifically recalled and destroyed all unsold Stadium Events, as well as the box and manual to Athletic World (they opened and repackaged the AW carts, though).

This is truly documented though? Like if I called up Nintendo US HQ right now and asked they would give me the tale that they recalled them and destroyed them or repackaged them? This is starting to sound like a Atari 2600 Pac-Man Tale.

Now if they recalled them... Whats the likely hood of perhaps a game retailer back then deciding to pull the rest of his or her inventory of that game off the shelves and storing them away thinking it could become valuable in the future.... Now fast forward. Lets assume that this said store owner went out of business over the years due to recession and changing times in the video game market. And perhaps sadly passed away without telling anyone where they hid all those copies of SE.

Very unlikely but stranger things have happened... Take for example the tale about the found container filled with brand new Virtual Boys found in the middle east

[DreamStar]

But with that recent find at a N.C Goodstore for $8 and later sold for 17K ,there's hope that anything's possible!

[SparTonberry]

I'm having doubts about a retailer (especially in the '80s when games were relatively new) considering a recalled game being worth something someday, let alone wanting to wait 20 years to find out.

The found Virtual Boys sounds plausible, they could well have been inventory stolen in the '90s by Somali pirates. I hear that part of the Middle East is known for cargo ship hijacking, and probably part of the reason stuff shipped from Asian factories is delayed and costs more in Europe.

[BeaglePuss]

There is no real conclusive number of copies for each game out there, but you can use the amount of known collector-owned copies to help get an idea of the relative rarity.

There were only 26 gold NWC produced, that much we know. There have been a ton of different numbers thrown around in regards to the amount of grey carts produced/distributed, but there isn't any concrete facts behind the stories. It's all hearsay. The same applies to the number of Stadium Events carts produced/sold. Beyond unknown production numbers, we don't know how many of each have survived over the years.

If you look at known copies of each that are in collectors hands, the rarest of the bunch would be a CIB copy of Stadium Events. One lost pallet could change all that though. There will never be a pallet of NWC gold carts, and there (realistically) will never be a large cache of NWC grey carts found. Take from that what you will.

For dick-waiving purposes I'll note that I own both a loose SE cart and a grey NWC cart. I consider them both to be fairly equal in rarity and collectability.

[Tanooki]

Howard (of Nintendo in the 80s) is a member over at NA and this was brought up over there before and he said games had a minimum order of 10000 units so at the very worst the game has that many of them initially out there, but the likelihood would have been a bit more really depending on how fast they sold and before they all became variants of each other with the renaming issue.

[BeaglePuss]

I don't think its as rare as NWC.... Because NWC has a production number that we know of. 90 Grey Carts Exist and 26 are Gold.

This is a number that has been speculated throughout the years, and over time it has been taken as fact. In reality, that number is composed of hearsay bullshit.