
$29.95 was a rip-off
Let alone $43K
The seller said it was a "priceless" item, and while bidding didn't quite reach infinity, one lucky bidder has now agreed to buy a "one of a kind" copy of Bandai's 1986 videogame Family Fitness Stadium Events for $41,300 (£27,102). Developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the game was released in Europe in 1988, …
The PAL version of the game isn't actually rare, so there are often plenty of copies of that on eBay. The US version wasn't on the shelves for very long because Nintendo bought the rights to the game from Bandai and released their own version of it, along with the Nintendo Power Pad (the original DDR pad).
The actual rarity of this game is disputed, some claim it was only on sale in one shop for a limited amount of time, but generally the ones claiming this are the people who own the game and want to protect their investment! There have been quite a few reports of people buying this game from all over the US, so the claims of only one shop selling it seem to be false. After this auction, I would expect to see quite a few copies make their way onto eBay and we will start to get a better idea of just how rare the game really is.
Since it was taken off the market prematurely there could even be a pallet full of copies of this game sat in a warehouse somewhere. It has happened before with other Nintendo games previously considered rare.
I remember paying 50 or 60 quid back in the day for some really sh!te NES and SNES games but this takes the hobnobs!
$43,000 was paid , probably by some nerd, so that it can stay forever, unopened in his closet, at his mothers house. Man, just think of all the hookers and blow he could of brought with that kind of cash! Mate, you are wasting your life!
(IT bit sorted, natch)
I had a copy of "DOOM" I bought for about £20 a couple of decades ago, I think. Five x 31/4" disks unreadable on any of my machines, as I suspect the 0's and 1's seem to have done the fruit-fly manoeuvre*, and got too close together, having natural (animal) magnetism. Dammit.
*Wish the damn disks had been more 'floppy' than them damn flies...
Better get out that old piece o' sh!t 80's CRT from the loft too then, as that zapper won't work on flat screens!
You cant beat a good old duck hunting sesh, shame you cant shoot that sarcastic dog though when he laughs at you! Oh and I really loved how the NES has a grey, black and red colour scheme - everything back then was black, grey and red, so mid-late 80's! Funnily, the Atari 2600 was woodgrain just like the late 70's was! If woodgrain comes back into fashion I look forward to playing on my mahogany Playstation 4!