Yes, you read that right: 5 with four zeros.
Used in the 1994 Nintendo World Championships II competition, this extra rare Super Nintendo -- only 32 were made -- is selling on eBay for fifty grand. What makes it so special, you ask? Well, since it was used primarily for a competition it was built to include the first level of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, five laps of the first track of Super Mario Kart, and the homerun derby from Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball.
I love the Super Nintendo more than my own family, but, unless this comes with a live dolphin, even my obsessed collector side has no interest. As the kids today say, “that’s a lot of scratch!”
What do you think? Even if you had the money, would you ever consider buying this? Is there anything videogame related you would pay this much for?
[Via Kotaku]
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4:43 PM on 11.05.2008
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Here is the kicker. He is lying. That isn't the only one in existence. I'm pretty sure there are 5 total complete sets out there right now.
But yeah, basically, he doesn't want people to buy it, he wants to show off.
Bottom line, I say this doesn't sell at the listed price anyway.
Too cool, Chad. Too cool...
my 486 PC had ram smaller than those and it had way more space than snes.
but no where near as huge as NEOGeo ram/rom chips.
I particapated in the 1990 nintendo world championships until round 4 and they was only using a bunch of carts with dip switches.
Not a monster mainbord that looks a hack job, and rom sizes that are like 6 times the size of the ones in the snes carts
that entire part on top seems totaly not needed,
unless they threw a cpu on the damn thing to keep score, but really do you need one that size to keep score on tha thing when you got the snes cpu to do it?
and when nintendo does stuff they tend to be more clean and professional the SNES star fox champion ship cart was fully re programed pro job with a sticker and everything that you could bribe contest runners to sell you the last day of the contest.
looks totaly fake house hack job to me from it sheer sloppy job and all the unesscary ram and rom chips thrown on it.