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If you are a retrophile such as myself, then I must ask you to please pick your jaw up off the floor after seeing the above headline and image. A fabled golden Nintendo World Championships 1990 (NWC) cart recently sold within a collection of 23 other games in an online auction for $21,400 -- it began on March 18th. There are only 116 NWC carts in circulation today. Ninety of these cartridges were clad in the standard gray casing, but there were 26 special golden cartridges that were given away through a Nintendo Power contest that ran just before the 1990 championship tour. There were only two ways you could possibly get your meathooks on one of the 116 carts: become a finalist in the championships or be a winner in said contest. That's it. As you can see, the odds of you or I getting our hands on one or, rather, even seeing one in person are ridiculously slim. The notority of these blessed game cartridges has made them the top pick for avid collector's all over the world and continues to be considered the most sought after piece of gaming history. However, this auction holds a very unique and interesting tale. Hit the jump to continue reading and find out! The story behind the auction itself is almost as amazing as the rarity of the game it contains. It was started by a father who had lost his son in the Iraq war. The auction description states that his son passed away a few years ago and now he is deciding to sell some of his son's belongings. Ironically, he would've kept this collection for his daughter, but the NES they owned no longer works. It is quite tragic for anyone to lose somebody they care for, regardless of the circumstances. Perhaps this auction was his son's final way of paying back his father and easing the pain. Another thing to note, is that the auction began at a mere $24 -- one dollar per game seemed to be a fair price in the seller's eye. Can you imagine going to someone's yard sale and seeing the literal "Holy Grail" of gaming marked for one buck? I think I'd probably pass out just by seeing the friggin' thing. Nonetheless, a unique treasure of gaming's past deserves an equally unique story to go along with it. See the auction for yourself. [Thanks to our reader Mario for giving us a buzz on the Destructophone.]
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That's pretty crazy. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a marketing hoax though, that would be disgusting
Agree @ Niero, i think that gold cart is worth even more than what was paid.
What an idiot. He posted an auction on something _other_ than eBay? Does he even know how more money he would have gotten had he listed the auction on eBay? Everyone would have known about gaming's 'Holy Grail' within hours of its posting, and collectors from everywhere would have scrambling to bid over each other just to get their greedy hands on it. I think it could've gone for much more, $21K for the rarest of rare video games isn't a lot as far as hobbies go.
daaayaaamn.
i remember that contest. i think those pages of my nintendo power are still stuck together.
@Jayeugene
It's only worth that if someone is going to spend that. People spending $21,400 on a ton of "rare" games obviously have no sense (but a good amount of change). I want to email this guy and tell him that I'll buy them back from him for double, but since I live in South Africa, I will have someone pick it up and ship it to me. :P
Galagabug, stuck together? My playboys do that...so..uh...
Fanboy? lol
(sorry)
It's ok... sometimes pages of my Game Informer get stuck together because of the awesomeness coming out this summer.
I remember that contest as well. A few years ago I was at a flea market and got a close up look at a 'grey' copy. THe seller knew the thing had quite a bit of value as it was going for $500; he had it propped up in a glass curio (along with several other rare, expensive, and odd gaming anomalies).
Who knows if anyone ever bought the thing.
Holy crap, welcome back Savant!
Whoever thought I was dead, think again. :) Thanks for the welcome back.
Life is still very hectic for me, but I couldn't resist to post this.I was blown away.
so....did his son become a finalist in the NWC ? or how did he get the game in the first place?
That blind fuck finally found his computer again. he must have gotten a lot of burn trying to connect to the innernet through his oven. Crazy story though. Why would the dude sell shit on anything but eBay and Craigslist? I didn't even think anything else even existed.
Where can i read more about this Holy Grail-copy? =)
That bid history seems fishy. Someone pumped up their bid from 12,000 or whatever to just under the winning bid by $100.
Why in the fuck would anyone sell that game in a lot with other crap? One sold on ebay alone a few months back for $15,000
Mabec: you can read more about it here
http://www.thebbps.com/blog/2006/11/17/nwc-gold-cart/
Thanks, i also found this:
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html
It seems someone else is selling a copy of Nintendo World Championships, although it's not a gold cartridge. I wonder if anyone would be interested in it for $2,000.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1990-Nintendo-Championship-Game-Cartridge-RARE_W0QQitemZ160107851726QQihZ006QQcategoryZ62053QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
@Mabec
Wikipedia.
To be honest, I've never heard of it...And apparently neither has the father. He must of had one hell of a surprise when the auction went up to 21,000 bucks.
good to see you back mike
What a find
Isn't that the rarest game cart ever?
I wonder what developers could get for game demos that never saw light of day in retail...
Lord knows I've worked on many tech demos that fans would love to play.
Ok, the more I think of this, the more I just laugh. Who here would spend good hard earned money on this? Sure, it's rare, but it's not like you're going to play it, you're friends are only going to be impressed long enough to a) move onto something else or b) steal it. Some people are just foolish.
Mazel Tov.
Does anybody know what the actual game is?
DryvBy, people have spent more money on equally stupid things. Stamps, coins, old cars, et cetera. They'll use none of it because it's too valuable. It's called a collection hobby, the point is to collect the things you like. Some people like the really rare and expensive stuff within that hobby. Within collecting video games, is this old gold NES cartridge. So if you want the rarest of the rare, that's the cart to find.
how much would an original gold zelda cardridge sell for? with all the packaging and manual.
*stares at possible ££££ on shelf*
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