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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1:00 PM on 04.18.2007
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i remember that contest. i think those pages of my nintendo power are still stuck together.
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
Fanboy? lol
(sorry)
It's ok... sometimes pages of my Game Informer get stuck together because of the awesomeness coming out this summer.
Who knows if anyone ever bought the thing.
Life is still very hectic for me, but I couldn't resist to post this.I was blown away.
Mabec: you can read more about it here
http://www.thebbps.com/blog/2006/11/17/nwc-gold-cart/
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html
http://cgi.ebay.com/1990-Nintendo-Championship-Game-Cartridge-RARE_W0QQitemZ160107851726QQihZ006QQcategoryZ62053QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Wikipedia.
Lord knows I've worked on many tech demos that fans would love to play.
Mazel Tov.
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First, the are not numbered and the carts cannot be told apart from another. This makes it very difficult to prove the original owner and its ownership history.
Second, the only mark on the cart is printed on cheap non-glossed sticker paper with a 360 dpi Xerox printer. Worse yet, the sticker isn't machine cut, nor shaped by exacto knife. It is cut with original scissors by hand. Then sloppily slapped on.
If you have no soul, you can mint your own. You will also walk in the very same steps Nintendo did.
1) Get a gray cart(stay with me here) and remove the circuit board. They are 100% identical.
2) Take a Zelda cart and remove the inside and wash off the sticker. Cut a small sqaure in the upper left hand corner in the same position as the gray. Smooth it out.
3)Place the gray board in the gold and put in the screws. Since the corner is gone and the right size, the dip switch will face out nicely.
4) Scan the Nintendo World Championships logo in and match to size of any gold cart you've seen in Photoshop. Print in 360 dpi on ordinary non-gloseed sticker paper. Best if you have a color inkjets could do the trick.
5) Cut with plain scissors and place by on the front as a gold would.
BAM! You have yourself a gold.
Once again, DO NOT DO THIS. THIS IS FRAUD. This is to prove the golds are not a wise investment. However, some dishonest joker will see a gray for 6,000 turning it into a 17,500 sell will take the risk. Take caution.
Why would Nintendo make it so easy. The golds were a promotion and an afterthought and they used what they had at the time, the official grays.
Be safe and be careful what you buy. You might be purchasing a gray in disguise...
I know the Nintendo Championships very well. Was the Champion from Portland Mike Stricklett?
Now they orginally were supposed to be at Universal Studios Orlando Florida then they moved the finals to Universal Studios Hollywood. Check it out on Youtube.