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Nintendo World Championships 1990 NES w NWC Controller

Collectors have yet another Nintendo World Championships 1990 cart to drool over. ?These grey carts generally go for between $5,000-6,000, so the eBay seller “vicviper“ pushing the envelope by asking a starting bid of $11,990.90 + ($6.00 shipping…seriously, why even charge it?). While I’m doubting it’ll even get bids for that price, what’s interesting here is the controller included. The seller states that it’s an official controller used during the competition at one of the competition stations. He explains that he begged a Nintendo employee for it after participating in the competition. I haven’t seen one of these controllers before, so it’s worth taking a look. Plus, this guy’s writeup is absolutely fascinating for any collector of old school Nintendo games. Check it out, and happy collecting!

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Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 — aka Most Expensive Video Game Ever Sold!

A the world’s second most expensive video game just sold on eBay! The ultra rare “Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991” cartridge closed for $20,100. I’d imagine some collector is incredibly happy and most likely very poor right now. Not to mention that JJ Hendricks, the seller of the game and owner of JJGames.com and VGPC.com recouped a bit of money from his big video game splurge earlier this year.

Why so expensive? If you remember from earlier this year, the most expensive game every purchased went for $17,500. That was JJ as well. However in that case, he was making an addition to his collection. JJ managed to track down a gold copy of the “NES World Championships 1990.” While 26 of those gold cartridges were produces, only 12 are still confirmed to be in existence.

So here’s the thing that makes the Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 cart so rare: only one is known to have survived the competition’s destroy-when-the-competition-is-over instructions. Apparently some employee at Nintendo managed to save this one from the axe. Years later it popped up at a yard sale.

$20,100…I can’t say I’d ever spend that much on a game, but I love the ability of eBay to unite us collectors. It was a rare video game collector’s dream to watch this thing jump from $8,500 to $20,100 in the last minute. Thanks JJ for putting it in auction format!

Here’s the last 2 minutes of the auction captured on YouTube!

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New Kids on the Block Box for Prototype NES Game

Just when you think your childhood couldn’t have been any cooler, imagine this! We all know the greatness of the original 8-bit Nintendo and, if we are ok admitting it, many of us also loved the early boy band New Kids on the Block.

As if that weren’t great enough, just recently the world found out that these two mega hits could have become one. This sample New Kids on the Block prototype box just surfaced on eBay! Unfortunately it never made it past the drawing board. Thus the seller “Mazoku” explains that it’s just a piece of photo paper that’s wrapped around a cardboard box. Those black things on the back are Velcro, so I’m assuming it was stuck to some sort of a photo board for display. No prototype game is know to have been made to go along with this, so we can only guess as to the games style.

(Update: Just for the record for anyone who might be snubbing their nose at this one, the auction just closed on October 20, 2009 at $589.00 USD with $3.99 s/h.)

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Harmonic + Zelda NES Cart = ?

Long before Guitar Hero and Samba de Amigo, the original Nintendo brought us iconic music in simple but brilliant midi ditties. Not only did our favorite classics have awesome soundtracks, but Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Legend of Zelda tapped into our budding imaginations with magical whistles which later, in Zelda’s case, became the ocarina. The ocarina, a 12,000 year old instrument, eventually morphed into an iPhone app by Smule giving iPhone users the ability to rock out and pretend we’re Link.

As if that wasn?t perfect enough, an eBay seller “nes_harmonica” has continued the trend of NES musical influence by bringing us the 8-bit Nintendo cartridge /harmonica!

Custom Made NES Zelda Harmonica

Custom Made NES Dick Tracy Harmonica

Custom Made NES Mario Brothers 3 Harmonica

Funny enough he’s built the harmonicas, quite appropriately, into a gold cart Zelda, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Dick Tracy! I’m pretty sure this is where brilliant meets absurd with brilliant winning. Will we see YouTube videos of people playing their harmonica along with their favorite NES game? Time will tell… (As a disclaimer, I don’t know the seller; however, he was kind enough to give me permission to use his photos. I’m not sure how well these work, but I certainly admire this creativity.)

If you’re more interested in an ocarina on your iPhone than in your NES cart, you can find the Ocarina app and other games at iTunes: All Your Music, All In One Place

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Super Pitfall Prototype on eBay

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Hey fellow collectors! Here’s a pretty rad looking Super Pitfall prototype game for SNES Super Nintendo on eBay. Maybe it’s not worth the $500 that the guy is asking, but it seems to be a pretty unique find: Super Pitfall SNES Prototype Proto Beta Sample RARE!!!

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Map of GamesOgre.net eBay Sales from Jan to Aug 2009

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I was curious to find out what my GamesOgre eBay Store sales looked like when mapped out around the world. It’s phenomenal to see how many locations I’ve mailed something to! In all that I think only one package was lost by the USPS. (Just for the record, I deleted any duplicate zip codes.) That’s a lot of retro gamers and video game collectors…thanks to eBay for helping to spread classic plastic love!

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Free Viking Costume for Your LBP Sackboy!

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If you’re a LBP fan, and shame on you if you’re not, you have an opportunity to get a viking costume for your sack boy as part of a free Norse Mythology costume pack! ?Free!
Just go to the Playstation website and then follow the on screen instructions.
Just note that when you’re on your PS3 you enter the code under “Account Manager” and not inside the Playstation store.
Happy gaming & thanks Sony!

If you’re a LBP fan, and shame on you if you’re not, you have an opportunity to get a viking costume for your sack boy as part of a free Norse Mythology costume pack! ?Free!

 
Just go to the Playstation website and then follow the on screen instructions.
 
Just note that when you’re on your PS3 you enter the code under “Account Manager” and not inside the Playstation store.
 
Happy gaming & thanks Sony!

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Rare Video Game Hunting: TI-99 4A, Atari Lynx, N64, Dreamcast

You never know what you’re going to find when out yardsaling, checking thrift stores, and rummaging through swap meets (flea markets).

This past weekend I got almost everything in the above photos from one vendor at an area swap meet! The guy had a ton of stuff. I had gotten to know him on previous weeks, so I asked if we could make a deal for the lot. He was happy to clear out his stuff, and the next thing I knew I was carrying one of the heaviest boxes of retro video game treasures out of that swap meet!

Talk about a jackpot find! I’d never even seen an Atari Lynx before in the flesh! Also in photos is a TI-99 4A computer, a bunch of great NES games, a Sega Dreamcast with Power Stone 2 inside!!, Sega CD games, N64s, etc. I’m still smiling as I go through my look like a kid with a pile of Halloween candy.

I’m slowly getting everything listed on eBay, so if you see something here you like check my eBay store for these rare retro video games, and it’ll be up within a week or two if it isn’t already.

As an update, a few of these items sold. Here are a few examples of such auctions:

HUGE LOT TI-99 4A Computer + 12 Video Games Accessories” sold for $49.66

BROKEN Atari Lynx Handheld Game System AC Adapter Case” sold for $26.63

Sega Dreamcast System + Controller + VMU + Rumble Pack” sold for $39.95

“HUGE LOT TI-99 4A Computer + 12 Video Games Accessories” sold for $49.66
“BROKEN Atari Lynx Handheld Game System AC Adapter Case” sold for $26.63
“Sega Dreamcast System + Controller + VMU + Rumble Pack” sold for $39.95