NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS nes MINT competition cart
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USD 6,500.00 |
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USD 6,500.00 |
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Monday, July 28, 2008 |
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Apeldoorn, Gelderland |
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NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS nes MINT competition cart Hi, in the next couple of months I will sell a huge part of my collection, it took me over 10 years to collect !! Many ultra rare items will be listed like an almost complete us/jap Neo Geo AES/pocket/cd collection, 500+ jamma pcb's, 10.000's of complete nes/snes/md/n64/saturn/pc engine/dreamcast/gameboy games and so much more. Looking for a rare item I might have just send me a message so I can put it up for auction. Today I am selling the NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS cart, used in the famous 1990 Nintendo championships in the USA.This is the best label I have ever seen, most of the times the label is in very bad condition because they were used during the competition. This cartridge looks almost new!!Why pay $ 6000,- to $ 6500,- for a damaged cartridge? Mine is in new condition, a true museum piece.Only around 200 were made, this is number 196.This game will work on any USA Nintendo nes console. Condition:cart: 9 no writing on cart or label GAME TESTED AND WORKING !! Check my other auctions for many more games and save on shipping !! WIKIPEDIA INFO: For the competition, 116 special game cartridges were manufactured. 90 of these copies exist in a grey cartridge and were given out to semi-finalists of the 1990 NWC. 26 of these cartridges are gold - like the Legend of Zelda cartridge - and were given out to winners and runners-up in a contest held by Nintendo Power magazine. To play the cartridge, one must have a controller connected to both controller ports and press start on the second player's controller. For the competition, there was a special switch that would start all cartridges simultaneously. Both versions of the cartridge feature DIP switches on the front, which can alter the time limit. The Nintendo World Championships 1990 game cartridge is considered to be the rarest and most valuable NES cartridge released, promo cartridges aside, and the gold variation is nicknamed the holy grail of video game collecting. Recently, a grey cartridge went on eBay and sold for a record $6,100, and a gold cartridge was up for sale on eBay with a Buy It Now purchase price of $20,000. In September 2007, another gold cartridge was sold privately, though the price and other information was not disclosed. On April 17th, 2007, a gold cartridge was inadvertently sold by a father who was selling his son's possessions who had died in Iraq on myebid.com. The father was selling 24 cartridges, with no special attention paid to the Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge. The listing ended at $21,400, though it is unlikely that this amount was actually paid. Collectors have speculated that this listing was not legitimate to begin with, and that the bids may also not have been legitimate. To date, of the 26 NWC gold cartridges produced, only 12 copies have ever surfaced. The last copy sold in April 2008 for $15,000 to a collector in New York. The NWC Gold cartridge is often compared to "holy grail" items from other collectible hobbies, such as the T206 Honus Wager baseball card, or Action Comics #1 comic book. Officially, a player has six minutes and 21 seconds to play in the contest, which is divided up into three minigames. The first minigame of the competition is to collect 50 coins in Super Mario Brothers. The next minigame is a version of Rad Racer where players must complete a specialized Nintendo World Championship course. The final minigame is Tetris and this lasts until time expires. Once time does expire, a player's score is totaled using the following formula: Super Mario Brothers score + Rad Racer score times 10 + Tetris score times 25 Most players focused their tactic on getting a high score in Tetris while other players tried to exploit a trick in Super Mario Brothers where a part of the game can be played repeatedly using warp pipes. Paypal (no additional fees) Bank Transfer (IBAN/BIC)NO CHEQUES, NO MONEY ORDERS !! (no exceptions) Payment has to be send within 7 days !! I ship WORLDWIDE !! Shipping first item (games only)Europe & UK - 13 us dollarsUSA and rest of the world - 20 us dollarsif you win more of my auctions you only pay the highest shipping fee once, for every next item you only pay HALF of the shipping charge !! I SHIP MY GAMES IN A BOX TO AVOID DAMAGEShipping within Holland at actual TNT shipping costs On 18-Jul-08 at 12:03:34 BST, seller added the following information:
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