Damn you cruel fate!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nintendo Penguin]

Those of you who also post at VintageGamer may have alread head this story!

 

Had I gotten to the god-damned video game store 2 minutes sooner, I could of had a World Championships Cart!!!!!! I walked in and passed I guy with a cart that caught my eye, I asked him what he bought and he showed me..... It was a Grey World Championships Cart. Some Dumbass actually traded it in at the Games 4 Less!

 

The dude who bought it showed it to me and we chatted a bit. I offered him $300.00 but he wasn't interested. GRRR! Can you belive Games 4 Less sold it to him for only $10?!?!?!?! GEEZ!

 

Just goes to show you that the world is full of dumb-shits who trade in super rare carts!

[King Atari]

Dude, that's awful. Sorry man.

[Ze_ro]

Well, I don't feel so bad about that time I missed out on a TurboDuo anymore...

 

--Zero

[MegaManFan]

Wow. Mark, I'm so sorry for you. That's killer. I'd want to bash my head in with a brick thinking about it. I suggest not dwelling - get stupid drunk and try to forget you ever saw it.

[Atari Master]

WTF! I thought they had all been discoverd already!!! NOOOOOOOO

 

YOU GOT ME PISSED BECAUSE YOU MISSED IT!

[Jasoco]

Makes me feel better about not buying that Virtual Boy, Genesis, 32X and Turbo Grafix 16 a while back.

 

Wait.. no it doesn't.

 

$300 and he still kept it. He had to be a collector too. Tough break.

 

*pssst* What's World Championships?

[Mayhem]

Nintendo World Championships 1990. I'm right in thinking that the competition was held all around the country on a specially produced NES cart, which later went to the winner of each heat per store. These were grey in colour and probably number 100+ in total.

 

There's also a rarer gold version that was handed out to certain people, I think about 25-30 of them in total exist. That one has sold $5000+ on eBay, making it the most valuable cart in existance...

[Jasoco]

I hope you told the clerk how much that cartridge he just sold was worth. Though, it might make them a little more weary to valuable carts and they'd start grabbing them first.

 

Just a question, if I go into a GameStop and look through the old cartridges bin, are there any semi-rare carts I should be looking for? Just in case?

[Nintendo Penguin]

The best I have found in the wild (World Championship Cart aside) is about a 6 an the rarity scale. The advantage to finding them at Gamestop or elsewhere is that semi-rare carts are often very cheap at these places, as they usually only mark-up popular games.

 

Check out the rairty list (incomplete on my website. You can Also visit the digital press website for a rarity lis next time you go shopping.

[A2600]

AHHHHHH

 

 

It just breaks my heart!

 

thats soo stupid

 

hey vintageamer how many copys where actually made??

 

I think like less than a 100 and that might be alot right?? If my NES memory serves me right

[AtariDude]

I hope you told the clerk how much that cartridge he just sold was worth. Though, it might make them a little more weary to valuable carts and they'd start grabbing them first.

 

Just a question, if I go into a GameStop and look through the old cartridges bin, are there any semi-rare carts I should be looking for? Just in case?

 

Don't them the jerks..ummm..clerks about how valuable those cartridges are worth. There is already a problem with some thrifts overcharging on common cartridges. We don't want everyone else to start overcharging.

 

If they are not aware of how valuable something is, then it is their loss.

[Nintendo Penguin]

To the best of my knowledge, there are 90 grey carts and 26 gold carts. The grey ones were for the semi-finalists and the grey ones were competition carts given out at random to Nintendo Power Subscribers.

[badbrad]

You shoulda jacked him, stole the cart and left him the money