Do NES auctions make you feel old?

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Nintendo Stadium Events, sealed in box:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140384097750

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=140384097750

9 1/2 days to go, and already 6 high-feedback-likely-legit bidders that have bid $9,000 or more for this NES cartridge.

I'm thinking it is sort of a generational thing, like how classic muscle cars are hot because kids wanted them when they were young and (most) couldn't afford them, while cars (generally) for the 1920s-50s are going down in price as people that remember them are dying off.

The auction has only been up for 1/2 day, and it's already bid higher than the end price for the white computer space on eBay (and likely higher than any other normal coin-op videogame that has sold on eBay).

I'm I the only one that is feeling old this morning?
 
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Current Bid : $10,450
(reserve not met)

Ive officially lost all faith in the human race.
 
Current Bid : $10,450
(reserve not met)

Ive officially lost all faith in the human race.

That is what my wife said when I told her this morning. She says she understands why someone would pay $100k for a car or even $20k for a pinball machine that you can play, but she doesn't understand $20k for a NES cartridge that you can't take out of the box.

I told her that at least you can touch the box itself, unlike the $20k graded coin, baseball card, or comic book wrapped in Lucite...

There are definitely a lot of no-kids-yet, finally-making-a-lot-more-money-at-30-than-22, grew-up-on-the-NES, doesn't-have-a-large-house-yet-so-likes-the-size-of-a-NES-cart potential buyers.
 
That is what my wife said when I told her this morning. She says she understands why someone would pay $100k for a car or even $20k for a pinball machine that you can play, but she doesn't understand $20k for a NES cartridge that you can't take out of the box.

I told her that at least you can touch the box itself, unlike the $20k graded coin, baseball card, or comic book wrapped in Lucite...

There are definitely a lot of no-kids-yet, finally-making-a-lot-more-money-at-30-than-22, grew-up-on-the-NES, doesn't-have-a-large-house-yet-so-likes-the-size-of-a-NES-cart potential buyers.

The best part is you can now get sealed video games graded too which would probably double the value of whatever this one ends at. I got into and out of NES collecting very quickyl... soon after I realized there was a lot of games for the system that I could care less about (i.e. Stadium Events). :)
 
Yeah, I couldn't imagine spending that much on an NES game even if I had the money. And I'm a die hard Nintendo fan.

The most I've spent on a CIB game is $100. That was for a minty Mike Tyson's Punch-Out with the letter from Mike.

The people who buy these things are not die hard, just insane. There's a difference.
 
To the original question, yes it does. I just bought a 1979 hand-held Mattel Horoscope Computer on eBay for $29.XX. The only other one listed on the site is listed with a BIN of $189.99. That's not the part that made me feel old. The part that made me feel old is that there is a warning on the box that says something to the effect of "Predictions and computations are only accurate from July 1979-April 1987". This machine, that I owned, loved and played with as a kid, hit the end of it's relevance 23 years ago. Ouch. I still fired it up last night and asked it questions from dates I remember from my youth. What a cool and strange toy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110490365149&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
 
How much you want to bet he didn't even write that? I thought he had like a 5th grade literacy level.

Who cares if he wrote it, its cool! I wonder how many of those letters were drafted, and how people got them?
 
How long before we start seeing playstation or xbox game auctions reaching the $1000's?

This seller should be congratulated striking while the iron is blazing hot for this one box/game! What slow economy?
 
Is $13K the reserve on this you think?

$11K with 9D left. Crazy.
 
$11,000 and reserve still not met. Love the original sale price sticker - $29.99. That thing about one being born every minute? Looks like we have 12 minutes covered in this auction...
 
I'm guessing the reserve is a few thousand more than 13000. If an unsealed copy went for thirteen, then the reserve on this has got to be at least $15-17k. I predict anywhere between 17k-30k final price. That's just my semi-educated guess though. If that's the case then it's suddenly topped the NWC cart as "the" grail to get.
 
are there really than many people who think old nes carts are worth 10k+? or is it the same small group of people? I just cant understand why anyone without a brain defect would spend that kind of money on any 1 item nintendo made
 
Yeah,I think paying that much is insane,but at the same time the g/f wonders how in the world I can drop several hundred on an arcade game,so it just depends on your point of view.
 
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