Being an old school gamer (or just an *old* gamer?!) I like the idea behind the article but did you actually check any of the information in it first? Just from skimming through the list: Futurama - multiple copies for PS2 on eBay for under a fiver; Haunting Ground for PS2 is so hard to find that there are only 19 copies for sale currently on eBay; Black Lamp for the Spectrum - I'll give you this one in that there was ONE copy on +3 disk (pretty rare) that sold on eBay for the price you quote not that long ago but the regular tape version is easy to find for under a fiver; ...and so on. I'm not denying that there are some genuinely rare games on this list but many are only *RARE* in the USA (which is where I suspect this list originated) and fetch a pittance in comparison for their UK versions. Fortnite is probably the one people are the most likely to have knocking about because it's so recent and is extremely rare to own on disc.
Nintendo World Championship Gold (Nintendo) for NES, 1990: up to $170,000 (£131k)
Nintendo Power Magazine held another Nintendo World Championship competition in America back in 1990. The prizewinners, who numbered just 26, each received a shiny gold cartridge. The holy grail of NES games, these ultra-scarce cartridges command crazy prices – a copy sold for just shy of $100,000 on eBay in 2014, which would be worth around $135,000 (£104k) today. Last year, another went up for auction, eventually fetching $170,000 (£131k).
Daniel Coughlin
02 April 2025
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