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About LinkBacksEveryday folk discovering colossally valuable collectors' items amid everyday junk has been the lifeblood of antiques shows for years, but it's not every day you see a real-life gold-in-the-attic tale play out on eBay.
Last week, North Carolina eBay user lace_thongs35 thought she was putting up an everyday, 80s-era Nintendo Entertainment System (together with five games) up on the popular auction site. But less than an hour after the first bid, the price was over $6,000 -- and on Wednesday, when the auction closed, the final selling price topped $13,000.
Why? Not the console itself, but one of the games bundled with it -- a deeply obscure 1987 release called Stadium Events, a highly sought-after collectors' item. But it wasn't even the game itself that was worth the bulk of the money -- it was the original cardboard box, which collectors value at a breathtaking $10,000. Fewer than 10 complete copies of the game are thought to exist, and retro gaming aficionados consider it one of the hardest-to-find NES games ever made.
Bet you're wishing you hadn't let Mom throw out your Nintendo collection now, eh?
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- 13 Feb. 2010 12:28pm #1Moderator Topic-Clearing
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Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105 
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- 13 Feb. 2010 03:55pm #2Spectacularly Active
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Holy Shiz
Damn that console sells for 10 grand.
I should've let my cousin broke mine T_T
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- 13 Feb. 2010 05:25pm #3Stunning
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lol I still have mine. XBox can fuck itself.
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- 13 Feb. 2010 05:48pm #4Donator
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Why the fuck read the whole post, right Viper, Raivu?
Anyway, 10k for a cardboard box, sounds incredible...
- 13 Feb. 2010 06:41pm #5
Holy fuck bro, one game is worth 10k USD? O_O
I am totally looking through my old Nintendo collection nao.
- 13 Feb. 2010 06:44pm #6
dang 10grand for that...
thats amazing+Rep if I helped
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- 14 Feb. 2010 12:40am #7Stunning
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what part of what I said made you believe I didn't read the whole thing? Originally Posted by Drakonid 
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- 14 Feb. 2010 12:52am #8
Holy shit that's a lot. Then again on 10 copies...
- 14 Feb. 2010 12:55am #9
We could make a fortune if we replicate the box.
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- 14 Feb. 2010 12:57am #10
fuck yea my GRANDMA has one im going to ask for it!! FUCK YES BITCHES~~~
- 14 Feb. 2010 01:09am #11
That is fucken insane. I bet that person was freaking out when she saw it bid that high.
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- 14 Feb. 2010 01:18am #12Moderator Topic-Clearing
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- 14 Feb. 2010 05:23am #13
I never let my parents throw out any of my gaming collection. I still have almost every game I ever owned.
- 14 Feb. 2010 05:52am #14
Damn dude. You almost made me go to the ol' shit room in our house and pull that thing out... too bad we don't have that game...
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- 14 Feb. 2010 05:54am #15
i should raid my grandparents house.. they have an original nintendo with over 100 games because everytime they go to yardsales they buy more.. they have R.O.B too.
- 14 Feb. 2010 06:29am #16
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- 14 Feb. 2010 09:58am #17
That's insane... now how many people have started digging around their collections?
- 14 Feb. 2010 10:39am #18
console isn't worth 10 grand its the game thats worth it i get these consoles for like $10-$50 easily and if i'm correct i know someone who has stadium events also i think the pawn shop down here has it to
so gonna get it now and put it on ebay see what i get for it
- 14 Feb. 2010 01:32pm #19Stunning
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Then you're going to buy your good friend Raivu a car, so he can go see his girlfriend for more than 3 hours a week, right? Originally Posted by RobbyTheReaper console isn't worth 10 grand its the game thats worth it i get these consoles for like $10-$50 easily and if i'm correct i know someone who has stadium events also i think the pawn shop down here has it to
so gonna get it now and put it on ebay see what i get for it
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- 14 Feb. 2010 04:47pm #20
WoW soo old system, sold for soo much money
really i understand that collectors want it but to spend 13,000$ on a system that is older than me ? - never Originally Posted by ~Souleater~
- 14 Feb. 2010 05:39pm #21
@whoever's grandparents buy NES games,
Can we trade grandparents? Mine are dead, but wouldn't do that anyway.
That's awesome.
- 14 Feb. 2010 07:18pm #22
I'm not surprised. Some old Famicom cartridges pull in 6k+ on its own.
