Nintendo 1990 World Championship Cart For $0.50

No video game will ever be worth $10 million....
And like I said my signature titles are not for sale. They're my pride & joy in this hobby. I don't need anyone to vaildate my collection but myself. I can totally grasp at the fact that the NWC carts are being overplayed for what they're really worth. Nobody truly can give me an accurrate count of the remaining NWC carts. Some folks probably sitting on them and can care less about reporting them to Assemblergames or any other site for that matter. Just people pulling numbers out their asses ! Hell, I could be one of those people just jerking your chain while sitting on 11 copies of the NWC carts given to me from a former Nintendo Rep from back in the day. Perhaps its just fun sittin back watching you guesstimate the outlook on these NWC carts. Like this so-called $20,000 auction.
Please point me to this hilarious outcome, Alchy :lol:

 

All it takes is two rich lunatics, and it could happen. And let's face it, our hobby has no shortage of lunatics.

 

Since you're too lazy to do your own googling, here it is: http://digg.com/gaming_news/Golden_Nintendo_World_Championships_1990_cartridge_sells_for_21_400
I'm sure that's just, um, ebay "pulling numbers out of their asses" or something, though.

And your signature items are for sale, if I offered you enough. Don't be facetious.

 

All I have to say is that sometimes the history behind an item is more important than any logical reason for the physical item sans the history.

For example, the first NWC to sell over $2000 was by my buddy skaar. He put a BIN of $4400 after seeing another one sell for over $6000 (keep in mind, they were fake bidders). However, the guy who bought skaar's NWC was a legit buyer, who obviously had a lot of disposable income. The thing was, the NWC that skaar had was not one given to the winners of the event. His uncle was involved in organizing the event, and he gave the cart to him. With that history, and since these carts are numbered, there is that additional value to that cart.

BTW, after skaar sold his cart for that amount, I don't think the NWC cart sold for less than $2000 ever again.

 

Say I found a statue inside of the Great Pyramid, and it turned out the statue was 5,000 years old. That little statue would be a priceless artifact.

Now, If I went and got the exact same kind of rock and sculpted an exact copy, that looked like the original in every way down to the little cracks between the toes, my copy would still be a worthless copy.

Becasue there is only one original.

 

Well i'm glad I didn't waste my time googling. I was well aware of the
tale about a father and the son killed in Iraq bit. I was actually referring
to a recent auction JJ Games tried to hike a NWC Gold cart to $30,000 in a charity auction. The auction closed at $13,600. Could it be people
starting to catch-on to this circus act?

Its been a dream of mine as a gamer to meet the legends behind the rebirth of the gaming industry. Those items were specifically chosen to bare the names of those legends and I was there when it happened. You could never understand how special that was for me. You couldn't pay me
enough to give them up. Money isn't everything.

 

You need to lay off of it Herman. You seem like you're bent on proving something that's only your opinion. Opinions aren't an easy thing to change, no one is likely to change your opinion. The way this is going you sound like you're going to turn into one of those guys that spouts "fact" about anything they say, as if their opinion is any more superior than others.

People will pay what they want because they want it. Just accept it, doesn't matter what YOU think its worth, only the people that want it matter in this case.

 

The truth is out. Just because you do not like it does not make it untrue.

Unless you can prove that every single NWC cart sale for over about $2000 was a scam then sadly for you the proof is in the payments.

If in any allotted time the value decreases to what you see fit then even that will not prove you right, as the value will only have proven to fluctuate in a real world market.

 

Then it's worth more than $10k, isn't it? You can't say that it isn't, because obviously several people have paid this amount. Fucking hell, I might as well have been bouncing my head off a brick wall for all the progress we've made in this discussion.

Then you're either so rich that money has lost all meaning, or you're a liar. Which is it to be?

 

I think we should call this a day. I can understand where you are coming from, Alchy and I agree but I can also see where Herman is coming from and Agree with him but I don't think he is wording what he wants to say correctly.

Anyway, Herman's games are too valuable to sell in terms of sentimental reasons. So to him they are priceless although I'm sure he'll part with them for a cool 1 million (plus as far as the actual games are concerned they aren't worth anything special). But he must understand that there are people out there who think of the NWC cart in the same way he thinks of his signed items. These people will pay whatever for a slice of history. To them the NWC is priceless so they will spend as much as possible to get it.

Personally I think it's a waste of money and that's not because the roms were dumped but because I couldn’t give two shits about it :110: each to their own, I say.

Yakumo