Someone paid $55,000 for a zelda eprom cart on ebay

geluda · Feb 4, 2013

TheRedEye said: ↑

Hi, I wanted to clarify some things.

1. Final Fantasy II was listed by me. It was $50,000 OR BEST OFFER, which people conveniently ignore.

2. That list price was based on the Zelda sale. I saw someone paying that much money for a more-or-less identical retail game, so I wanted to see if I could attract that person to something I felt was an even more special collectible.

3. I did end up connecting to that same buyer, with whom I negotiated an offer with that was near to my asking price.

4. That buyer disappeared before the deal closed, and has not been responding to my emails since. My understanding is that he purchased the majority of the high-profile NES stuff (like the 5-digit VGA games) over this past year. From talking to some collectors who have dealt with him, it seems like he isn't buying anything now.

5. He DID see this as an investment -- as part of our negotiations, he wanted me to publicly reveal that Final Fantasy II was sold "to a museum." It was a for-profit museum. I think he believed that he was investing in merchandise that people would pay to see.

6. I dumped that Zelda prototype years and years and years ago, it is not 100% identical to final, though whatever differences there may be, they're extremely minor (someone very familiar with the game played through it and noticed nothing).

7. Interesting tidbit totally unrelated to the sale: this was Howard Phillips' copy of the game when he worked at Nintendo. He identified it recently.
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I do think the FF2 cart has a lot of value, after all it's a legitimate translation of a previously unreleased game, maybe not $50,000 but that's just my opinion. That's not an attempt to knock the proto and your sale, more to emphasise that while the Zelda cart is a nice piece of history it's not anything special from a prototype stand point.

Someone paid $55,000 for a zelda eprom cart on ebay

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