Feb 13, 2010
Last week, a North Carolina mom placed an original NES and five cartridges on eBay for ten dollars. The final bid? $13,105.
Turns out one of those cartridges was a copy of the extremely rare Stadium Events, still in its original box, and added loads of value to the auction.
For those who DIDN’T get copies of the Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter back in 1987, Stadium Events was an exercise game by Bandai, that used the “Family Fun Fitness mat,” later rechristened the “Power Pad.” It was only released in a northern test market with around 2000 copies in circulation, but when Nintendo bought the rights to the mat in 1988, everything with the Family Fun Fitness brand was taken off the market and destroyed, leaving this mom’s copy of the game one of the few remaining copies left in existence. It’s believed that only 10 units of the game still remain, and only one of them is factory sealed.
Nice to see a good eBay success story every once in awhile.
It looks in pretty amazing shape, too. My NES is a train wreck.
I'd sell that game for 13,000. Bleh.
Man, I kept my NES stuff in pristine condition. I was always so anal about that stuff because I could only get a game so infrequently that each one was generally pretty special. There was a Christmas once where I got two games and that was a big deal. I never understood kids who tossed their cartridges and boxes around like they were nothing.
I remember being very upset because the manual and pack-ins for Zelda got so worn out, but that was just because I leafed through them so much.