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A sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda just sold for nearly a million dollars
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
nah it's an investment.
same like investing in art
people don't spend 2M on a painting because they like how it looks
just a smart thing to do with your cash
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People don't buy this for preservation, but just for speculation.
It's been a while retrogaming is become just speculation. These are not gamers. These are the guy who made speculations on comic books, then trading cards, then sneakers, now videogames.
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Buying a video games cartridge, rather than doing something worthwhile with it.
Synless
Member
Why buy art? cards? old currency? Fossils? They never do anything it besides display them. bunch of losers, all of them.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Big Zelda fan, huh?
GreatnessRD
Member
While I would never spend that much bread on an item, it is hilarious to see a bunch of hating in the comments. lol
Synless
Member
No, but I am a fan of collectibles and can understand why people spend big money on them.
Indeed, dumb people.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
There’s being a fan of collectibles (I have far too many Batman Hot Toys figures) and then there’s spaffing an absolute fortune up the wall for a single game cartridge. It’s not black or white.
Ceadeus
Gold Member
Like what?
The Pleasure
Member
Yeah. They're SHINY fucking rocks. Haven't you heard Tamatoa?
alf717
Member
Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.
Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions
World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneer
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anthony2690
Banned
I actually feel like this is BS, or they are massively grossly inflating prices, I know full well there is a few people with sealed copies of mario 64 graded, in absolutely beautiful condition in the UK, in the GGG FB group alone, and even then I doubt they would even be able shift them for 5% of this price...Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.
Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions
World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneercomics.ha.com
Or is there something magical about the USA version that makes it more valuable?
CatsGamesWhatever
Member
Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.
Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions
World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneercomics.ha.com
WATA graded games has little to do with regular video game collecting. It's just speculation.
I think spending $1.5 million on a Mario 64 sealed is crazy too. It was one of the most produced games on the N64 even getting multiple print runs under the Player's Choice version.
And I hope people investing in this stuff realize that by the time N64 started to roll into NA these games were being speculated upon. There's a reason WATA does no population reports on these collectibles.
I know someone who has a factory sealed case of GoldenEye on N64 for instance and there's multiple pieces of anecdotal evidence that the same thing happened for almost every other game!
FFS Tim Atwood is sitting on sealed boxes of Stadium events and other games going back to the NES and this was common info back in 2016.
But there's always a lag to these markets as people who own this stuff realize or act on how much it is now worth and try to get it graded/sold.
There's a reason the card grading companies have 2+ year backlogs and it's only going to get worst until the multiple markets correct.
YeulEmeralda
Member
Not really unusual people pay for old wine and whiskey all the time that they just put in a cellar vault.
CatsGamesWhatever
Member
I'm curious as well how they grade them. Is WATA some new standard didn't a "VGA" group exist? I should get a Mega Man 64 graded and rake in the big bucks.
WATA came onto the scene and decided they were the authority with grading. They said they had hired many "experts" but a lot of collectors knew more than their experts in 2018(?) when they were formed.
Look at some of the PAT the NES Punk videos from then on WATA. He knew way more than anyone they hired but they still were a catalyst for the huge increase in prices of games. They basically created the market.
The so called "Left Bros" 1st print of Super Mario 3 on NES, The "sticker seal" black box games. Nobody gave a fuck about any of this stuff until Wata said it was valuable and collectors then agreed!
hybrid_birth
Gold Member
Wata fool whoever bought this.I'm curious as well how they grade them. Is WATA some new standard didn't a "VGA" group exist? I should get a Mega Man 64 graded and rake in the big bucks.
lame gag1990
Member
Eh? If he scratches and wins, he would be a winner.