Auction Watch: NES game sells for more than $41,000

First there was an original NES system selling for over $13,000 and then two vintage comics, featuring Superman and Batman, selling for 1 million each. Recently there was another auction involving an unusual collector’s item and, again, it left the owner with an impressive profit.

The auction was for a 1987 NES video game cartridge but this one in particular turned out to be one of the rarest available. The video game in question is Stadium Events, which is rated one of the top ten rarest games. In addition to being a collector’s item, this particular copy was not only in mint condition, but it was still in its original package with the price sticker.

When the bidding for the video game ended, after about 115 bids, the winner got his rare video game after forking an amazing $41,300 USD.

The recent auction involving an NES console was so successful due to the fact that this same video game was part of the package so that story probably encouraged this new auction, with even more amazing results. It is of note that the original price of the video game was $29.99 USD, so that left the previous owner with a return of more than 1,300 times what she originally paid for it.

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