I don't know what's crazier.. someone buying a video game and NEVER OPENING IT! or someone paying $10 GRAND for a.. VIDEO GAME!!
In the world of novel knick knacks and collectable curios, there is always die hards that will pay top dollar for a prized object.. mint condition Babe Ruth rookie card!.. Original Star Wars figurines memorabilia..
Think about it.. a piece of paper, or some plastic, being bought and sold at astronomical prices at pawn shops and auction houses the world over.
The latest rare find making headlines comes from one lucky son of a.. Daedalus over in Nevada.
Apparently Scott Amos of Reno, NV was visiting his mom at his childhood home last month for mother's day when she asked him to take some of his boxes of old stuff out of the attic. Among the ephemera, trinkets and baubles, Amos found an unopened boxed cartridge of the popular 1987 video game, Kid Icarus still in the bag with the receipt for $38.45 from J.C. Penney’s catalog department three decades earlier.
Amos said no one in his family has any recollection of buying the game:
“I can remember the game. My neighbor down the street had it. I remember it being hard, and I was never that good of a gamer guy. All the family has been trying to come up with a hypothesis ... (My mom) thinks she put it there and never got it back out, and then it ended up in the attic.”
Considering the Dec. 8, 1988, purchase date found on the receipt, it was most likely intended as a Christmas Gift that Santa forgot.. We'll that Christmas gift seems to be returning with dividends??
According to Valarie McLeckie, video game consignment director at Heritage Auctions, it’s one of the hardest Nintendo titles to find in sealed condition. Apparently there are fewer than 10 in the hands of vintage game collectors. McLeckie elaborates:
“To find a sealed copy ‘in the wild,’ so to speak, not to mention one in such a nice condition and one with such transparent provenance, is both an unusual and rather historic occurrence. We feel that the provenance will add a significant premium for serious collectors.” src
The auction closes today, and if sales go as forecast, it will grab the Amos family $10,000 smackeroos! That's the equivalent of finding an entire bitcoin just lying around!! 😝
What will Mr. Amos and co. do with their new found fortune??
"We're going to Disney World!!"
No.. seriously..
“Instead of doing something responsible, we’re going to have some fun with it.”
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