The bad news is the chances of snagging a Super Nintendo Classic at retails are pretty slim right now, and auction site eBay is probably your best bet if you want it āright now.ā The good news? The average price of a SNES Classic on eBay is only $164, $80 less than the NES Classic in the days after its launch.
According to Redditor L064N, he was shopping at a thrift store in Oceanside, California last week when he came across a very strange Atari console. Some quick Googling told him it was a rare prototype for the Atari 2700, an un-produced wireless follow-up to the 2600. He bought it for $30.
You read that right: A mint-condition sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. from one of its earliest print runs sold at auction for $30,100.44 on eBay yesterday afternoon, and the seller confirmed to Kotaku that the buyer has paid up.
With Legend of Zelda Amiibo figures perpetually sold out and fetching prohibitively high prices on eBay, many fans are turning to bootlegged āAmiibo cardsā instead. Many sellers of these cards see themselves not as mere pirates, but as modern-day Robin Hoods, providing fans with the in-game content that Nintendo wonātā¦
Everyone makes purchases they regret. You might buy an expensive toy, binge on cartons of ice cream, get a fancy dress, or you might buy too many copies of a Top Gun video game.
If youāre into video games, youāre probably aware of the white whales. Earthbound for the Super Nintendo, Stadium Events for the NES, that impossible-to-find Nintendo World Championship cartridge that sold for $100,000 on eBay a couple years ago despite a torn label. All of those make sense. Theyāre either great gamesā¦
Earlier this week famed Ultima developer Richard āLord Britishā Garriott made a splash by putting an artful reliquary containing his actual blood up for sale on eBay. The listing is now gone, most likely due to Ebayās strict āDonāt Sell Bloodā policy.
Player Pascal Maynard found a relatively rare card during one of the biggest Magic tournaments of the year. And while it didnāt fit his deck strategy, he kept the card and put it up on eBay. Because of this and because thousands saw it live, the card sold for a crazy amount of money.
āRefrigerator full of Super Nintendo Jurassic Park gamesā. That eBay listing title says everything your heart needs to know.
You cannot download P.T. anymore, and you canāt sell a PlayStation 4 pre-loaded with the horror game, either.
As of this writing you can expect to pay between somewhere between $200 and $500 for a copy of Capcomās delightful PSX Mega Man Legends prequel, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. Or you can just grab it today on PSN for six bucks. Hooray!
The Samus Amiibo that accidentally shipped with two arm cannons instead of one wasn't just an exercise in maximum firepower. It's also proof that "defective" toys are often the most valuable.
"Not a single store in Georgia has any," a local GameStop employee told me over the phone as I called about looking for the GameCube controller released with Super Smash Bros. Wii U. That's explains why the cheapest one on Amazon is $89.99, and why eBay prices are going through the roof.
Remember that one NES game that you played every night for weeks then never got back from a friend you lent it to? This guy probably has it. And thousands of other games from the 1980s and 1990s, too. He's selling his entire collection for a whole lot of money.
Someone is willing to pay more than $1000 for a fancy version of Bungie's next big video game. That's almost 10 times what the Ghost edition of Destiny costs. For that much cash, you better be able to go to the moon, too.
Never mind the fact it's a beta, or that it's being thrown open to anyone with an internet connection, some people wanted to get into the Titanfall beta so bad they were willing to pay for it.
Flappy Bird may be gone, but while many are mourning its passing, others are seeing a rather drastic market opportunity.
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That ugly looking Nintendo World Championships cartridge for sale on eBay has been bid up to more than $99,000 over the past two days. The auction closes in two hours.
