A seller on eBay is purported to have found at a flea market (for
$20) a very early copy of The Legend of Zelda III for the original NES. Dubbed The Legend of Zelda III: The
Triforce Saga on a rather crude label (pictured), this beta (version 0.6.24) seems kind of shady.
It is possible (and likely) that a Zelda III was being
planned in 1990, but the seller has given very little
promise to the game. In his words, "I have no time to play around with these things, I'm a really busy guy" who does
not have at his disposal an NES to test it out. Still, he promises to compensate, if it is not legitimate, for an item
of equal or greater value than the winning bid.
So far the bid is at $182.50, and the auction runs until Saturday, October 22nd, at around 2:30 EDT. It is hard to
trust eBay auctions of the sort these days, but a cartridge like this would indeed be a rare find; can anyone shed some
light on the (il)legitimacy of this auction?
[Thanks, digital minority]
