Posts tagged collectable

Stadium Events sells for $41,300, becomes most expensive NES game ever

by Griffin McElroy (Feb 27th 2010 7:00PM)

We're not sure which element of this story is the most newsworthy, so we'll lead with this: Some person, somewhere in the world, recently spent $41,300 on an extremely rare NES game. Someone was perusing the eBay auction block, saw Stadium Events (which Nintendo bought the rights to and retitled ...

Buy an actual stadium instead

by Phil Larsen (May 30th 2008 6:00PM)

We're no strangers to collectable NES junk and completely bonkers auctions, but learning about this piece of Nintendo history makes us glance, ever-so-slightly, to our own boxes of dusty cartridges in the hopes that we might one day become millionaires after a forgotten NES relic turns out to be a ...

Calculating the Virtual Console's savings rate

by Kyle Orland (Jan 31st 2008 2:00PM)

Obviously, owning games on the Wii Virtual Console is a lot more convenient than having dozens of cartridges for a variety of classic systems laying around the house. But does it make fiscal sense as well as organizational sense? To find out, the folks at Vintage Computing & Gaming compared the ...