'Stadium Events' Cover (Photo : www.craveonline.com)
A very rare Nintendo Entertainment System game is currently making waves at the online e-commerce site eBay after it reached almost $100,000 in bids. The games title is "Stadium Events," an NES game originally published in 1986 and considered by many to be one of the rarest games to be made since only 2000 copies were released and probably only a handful of it exists today.
Rare video game titles like this always hits a very high price when it is auctioned online and most of the buyers are video game collectors and sometimes even museums. In 2011, a sealed and authentic "Stadium Events" game was sold for $44,000 and the sale kick-started the hunt for rare and collectible video games.
Just like any collectible items that hits millions of dollars in auctions, what hikes their prices is primarily their rarity, next is their current condition. An item that still retains its unbroken seal generally gets higher prices compared to those that have been previously used.
According to Gamespot, eBay seller "menaceone" was able to get ahold of the copy of the game when he was still working for Nintendo and only decided to sell the game when he learned that a copy of it was sold for a massive amount of cash.
Not many analysts were convinced that the bids were all authentic, Wired claimed. As reported on previous incidents, once an eBay item starts to gain lots of attention many users tends to troll the bidding process wherein these users places bids without any intention of purchasing the item. Some of these users just want to hike up the items prices and some just do it for no apparent reason except to disrupt the ongoing bids.
Right now the bid is still ongoing and is scheduled to end on Jan. 15.
