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Guy Spends $15k on NES Game

Posted by Brian Leahy - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:52 AM

If you had $15,000, what would you spend it on? How about a gold-colored NES cart that was made specifically for the 1990 Nintendo World Championships?

There are 26 of these in existence. Now, one of them belongs to collector, James Baker, who said:

"I've avoided collecting carts for a while — I always looked at them as a slippery slope, since there are just so many collectible carts out there to get. When I started, I concentrated on systems — I'm up to 130 now."

What will he collect next? Word on the street is that he's looking to purchase some dignity.

Kotaku: This Man Paid $15,000 For A NES Cartridge




Comment(s)

Posted by TheRufio - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:16 AM

To each his own.

Posted by paranoidmaskdan - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:25 AM

an elephant isn;t largest! dumb ass...its the peanut!

Posted by BrotherFade - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:35 AM

James, do you want to come over and play it? Please? This is the cart to own for the game collector. I've never even seen one, but I know that's a huge price increase from the last known sold cart.

And to think I took crap for spending 150 on a Zelda cutting board.

Posted by TKEmysterio - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:44 AM

I think this guy paid like $3000 to much. I think the last one sold on Ebay was around $12,000. But I could be wrong. It's definitely an investment regardless. It's only going to go up in price.

I'm a collector and this guy puts me to shame. I only have about 58 systems. And most of them are loose without boxes. Looks like this guy only gets the best of the best.

Posted by forhezeanubee - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:11 AM

Hopefully it was a good game and not something lame.

Posted by ShinGino - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:56 PM

I bought one SNES for $40 last year!

Posted by panzerfist - Thursday, May 1, 2008 8:33 AM

The picture below the title is priceless, i really wish i could've seen this episode

Posted by the_american_420 - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:17 AM

this person should be punched in the throte.

Posted by the_american_420 - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:19 AM

I gess there really is people that stupid... this has to be a joke no one is this Stupid.

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