Posted on 08/01/2019 3:32:32 PM PDT by Libloather
Scott Amos says his mom’s been after him to get his childhood junk out of her Reno, Nevada, attic since he moved out on his own more than 20 years ago, and now, his whole family’s glad he did.
When he went through one of the boxes, he came across a rare unopened copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game “Kid Icarus” that has been sold at auction for $9,000, including the buyer’s premium.
The shrink-wrapped cartridge was still in a JCPenney bag along with a receipt showing that it was purchased in December 1988, when Amos was 9.
Amos says the game has been the talk of the family since he picked up the boxes for Mother’s Day.
“Our only theory is that it was a Christmas present my mom bought for us and never actually gave to us,” he said.
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Pretty good return.
I scrimped and saved to buy that.
I don’t have NES anymore, but I’ve got my Super NES.
Zelda Ocarina of Time was sweet...
Damn, I had that game. Pretty sure my mom sold all that stuff, along with a lot of our toys and Atari games.
Why would anybody want that? I mean, for Nine large anyway.
Nintendo 64. That truly was a great game. Zelda games have a good reputation, and for good reason. Majora’s Mask was a bit difficult, and I never finished it.
We have an Intelevision, Super Nintendo (with Super Famicom converter), Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Play Station (I, II, III, IV), XBox (first gen, 360, and One), Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, and.. I think that’s all of it, excluding phones and PCs.
We’re a little hardcore in our house when it comes to gaming. It’s a date night for my husband and me, as that is something we have been doing together since we started dating, and was actually something for us to bond over.
Around 1980 I bought a hand held space invaders game. It was about a foot by 10 inches and worked on C cell batteries. I got it for my Daughter but tried it myself.
I found it sort of hypnotic, playing it for long periods.
A few months ago she wrote me that she had found that old game in the attic and let her kids play it. It still worked and again she said it sort of hypnotized them.
One Christmas us kids received (Magnavox?) the Pong game. Hooked up to our TV. It failed after about a week. This was about 1972 or so, it was high speed for the day.
I don’t suppose anybody liked or remembers Kangaroo?
Kid icarus??
I was expecting some untranslated Japanese import that was rare even there.
There was some game only given to people that participated in a gaming competition back then that is known to sell for a lot when it surfaces as well.
But Kid Icarus??
I have the Donkey Kong version sitting on my office shelf. Non-working, sadly.
“We’re a little hardcore in our house when it comes to gaming.”
LOL, yes...
Around that same time I worked with a lady. She was in her 40s and had been a real beauty in her day and was still attractive.
One day she was talking to a group of fellow employees and admitted that she was addicted to Pac Man. She would stop at 7-11,s several times a day to play.
You should at least have a Coleco and a Sega Genesis.
We also played a couple thousand hours of GoldenEye 007.
Someone just gave me an Atari 2600 with a bag of games. Fingers crossed that it still works.
““I paid $34.99 for a stupid video game?”
My mom doesnt say that but my Dad did say that when I asked him for the first Halo on XBOX.
You know what was the greatest video game in history? The ET game on Atari. YEEEAAAHHH!
One of my favs was the Space Shuttle. Had to take off, fly and land that sucka. Plenty of cracked windshields in my past.
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