Old Nintendo sells for $13k
An eBay user thought she was putting an everyday Nintendo system up for auction but may not have expected a final selling price of thousands.
Everyday folk discovering colossally valuable collectors' items amid everyday junk has been the lifeblood of antiques shows for years, but it's not every day you see a real-life gold-in-the-attic tale play out on eBay.
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The woman, from the US, placed the 1980s Nintendo Entertainment System (together with five games) up on the popular auction site.
Less than an hour after the first bid, the price was over $US6000.
When the auction closed, the final selling price topped $US13,105.
The value was not in the console itself but one of the games bundled with it. The deeply obscure 1987 release called Stadium Events, a highly sought-after collectors' item.
However, it was not the game itself that was worth the bulk of the money, it was the original cardboard box, which collectors value at a breathtaking $US10,000.
Fewer than 10 complete copies of the game are thought to exist and retro gaming aficionados consider it one of the hardest-to-find Nintendo games ever made.
