Why?

[StarMist]

I'm not sure what you mean, but Earthworm Jim Special Edition factory sealed for $10,000 sounds outlandish to me. Plus, he calls it a Sega CD game in the title and then a Saturn game in the description.

He meant your million euro link.
@ Da Shocker: his counts may be/seem off since he's only selling JP games. That being the case the price seems over the top, but what the hell.

[Obviously]

Haha about almost $3000 for a loose cart of some nintendo game and still going.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Wor...item3378ac0711

Fools man, there FOOLS!

Stupid or not at least it's actually something very few people own that you can't normally buy.

[sheath]

He meant your million euro link.
@ Da Shocker: his counts may be/seem off since he's only selling JP games. That being the case the price seems over the top, but what the hell.

Oh, yeah, it's roughly 7300 games by my count, one million adds up to over $130 a game. Adol insisted that because some of the games are "worth" $2000 and some $10 that average cost isn't an accurate way to judge the price.

[Thunderblaze16]

Stupid or not at least it's actually something very few people own that you can't normally buy.

My thoughts for games like that,

[Solkia]

I don't see the point in wasting such huge amounts of money on a game you're just going to put in a case or set on a shelf. Just so you can say you own it? To feel content about owning it?

Doesn't make any sense to me.

Hell, I heard the guy who owns the Nintendo Campus challenge cart bought it for over $25,000. Why would you do that?

[sheath]

In twenty years when all of these games are becoming super scarce from bit rot and whatever else is going to kill them, are people going to start opening these certified games up to see if they have a working copy?

[16-bit]

Is anyone really buying any of these games?

You can call me a liar all you want, but if I seriously had twenty thousand extra dollars to blow and I already had a house, a good education/job, and a decent enough car I'd probably spend it trying to help people that actually need it. If you have 20,000 to spend on a game that you aren't even going to fucking play you need to rethink your life entirely.

[j_factor]

Am I missing something? I thought $50 was about the going rate for Sonic Adventure LE.

[Obviously]

In twenty years when all of these games are becoming super scarce from bit rot and whatever else is going to kill them, are people going to start opening these certified games up to see if they have a working copy?

That remains to be seen I guess. The chance of the game not working might give people even more incentive not to unseal them.

People are starting to treat game collecting now almost like how comics were treated in the late 80's and early 90's. It's going to be pretty interesting when the bottom drops out and the collector's market crashes.

I don't see the point in wasting such huge amounts of money on a game you're just going to put in a case or set on a shelf. Just so you can say you own it? To feel content about owning it?

Doesn't make any sense to me.

Hell, I heard the guy who owns the Nintendo Campus challenge cart bought it for over $25,000. Why would you do that?

It's no different than collecting for any other interest I guess. Some people like to spend thousands of dollars on rare vases, guns, toys, bicycles, et cetera to display, other people like to spend thousands of dollars on Nintendo World Championship cartridges. I can't really say I fully understand the psychology of it either though at the same time I own a lot of games I myself I may never get around to playing. Nothing that I spent any obscene amounts of money on but still.

[Thunderblaze16]

I don't care if it crashes, I don't plan on ever selling my sega/snes collection so that would really be good for all the people who just want to get the games for the matter of just playing them.

[xelement5x]

Is anyone really buying any of these games?

You can call me a liar all you want, but if I seriously had twenty thousand extra dollars to blow and I already had a house, a good education/job, and a decent enough car I'd probably spend it trying to help people that actually need it. If you have 20,000 to spend on a game that you aren't even going to fucking play you need to rethink your life entirely.

If you run a decently profitable game shop you could spend $20k on a super rare game for advertising purposes and use part of the value as a tax write of or possibly operating losses. You look at shops like Hard Off and Super Potato and they have some ridiculously rare games with astronomic values that they would probably never sell to someone, but they get people into the store to gawk at them behind glass cases.

I can tell you that if there was a brick and mortar shop near me with a NWC on display I'd probably go at least once to check it out and maybe pick something up.