Gold Nintendo World Championships NES Cartridge: $17500
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In February 2008 a rare Gold Nintendo World Championships NES Cartridge was up for sale on eBay for $15000, just recntly someone was trying to sell a Gold Nintendo World Championships NES Cartridge for $25,000 on eBay, that item has since sold for $17500. The buyer of the Cartridge had a bit of an ordeal to go through, but it was a necessary process to own the holy grail of video game collecting.
The owner of the cartridge said that he would consider $17500 as it was much lower than he was expecting. Over the next three weeks, he did receive a couple more offers, higher than the $17500, but they turned out to be bogus.
The buyer was then told that he has won the item, and then is exited at the prospect of becoming the proud owner of the Gold Nintendo World Championships NES Cartridge. This is when things started to get a bit more complicated. Visit Video Game Price Charts to read the complete and stressful story of the buyer who wanted his Gold Nintendo World Championships NES Cartridge.
Rare Nintendo World Championships Gold Up For $15,000 On eBay
The Gold cartridges are a Hoax
Be careful of buying a Nintendo World Championships Golds because one can be easily faked. There are two flaws making this possible.
First, the are not numbered and the carts cannot be told apart from another. This makes it very difficult to prove the original owner and its ownership history.
Second, the only mark on the cart is printed on cheap non-glossed sticker paper with a 360 dpi Xerox printer. Worse yet, the sticker isn’t machine cut, nor shaped by exacto knife. It is cut with original scissors by hand. Then sloppily slapped on.
If you have no soul, you can mint your own. You will also walk in the very same steps Nintendo did.
1) Get a gray cart(stay with me here) and remove the circuit board. They are 100% identical.
2) Take a Zelda cart and remove the inside and wash off the sticker. Cut a small sqaure in the upper left hand corner in the same position as the gray. Smooth it out.
3)Place the gray board in the gold and put in the screws. Since the corner is gone and the right size, the dip switch will face out nicely.
4) Scan the Nintendo World Championships logo in and match to size of any gold cart you’ve seen in Photoshop. Print in 360 dpi on ordinary non-gloseed sticker paper. Best if you have a color inkjets could do the trick.
5) Cut with plain scissors and place by on the front as a gold would.
BAM! You have yourself a gold.
Once again, DO NOT DO THIS. THIS IS FRAUD. This is to prove the golds are not a wise investment.
Why would Nintendo make it so easy. The golds were a promotion and an afterthought and they used what they had at the time, the official grays.