Today we have before us one of those exclusive auctions of very limited edition retro products. And by limited edition we mean a consignment that was on the market for just a few months before a revision with changes was released, which is much easier to find. If we add to that that we are talking about a sealed Zelda cartridge... You can already imagine what we have before us.
A very exclusive Zelda cartridge
We're talking about an NES R-type cartridge, an extremely sporadic edition that Nintendo released to stores before it corrected some aspects of the box with the REV-A in early 1988, the version of the cartridge that is usually more common to find. Well, this NES R unit has arrived at the offices of Heritage Auctions with the sole purpose of organizing an auction that reaches a record number.
Such is the expectation, that currently the auction is located in the U.S. dollar 110.000, a spectacular figure that shows how exclusive this copy is, and it is that we are facing a pre-production model that hit stores in very, very limited versions. The auction will be available until the next 9th, at which time the exact final price they will pay for this cartridge will be known.
not the most exclusive
But if you thought that this cartridge was the most exclusive collector's item you could find on the market, you are wrong, since as they point out at Heritage Auctions, it is known that there is a sealed copy of the NES TM category that would be considered a version even more valuable than the one auctioned, since only a few units were distributed.
Apparently, it is known that there is a sealed version but its whereabouts are unknown and if it will ever be put up for sale. In case of doing so, we do not even want to imagine the price that it could reach.
only available to a few
Returning to the auctioned piece, Heritage Auctions describes it as a "true grail of games", and they assure that it is one of the rarest versions that they have ever received in their offices (something that we do not doubt), of all Either way, we'll have to see how far the fandom of some can go, as it's going to be pretty hard to hit the $660.000 they paid for the NES copy of Super Mario Bros. That figure today seems unattainable, however, as the auction gains in popularity, new bids could appear that end up inflating the final price of the product. How much do you think it will finally reach?
In the case of the Zelda cartridge, the game has a score of 9.0 according to the certification of Wata Games, while the Mario cartridge of the 660.000 dollars obtained a score of 9.6, so at the product status level it seems that the Mario's was in a better state of preservation. In any case, having a unit of this type, sealed and in such a state must be a real experience. Not to mention knowing that a golden cartridge is hidden inside.