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Fuck WATA for trending this bullshit. Like sure, it might’ve been a thing that was already going, but when WATA got into the picture, they amped it up. So now we’ve been seeing these people run around just securing their collections in little cases, getting little stickers and they’re going around artificially inflating the value as to what to sell games by.
When, WATA has been shown to be operated by a bunch of hedgefund cronies that are definitely running money laundering schemes and are in court over things.
If you’re an aspiring collector and you buy one of these kinds of games, you’re the fool.
If it is Heritage Auctions and WATA then it is corruption. This game is never worth that amount and no one has actually bought it for that amount it is just an ongoing scam and any “publication” reporting on this trash as if it were anything else should also be considered compliant of this obvious market manipulation bullshit.
why
Pricing of “collectibles” never makes any sense…
People like collecting things.
And it still plays exactly the same as any other copy. You’ll need to blow into the cartridge just like everyone else
Its sealed so would be funny if was defective and didn’t even play at all.
Of course, no one would ever know because this thing will probably never be opened and even less likely to be played
Kinda sad, poor little cartridge :-(.
The article seems to imply the game was never sold with a factory seal, so this was sealed after the fact for some reason. Seems extra fishy to me.
I suppose a cartridge of just SMB1 is somewhat rare; anyone I knew who had an NES had the Super Mario / Duck Hunt multicart, or very occasionally Super Mario / Duck Hunt / Track & Field triple game cartridge from the bundle that included the Power Pad.
Why can’t I just randomly find something like that in my attic?
Because your house is probably shit like mine
I’m more likely to find expired meth which a dung Beatle carried in
Does meth even expire? Never thought about that
I thought all of this speculative market around preserved game boxes was dead, but I see it isn’t. I hope we get past this, let it die, and just keep being dead.
Was it the founder of Wata selling to another founder of Wata who is buying the game as a group purchase with the other founding members of Wata - again?
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