IMO i believe there is less than 100 in collectors hands. Hard to tell how many are still out there, but to be honest people throw away NES games like crazy lol.
In my four years of collecting i have heard of TONS of people at yard sales, auctions, flea markets etc. say they threw all their stuff away. Dude my aunt threw away boxes and boxes of genesis stuff 4 weeks ago!!!! found it in a closet and pitched it! I was so mad lol, she knows i collect games, i dont know what she was thinkiing. Just wanted to get rid of junk. IN FACT the most COMMON statement i hear whenever someone says they used to have games, is "yea i used to have a bunch, but the system quit working, so we trashed everything" Lol i remember last summer being at this yard sale and this guy was like "derrr old ninteno games, ummmm yea we had a trash bag full of em and just threw em away" LOL
As for what Bronty was saying about why people would throw away a $50.00 game, it dont necessarily work like that, normally ive seen that the original buyers of the games sell them dirt cheap at a yard sale to some like rednecks (no offense to anyone here) and then they have em for awhile, "cant get the dang thing to work right" then throw it away. lol ive seen it a million times. although i live in WV so it might not be like that everywhere. lol But places in the country its like this big time lol People trash anything that dont work. Take for instance VCR's and Radios, why would a junky old nintendo that never works be any different?
anyways all jokes aside, this is a hard game to find. think of how many have EVER been hidden in nes lots on ebay. Not many at all, i can only remeber a few and that was in like four years of looking. and just think of how many NES games get listed EVERYDAY on ebay. thousands and thousands. So yea this is a tough one to find for sure, and i doubt many copies were even ever sold in the first place.
It is very possible the ones sent to be destroyed are sitting in limbo somewhere
I hope not.
On a more serious note to your response and this situation, I do agree that we are currently living in a throwaway society. I cannot count the amount of people I've talked to who have said 'Oh we threw those out years ago' in regards to NES game, or just video games in general. What I think some collectors fail to realize is that the general population doesn't know old video games might possibly be worth decent money. This being the case, I'm sure that there are a ton of people who have them stored away in a box in their attic, basement or closet. I have run into a lot of those people as well...they are the ones who usually just give it away because it is just clutter to them. I am sure a lot of people don't consider selling what they have because it isn't worth the hassle to waste time on what they feel is maybe worth 10$. If collecting videogames somehow becomes big headline news and shows up as a topic of a few shows here and there, you'll see at least a few of these hard to find games like SE trickle out. Maybe 5 or 6 years back I remember an auction of SE (.99 starting bid) where the guy got it when he bought out a rental store. It sold for a little over 300$ and I remember messaging the guy about it. He was amazed at the price it sold for and had no idea a game could be worth that much so it certainly does happen, albeit very rarely.
wrldstrman: negative on that rumor. I stated numerous times many years ago that it indeed was Woolworth's only release, but I lived in Miami, and saw the thing myself in a store in Coral Gables, FL when I was little. I believe WOolworth's was one of the only places to pick it up, then it was on the shelves (like the FFF) for such a short period of time before Nintendo picked up the rights from Bandai to redo it as the Power Pad and re-release it bundled with WOrld CLass Track Meet.
wrldstrman: negative on that rumor. I stated numerous times many years ago that it indeed was Woolworth's only release, but I lived in Miami, and saw the thing myself in a store in Coral Gables, FL when I was little. I believe WOolworth's was one of the only places to pick it up, then it was on the shelves (like the FFF) for such a short period of time before Nintendo picked up the rights from Bandai to redo it as the Power Pad and re-release it bundled with WOrld CLass Track Meet.
cool just knowing it was only sold in woolworths makes a big difference in my opinion. I dont think we ever had a woolworths in west virginia. I wonder how many stores they had back then..Are there any woolworths left in the states
Woolworths went out a long while ago...I talked to a friend once about gaming and he remembers their out of business sale due to the fact that they had full 50 pc. pallets of Sega Genesis systems for 5$ each.
Obviously, a tough game to find... and maybe you're right about less than 100 currently in collectors' hands... but I've been collecting one thing or another for 20 years and 99% of the time there are more out there (of anything you care to name) than you would think.
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kind of in the spirt of AA who all owns a copy of stadium events. I have a us copy of the game and a pal box but am missing the manual.
I WISH I DID... everyone be warned im going for the next copy!
In my four years of collecting i have heard of TONS of people at yard sales, auctions, flea markets etc. say they threw all their stuff away. Dude my aunt threw away boxes and boxes of genesis stuff 4 weeks ago!!!! found it in a closet and pitched it! I was so mad lol, she knows i collect games, i dont know what she was thinkiing. Just wanted to get rid of junk. IN FACT the most COMMON statement i hear whenever someone says they used to have games, is "yea i used to have a bunch, but the system quit working, so we trashed everything" Lol i remember last summer being at this yard sale and this guy was like "derrr old ninteno games, ummmm yea we had a trash bag full of em and just threw em away" LOL
As for what Bronty was saying about why people would throw away a $50.00 game, it dont necessarily work like that, normally ive seen that the original buyers of the games sell them dirt cheap at a yard sale to some like rednecks (no offense to anyone here) and then they have em for awhile, "cant get the dang thing to work right" then throw it away. lol ive seen it a million times. although i live in WV so it might not be like that everywhere. lol But places in the country its like this big time lol People trash anything that dont work. Take for instance VCR's and Radios, why would a junky old nintendo that never works be any different?
anyways all jokes aside, this is a hard game to find. think of how many have EVER been hidden in nes lots on ebay. Not many at all, i can only remeber a few and that was in like four years of looking. and just think of how many NES games get listed EVERYDAY on ebay. thousands and thousands. So yea this is a tough one to find for sure, and i doubt many copies were even ever sold in the first place.
It is very possible the ones sent to be destroyed are sitting in limbo somewhere
I hope not.
On a more serious note to your response and this situation, I do agree that we are currently living in a throwaway society. I cannot count the amount of people I've talked to who have said 'Oh we threw those out years ago' in regards to NES game, or just video games in general. What I think some collectors fail to realize is that the general population doesn't know old video games might possibly be worth decent money. This being the case, I'm sure that there are a ton of people who have them stored away in a box in their attic, basement or closet. I have run into a lot of those people as well...they are the ones who usually just give it away because it is just clutter to them. I am sure a lot of people don't consider selling what they have because it isn't worth the hassle to waste time on what they feel is maybe worth 10$. If collecting videogames somehow becomes big headline news and shows up as a topic of a few shows here and there, you'll see at least a few of these hard to find games like SE trickle out. Maybe 5 or 6 years back I remember an auction of SE (.99 starting bid) where the guy got it when he bought out a rental store. It sold for a little over 300$ and I remember messaging the guy about it. He was amazed at the price it sold for and had no idea a game could be worth that much so it certainly does happen, albeit very rarely.
wrldstrman: negative on that rumor. I stated numerous times many years ago that it indeed was Woolworth's only release, but I lived in Miami, and saw the thing myself in a store in Coral Gables, FL when I was little. I believe WOolworth's was one of the only places to pick it up, then it was on the shelves (like the FFF) for such a short period of time before Nintendo picked up the rights from Bandai to redo it as the Power Pad and re-release it bundled with WOrld CLass Track Meet.
cool just knowing it was only sold in woolworths makes a big difference in my opinion. I dont think we ever had a woolworths in west virginia. I wonder how many stores they had back then..Are there any woolworths left in the states