18 Sealed Stadium Events hit the market, many more.

[Tanooki]

If you can't stand youtube (or Pat) I get it not wanting to watch a 10+min video, just scroll down to the description and don't let the jaw hit the floor too hard it doesn't get cracked.



Seems a guy named Atwood back in the late 90s early 00s bought out store after store who went under sealed boxes of old games for the NES, SNES, GB, GBC, whatever else. Currently he's off loading NES stuff mostly. The guy had 18 sealed Stadium Events games, you know the one that's never sealed and if one were to come up goes for 5 figures? Yeah, well that market just went from like 1-2 copies up to whatever +18.

Pat is having a field day over a thread over at NintendoAge where they're cursing the guy, pissed to hell about it, felt they should have been given first pickings of it and other self entitled crying and other places are too, but that would be the notable with a good thread standing around 700 posts so far which was brought to my attention. Pat is dead right, no one deserves to control, manipulate, blackball or screw with people to corner the hobby to make it some market game picking winners and losers. And this guy not giving them an inch, any help, any favoritism at all is like the gaming 'pope' as Pat put it...he's in charge in this one.

These are cases (Nintendo shipped NES games 6 to a box) of old games that have never seen daylight since the tape was pulled over the box. And it's not just Stadium Events, you got your Bonk, Panic Restaurant, Bubble Bobble 2, Flintstones 2, Little Samson, Color a Dinosaur, down to your common cool stuff like the Turtles, Mario, Mega Man, Castlevania and so on.

I'm kind of curious how people here feel about this guy doing this selling off of his property. You happy people will get to experience a new game if it's sitting on a shelf or actually playing it as intended in some cases? Or are you upset your value just took a beating?

[nightrnr]

Does anyone here even own Stadium Events?
I think that if this makes a person mad, they are in the hobby for the wrong reasons.
The world could rerelease my entire collection and I could care less. Sure I'd mourn the value loss a little, but it really doesn't matter in the end, and I have my collection because I enjoy it. Value is going to change with the times and that's just out of our control.

I do find the situation amusing though. I feel little to no pity for anyone upset over this because they want their game to be more rare.

I hope the guy isn't in danger of murderous collectors though (seriously, I'd fear for my life if I revealed a mass treasure trove of sealed Nintendo carts).

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Besides, it is nigh impossible to find a buyer willing to pay the full inflated price of a ridiculously rare item. You would have to be elite, mad, and fairly well off. Most of us "common" collectors know that there is a bit more to life and the that the high cost of a so-called rarity can often find greater value spent elsewhere).

[KalessinDB]

I actually just posted over in the Random Gaming Thoughts thread, but not only has this happened recently, yesterday a woman actually found a CIB Stadium Events at a damn estate sale for $5. The reddit thread is freaking crazy.

[arcadifvid]

Does anyone here even own Stadium Events?

my question is more of:
Does anyone even like that game or actually enjoy playing it?

[Erik_Twice]

I find the drama hilarious and I doubt I'm the only one.

I don't have anything against sealed or rare game collectors but the kind of nasty, entitled elitism of the "community" is kind of sad.

Does anyone here even own Stadium Events?

my question is more of:
Does anyone even like that game or actually enjoy playing it?

No

[mas]

I think I feel the same way as pat does and like everyone else here. Who cares. If someone wants to spend that kind of money and never play the game and wants to corner the market then your in the hobby for the wrong reason.
I'm glad more games were found. I hope this makes the prices go down so gamers who enjoy the hobby may one day get the games they want to play.

I'm so glad I have everdrives. I know this guy Pete who works at thatse and he gave me great advice and I think it goes for gaming too. Right now in my game room I'm trying to collect the toys I once had as a kid not all of them just the ones I remember well from Christmas or my father gave me for my birthday, just really nostalgia that I remember having. Sense even the market have gone up for 80's toys I asked him advice on whether I should even continue trying to find the stuff. He told me the prices of gone up because people think in five years if they sit on the toys long enough that the market will finally go off and I'll make a fortune. He said if you think like that it's not even worth that you're going to fail. If you're trying to get them from the nostalgia and good memories and hold onto them forever then it's a good investment and I think the same goes for video games.
Who knows what the market will be in a couple years but the fact is if people think they going to buy these games and into years they going to flip them to make an absurd amount of money they're out of their damn mind.people should invest in other things if that's what they think.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Sounds like the dudes who obsess about the monetary value of video games - rather than the aesthetics, history, and mechanics (ya know, the interesting stuff) - will continue to do so but now with an even greater dose of salt. Snooze.

Any copies of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

[Exhuminator]

I'm kind of curious how people here feel about this guy doing this selling off of his property.?

All's fair in love and capitalism.

[Ziggy]

Sucks for this guy: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 7#p1038437

[Ack]

Doesn't Popo own a copy of Stadium Events?