HOLY SHIT, THE ACTUAL RARE SEGA TETRIS GAME ON SELL

I don't think we have high enough quality scans of this to make something that wouldn't easily be noticed possible...

I'd spend $35 on a repro cart of this with manual, but that's about it. I agree that this auction seems more like a way to show off the game than to make a serious sale. What would the eBay fee of a million dollar sale be? Would I have to PayPal it as a gift? Lol. And no returns?

This got sold actually.

Someone probably hit the BIN without any intention of actually purchasing it. It was relisted:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_482wt_1188

Obviously not, or else it would not be on sale still.

I placed a crazy bid. *fingers crossed*

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Originally Posted by 108 Stars

Obviously not, or else it would not be on sale still.

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That's unfortunate. Would be most expensive sale in the history of videogames.

I made a blind offer of $3000. It was auto-declined. =/

Reasonably, I'd pay no more than 11 grand for this. I don't care much about the signature, aside from the added verification of authenticity I suppose. If he thinks he'll get even a quarter of that buy it now price, he's insane. Somebody might pay 100-200 grand, if they're also insane.

^I don't know about that man, Tetris is pretty popular the world over. Surely somewhere there is an obscenely rich Tetris nut who'd probably like this game in their collection. Considering how rare it is, I can imagine it'd be worth something to someone.

Of course, not for one million dollars. Maybe 100k or quite a bit less.

The highest price for any video game sold so far that I've heard of was that near mint copy of Stadium Events still sealed with original purchase stickers on it, and that was $41000 I believe? Hell, the guy who bought that has been trying to resell it for like anywhere between $100k and $250k (depending on what he's smoking when he lists it) ever since he bought it, so I doubt it's even worth $41k.

The jump between $41k and even $100k is huge, so I can't imagine any single game going for that much right now, even if it's a super rare proto or a game with a print run in the double digits like this Tetris game. Maybe if we were still in the middle of the dotcom boom, but not in this economy.

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Originally Posted by xelement5x

The highest price for any video game sold so far that I've heard of was that near mint copy of Stadium Events still sealed with original purchase stickers on it, and that was $41000 I believe? Hell, the guy who bought that has been trying to resell it for like anywhere between $100k and $250k (depending on what he's smoking when he lists it) ever since he bought it, so I doubt it's even worth $41k.

The jump between $41k and even $100k is huge, so I can't imagine any single game going for that much right now, even if it's a super rare proto or a game with a print run in the double digits like this Tetris game. Maybe if we were still in the middle of the dotcom boom, but not in this economy.

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OK, wtf is up with people and that?

you bought one EXPENSIVE video game, JUST so you can resell it for double the price which you well most likely not get!?

That's just STUPID.

and here goes my favorite picture:
http://savepic.net/1817955.jpg

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Originally Posted by JRedmond3

You'd have to be a certifiable nut to drop 10k on a game cartridge. Video games in the higher price range just seem like a bad investment, there's only going to be a handful of people, if that willing to spend that much money on a game. I can more understand somebody spending a few thousand for a Nintendo World Championship due to the history around it.

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Grey NWC carts go for about 9K now, and the gold ones for around $15k since last being sold. Video game collectors with money are a nutty bunch, they'll spend mad cash on stuff that's really not worth shit to anyone not a collector, i.e. Stadium Events.

As for this, this guy just wants to show off that he actually has this. He knows no one in their right mind would buy it at the price he has set it at, signed or not.

Check this stupid auction out=

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Musha-Aleste-...item2a12e6b2bf

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Originally Posted by Guntz

^I don't know about that man, Tetris is pretty popular the world over. Surely somewhere there is an obscenely rich Tetris nut who'd probably like this game in their collection. Considering how rare it is, I can imagine it'd be worth something to someone.

Of course, not for one million dollars. Maybe 100k or quite a bit less.

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an ultra rich russian oil billionaire is probably the only nutter crazy enough to pay anywhere near this price that the guys asking, even if i had 100 million i wouldn't waste the amount of money the seller wants on this game.