Gold Nintendo World Championships Cartridge Sold For $17,500 On eBay
After weeks of debate and controversies a very rare Gold Nintendo World Championships was sold for $17,500 on eBay. Although the owner was trying to sell the Gold NES for $25,000, he only got $17,500. This Gold NES was built in 1990 for a Nintendo gaming competition. For the 1990 Nintendo World Championships 116 special cartridges were made, but only 26 of them were made of gold.
The 26 gold NES cartridges were given to the finalists of the Nintendo Competition while the others were given to the semifinalists. Although there were two bigger offers than $17,500, they were proven to be fake, and the lucky winner is called JJ Hendricks who said that such a cartridge is the Holy Grail of Gaming.
The Gold Nintendo World Championships cartridge features only 6-and-a-half minutes of gameplay where players have to beat three short segments of Super Mario Bros, Tetris, and Rad Racer. Sounds great isn’t it? Well, I don’t know how many $17500 video games are available on the market, but I really hope JJ Hendricks is happy with his purchase.
- THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY:
- Dragos Pirvu
The Hoax of the Golds
Be careful of buying a Nintendo World Championships Golds because one can be easily faked. There are two flaws making this possible.
First, the are not numbered and the carts cannot be told apart from another. This makes it very difficult to prove the original owner and its ownership history.
Second, the only mark on the cart is printed on cheap non-glossed sticker paper with a 360 dpi Xerox printer. Worse yet, the sticker isn’t machine cut, nor shaped by exacto knife. It is cut with original scissors by hand. Then sloppily slapped on.
If you have no soul, you can mint your own. You will also walk in the very same steps Nintendo did.
1) Get a gray cart(stay with me here) and remove the circuit board. They are 100% identical.
2) Take a Zelda cart and remove the inside and wash off the sticker. Cut a small sqaure in the upper left hand corner in the same position as the gray. Smooth it out.
3)Place the gray board in the gold and put in the screws. Since the corner is gone and the right size, the dip switch will face out nicely.
4) Scan the Nintendo World Championships logo in and match to size of any gold cart you’ve seen in Photoshop. Print in 360 dpi on ordinary non-gloseed sticker paper. Best if you have a color inkjets could do the trick.
5) Cut with plain scissors and place by on the front as a gold would.
BAM! You have yourself a gold.
Once again, DO NOT DO THIS. THIS IS FRAUD. This is to prove the golds are not a wise investment.
Why would Nintendo make it so easy. The golds were a promotion and an afterthought and they used what they had at the time, the official grays.
I am sorry Soft Sailors story is dead wrong. Here is what he says”
“The 26 gold NES cartridges were given to the finalists of the Nintendo Competition while the others were given to the semifinalists.”
All nintey winners including the Top Seven, Top Two, and all the Winners of the age groups received the official gray carts. They have a glossy white label with a special identifying number.
The truth is that the NWC golds were given out as a sweepstakes in the 1990 July/August issue of Nintendo Power. One page 99, it offers 25 for sweepstakes winners. The Grand Prize winner won a cart and a trip. The truth is the Golds are Zelda casings with a low rent sticker.
That is true I was one of the lucky 26. Antonio DeMasi