(Mental Floss) -- If you've ever collected baseball cards, comic books, stamps, or maybe those limited edition commemorative plates, you understand the concept of the "Holy Grail" item. It's that last, hard-to-find, incredibly rare, usually expensive piece that you have to have before you can officially say your collection is complete. If you're a collector of vintage home video game cartridges (or "carts"), sometimes that can mean paying a pretty penny for the pièce de résistance. 1. Stadium Events (Nintendo Entertainment System) Price Range: $13,000 -- $41,300; $10,000 for the box alone Why So Expensive? : Stadium Events was released by Bandai in 1987 as one of the few games available in America that was made for the company's Family Fun Fitness mat, a soft, plastic controller you walked, ran, and jumped on to make the characters move.
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Old video games can be worth tens of thousands of dollars
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Stadium Events can sell for $13,000 -- $41,300; $10,000 for the box alone
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Nintendo Campus Challenge (NES) can get between $14,000 -- 20,100
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Stadium Events
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To avoid consumer confusion, Nintendo pulled all copies of @placeholder from shelves and had them destroyed, but not before approximately 200 carts had already been sold.
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Stadium Events
Stadium Events
Since most kids threw the box away after tearing open a new game, intact boxes for any game are really hard to come by, but especially so for @placeholder.