A mom in North Carolina listed an NES and five carts on eBay last week for $9.99. Final winning bid: $13,105. One of the games in the lot happened to be the ultra-rare Stadium Events, in its original box.

What's Stadium Events? Well, according to its Wikipedia entry, it was a Bandai exer-game that used the Power Pad, originally known as the Family Fun Fitness mat; it's considered the rarest licensed NES game made available in North America. It was only released in a northern U.S. test market in 1987. In 1988, Nintendo bought the North American rights to the mat, re-released it as the Power Pad, and anything Family Fun Fitness branded was taken off the shelf and destroyed..

Fewer than 2,000 copies of the game were believed to have been produced, only 10 complete specimens are thought to exist, only one of them factory sealed.

It's not clear if the seller knew what she had on her hands when she started the auction. If not, she sure found out once the questions about Stadium Events started pouring in and the bids soared north of $1,000. Either way, I'm sure she is delighted to get 13 grand for something that had been sitting in a closet for several years.

*Original Article from Kotaku*

Would you pay anything to get a game that is rare?

damn, what a find

I would really like to own all the rare NES games, but there is no way I would pay that much for one...unless I was extremely rich (which I am not)

Was the Stadium Events box factory sealed?

Wow, that's just... awesome... I'd love to see her face when the bids just got higher and higher.

And if I had the money, I'd pay that.

Awesome.

Tomorrow ill get the Super Bros Collection:

SMB1, 2 and 3 for just $10 dls!!

No. There is only one. And it is owned by as man who collects factory-sealed NES games and is 3 away from owning every game. So he isn't looking to sell it anytime soon.

@ snesboy,
Probably not, considering the box's condition.

That's madness

In before the mandatory sparta joke -.-'

THIS IS SPARTA!