In one of the biggest auctions for a raw boxed video game, a rare sealed hangtag copy of Castlevania for the original NES recently sold for $90,100 on eBay after a bidding war that started at $37,000, all for a hard-to-find game with a literal sticker price of $27.87.
The eBay seller described the game as a "high grade grail" in brand new condition from the first production run. As Digital Eclipse's Chris Kohler notes on Twitter, the rare game is believed to have come from an estate sale in Texas. The Castlevania seller is located in Frisco, Texas, while another seller from Grapevine, Texas – about 30 minutes away, according to Google Maps – also recently began listing similar games at almost exactly the same time.
