Earlier this week, a rare prototype of the Super Famicom, the console that would come to be known as the Super NES worldwide, went up on a Japanese auction site. After quickly racking up millions in bids, the auction was pulled, and nobody seems to know why.
The Yahoo Japan auction listing was at just a few thousand dollars when I last checked in on it, but that number quickly ballooned into the millions - $3.2 million, according to a Kotaku report. You can still see the details of the auction in the original listing, but the ultimate price has disappeared since the close of the auction. I've seen suggestions that the bids actually reached nearly $7 million, but I've been unable to independently verify that number.
