Rare and retro video games have turned out to be almost as big a business as the latest ones available, according to research conducted for an online gambling platform. And at £233,338, the 1990 version of Nintendo World Championships is the most valuable vintage video game currently available.
But even that falls thousands and thousands of pounds behind a still-sealed games cartridge produced in 1987. One of the original games of The Legend of Zelda, no longer available, fetched £700,000 at an auction in the US last year.
However, Nintendo World Championships, which was created as part of a Nintendo competition promoted in the US, has become a prized and highly desirable collectible. The 1990 package came in the form of a cartridge and included the games Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer, and Tetris. Its current value is double that of ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut, which ranked second in the league table of valuable games.
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