We've seen a lot of retro Nintendo products selling for some insane prices in recent times, but this one is a bit different. Despite being a "never before seen for sale" Game & Watch, it's just sold for the "very low" price of ¥1,001,000 (around US$9100 / €8000). Quite reasonable, really.
Yep, no million-dollar sales here. So what's all the fuss about? As explained by beforemario, this is an anniversary edition Game & Watch Donkey Kong system which was a special request by the G&W and Game Boy creator, Gunpei Yokoi, to celebrate 20 million units sold.
On the lid, you can see the name G. Yokoi along with K, Momose and T. Ishida. The beforemario Twitter account also shared the following information about the names, although the role of the third individual is not entirely clear.
"The drawing of the trio Yokoi-san, Momose-san and Ishida-san was made by Kano-san (designer who had a key role in the G&W team, check Iwata Ask online about G&W). Yokoi-san, of course, was head of Nintendo R&D1 and father of G&W. Momose-san was head of the company who supplied the metal face plates for G&W to Nintendo. We do not know what Ishida-san's role was, but assume he represents another key partner."
What do you think of this "super rare" anniversary G&W? Would you fork out more than 9k for it? Leave a comment down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Not the cheapest I've seen a rarity go.
I remember once seeing one seller mass-listing SNES protos and seeing a Pocky & Rocky 2 proto PCB sell for cheaper than a retail cart.
It happens, I was surprised when I won a Kyogre Edition GBA SP for under £15 and it was in perfect condition.
Did the previous owner put it for auction? Maybe that's why he got a low amount for it. This surely is a unique collectable, that probably is worth a lot more.
That's a more reasonable price for this kind of thing. The games and stuff going up into the hundreds of thousands and even millions is just ridiculous though.
I sometimes wonder what Nintendo would be like if Yokoi hadn't met his untimely death. Just 10 years older than Miyamoto, he would probably be an active well into 2010s. Makes you wonder.
We have a very different view on what is a "very low price", it seems.
@pinta_vodki His death was just after he retired from Nintendo after accepting the "blame" for the Virtual Boy.
Then he created the WonderSwan for Bandai. Which didn't do well because, aside from competing against Nintendo, Bandai wasn't exactly the most appraised company in gaming.
So who knows what Yokoi would've been doing.
Yep, it’s a cool item. Don’t care about the price.
It was that cheap becuase it was not reported that much on any news site.
Now, after this, and every other article, that piece of game history is going to be sell for many times more money.
Its going to sell for at least $50,000... In a couple of years, if not much more.
For just a moment, I thought this was a Pepboys Game & Watch.
It sold for what it’s worth at the time. Somethings only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
Another piece of evidence that the million dollar auctions of regular boxed games are just a money laundering scheme.
looks like it's worth 5 pennies tbh
I had around 12 of these during their prime time.
Wow, so it sold for an actual price based on its rarity?
I'm glad it was! I'd rather that than an artificially inflated price schemed up by a bunch of rich people connected to some grading company deemed "important" for sealed games. Not to mention an auction site used by a bunch of rich scammers trying to artificially increase the value to become even richer.
On the cover, they look like the Japanese Pep Boys.
Interesting, but something I'm content with a picture of.
@KillerBOB With Hiroshi "Totally not a yakuza, honest!" Yamauchi at the helm, I honestly wouldn't doubt it....
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