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PREVIEWS KIOSK This fancy
kiosk was in use during the 1990's at various toy
and department stores. Instead of an actual
playable kiosk, store owners had the option of an
interactive Laserdisc-operated machine, powered
by a SNES, that jumped to preview trailers of
various Nintendo games when you pushed their
respective buttons
Well, the SNES used
laserdisc.....during the N64 years they went with
cheaper VCDs
eBay Price: $300
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NINTENDO POWER PREVIEWS SNES
CARTRIDGE It does nothing
if you put it into an actual SNES. Its only
purpose was to run the mechanics of the Power
Previews kiosk
I guess it was cheaper to adapt
technology they already had
eBay Price: $500
The kiosk price above was
just for a shell...the cartridge is rarer and
worth more
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LASERDISC This is the
eleventh one in the series. Fortunately for you,
that one has already been uploaded to YouTube, so it costs you nothing
Others have turned up, but have
never been uploaded
eBay Price: $150
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"THIS IS COOL" SEGA
SATURN This is the
coolest Saturn model of them all, because it says
so
It's also the rarest Saturn.
Only sold in Japan, with a mere 50,000 units in
existence
eBay Price: $179.99
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| LUNAR 2: ETERNAL BLUE KEYCHAIN
FIGURE This 2-inch-tall
Lucia, still in its wrapper, was only available
from vending machines
eBay Price: $100
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SEALED PERFECT DARK BOUGHT AT
NINTENDO HQ This is what
a typical in-house purchase from the Nintendo
Store in Redmond looked like. They really don't
trust their employees, do they?
eBay Price: $63.00
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| CHRONO TRIGGER COMPLETE
COLLECTION VGA-laminated,
unopened editions of every physical release the
game got, plus Chrono Cross
Even though releases of Chrono
Trigger are rarely cheap, this particular auction
is WAY overpriced
eBay Price: $12,000.00
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INCANTATION This was a late release for the SNES,
but I highly doubt it's worth this much
According to the stats, the
highest an unopened copy of Incantation has gone
for in recent history is $760. Talk about
pressing one's luck
eBay Price: $2999.99
And there was another guy
on the same day selling one for $4999.99
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| WORMS: ARMAGEDDON FOR N64 eBay Price: $3999.99
What is WITH sellers lately?
There are sealed copied of Link to the Past going
for much less than this
Oh.....it's from the same guy.
Okay, that figures. Don't count on him lasting
very long
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POPPLES CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE One side contains the Commodore 64
version of the game and the other side contains
the Apple II version. Why more 80's computer game
makers didn't use this method I can't say
The seller claimed it was a
giveaway and one of the rarest home computer
games of the 80's. At any rate, there doesn't
appear to be a dump of the ROM anywhere
eBay Price: $299.99
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| DRAGON WARRIOR US
PROTOTYPE The only one of
its kind in the world
....Though the ROM inside is
identical to the retail version
eBay Price: $49,999.99
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VISTEON PORTABLE DVD PLAYER The unusual thing about this is....it
has a slot for Game Boy Advance games. It can
play 'em, and it was officially licensed
It was only available through
car dealerships as an upgrade for new cars(it was
dockable in some early 2000's car models)
eBay Price: $300.00
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| VIDEO TOASTER The Video Toaster was very, very
advanced for the early 90's when it was sold for
Amiga computers. With this product -- which ran
on its own chipset -- the average man could
create CGI animations for the first time
Since much better
CGI-generating software can be downloaded now for
free, it's listed here for much less than it
originally cost to buy
eBay Price: $450
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COMMODORE 64 MAGIC VOICE
MODULE Similar to the
Intellivision Voice Synthesizer, the Magic Voice
Module enhanced your C64 games with the speech of
Stephen Hawking
eBay Price: $51
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| McDONALDS GAMECUBE FREE-PLAY
KIOSK Fully restored and
working, a Playplace original from the early
2000's
An N64 version existed before
this one did
eBay Price: $5000
See big pictures: 1 2 3 4 5
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HYRULE WARRIORS EXCLUSIVE
BUNDLE This version of
the game was only sold at Nintendo World in NYC
and came with an exclusive scarf. Also included:
the Mario Kart 8 exclusive with a Blue Shell
eBay Price: $98.00
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| ICE CREAM OF DESTINY "Astronaut Ice Cream,"
freeze-dried for space travel, was given out as a
promotional item for the game
eBay Price: $30.00
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OCARINA OF TIME PROMOTIONAL
JACKET Be the baddest
biker of them all with a Neon Ganon on your back
eBay Price: $1,250.00
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| MEGA MAN'S HELMET When Dr. Wily unleashes the robot
apocalypse, will YOU be ready?
Unfortunately, this is not to
human scale, so no you won't be
eBay Price: $149.99
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SONY PLAYSTATION LIGHT-UP SIGN No fiber-optics, no glitter, no nothing.
When it comes to signs, Sony is no Nintendo
eBay Price: $250.00
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| NES CONTROLLER COFFEE TABLE If this wasn't cool enough, it really
works. If you stick a real NES controller inside,
you can play your games with the coffee table
eBay Price: $1
ONE DOLLAR? How can I
refuse---
Oh, YOU!
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QUESTION MARK BLOCK LAMP If Nintendo ever needs merchandising
ideas, they can just browse eBay and look at all
the great things fans are selling illegally
eBay Price: $69.00
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| APPLE II GRAPHICS TABLET Yes, there were graphics tablets sold
this early in the home computer market. The
hi-res backgrounds and title screens seen in
Apple games had to come from somewhere
eBay Price: $98.00
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OFFICIAL CARDBOARD STARFOX
ARWING DISPLAY It's official
cardboard, therefore it's worth almost four
hundred dollars....I think
eBay Price: $375.00
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| SEGA TERADRIVE The TeraDrive was a combination IBM PC
and Sega Mega Drive(Genesis). Only sold in
Japan(but you knew that already), the hope was to
take the first step in merging the console and PC
markets, but the TeraDrive's sluggish processor
was miles behind the more high-end PCs already
out
So much for Blast Processing
eBay Price: $1000.00
See a TeraDrive in action
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SEGA MULTI-MEGA This one also came out in Europe.
Someday I'll run out of weird alternate console
models to show you, but that day is not today
The Multi-Mega was a Mega
Drive, a Mega-CD, and as a bonus when the right
number of batteries were applied....a portable CD
player
This came out at the same time
Sega was swamping their consumers in ten zillion
other consoles and peripherals. It never stood a
chance
eBay Price: $530.00
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| MEGA MAN 9 PRESS KIT The Mega Man 9 Press Kit was housed
inside a box replica of what the game would have
looked like, had it actually been sold in the
1980's
They did an excellent job with
this, all the way down to the last detail (the
layered price tags ending at $9.99)
eBay Price: $427.00
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FIVE NIGHTS AT
FREDDY'S "BONNIE THE BUNNY" PLUSH Seller made this for her daughter, but
for some mysterious reason, she didn't want it
There are several interested
buyers here...Scott Cawthon should take note
there IS a market for Freddy's merch
eBay Price: $195.00
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| SNES KIOSK: BASIC EDITION This one is missing its stand, and the
sproingy holders for the controllers. But it's
unmistakably a SNES kiosk, and people will still
envy it in your house. Nice price for one too
eBay Price: $735(free shipping)
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THE RAREST PS3 GAME OF ALL "Uncharted 2? Are you kidding?
Everybody with a PS3 has that one."
Not with this box, which Sony
only made 200 of and never sold commercially. You
had to work for Naughty Dog or win a contest to
own one
Contains the game, the player's
guide, codes for free DLC, a soundtrack CD, an
art book autographed by all the developers, and a
replica of the game's Macguffin
eBay Price: $4,995.00
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| ABOUT A HUNDRED SHULK AMIIBOS The fact that clueless Nintendo has
handed the Amiibo market to scalpers on a platter
fills me with rage. As I write this, the Shulk
Amiibo is not out yet, and it's the only one I
might be interested in since it's likely the only
piece of Xenoblade merchandise ever to be sold
This auction's main picture is
a loaded GameStop preorder receipt shoved in your
face. "babyguess143," you are a dick
eBay Price: $74.95 per figure
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