Ghosts 'n Goblins NES Cart On eBay for $5,000

Still, for that price, big spenders could simply ignore the need for 8-bit nostalgia and buy a smoking-hot gaming PC... and just play the ROM on an NES emulator. Sounds like a better buy, honestly.

Did Toms just advocate piracy?

Some of us 30somethings with cash to burn might still be interested in having a bit of our childhood back. Why was this game so hard? lol

Some people just have too much money to spend.

There are collectors for everything. Its why Action Comics #1 in mint condition is worth $1 million+ or a 1943 D mint copper penny is worth over $1 million.

If only....

I have Zelda still in the box.....wonder how much that will get me 20 years form now? My mom was a double buy freak cuz I use to break stuff a lot and I'd cry (lol) I have gi joe f-14's and a tie fighter in the box too. For some odd reason though I could never keep the cobra "a10" from breaking...i must of had 8 of those glass objects lol.

I've seen plenty of grading services for sports cards, autographs, other sports collectibles. This is the first I've ever heard of a video game grader. It makes sense for sports collectibles, aside from looking at it there isn't much else to do with it. But a person could open that NES box and play the game. Now that it's sealed, it won't be possible unless you break it out. VGS sounds like a marketing gimmick to me.

This game isn't even one of the popular collectible games.... I'd understand if it was a rare / low production game or something, but this game was ported and released on a half dozen platforms. But I guess to the right person, it's worth it. I've got a Final Fantasy NES with the original box, book, and fold-out map. Maybe I should hit up eBay and see what it might go for :-P

I agree with the writer. I just don't understand why people will pay so much money for something like this. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Plus this game wasnt that great either.

Errm...most emulators aren't against the law.

I think all those old ROM sites used to have some sort of disclaimer about how they were for backups only and had to be deleted after 24 hours blah blah blah.

Still, this is obviously a collectors item, not for playing with. Suggesting an emulator would be like telling someone to just go buy MLB 2011 and an XBox with the money they spent buying an autographed Babe Ruth baseball.

I bet you are millionaire and didn't even know it! Your mom is a genius, she was actually creating your trust fund.

No kidding for 5 grand you could make an arcade box filled with an low power processor and a sutable display. Or a vintage arcade unit even!

LOL Wake up dude! NES games (the originals) have long since had their Patents/Copyrights expired. NES ROMS are actually quite legal these days.

Next time you're in Wal-Mart or some cheesy electronics 'gift shop' look around. A couple years ago companies were making NES rip offs that you hooked to your TV and already had like 100+ games pre-installed on the system itself.

Interesting tid-bit: According to "Nintendo" their Copyrights are not expired. They claims US Copyright laws give them 75years. I was pretty certain I'd seen a news article 2-3 years ago about how all the old NES games were up for grabs. I guess Nintendo disagrees.

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#roms

I bet if it was the first gen ipod Parrish would be all over it.

Yeah, it's also a great game for illustrating the 'nintendo hard' trope.

Unfortunately, thanks almost entirely to Disney, Nintendo's copyright on those games is NOT expired. Every time Disney's copyright runs out on their original cartoons, they pay off congress to extend copyright, which encompasses all forms of intellectual property.

tl;dr Disney is insane, congress is corrupt, and thanks to copyright don't expect ROM immunity.

Ahh, I remember a certain glitch when the key dropped after defeating a boss, you catch it while ducking and jump to the left to catch your foot on an object, then you would be dragged through the door and skip to a level higher. Sort of like a Super Mario (warp to level X). I see the emulator comment was dropped. This was one of my favorite games, I have the *newer PSP version. The original arcade was far ahead of it's time too.

Well if she was a fan of collecting, that is one thing, but if she did it because she wanted you to stop crying when you broke it, and not teach you to not break it in the first place. That is something entirely different. And that is want i was saying.

Yeah your right, lets coddle kids until they shoot up schools and cant hold a job, because that sounds better.
Sorry if my harsh words hurt your little ears, maybe you needed to hear it.

I think I'll stick with the rom my friend downloaded for free. Much more cost effective

ya it was like threading a needle in the dark. I'd say bad controls but I'm no expert

Rich people are stupid. 5 grand for something that will probably end up on a shelf and be looked at a few times a year just seems insane to me. Donate to charity if you don't know what to do with your money.

I love tomsguide.com!

Funny you should mention kids, i have 1 and she is a little angel. But when she cries i don't go running to the crib. maybe that is why she has slept through the night since she was 2 months old.

As for the school shootings was not talking about you necessarily, but just the coddled type.

You wont understand until you have kids, unless you do, and if so i hope they turn out ok.

The next time I see the F-bomb used I'm going to hand out bans like they were candy.

Wait a second, Glenn Beck brain wants someone to choose how a kid plays with a toy? Very eastern block of you comrade. What kind of an asshat controls how a child uses his/her toys, and for the record she bought the toys in doubles before I broke them it was not to get me to stop crying it was to make me happy if a toy of mine broke, the crying part was an over-exaggeration. Ive noticed your posts sense I've been a member and you have NEVER posted anything but trolling bullshit. Why don't you go sit in your garage with your car turned on for an hour and see if your posts improve(spoiler alert...they will)

Well i was waiting for the troll comment to come out, i was going to apologize to everyone for it, but people like you bring it out.

I like your attempts to troll back with the Glenn Beck comments, he is a crazy dude, but you seems to know him well.

Lastly i was not trying to tell a child how to play with a toy, only saying if the child breaks it, lets not run and grab the backup. Teach the kid not to break it to begin with, doing what your mother did only reinforces bad behavior well into adulthood.

But i know your mad now, goes back to what i was saying. don't break you monitor....unless your mom has a backup waiting for you.

I did not know cussing was banned, I'll stop, I just don't take kindly to people insulting my moms parenting skills just cuz they do things differently.

Ya ill teach my kids to not play with toys rough and only look at them in a glass box. If you want to teach your kid that if something breaks you never get it again go for it but keep it to yourself i dont really care how you raise your kids, why do you care how mine are raise or how i was raised? Besides i dont even think you understand what my mom did, i never broke one of my toys on purpose and if i did i bet i would of gotten all my toys taken away. Accidents happen, i hope when accidents happen in your home you dont use them as a training exercise, kids have all the time in the world to get talked down to, they dont need it from the ones they love.