Rarest and Most Expensive Nintendo Games Ever

Gamersmint is kicking off a *Retro Special* starting this weekend onwards. In this column, we’ll be exploring some rather interesting and exciting vintage titles which any gamer who’s been playing games since the good old days will relate with and every new comer would find interesting. We hope you have a good time reading these.

As Nintendo would go around the world putting on video game tournaments in the 80′s they would make specialized videogames that contained time limits and a few specific games.  These games would add a total score together during tournaments to finalize a winner.  Many original NES games were created by companies that were either bought out or shut down, making the very few copies that were made extremely rare and valuable.  We have compiled a list of the 5 rarest and most expensive original Nintendo games to ever come about.

1. Stadium Events

This bad boy was found in a sealed copy and set a record for the highest price game ever sold in the world. The game was sold in very limited numbers during its original release in 1987. This is considered as the rarest NES game to ever exist with an estimated 200 copies still around.

• Sale Price: $41,300

2. Nintendo Campus Challenge

The year was 1991 when Nintendo began a video game tournament across college campuses in the United States. The competition contained of a video game that contained Super Mario 3, Dr. Mario, and PinBot. The games each had a 6 minute time limit on them. Currently there is only one known to exist which was found in an ex-Nintendo employee’s garage sale.

• Sale Price: $20,100

3. Nintendo World Championships Gold

This game is considered to be the “Holy Grail” of video games for any person to have in their collection. However, it’s no longer known as the most expensive video game.  The game consists of Super Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris which gives its players a combined score of all games after playing for six minutes.

• Sale Price: $18,000

4. Nintendo World Championships Gray

This particular version of World Championships is not as rare as the gold version.  Nintendo conducted a video game competition in 1990 to determine the best Nintendo players in multiple age group.  Winners of specific age groups and location were given the World Championships game cartridge as a price. Currently only 90 are known to still exist.

• Sale Price: $5,500

5. Myriad 6-in-1

Myriad 6-in-1 contains six games on a single cartridge. Myriad bought all the remaining video game cartridges from Caltron as they were closing their business doors soon. Afterwards Myriad had changed the cover sticker and added a unique serial number to each cartridge. The game was no longer licensed to Nintendo and it’s believed that there are less than 100 copies left in the world.

• Sale Price: $5,000