Rare Nintendo Game Sells For Over $99,000

After being put on eBay last week at a standing price of $4999.99, an incredibly rare NES cartridge of Nintendo World Championship has been sold for a whopping $99,902, and it wasn't even in mint condition.

This sale breaks the world record for the most expensive videogame of all time, massively overtaking the previous record where a rare Legend of Zelda cartridge was sold for $55,000.

Collectors would have been desperate to get their hands on this cartridge as it is only one of 116 copies in existence. Nintendo held a tournament across major cities in 1990 with these rare, never sold in shops, cartridges were given away as prizes. 

What makes the sale even more insane is the fact that Nintendo World Championship isn't even an original game, the cartridge simply contains demo versions of Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and Tetris. The aim of the tournament was to collect 50 coins in Super Mario Bros, win the first race of Rad Racer and then use the time remaining to get the highest score possible in Tetris.

Also, the version sold on eBay was one of the 90 grey cartridges as opposed to one of the even rarer 26 gold cartridges offered to winners of the tournament.