Recently, an eBay item on auction has nearly reached the $100,000 mark in bids. What is more surprising about this is the item in auction is a cartridge of the new defunct Nintendo Entertainment System or NES. However, the game "Stadium Events" is not just any other game out there, it is infact a very rare game and only 2,000 copies of it was released and reports claim that only a handful of it is still existence.
The game was posted on eBay last Jan. with an opening bid of $5,000, since then 32 bids has been made with the last bid being $99,600. Video games like the "Stadium Events" often pick up high auction bids every time they emerge on the auction site. Typically, what made these games so expensive is because of its rarity and sometimes even museums put up bids to acquire these items.
Last 2011, a copy of "Stadium Events" was also auctioned on eBay and fetched a hefty price of $22,800, the highest confirmed price paid for the NES game. After the sale, various hearsays over the internet circulated that the game was originally bought at a Goodwill store in North Carolina for only $7.99.
On an interview, the eBay seller "menaceone" claimed that he was able to own the game when he was still working for Nintendo. He kept it over the years in anticipation that it would be valuable later on. He said "It is well known and accepted in the gaming community that Stadium Events is the rarest licensed NES game available, thus making a sealed copy one of the most sought after and prized possessions for any video game collector."
There is however some speculations about how the game managed to raised such amounts in bids. According to some experts once the bid gained so much attention in eBay some users tends to troll the whole bidding process. Trolling bids occurs when some user's places bid on an item without any intention of purchasing it. Some users use this technique in order to increase their items value, others just do it just to disrupt the whole bidding process.
