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 You are looking at the Nintendo World Championships 1990 Gold Cartridge. This is a blurb about it from Wikipedia:
"The Nintendo World Championships 1990 game cartridge is considered to be the rarest and most valuable NES cartridge released, promo cartridges aside, and the gold variation is nicknamed the holy grail of video game collecting. Recently, a grey cartridge went on ebay and sold for a record $6,100, and a gold cartridge was up for sale on eBay with a Buy It Now purchase price of $20,000."
Ain't it a beauty? Post other things that a Retro Video Gamer collector would die to have in his/her collection! 
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Wow. That's crazy money. My big question: "Is the game any fun?" 
My Holy Grail would be an Entex Adventurevision with all four game carts. Around 50,000 of them were made in 1981/1982 and I'm ashamed to admit I've never actually seen one running.
The electromechanical screen is a 150 x 40 grid of red LEDs created using a spinning mirror that casts a flickering, wobbly image at only 15 frames per second. The games included Defender, Super Cobra, Space Force and Turtles.
Here's a snapshot of one from the Game Over shop in Amsterdam. I've been meaning to write about the machine and the shop for ages:
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Akalabeth-The Original
20 were made, 12 were sold
Hand made by Richard Garriott
This is the first game of what was to become the Ultima series
Estimated Value: $5,000 to $7,000
One of the crown jewels of my collection.
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Thanks for the praise guys.
I am a computer game collector and archivist. My focus is 'Origin Systems', creators of the Ultima and Wing Commander series, among others.
I have a LOT of great retro collectors items from the games-scripts, original artwork, props, give-aways, etc.
Here is another item from my collection that you may enjoy:
This is Hobbes--the traitor Kilrathi from Wing Commander 3.
He's in pretty bad shape, but I hope to get him restored sometime.
For those who don't know, Hobbes was a big animatronic character, that acted oppisite Mark Hammill in the game.
In the world of computer game memorabilia, this prop is comparable to Dorothy's ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz!
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Just curious...
Does anyone care to see any more artifacts from 'Origin Systems'?
I've been collecting for over 10 years, and I've got tons of great retro items from the games.
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Quote: Originally Posted by OMJoe
Just curious...
Does anyone care to see any more artifacts from 'Origin Systems'?
I've been collecting for over 10 years, and I've got tons of great retro items from the games.
I'd love to see it, I like to see peoples collections of stuff (it makes me feel better about my precieved out of controll collections  )
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Quote: Originally Posted by OMJoe
Just curious...
Does anyone care to see any more artifacts from 'Origin Systems'?
I've been collecting for over 10 years, and I've got tons of great retro items from the games.
To quote a quartet of shaggy musicians from the North-West of England many years ago...Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
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Thanks for the interest guys. I'll try to show a couple more things that you might find cool.
We were involved in the University of Texas Videogame Archives, and I wanted to put together something cool for the event. If anyone remembers Ultima Underworld, it was one of the first 3-D first-person games--even before Wolfenstein 3-D! I had some slides of original artwork used to make the box, so I scanned one, and had it blown up. I also had some original faxes between the artist and the game company (showing the development of the artwork), and I put them all together in a nice display to be sold at auction, to raise money for the archives:
It sold for 3,200.00 to Warren Spector, the producer of the original game.
(I was so proud!)
You can find some better (bigger) pics here:
http://69.89.27.241/~originm1/steve/stevestuff/good4.JPG
http://69.89.27.241/~originm1/steve/stevestuff/good3.JPG
http://69.89.27.241/~originm1/steve/stevestuff/good2.JPG
Let me know what you think
Joe
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Wow, that is AWESOME!! I'd like to get something like that (but wouldn't like to pay for it :x LOL)
I think we had that game at one time, I do remember at least some TSR (d+d) games were first personish (in first person perspective, but not animated smooth scrolling)
Pretty sweet set,and it's cool that the creator was the one that won the auction. Did you get an autograph LOL 
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Quote: Pretty sweet set,and it's cool that the creator was the one that won the auction. Did you get an autograph LOL 
You *bet* I did, video! 
What I *didn't* know is that the original artist (Denis Loubet) was at the event as well. He actually emailed me 2 days later, asking for a copy of the hi-rez image! I was more than willing to create a hidden directory just for him, with every hi-rez artwork scan I had! He later thanked me for recovering these images in high rez--He told me that I had about a DOZEN scans of his earlier work that would've been lost to history if I hadn't scanned the original slides!
(Strange that someone produces such an amazing work of art, and doesn't take a photograph of it when it's completed.)
If you wanna see some more of these slides (in a lower rez to protect copyright), here is a link:
http://69.89.27.241/~originm1/stories/slides.htm
Enjoy!
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Quote: Thanks for the praise guys.
I am a computer game collector and archivist. My focus is 'Origin Systems', creators of the Ultima and Wing Commander series, among others.
I have a LOT of great retro collectors items from the games-scripts, original artwork, props, give-aways, etc.
Here is another item from my collection that you may enjoy:
This is Hobbes--the traitor Kilrathi from Wing Commander 3.
He's in pretty bad shape, but I hope to get him restored sometime.
For those who don't know, Hobbes was a big animatronic character, that acted oppisite Mark Hammill in the game.
In the world of computer game memorabilia, this prop is comparable to Dorothy's ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz!
Sweet Jeebus!
That is AMAZING.
I still have my copy of that Wing Commander lying around here somewhere, along with the 3D0!
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Wow Joe! That is awesome!
