Rare Zelda NES variant sells for unbeleivable price

[satoshi_matrix]

I'm probably behind the times, but I didn't see any mention of this on FW, so here goes.


Apparently, there is a very limited variant of The Legend of Zelda for NES in which the second Quest Ganon is purple instead of his regular pale blue. This only occurs in (very few I'm guessing?) gold cart versions that has the CAUTION warning on the back underlined. You have to reach the second quest Ganon legitimately as well; no entering ZELDA as your name to skip the first quest.


A guy who had a copy sold it last month. Bricks will fling from your ass when you see the winning bid.

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Legend-Of-Zelda-COLLECTORS-ITEM_W0QQitemZ260564823633QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games_Games?hash=item3caadfae51QQautorefreshZtrue


Now here's my question: how many of you have NES Gold Zelda with an underlined CAUTION on the back? I know I do.  It's enough to make me want to play through just to ensure I'm not suddenly the owner of a $9,999.99 game.

[ericj]

How did I know the seller was from Florida? 

My other guess was Brooklyn, NY.   

[UglyJoe]

Apparently, there is a very limited variant of The Legend of Zelda for NES in which the second Quest Ganon is purple instead of his regular pale blue. This only occurs in (very few I'm guessing?) gold cart versions that has the CAUTION warning on the back underlined. You have to reach the second quest Ganon legitimately as well; no entering ZELDA as your name to skip the first quest.

It's a joke, dude.  The guys at NA were baiting him.

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=61&catid=3&threadid=30222

[satoshi_matrix]

wait......so this is fake? Wow. if so, I was totally taken.

[nensondubois]

Mine has Cation underlined in black.

[MS-DOS4]

Mine does too. I'm pretty sure every single Zelda cartridge ever made has CAUTION underlined in black.

[UglyJoe]

Yeah, it's underlined on all of them.  The joke was to see if they could get the guy to play through both quests up to the end and see if Ganon was purple.  (and also to see if it would glitch and turn the triforce into the quadforce, along with other jokes, I'm sure).

[ericj]

Did someone actually buy it, or was that staged, too?

[UglyJoe]

They're fake bids.  Not sure how that works, exactly, but no one is gonna be paying him.

[ericj]

I just noticed that he didn't use the word "rare" in his description. Probably one auction where, if it were true, it would have made sense.

[satoshi_matrix]

Isn't bidding and not paying the winning bid illegal?

Granted, this is amongst auctions that make zero sense in reality, much like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7372452/New-Zealander-tries-to-sell-two-ghosts-on-internet.html

[FamicomRetroGamer]

The worst sellers are the ones that create fake accounts raise the bid more and make the true bidder pay more than he/she should, what a-hole.

Bidding and not paying, it's breaking a rule but not illegal I see.

One time I intended to pay for an item but the seller only responded after a week, and that put me off to the point of declining to pay him. It went all fine.

Don't know why some sellers take ages to give a simple answer.

Ha ha nice "rare".

[Bramsworth]

  I'm surprised people keep falling for this, it's just a little too obvious. Especially the way anyone describes it. A bit too enthusiastic and obvious, there's people that go to the Nintendo Age forums and keep getting duped into thinking it's rare still

[nintendodork]

What someone should do is buy his copy, get to Ganon, and then do it on a different cartridge.  Then tell him it's like that on all of them.  And then demand the $5000 refund.  He promised it.