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One of the rarest NES games of all time goes up for auction today

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One of the rarest NES games of all time goes up for auction today

The 1990 NES Nintendo Gold World Championships gold NES cartridge inside a protective transparent plastic case.
Only 26 copies of this gold-finished cartridge were ever produced. | Image: Goldin

Starting tonight, Goldin will be auctioning off one of the rarest Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges of all time. Nintendo originally created only 26 of these gold cartridges as prizes for Nintendo Power magazine readers in 1990. They’re so hard to come by that a decade ago one sold on eBay for $100,088.

Hundreds of cartridges were created for the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, an event that toured the United States trying to find the country’s best gamers. Players competed for high scores in timed versions of Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and Rad Racer, which were all bundled onto special cartridges featuring physical switches allowing the games’ time limits to be modified.

Most of these cartridges featured standard gray NES…

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