Rare Video Game purchased for 8 Bucks valued at 38k

Rare Video Game purchased for $8 valued at 38k



Recently, a North Carolina woman came across a rare find when she purchased a 1980s video game from a Goodwill store for $8. Well as it turns out this game called Family Fun Fitness Stadium Events, might be worth as much as $38,000!

The majority of video games are not like fine wine; their value diminishes rapidly with most gamers lucky to get a few dollars of store credit when trading in their used games.

Now, it may come as a surprise to some that a game released in 1986 for the original Nintendo Entertainment System is drawing such interest. The game currently has a $12,000 asking price on the site Game Gavel.

The game could have been worth more than that, but the copy was removed from its original packaging and appears to have been used. Still, there's no doubt it's an extremely rare find.

Journalist Katie Williams reports that the unnamed woman spotted "the holy grail" of games at the Goodwill store and recalled that a similar copy made news on Yahoo when it sold for more than $10,000 as part an eBay auction.

So how will she spend the money from the sale of the jackpot game?

"I'm graduating this coming May with my bachelor's degree in accounting, and the money from this unexpected find will allow us to pay off my student loans,? she told Game Gavel. "We've also been saving for just over a year for a down payment on a house, and if anything is left, it will go toward that goal."

So, why is Stadium Events the most valuable video game in history?



Only 2,000 copies of the game were produced, with just 200 of those ever making it into the hands of customers before the game was recalled so this is indeed a rare find! So be sure to hold on to those older games as it appears that they might indeed one day become valuable.