The $17,500 Nintendo Video Game

I don’t know whether this story translates into an extreme love for a game or sheer insanity but a man recently bought the Nintendo World Championships Gold for $17,500.  Yes, $17,500.  You could buy a minivan with that amount of money or pay off student loans but, in this depressing economy, one person chose to blow almost $20,000 on a video game.

The details of how the transaction went down are over on the Video Game Price Charts website if you want to know how this could possibly happen.  Of course, it’s a steal compared to the original asking price, which …read more