Collector trades rare $20K Nintendo World Championships for Pokemon Red NintendoA Pokemon game collector had to trade away one of the rarest video games ever made in Nintendo World Championships in order to acquire a sealed copy of Pokemon Red. Nintendo World Championships is an extremely rare game and often retails for over $15,000 USD, with the special gold variant being more elusive and expensive. The grey carts were given to finalists in the Nintendo World Championships, and it\u2019s unknown exactly how many copies were made, further increasing its prestige. That all said, for one collector, he was willing to trade the cart for a sealed copy of Pokemon Red. As game collector Pat Contri explained on his podcast, he was baffled this trade even happened. \u201cI cannot wrap my head around wanting, even if it\u2019s sealed, a Pokemon Red game and giving up a Nintendo World Championships for that.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a game that has historical cultural significance in video games that they only made a few hundred of at most\u2026 this is always a game people are after,\u201d he added. \u201cTo trade that straight up, I don\u2019t know the mentality behind that.\u201d The trade in question happened between Portland game store owner Josh Hamblin and an unknown party. Hamblin had what he explained to be \u201cthe highest Red ever graded\u201d with a \u201cwhite ESRB seal 83% which is commonly accepted as the 1st print run.\u201d According to Hamblin, the collector is a \u201cvery large Pokemon card collector who only collects very few video games,\u201d and the copy he traded wasn\u2019t even his best. \u201cHe still has one of the nicest grey NWC carts in his collection,\u201d he explained, adding that he even had a gold NWC, as well. Furthermore, Hamblin said that the collector, \u201cknew I had to be wowed with the trade offer to even consider it over a cash offer, because I was just content to wait it out since Gameboy hasn\u2019t come close to peaking yet.\u201d That all said, Nintendo World Championships can fetch a pretty penny on auction. PriceCharting notes that three copies of the game were sold in 2019, selling for $23,000, $26,400, and $19,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Collector trades rare $20K Nintendo World Championships for Pokemon Red NintendoA Pokemon game collector had to trade away one of the rarest video games ever made in Nintendo World Championships in order to acquire a sealed copy of Pokemon Red. Nintendo World Championships is an extremely rare game and often retails for over $15,000 USD, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}