Is This Nintendo NES Game Still Worth $1,000,000?

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@FuzzzehOG Жыл бұрын

Please stop perpetuating bullshit, harmful stories that artificially inflate old game prices. This game was never worth that much and was only sold for that much to create a bubble and force other people to sell their games at inflated prices.

@larrycopeland3517 Жыл бұрын

Fakes news

@retro8819 Жыл бұрын

@FuzzzehOG As much as I'd want to agree with you thats not how this works, when it comes to collectors that's the holy grail, but thats how alot of things look to someone with only outside knowledge, you also have to understand this isn't some one time run of the mile game that randomly came out and was never talked about again, this is the second game in a starting franchise, technically the, thats not an over inflated price for some people, because as said there is no actual ceiling to that, it's like the best NFT to actually own since no matter what happens, so long as society is around that'll be considered a part of history

@christophermartinez4819 11 ай бұрын

Tell me if my guess of what he said was right lol so basically he told him since it’s high risk high reward and he’s not sure for how long it’s gonna be on the wall for Best he can do is 180k

@kayesdigginit1519 11 ай бұрын

Your "content" has already been put out on the open internet 😂

@12yearssober Жыл бұрын

Best I can do is $20 and a half eaten burrito that Chumlee didn’t finish. I’m taking all the risk.

@rodolfobeans3531 Жыл бұрын

Best i can do is shart in your corn flakes after my daily 15 lb burrito🤔 and im taking all the risk at that🤔

@12yearssober Жыл бұрын

@@rodolfobeans3531 🤣

@rogerdixon1069 Жыл бұрын

Deal

@paso4808 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@TheDeadlyTikka Жыл бұрын

The idea chumlee couldn't finish a burrito doesn't sit right with me

@HawgNutz Жыл бұрын

Pays $750,000 then catches chumlee playing it in the back room after the deal was through

@2treez65 Жыл бұрын

So true

@kiddroach7156 Жыл бұрын

😂

@gerardoarthur2249 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@squuid15 Жыл бұрын

You think this was real?

@angrybirdbob2881 Жыл бұрын

@@squuid15well the game is, and the offers probably were as well. Sold listings are heritage auction for others weren’t too far off. Obviously the entire exchange is fake though since they do that for everyone who comes in the store

@samnorman2307 Ай бұрын

"this thing is worth a fortune. I know, I'll take it to a pawn shop and get 30% of its value!"

@devinhall1631 16 күн бұрын

Impatient, people need instant gratification and to fix problems that took years to create need to be dealt with yesterday. That’s how this happens

@badladyami 15 күн бұрын

Given the costs of an auction house, it's probably closer to a net push than you realize.

@brianroberts7716 10 күн бұрын

@@devinhall1631 The show is fake, its not a real transaction in any form. The producers found a guy with a rare item and paid him to bring it in and be on tv.

@ryta1203 2 күн бұрын

@@badladyami This show is massively staged but this is a good answer.

@johnwayne2103 2 күн бұрын

Since this episode was tapped a year before it has aired it's free advertising to people who like to collectors.

@Biggoboybales Ай бұрын

Guy "appraising" the game, along with a ton of other people, got caught manipulating the video game market illegally. This clip right here helped them do that believe it or not

@Teh_Random_Canadian Ай бұрын

Yup. Karl Jobst did a great job exposing all of this. Creating a speculative bubble and making millions in the process

@Biggoboybales Ай бұрын

@@Teh_Random_Canadian Karl is the goat

@rileyreed4244 Ай бұрын

How is it illegal to bring awareness to how rare a game is?

@eccepasser Ай бұрын

@@rileyreed4244market manipulation and conflicts of intrest

@Biggoboybales Ай бұрын

@@rileyreed4244 because its not that rare, and it's for sure not worth no $1,000,000. It's illegal however to corner and manipulate a market by saying these games are worth that much, then buying thousands of them for dirt cheap online and selling them for a ridiculously high price. Anybody who lost money in the retro game boom deserved to lose every penny they had if not more

@ThisIsCheez Жыл бұрын

This episode was actually some helpful proof to show how WATA grading company was manipulating the market. That copy of Super Mario Bros is graded by WATA. Want to guess who the expert in this episode is? The CEO of WATA. A class action lawsuit has actually been filed against WATA and Heritage Auction company. Heritage Auction will only sell WATA graded games, one of the owners of Heritage Auction is an advisor for WATA, and on multiple occasions WATA and Heritage owners/higher up have bid on their own auctions to drive up price. The CEO of WATA has showed up on multiple episodes of Pawn Stars, given ridiculous estimates on the value of games, and in turn causes the auctions to go higher on Heritage Auction. Market manipulation so they get richer, and us actual game collectors get screwed because everyone and their mother think they old games are worth their weight in gold now.

@chrisarbour Жыл бұрын

Couldnt have aaid it better myself. Ive been trying to find old copies of like pokemon white and black and the MFs are $100+ really fucking frustrating. Edit for all you idiots yes I know I can use a rom. I just want the physical copy.

@stephengrizzanti1510 Жыл бұрын

What these guys did as business owners was despicable. Goes to show you what kind of people these guys and companies really are.

@jessicastevens538 Жыл бұрын

Every industry does that same thing. You act like them bidding up a couple of 70k video games somehow hurt you trying to buy ps5 games... Lol you people are fcking ridiculous with your fake interent outrage.

@Happyface714 Жыл бұрын

Just like diamond ppl

@pw6498 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Canadian politics !!

@alejandrobtncrt Жыл бұрын

Game Stop: We will give you $1.68 dollars or $3 in store credit.

@lakersrdbest Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏

@presleyfryingpanChildofGod Жыл бұрын

Yupp. Cheap bastards!!

@Madiuss Жыл бұрын

Thats actually more money than they would really pay

@emiliogomez2623 Жыл бұрын

I remember those days 😂😂😂😂

@logan007hi Жыл бұрын

GameStop won't give you nothing that Hass to be open first and then the game is really worth nothing so three dollars seems about right. Stop being a liberal with a righteous person just stay home and do your meth...

@mbrinkley750 2 ай бұрын

You see Rick’s logic here goes like this. It’s worthless when you own it but worth more when I own it.

@bandawin18 Ай бұрын

Well the goal is to buy it cheaper and sell it more expensive. Of course he's gonna go as low as possible

@Mushr88mBreW Ай бұрын

@@bandawin18It’s called making money, and the seller 9/10 is not in a position to bargain like it’s a piece of Unobtainium. They are taking a reasonable offer in their head, the buyer isn’t responsible for giving a reasonable offer at the start. Webster may define this as a Negotiation/Haggle. I mean anyone who has sold more than 2 things understands this principle. Either that or you are thick headed. 🤷 All respect to those who read this and we can stop a flame war before it happens.

@Blue-EyesWhitePrivilege Ай бұрын

@@Mushr88mBreWI feel like you should be responding to OP, not the person you tagged. That person agrees with you, that the buyer wants to get the product for a low price to sell it at a high price.

@Wraggle3000 Ай бұрын

@@Mushr88mBreWlmao you really did reply trying to argue with the only guy that agreed with you. What a genius.

@curtbressler3127 22 күн бұрын

This is why I stopped watching the show. Rick's a dick

@barryklinedinst6233 2 ай бұрын

Grading companies for gaming should be illegal. They ruined game collecting.

@flakycroissant9349 26 күн бұрын

Would you say the same for TCGs?

@korytoombs886 19 күн бұрын

Trying to pass that law in every country around the world? Imagine.

@df7817 3 күн бұрын

How?

@chrisnorrell7489 Күн бұрын

Also they gave that unicorn of a pristine game a 9.4. Fucking laughable

@user-hb9rl3ht4p 9 ай бұрын

If the guy wants 1 million for it he should bring it to an auction himself

@Treasures776 7 ай бұрын

the shows fake lol

@onetrues3978 7 ай бұрын

That's a whole other story look up heritage auction and wata games.

@genozp2328 7 ай бұрын

@@Treasures776The show isn't fake, or at least not to my knowledge, but it is pre-planned to an extent. In a similar way, people say the same thing about WWE and entertainment wrestling, it isn't fake so much as it is planned and staged, but a lot of things that happen in it are real or are made real in the moment at times. With this specifically, it's a real pawn shop where the TV show runners go ahead of time and find people who have interesting things for sale and put it on television via hooking up the situation, as well as making sure all the main people coming up are all right with being on camera who probably have to sign some sort of contract to some extent. It's set up, and likely played out a little bit more, especially in the backstage drama, some of that could definitely be fake, but the actual pawn shop is extremely real as well as many of the dealings.

@johng9095 7 ай бұрын

Auction you pay like 20-30% commission

@Theykillmice128 7 ай бұрын

@@onetrues3978this is the dude from wata games right here lol. For anyone else in the comments who are unaware, the auctioning company Heritage and the game grading company WATA had basically conspired to artificially raise prices pretty much across the board with regards to retro games. This is the prime example right here, game is valuable but not even near being worth 1 mill. Market manipulation at it's worst.

@cornpop9048 Жыл бұрын

kidnappers: we have your wife and will return her for 5 million Rick: 1200 best I can do

@FirstLast-yr9kx Жыл бұрын

Omg 😲 how have not gotten any likes!?🤣

@dat2ra 9 ай бұрын

Rick: Give me $2k and I'll take her back.

@kintothewind 7 ай бұрын

@@dat2ra😂😂😂

@WJC1981 7 ай бұрын

Let me get a hostage expert I know down here to take a look

@Summerlin866 7 ай бұрын

Ruthless

@MrFairbanksak1 Ай бұрын

So. This will take a little explaining. In later seasons of Pawn Stars, you'll start to notice that there are one or two items per episode where they will invite a grader or an expert in to talk about it. These experts will explain the history of the item, and more importantly give a figure for what it might be worth. Almost every time when this happens, the pawn guys will offer a lesser amount ("I need to make money too!"), and the owner will refuse it. So, what is actually going on is that the show needs a certain number of these interesting items per season. The history channel foots the bill for paying for experts to come in and say how much it may be worth. The owner of the item in question would otherwise have to hire that expert themselves. Instead, they their services for free. Also, they just got major free advertising for selling the item in an auction later (and I guarantee at the auction itself it will be a major selling point for the auctioneer to say "and item number 27, as seen on episode 516 of the TV show Pawn Stars..."). So the owner benefits. And the showrunners benefit, because rju got some interesting footage for the show. And the pawn shop guys benefit, because as long as the show goes on, they keep getting paid for it, and they keep getting advertising for the store from it. The end result is that a lot of these high ticket items are brought by owners who have no intention of selling them, to a pawn shop that has no intention of buying it.

@gunkyzip 8 күн бұрын

Trogly's channel detailed how he auditioned for the show with his $20,000 Gibson Les Paul. Then a certain virus hit us, and the idea got scrapped.

@robertsanchez1708 2 ай бұрын

He’s gotta buy a frame and put in shop and gonna sit there for a long time taking up space 😂😂

@bobbyhill7321 7 ай бұрын

Friendly reminder that this "expert" runs several auction houses that sells games to each other only to raise the price before it goes out to the public.

@xERamirezx 7 ай бұрын

Came here for this

@jimbass1664 7 ай бұрын

Spot on. Look at the current market. Looks like the pump is dumping.

@Gabefalconb 6 ай бұрын

Total fraud for sure. I’m sure that game has value, but I’d guess 150k max

@probuilder961 6 ай бұрын

That would be conspiring to price fix & he would be in prison if this was common knowledge.

@cleverusernamenexttime2779 6 ай бұрын

I'll give you a hundred. And that's only if you have a NES I can use.

@HiveQu33n 7 ай бұрын

Gamestop: "Best I can do is $12 store credit"

@totaltrol 7 ай бұрын

Most underrated comment.

@marieanne286 7 ай бұрын

Dude, this triggered my Gamestop ptsd flashbacks.

@ericaasen4512 7 ай бұрын

No way gamestop is paying 12 for a used game. 4 tops

@Drew-307 7 ай бұрын

Truer words have never been spoken 😂😂😂👏👏👏

@StarkIller-df7gw 7 ай бұрын

$12 bucks lucky if they give him $5 bucks store credit!! 😂😂🤠👍

@HowardRios-ut6pt Ай бұрын

I used to have one bought it brand new from the shelf back in 1990. It got stolen and I was destroyed by that. I saved it for collecting never to be opened. The most valuable item ever stolen from me.

@nathansmart1532 9 күн бұрын

I truly feel for you Howy the Reason I replied is the items of Value go missing over the years came flooding back,Take Care Mate. 🏞

@eg3402 2 ай бұрын

Pong started it all, then space invaders & asteriods, then pacman 🙄. He's an expert my ass...

@Huey290-tk9pb Ай бұрын

Makes me an OG in gaming then

@cuzz63 Ай бұрын

You forgot Lunar Lander.

@kirkfrith9969 Ай бұрын

You’re forgetting “ Breakout” It was right there at that time

@Sammalkives 25 күн бұрын

I feel like Tetris should be mentioned here too

@asnappletruck 23 күн бұрын

The point is, Super Mario Bros. didn't start it all. For nintendo, yes. And in my life, yes. It was my 1st game, along with Duck Hunt and Excitebike.

@skeleton_craftGaming Жыл бұрын

Ironically, it turned out that this guy's company was a scam.

@joshuadelaughter Жыл бұрын

The guy who appraised it or what?

@soriso717 Жыл бұрын

@@joshuadelaughter The guy who appraised it.

@jeremywalker2460 Жыл бұрын

You go to a pawn shop in Sin City USA and you expect everything to be kosher

@skeleton_craftGaming Жыл бұрын

@@jeremywalker2460 no but its still Ironic

@anthonytiramani-ct3tt 11 ай бұрын

This show was fake anyway lol

@chrisgemmell2742 8 ай бұрын

Wants a miilion dollars proceeds to take it to a pawn shop 😂😂

@jeffm2586 7 ай бұрын

For visibility. Also, the entire show is just that, a show. This isn't a real negotiation.

@kingusmaximus 7 ай бұрын

I don't know what's more embarrassing, your comment or the 36 people that like it.

@tutudanny 7 ай бұрын

@@jeffm2586it’s a scam btw, these guys are being served papers as we speak lol fuck’em

@The_brokest_rapper_you_know 7 ай бұрын

Right?? Almost like it's a SHOW or something. . . Weird 🤔

@kjhkj 7 ай бұрын

Look up wata games scam. The dude that came from wata games is friends with the people who own that copy. They artificially made the sealed game market go up by buying copies for high prices and speaking about the price of games being higher than it is. The copy that had on the show was the highest price for that game every and it was only at 100k no where near 1million

@richardstarkey2247 Ай бұрын

"I know why he's asking astronomical money on this one." -Guy caught manipulating the retro video game market.

@bradfordbrown3328 Ай бұрын

I used to play the hell out of super mario bros back in the day. All-time classic video game.😊

@mwperk02 Ай бұрын

It is however not worth anywhere near that level of money. If your actually interested in playing the game it's worth maybe 10 bucks. If your collecting vintage mint condition copies it might be worth a few tens of thousands at best if it's a rare version of the game cartridge and still in its original plastic covering with no defects anywhere.

@LongtowerNyc Жыл бұрын

Perfect way of laundering money is through shady appraisals.

@GetOffMyPhoneGoogle Жыл бұрын

@Treedom Vellacroix The art world says that you are wrong and he is right.

@marvinnotgaye-kk6cd Жыл бұрын

Art

@charliekowittmusic Жыл бұрын

“No officer, I didn’t give him $100k in drug money. I paid $100k for this portrait of a stick man on a post-it note.”

@husky3g Жыл бұрын

@@GetOffMyPhoneGoogle People haven't looked into the shadiness of WATA and VGA. Both grade their own games they find with stupid grades in order to bank on investments in the future. It's a huge racket, honestly. They may grade someone's stuff honestly every now and again but they have a lot of controversy.

@chinookh4713 Жыл бұрын

@@GetOffMyPhoneGoogle art has always been crazily expensive yeah money laundering has occurred with it but that’s not for every case. It’s ridiculous people think it’s always money laundering reality it just idiots setting prices and rich folks investing it and using it as decoration for their home to show off how rich they are

@JebAlert Жыл бұрын

"We have graded our own items and determined them to be worth millions"

@Jasonhoods 9 ай бұрын

For context I paid $7.55 for my copy. This is called a scam.

@WWASHD 9 ай бұрын

You paid 7.55$ for a 1985 super Mario Copy?

@kaoticfox 8 ай бұрын

It’s called comparable sales clown. The consumer sets the price

@Jasonhoods 8 ай бұрын

@@kaoticfox it's wild to me that you're not only arrogant in your ignorance but you are so confident you feel the need to insult strangers who don't make the assumptions you make. If you had a clue what you were talking about you'd know Wata is the company that set the prices. You'd also know their scams have been covered extensively. Let me give you a word of advice: just because you think you know something doesn't mean you do so the next time you want to try to sound big by making other people small do yourself a favor and bite your tongue. In this case you sound like an idiot.

@JebAlert 8 ай бұрын

@@kaoticfox literally 5 minutes of research into the graded games bubble would show you that's complete bullshit but by all means go off.

@SiodogRehane 3 күн бұрын

Thne low ball on the dude man, and still dares to still stand

@BridgetSheils 9 күн бұрын

My dad and my aunt bought me my new NES when I was 9 and it was awesome. I had a lot of friends in those times so that game system will always be awesome!!

@soccergang3169 7 ай бұрын

The truth came out. The guy talking about the game is the same guy who works for the auction company. He litterally sets the prices and then they buy their own auctions to create demand for future auctions. Oh we sold mario 1 for 1 million so the next guy buys one for like 300k thinking he can flip it. The market already crashed. It resold for like 60k. Carl Jobst has a nice documentary on the auction house.

@PipelinePicks 7 ай бұрын

Bingo.

@99EKjohn 7 ай бұрын

Karl, but everything you said is correct.

@electronicsandewastescrapp7384 6 ай бұрын

THIS. Total scam. The SAME scammer who scammed people with coin collecting in the 80's

@meatbyproducts 5 ай бұрын

@@TexasNewsOwL YEs but a journalist that did the research and has the documentation showing the collusion of the grading company and the auction house. The game on the show was owned by the head of the auction house and the guy bringing it in worked for same said auction house.

@docdeadsailor7865 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!! This was my first thought also.

@jokeassasin7733 Жыл бұрын

This episode should've exposed the Wata scam way earlier.

@kpayan6282 Жыл бұрын

What is wata scam?

@N54.S6 Жыл бұрын

@@kpayan6282no idea

@insomicraiddict Жыл бұрын

Watascamatta with you?

@yeahimquik Жыл бұрын

@@kpayan6282 wata owns and grades all the old school games, so they create the market and buy their old games to auction at prices they want. they control the flow, sale and distribution of old games

@mwperk02 Ай бұрын

@@yeahimquikthey also worked with heritage auctions to sell their games amongst themselves at over inflating prices before passing them off into the market for speculators to gobble up. It came crashing down around them after Karl released his videos on the subject.

@nathanielsmith7705 14 күн бұрын

He’s gonna say I’ll give u $5 & a box of uncrustables 😂😂😂😂

@mariomene2051 Жыл бұрын

Wasn't this "expert" outed as a con man by Karl Jobst? Didn't Jobst prove he has conflicted interests bc he both sells and appraises the same video games?

@ccramit Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this whole business is a sham. Inflate numbers to make money.

@evildarc0 Жыл бұрын

Yes I see the video as well

@stephengrizzanti1510 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, what wata and heritage and all others involved did to the video game market was disgusting and selfish. I'm amazed how greedy people will get to inflate a market they can dominate. Good job on Karl for exposing these scum bags

@boerbeun Жыл бұрын

so... video-game-pelosi? i would doubt that he is the one that makes the prices because buyers do. if he doesnt sell... then its not the value.

@jessicastevens538 Жыл бұрын

Big fcking deal, he caused a couple of $70,000 video games to sell for $100,000 instead. Everybody does the same corrupt sht in every single industry on earth but internet crybabys act like it aomehow was hurting them trying to buy ps5 games from walmart.

@shalashaska68 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm from WATA and I'm telling you that this game is worth a bajillion-gazillion dollars.

@allanrincon7200 Жыл бұрын

What a steal!

@JustAdude291 Жыл бұрын

Best I can do is free plus you pay me 250 dollars.

@jacktrades5103 Жыл бұрын

Good thing I brought my backpack with ten Bagillion dollars.... in one's.

@riothero313 Жыл бұрын

and a wet fart.

@ShannonWhittaker-xv4cr 11 ай бұрын

Settle for 30 million space bucks

@moedean3342 2 ай бұрын

That's a great piece of history. Brings back so many memories looking back. Its real worth is infinite.

@ACME22 Ай бұрын

"As far as we know" translates to "Maybe"

@RejectedTheOnes Жыл бұрын

"Yeah, so, we heard back from our other expert who works the register over at GameStop, and, based on his assessment, the best we'll be able to do for ya is 5, chief."

@jigarzasu 9 ай бұрын

Damn a 5 spot?! That’s top dollar at GameStop! Homeboy definitely lost his job giving away that much 💰

@ohyeah4365 7 ай бұрын

Man I remember the smell on opening a fresh game back in the day... The pull out the sleeve... Heavenly...

@DonaId_J_Trump 7 ай бұрын

Why does this sound like Joe Biden describing his niece?

@jacqueslalonde6370 7 ай бұрын

Yeaaa.. I love the smell after pulling out too 🎉

@mathinho1237 7 ай бұрын

@@DonaId_J_Trumpsay the parody account of the Epstein friend

@CBrasil1966 2 ай бұрын

Weird😂

@mwperk02 Ай бұрын

@@DonaId_J_Trumpsounds like trump describing his daughter.

@mattphillips538 3 күн бұрын

I had been hardcore gaming my whole life when that NES game came out just after my 20th birthday. It did not "start it all" LOL

@P1983sche 4 күн бұрын

“I have over head, I have to pay for the auction, I am taking all of the risk, best I can do is $50 bucks…I can throw in some Chumlee commemorative coins too.”

@thatchedstudios4768 7 ай бұрын

“I’ll give you $50, I gotta make money too”

@TheCFKane1982 2 ай бұрын

I mean Wata Games and the sealed Video Game market is a scam anyway, so yeah.

@Shiirow Ай бұрын

@@TheCFKane1982 so is Pawn Stars, Ive seen them scam people out of money every episode. they drive down the cost, say its the best they can do and put it up for sale for twice the value. Wata and Pawn Stars are a match made in scammer heaven.

@chrisw6164 6 ай бұрын

$30 in store credit is the best I can do.

@Sabamika1 Ай бұрын

Too much. A $5 Red Lobster gift card.

@ozzy6994 Ай бұрын

Lol that’s way more than GameStop would ever offer

@silnatic506 Ай бұрын

Lmfao

@frostysmoke37 Ай бұрын

@@Sabamika1 and an expired 10% off coupon to Hair cuttery

@cmorrison1977 Ай бұрын

Dumb

@Instructor1990 Ай бұрын

Best I can do is my lunch leftovers and a handshake after I use the toilet

@BoneFrossil 2 ай бұрын

I like how the person giving him a valuation is the person who works for the company who graded it... no conflicts there haha.

@LethallyReptarded 11 ай бұрын

For anyone who didn’t know. This was part of a huge scam. An auction house made fake bids on games like these (after buying a stockpile) to artificially inflate the price and rarity. If I remember correct these guys were actually people who ‘authenticated’ the value and rarity of said games

@BBD-AITB 7 ай бұрын

I’m not surprised. Never trust a man wearing a ponytail.

@davidforrester3147 7 ай бұрын

Yea one of the people involved had gotten in trouble for a simalar scam in another industry.

@jamstarent21 7 ай бұрын

You are definitely correct, Scam also with the grading company too. Scam with these guys goes back to old baseball cards with these guys selling altered cards as legit and getting them grading with high numbers

@davedixon2167 7 ай бұрын

Gah I remember this and was so happy it got dismantled, even though I think they're still running similar in other markets.

@TheArchersTungsten 7 ай бұрын

That market lasted 12 months and so many of these speculators that were basically scammed by the grading and auction house lost their shirts . You can still go see the prices and drops online it’s insane watching a 300k investment turn into 1500 dollars in such a short time .

@diwachtler 7 ай бұрын

scam. the appraiser is part of the company who grades and auctions these games. they drive up the price by bidding on their own pieces.

@smugsmeargle6875 2 ай бұрын

This is true

@Shiirow Ай бұрын

a scam artist negotiating with another scam artist.

@TheDurpFace 2 ай бұрын

Will you take $10 and a torn in half expired subway coupon? No? Alright best I can do is $9

@omegaweapon116 Күн бұрын

I'm mad that as a kid I never thought to keep the boxes and manuals for all my games

@atomicforever6931 8 ай бұрын

Rick: the best I can do is a pizza party 😂

@mjk5254 7 ай бұрын

Said every company that didnt give out raises this year

@longliveitachi 7 ай бұрын

Don’t do my elementary school teachers like that 😭 they tried their best lmao

@Tylerson 11 ай бұрын

Super Mario Bros. wasn't the start of anything. It wasn't even the start of fucking Mario Bros.

@Blittsplitt5 10 ай бұрын

It's about quality slow ass

@RedHeadKevin 6 ай бұрын

Mario Bros. wasn't even the start of the Mario Bros.

@thomasjr.5621 6 ай бұрын

Donkey Kong baby

@merdufer 10 күн бұрын

The guy trying to sell the game for one million was actually one of the founders of the grading company. They got caught trying to sell the games they graded themselves again and again.

@chillchinna4164 Ай бұрын

“We’ve rated it highly and I’m giving you a price without saying so directly. There’s no funny business here.”

@Haru_no_ki Жыл бұрын

I would just hold on that for at least 10 more years

@mizztwerksum5256 7 ай бұрын

Art historically always goes up in value. Full stop.

@notsmoothie 7 ай бұрын

@@mizztwerksum5256 it's worth 15k now 😅

@MrJobocan Жыл бұрын

What you see here is a scammer performing a scam on an entire industry.

@androogalt Жыл бұрын

In an industry of scammers? Get outta here

@cubeincubes 11 ай бұрын

which one? the whole show is staged

@five12man 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for trying to educate morons in speculation, not reality TV

@geekstreat 8 ай бұрын

Yup! And they did this to the whole video game collecting industry! Do not buy any game graded from wata either!

@DamnitDave87 8 ай бұрын

And it worked! For awhile...

@mattlinthicum4207 24 күн бұрын

meanwhile... I can't buy a house, I have my reasons but its glad to see people out there with money

@059echo Ай бұрын

I just found a 70 year old aspirin bottle in my attic. Gotta fetch a mil at least ... Right ?

@KagatoAsuka Жыл бұрын

The most interesting thing about this is the grading company is owned by the guy appraising this (The expert in the video) so he graded that game sold it to this man (or more likely let him borrow it for this episode) and appraised it with a fake story thus manipulating the market on live tv. And on top of everything I just mentioned the guy in this video saying that its basically priceless is currently in a lawsuit for manipulating the market as he is shown doing in this video.

@Reiman33 7 ай бұрын

yes. you have discovered a money laundering crime. Since you wont do anything about it, or report it though, your post is the equivalent to masturbation.

@wesss9353 7 ай бұрын

Live TV? Edited and several months past before the airing of the episode.

@5818fa1 7 ай бұрын

Rick is always getting scammed

@doubles7533 7 ай бұрын

I think this is a cool story bro. But I need to call my buddy who's an expert on cool stories

@davich_ Ай бұрын

I know my analysis is 5 months late, but I can say with absolutely certainty that the story is in fact not a cool story. But I need to call my buddy who's an expert on whether or not my certainty is certain.

@klindquist44 12 күн бұрын

I got this for Christmas when i was i kid.im 48.this just opened up a part of my brain,thank you 1980 someting

@ericstaples7220 2 ай бұрын

Imagine someone took one out of the shrinkwrap and put a sticker over the lid

@DotiNap Жыл бұрын

Did everyone forget that this grading company was a scam?

@thegrandbeef Жыл бұрын

I'm not too much into video games, but I've been collecting comics for some time. A couple of companies grade comics (CGC & CBCS), but I'm not too familiar with them. Do you know if those grading companies are a scam, as well? I see graded stuff asking more on eBay vs. upgraded comics, but I'm not sure if that translates to actual sales.

@sbrazenor2 Жыл бұрын

@@thegrandbeef it's all likely a scam. These people create some perception of scarcity and 'value' on things that few people even care about. The comic market is in the shitter, before that was baseball cards. You'll always have the outliers, like Action Comics #1; because who was collecting comics in 1938?

@DotiNap Жыл бұрын

@@thegrandbeef kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNx8eaiZnLyVaHU.html

@VD_the_GodKing Жыл бұрын

@The Grand Beef CGC and PSA are the most trusted well trusted in the card world. And no probably not scams like these guys. They would send people into auctions to place crazy high bids making people it has stupid high value.

@bobboberson12555 Жыл бұрын

I feel like they have sadly watta is scum though still I havnt forgot

@angusmcbean4449 Жыл бұрын

I used one of those as a door stop in college because I couldn’t afford a real door stop. 😂

@nerseasturyan7405 Жыл бұрын

Oh my

@randycrawford1132 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@loganbford9478 2 ай бұрын

When the owner of the game shows up as the "expert"

@ADGaming-7619 Ай бұрын

They cut off the part where he says “alright best I can do is 50$ …… look I got to make money also”

@TheCountBlackula1978 Жыл бұрын

I remeber this game came with my nintendo in 86 with a poster of different games and i had a black and white television. To this day the best christmas ever.

@sindelmybelle2215 Жыл бұрын

First nes games i played were tmnt and ghostbusters. Rough start haha. But the contras and ninja gaidens made up for it.

@Deadlystlouis Жыл бұрын

No doubt brother.

@arthuridis Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@Pigsawjanet Жыл бұрын

“ best I can do is $1000. I’m taking all the risk. It’s going to sit around a while. You’ll have to pay auction fees. Blah blah “ Rick probably.

@ainteasebeincheese Жыл бұрын

Wow...just wow man....

@mrOGbobbyjohnson Жыл бұрын

@@ainteasebeincheese u haven’t seen the show huh🤣🤣

@JustMe-lt1cc Жыл бұрын

🤣😭😂

@kylebieth3678 Жыл бұрын

@@ainteasebeincheese clearly you've never seen show and how this thief low balls

@anthony8241 Жыл бұрын

Best I can do is 1 scrunchie

@dangarcia9831 5 күн бұрын

Valid point of it becoming art. Art is only valued by who appreciates and wants it. And, can also change in a snap.

@pacboy24 Ай бұрын

“Let me call a guy that knows a guy, about a gamer guy that knows gamer stuff…”

@fwelton Жыл бұрын

Anything is worth any price to the right person. A glass of water is easily worth $1M to a guy that just crossed the desert without water, but to a person drowning in a lake it is worth less than nothing.

@Anonymous-dp9no Жыл бұрын

Amen

@mazzaleen6091 Жыл бұрын

shut up

@crispi94 Жыл бұрын

Well said 👏

@wavyi8270 Жыл бұрын

this is just such a useless comment i feel a little upset because i read it

@drhubs7049 Жыл бұрын

Its funny this comment is here because I have made it one of my life goals to sell a glass of water for a million dollars

@postbyte1 Жыл бұрын

That thing should be in a museum.

@dazeen9591 2 ай бұрын

If i couldn't sell it then i wouldn't even take it if someone paid me

@codiddly27 5 ай бұрын

Did anyone catch when he said Our grading company

@Sabamika1 Ай бұрын

Yep, loads of videos proving his grading company particulates in price fixing.

@craigmusa2254 Ай бұрын

Yeah this was proven to be a scam

@123flooor Ай бұрын

He’s the expert they called in to evaluate the game…. So yea, he’s part owner of the company that graded the game

@bobthetroll 25 күн бұрын

In no way has this proven to be a scam 🤔

@craigmusa2254 25 күн бұрын

@@bobthetroll it was proven to be a scam. Grading anything other than tcg is a scam. Technically even grading tcg is a scam dependent on company and product

@alexandernix9681 Жыл бұрын

Ok so he said I could get 1 mill I will give you 5 bucks and a half eaten pizza

@sander4247 Жыл бұрын

Wow you should be a fucking comedian😐

@TnAGamingStar3233 Жыл бұрын

@@sander4247 wow you should be a comedian😑

@Earth.VS.Humans Жыл бұрын

@@sander4247 wow you should be a comedian

@DavidNefelimSlayer Жыл бұрын

@@sander4247 Wow you should be a comedian in congress

@alexnsacto Жыл бұрын

That's funny , He's watched the show...

@rodgergarvie1067 13 күн бұрын

Buy it Rick, buy it! I love to watch you get Ripped Off, like you do to every sucker that walks into your store! 😆😅😂

@jamesgriffin2418 Ай бұрын

“Best I can do is 10 bucks. I got overhead, overhead. Have you seen the economy? It’s going to sit in my display for a long time.”

@Ishmel_Ewan Жыл бұрын

One thing i learned about pawn shops never disclose past offers that you yourself turned down because that is the amount they are gonna sell it for to rip you off

@Crimson.S.57 Жыл бұрын

If you think it’s worth $300,000 you’re the one ripping people off.

@Klaaism Жыл бұрын

It's almost like pawn shops are a business to make money. Not a charity.

@TheOrangeRoad 11 ай бұрын

Agreed most of the time, but in this case Rick is the one getting ripped off

@overanDownUnder Жыл бұрын

You know, it’s in a plastic case, I can’t take it out and play it, 1985 was a long time ago- best I can do is $19.95

@Benzcla250mobbn Ай бұрын

I remember as a kid always tearing into my games trying to open them, gosh how I wish I could go back and smack myself 😂

@michasiaka 5 күн бұрын

they forgot to mention that the "expert" is the guy who's company evaluated it as a 9,4 condition, and now he says how much it's worth. what a scam xDDD

@jettusrey8170 8 ай бұрын

FUTURE ADVICE IF YOU ARE NEGOTIATING PRICE: every single pawn shop owner or buyer always has their tactic. The begin with “what’s with this thing costing this much” or “Your asking that much for this!?” They always undermine you and make you feel little and not confident. If you know what you have and the worth. Stick to your ground and if they don’t wanna buy it for that much then leave. Simply leave.

@Minecraftrok999 5 ай бұрын

Well um 1) don't ever go for a pawnshop unless you are seriously desperate and incapable of selling the thing yourself 2) most of the time your ideas of "price" as a collector are a delusion. This guy is setting fake prices by pushing items around different auction houses he owns. This game is worth $100k at the complete max.

@DrDoom931 Жыл бұрын

My grandma's still got an entire entertainment center filled with these old Mario games. I used to play these games growing up in the 90s. Grandma's still alive I might go see what all she's got hoarded at her house today 😂😂

@docavar5698 Жыл бұрын

Your granny is a blessing 😇

@DrDoom931 Жыл бұрын

@@docavar5698 She is man. I had 12 thousand pounds crush my foot 3 years ago and I was off work for 2 years and lost toes and had to learn how to walk again. She moved me in and her and my parents had to take care of my 26 year old crippled ass for 6 months straight when I was bed ridden. She's the best woman in my life

@docavar5698 Жыл бұрын

@@DrDoom931 oof that, sounds damn painful, bless your granny you’re lucky 🥹

@anacc9261 10 ай бұрын

@@DrDoom931Gmas are the best.. wish mine was As Happy & loving like she was. Back when we were kids.. cherish Her ❤

@rodjoseph2636 Ай бұрын

They need that one video game store to give him $5

@user-yg2zh9io4x 2 ай бұрын

saying 300,000 is like asking for them to offer 350,000 lol

@RealdealSkip Жыл бұрын

I’m 25 and i remember watching this when I was 13😂 it went downhill and got cheesy after a couple years but it’s addicting at the same time lol

@Nash-np3nn Жыл бұрын

the best I could do gosh you know it’s going to sit on my shelf. I got a frame 40 bucks.

@FIFA07Pro Жыл бұрын

High Risk.

@gamepopper101 Ай бұрын

Fun Fact: The expert who had the evaluation was the head of WATA games, which provided the particular case and quality rating system for game collectors. Another higher up at WATA games also owned Heritage Auctions, who ran the auction for that very Super Mario Bros among other sealed WATA rated games.

@TheLaundryGuy32 14 күн бұрын

“Let me bring in my guy.”

@ArcherBowman Жыл бұрын

Rick: "I'll give you $50 bucks. Final offer."

@stephentorrey8727 Жыл бұрын

50 dollar bucks?

@notusingmyrealname15 Жыл бұрын

On this episode of Pawn Stars we attempt to manipulate the collectors market.

@ronhess110 24 күн бұрын

It should scream "scam" when someone brings an item this valuable to a pawn shop.

@randomconsumer4494 Жыл бұрын

I think, about a year ago, a similar copy that was graded a 9.2 from a different company sold in auction for 1.2 million

@TheOrangeRoad Жыл бұрын

Sold to people who were connected with WATA, the grading company

@tangomango8474 Жыл бұрын

Fake auction to manipulate the market. These games shouldn't be worth more than 10 grand

@crash6674 Жыл бұрын

to a guy connected with the company, money laundering 101

@MajorReaction Жыл бұрын

@@TheOrangeRoad artificial inflation is the name of the game

@Burritosuupreme Ай бұрын

He probably offered the Mario brothers duck hunt combo cartridge as a trade

@tonybrown6647 Ай бұрын

That right there is a legitimate piece of history and belongs in a museum

@bob_kazamakis Жыл бұрын

So glad Karl Jacobs exposed this scam in this episode

@harryweiss8761 Жыл бұрын

Karl Jobst?

@harryweiss8761 Жыл бұрын

Maybe there is another Karl out there dishing out justice.

@mitchellstoneshampoo 8 ай бұрын

*Carl Jacobs

@mjmpimp69 2 ай бұрын

GameStop be like I'll give you 15 cents if you have a rewards card

@creaturalshade7054 Жыл бұрын

Then Karl Jobst busts through the sheetrock and beats the shit out of everyone in the room like he just snorted a rail of Chuck Norris blood.

@grayzee2976 Жыл бұрын

Karl is a beast

@Robin93k Ай бұрын

Game Stop would offer you a 50 cent discount on your next order of over a hundred bucks.

@Shiirow Ай бұрын

Game Stop is also a scam, so...

@peterplus2001 13 күн бұрын

That's like paying 5 million dollars for a pokeman card.

@design1of470 7 ай бұрын

A mint boxed SMB is impressive, but there's no way in hell I ever buy that.

@robertohernandez6705 7 ай бұрын

im sure if you could wipe your ass with $100 bills you would buy it

@TheJim42069 5 ай бұрын

Especially it being a test copy that's extremely rare to be in that good of shape

@metalmario1231 2 ай бұрын

I don't want to collect it I want to play it....and I can do that on my switch

@design1of470 2 ай бұрын

@@metalmario1231 fr

@AProfilename 6 ай бұрын

Best I can do is a half drank Gatorade and this nickel.

@THELDSLIFE 26 күн бұрын

It’s out in sunlight RN and it’s printing is fading because of it

@JJSeattle 2 ай бұрын

"Super Mario Bros." cartridge, believed to be part of the test market launch before the game’s wide release, sold for an astounding $2 million in 2021.

@Joesworldttv 5 ай бұрын

Ive seen games like these sell for up to $200k over seas, then when they make their way to the US they are at a fraction of that supposed value at around 15-38k.

@mwperk02 Ай бұрын

That's because a mint condition Nes game is worth to collectors in the low to mid tens of thousands at the highest end. Most games like this would be worth way less. The inflated prices are a result of market manipulations by wata games and heritage auctions. They basically bought and sold games amongst themselves and their close friends at ludicrous prices to make the game seem orders of magnitude more valuable to speculators than it actually was in order to make a quick buck. Afaik right now they are being investigated for this.

@bbbbbbb51 Ай бұрын

Congrats. You're starting to learn why speculative markets are frauds.

@mr.freezypk9954 11 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure this was part of some controversy. The grading company, as well as this dude brought in to talk about it, would price games astronomicallly high which caused the whole retro gaming market to experience some huge unwarrented inflation.