jrronimo wrote:
Well, yeah. But even a “close to CIB” collection gets tough and expensive. A lot of the black box games are tougher to find already. Not impossible, but tougher.
I think just getting a CIB Stadium Events alone approaches near impossible, and it is especially ridiculous when compared to a complete Virtual Boy game collection.
I made a price list for Virtual Boy CIB games recently, using the average selling prices of CIB VB games on Ebay in the last 4 months as well as my memory of what the rarest CIB games have gone for in the last 2 years, and I determined that the “worth” of a complete CIB Virtual Boy game collection today, including both North American games as well as Japanese games, is about $4,780.00. (See the attached for average selling prices of each game and the total calculation)
In comparison to NTSC Stadium Events, a recent Ebay auction showed that the “worth” of a damaged NTSC Stadium Events box alone is over $8,000.00.
So basically, one can either have a complete Virtual Boy game collection across both regions plus over $3,220.00 in extra spending cash, or one can have a damaged NTSC Stadium Events box.
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And here is a photo of a Walmart flyer proof.
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Attached is a combination of 2 scans of a sign that was set up in a Toys“R”Us store some time in 1996. This type of sign contained an empty white space, where an employee of Toys“R”Us could write in any desired retail price. In this sign’s case, the price of 97.96 US Dollars for a brand new Virtual Boy system was chosen.
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Attached is a combination of 2 scans of a sign that was set up in a Walmart store some time in early 1996. 11 of the 14 total Virtual Boy games released in North America are advertised on the sign, the missing titles being Virtual League Baseball, Jack Bros., and Waterworld. This is likely because these three games were not published by Nintendo, whereas the 11 titles that appear on the sign were.
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Attached is a combination of 2 scans of one of the signs that were set up in Blockbuster Video stores during the time of the Must See 3-D Sweepstakes, which was advertised in Nintendo Power Magazine. As one can see, the bottom middle part of the sign had a place where NBC/Virtual Boy “Must See 3-D Sweepstakes” entry forms could be placed, and a person visiting Blockbuster could simply take one to use to enter the contest, without any purchase or rental being necessary.
