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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Four series of Mass Effect figurines being offered by Big Fish games are certainly nice enough collector’s items. They also come with a card (one per figure) promising “access to downloadable in-game content”. One figurine is $US17.99; a set of four is $US67.99. All four, then, is $US271.96, or about 32,000 Microsoft points. Ouch.
Never opened. Frozen in time. That’s what the claims are for a rare 1985 launch edition of the Nintendo Entertainment System being sold on eBay. Wrapped in plastic in a handled cardboard box, the NES up for grabs is apparently in the same state that retailers received it more than 20 years ago.
Before the infamous crash of console gaming in the early 1980s, third-party cartridge development was somewhat a wild-west affair. Development costs were negligible compared to present times and, without the need for a presence in online distribution channels, a garage-built game might actually turn a profit on door-to-door sales. Thus Extra-Terrestrials was born.
The cruel economics of Comic-Con dictate that gee-whiz collectibles (produced in ludicrously small quantities) will be rewarded to those who make the pilgrimage to San Diego. Here are the 2011 exclusives destined to whip convention-goers into a rampage.… [io9]
The official – and tiny – Super Meat Boy figurines from Voxelous and Team Meat have been revealed. Just two inches high, they’re $US12 each (plus $US3.49 shipping for one, $US3.99 for two or more). The first set includes Meat Boy, Bandage Girl, Brownie and the pathetic Tofu Boy.
It’s well settled that Stadium Events is, if not the rarest video game on the collectible market, is certainly the rarest of any retail release. A year after a sealed copy of the NES game set a record for the most ever paid for a single game, another verified, factory-sealed copy is seeking to dethrone it.
