NWC Gold Cart Sells For $17,500 (Shaq-Fu Still A Bargain At Only $4)

Last month, the holy grail of video game collectors everywhere, the 1990 Nintendo World Championships Gold Competition Cart, was sold for the staggering sum of $17,500. This sale was big enough news to make it onto the front page of Yahoo, no small feat for the usually oft-ignored world of video game collecting.

The lucky new owner of the Gold Championship Cart, one of only a dozen to have ever surfaced, is JJ Hendricks of videogamepricecharts.com. Mr. Hendricks has written an interesting piece on his blog about the difficult process of acquiring the most desired video game in the world.

In honor of this exciting event, and possibly to distract us from our biting jealousy of Mr. Hendricks and his awesome new game, here's some footage from the actual 1990 competition, where people actually earned their expensive carts (we kid, we kid):