A man from Nevada, cleaning his attic in the house in which he lived as a child, accidentally stumbled upon a 1987 Nintendo game. Now he is going to sell it at auction for more than ten thousand dollars.
This week, Scott Amos told a notorious publication that he had found an unpacked copy of Kid Icarus on Mother's Day. This was due to his mother, who asked him to take some boxes of baby items from the house in which he lived before.
Incredible find
Looking through his old things, he found an unused cartridge in a J.C. bag. Penney’s.
The purchase date (December 8, 1988) suggests that it may have been intended as a Christmas present, but now no one remembers that I bought this game.
How did the game get there?
“The whole family tried to remember or at least try to put forward some plausible hypothesis,” the man says. “My mother believes that she accidentally hid the game and forgot about it, and then she was in the attic.”
At first, this did not impress Amos - he left a cartridge on the kitchen table, where his daughters could get it.
“It's pretty funny. At first I decided that this unpacked cartridge could cost about a couple of hundred dollars. On the way to work the next day I wrote a couple of specialists by e-mail. One of them wrote to me thirty minutes later:“ Consider that you won in the lottery. "So I realized that I can become a little richer."
Then Amos urgently called his wife to put the game away where his daughters would not find her.
“I didn’t want them to unpack it or do something with it, because I’m not rich enough to miss such a chance,” the man said.
Valari McLackey, director of the Heritage Auctions video games department, said in a press release for the newspaper that Kid Icarus of all their games is the hardest to find unpacked.
The true value of the game
“Finding a sealed copy, and in such good condition, is just a one in a million chance,” McLackey said. “This is truly an incredible find for which collectors will be willing to give a large sum.”
According to data, in the hands of collectors is less than ten factory sealed copies of games based on Greek mythology.
If Amos really manages to bail out the cherished ten thousand dollars for this game at auction, he plans to share this amount with his older sister.
"We plan to go to Disney World for the next vacation," the man shared his plans.
Indeed, it is an incredible fortune and a one in a million chance is almost the same as winning a lottery. Has something like this happened in your life?
