Comments on: Rare Game Spotted: Virus NES Dr. Mario Prototype? http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/06/11/rare-game-spotted-virus-nes-dr-mario-prototype/ Video Game Museum: Retro gaming, collecting & video game preservation Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:45:00 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gamesogre http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/06/11/rare-game-spotted-virus-nes-dr-mario-prototype/comment-page-1/#comment-380 gamesogre Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:26:21 +0000 http://www.videogamemuseum.com/?p=1153#comment-380 A few reasons: 1) Dr. Mario is a household favorite, so a Dr. Mario prototype gets more attention than a prototype for a less popular cart. 2) Nintendo (aka 1st Party) prototypes are much more rare than 3rd party produced games. Nintendo is super serious about its intellectual property, so its prototypes rarely see the light of day. 3) Game play (or at least in-game graphics) are clearly different than the common production version of the game. Nintendo-loving geeks, hackers, homebrewers, etc., love to be able to dump the game's info into a computer and to take a closer look at how the game was made differently than the final version. 4) Quite simply, this is possibly the only copy in known existence. Collectors are nuts and will pay outrageous sums for one-of-a-kind items. A few reasons:
1) Dr. Mario is a household favorite, so a Dr. Mario prototype gets more attention than a prototype for a less popular cart.
2) Nintendo (aka 1st Party) prototypes are much more rare than 3rd party produced games. Nintendo is super serious about its intellectual property, so its prototypes rarely see the light of day.
3) Game play (or at least in-game graphics) are clearly different than the common production version of the game. Nintendo-loving geeks, hackers, homebrewers, etc., love to be able to dump the game’s info into a computer and to take a closer look at how the game was made differently than the final version.
4) Quite simply, this is possibly the only copy in known existence. Collectors are nuts and will pay outrageous sums for one-of-a-kind items.

]]> By: greg pabich http://www.videogamemuseum.com/2010/06/11/rare-game-spotted-virus-nes-dr-mario-prototype/comment-page-1/#comment-379 greg pabich Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:54:16 +0000 http://www.videogamemuseum.com/?p=1153#comment-379 I JUST SAW THAT THIS ITEM SOLD FOR OVER $2,200. SINCE I AM NEW AT THIS, SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY THIS GAME WAS WORTH SO MUCH TTHANKS I JUST SAW THAT THIS ITEM SOLD FOR OVER $2,200. SINCE I AM NEW AT THIS, SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY THIS GAME WAS WORTH SO MUCH
TTHANKS

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