Would you play $710 for a Playstation NBA game that noone really rated as any good? Well some people would…
In what could be termed as Phenomenal Swag, at least in some quarters, a 1998 Playstation 1 game called NBA 2-Ball which was given away for free at the 1998 NBA All-Star Game picked up some serious dosh on ebay.
This from kotaku:
A New Jersey man provided pictures of the disc to a blog that a while ago had written about NBA 2-Ball, which runs on “the awful NBA Jam Extreme engine,” so it wasn’t much fun to gamers, and was utterly useless to those without a PlayStation. Most folks threw the discs away. Only two copies were known to survive as of a year ago, one of them cracked in two. This New Jerseyan would seem to have a third.
He’s going to put it up for sale on eBay, where as we’ve seen before, very rare games have commanded five-figure bids. I haven’t seen it listed there yet. Of course everyone is immediately skeptical of its authenticity, but the guy has answered all questions asked of him and provided as much visual proof as he can. So who knows?
The ebay listing fielded 25 bids (!!) resulting in a $710 sale and a very happy former owner, no doubt.
Here is video of the game in action. Any game with Antoine Walker as one of the available individual players has to be good, right?
As you can see, there are seconds of fun in this one! So at $710, that’s a pretty expensive pastime someone has got there.
