But yeah, I guess the comic is a bit more valuable now than when it was first published. It led to the creation of a hero so powerful that barely anyone could write a decent story about him. Poor Superman. His strength literally is his weakness. Anyway, I still say the buyer was far more sane than the people who bid for the cracked glass stair from an Apple store.

[via Nerd Approved]

This is a port of the original game for the Nintendo 64 that came out in 2000. The game will receive updated graphics and will be released in March. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points ($10 USD).

Stuff like this is one of the reasons why I really love my Xbox 360. There are so many great games on XBLA, like Geometry Wars, and others. But what also like is the re-releases and updates of old school games. It appeals to the retro gamer in me. I have to confess that it took at least a week of playing Geometry Wars non-stop before I opened my other normal games when the Xbox 360 was launched.

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Hopefully, this version will make up for Perfect Dark Zero.

[Perfect Dark via Kotaku]

How does $3500 sound for the price of a swanky 360? Sure, it’s a little high (and will probably go higher), but just look! If you feel like dropping thousands of bones on Ebay, you might be able to nab the above Xbox! If, however, you don’t have several hundred dollars to blow on a console, you can take your chances in the drawing for the other rare ‘box. All you have to do is download “All You Need is Love” for the Beatles Rock Band game and you’ll be entered!

Or you can wait until after the drawing’s over, and check to see if the drawing-console turns up on Ebay. It probably will.

All of the proceeds from the promotion are being donated to Doctors Without Borders, so at least it’s all for a good cause.

[via Joystiq]

Ebay seller homisydal parted ways with his beloved 1989 Legend of Zelda collector’s item plate. It was in the mintest of conditions, as evidenced by its spotless bottom:

Yeah, that’s a $15,000 plate bottom all right. No doubt it was hard for homisydal to let go of his treasure, but I’m sure there was an extremely good reason behind it. Perhaps homisydal was having trouble putting food on the table. I’m sorry. I just had to. Seriously though $15,000? Maybe I should start hoarding random stuff. I can see it: 20 years from now I’ll sell a Logitech PS/2 mouse for $5,000,000. What do you mean that’s ridiculous? Surely it’ll be ultra-rare by then.

[via gameSniped]

That must be the color of a Sith Lord’s soul. Mmmmm want. Then again, it’s $6,000. So what else will you get for that kind of cash? Colorware’s so-called “Stealth” is a 15″ Macbook Pro with a matte widescreen display (yet another feature that wasn’t broke),  3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM, and a 256 GB SSD.

Now I know what you’re thinking, ’cause I’m psychic like that, and the answer is: $4,249. That’s how much it would cost if you bought an equally pimped-out 15″ MBP at an Apple Store. You could even spend a lot less than that if you buy the additional 4 GB RAM and the SSD from a third-party vendor.

Then again, this laptop is BLACK, and as I said, there are only 10 of these available. Nah, who am I kidding. IT AIN’T WORTH THE EXTRA $1,750 PEOPLE!

But if you have the money to burn, I think you should go buy it at Colorware ASAP. I’m sure there are more than 10 idiots people out there willing to pony up the money for this gimmick.

[via Engadget]

Since he’s selling his console, there’s no use in him keeping his games so he’ll throw them in too: Silent Hill 5, Disgaea 3 and…Rock Revolution. Yup. That’s it. ironically (that’s gunmetal ironically) MGS 4 isn’t included. But wait, there’s more! ids3remix will also give his PSN account to the lucky bastard who snags his PS3, and of course the games under the account as well. And it’s signed by Hideo Kojima, who incidentally proved at E3 that he can be quite sneaky as well (the shot of Kojima’s ninja moves is in the middle of that page).

The auction ends on June 15; bidding starts at $700 USD. Go! Think of how much the console will be worth in the future. And it plays games too.

[via gameSniped]

As you can see, the bezels were intentionally rusted, or, to use a fancy word, oxidized. A special coating has been applied to the bezels to prevent further rusting. Now the bezels in the limited limited edition Tourbillon Steampunk Ala Grande (Romain Jerome sure know how to name their products) are not only rusted, they’re “studded with 80 hand-applied rivets and have four bolts that resemble watertight hatches.”

I honestly think that honoring a notorious and deadly ship is questionable at the very least. Nonetheless, this is one kick ass watch with looks  that match its undisclosed yet no doubt titanic price tag. Only 9 Tourbillon Steampunk Ala Grande watches were made. Because there are only 9 people in the world who can afford the thing. Kidding.

A hundred years from now, Romain Jerome will be releasing the Recession Clusterfrack Ala Grande, watches with bits of concrete from the buildings of Circuit City, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Still kidding. I hope.

[via TFTS]

Look at that bizarre, two-tentacled electronic creature. What’s weirder is that chickeneater’s copy of the game is brand new, and has only been opened once to have its picture taken. Clearly, chickeneater’s house has a door to the 1980s, because if you check out his store you’ll find all sorts of relics and (non)living video game fossils from the 80s, all of them in mint condition. Wanna know something even weirder? As it turns out, you can play a hockey game using only one button! Screw you EA and your complex control mechanisms!

The Donkey Kong Hockey Micro Vs. Game & Watch sells for $85 USD (plus shipping) on eBay. It includes packing foam, original plastic bag, caution notice, instructional book and one of Robert Smith’s lipsticks. I was kidding with the last one. Robert Smith has used the same lipstick since 1975.

For some reason I can’t any find these in my closet between my copies of Pitfall and Adventure. I swear I nearly wore out my paddle controllers playing Zardoz. There’s nothing quite like Sean Connery in a tiny pixelated red Speedo – an image now burned into my memory forever.

One of the rarest bits of gadget history you can find, this beautiful specimen of the highly collectible Hewlett-Packard HP01 LED calculator watch is available for auction over on eBay. There’s just over 2 hours left in the auction so if you want to get your geek on, you’d better get your bids in fast!

I was hunting around looking for something entirely different when I spotted these limited-edition Invaders’ watches over at Japan’s ebten for ¥18,690 (appx. $207 USD).

The watch features an red dot-matrix display of the current time. With a press of the button, “Space Invaders” scrolls across the display, then a giant animated invader dances across the screen. And when it’s done, it’s “Game Over”, man. And before you start asking, the answer is “No,” you can’t actually play the game, so your score is permanently set to 240 points.

Only 500 of these extremely hard-to-find watches were ever made, so you better head on over to ebten with your Yen and your Japanese to English dictionary in hand if you want one before they all vanish.

Turns out that this awesome R2-D2 compact refrigerator was apparently made back in 2002 as a promotional prize for an Attack of the Clones contest held at 7-11 Stores in Japan. Word has it that just 1000 of these rare refrigerators were ever made, and now this one can be yours (assuming you’ve got the dough). Even rarer than the elusive Google mini fridge, this is definitely a serious über-geek collectible.

The guys over at ToyEast managed to get their hands on one of these rarities, and it’s in pristine condition. Priced at $1070 USD, it’s not exactly cheap, but if you’re a serious Star Wars fan, you might not be able to pass this up. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, I could overdraw my my checking account for this one.

This ultra-rare Capcom Super Mario Fushigi no Janjanland machine by was recently photographed by Flickr contributor Silent K on a visit to the Taito Game Station in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

I’m not sure exactly how the game plays, but I figure anything that involves Mario and pays out real dough has got to be good.

[via flickr]

The cart is one of only 116 ever produced and given only to participants in the gaming competition. Of these, 90 of them were the grey edition (the one that’s in this auction). The other 26 “gold” edition cartridges, are even rarer than this one (one recently sold for over $20,000).

Still, the one on the auction block is worth at least several thousand dollars, and ranked as the third rarest video game of all time.

[via gameSniped]

A dedicated video game fanatic going by the name of sengoku has decided to part ways with his massive collection which is almost like a self-contained museum of gaming history.

The auction includes a huge array games, consoles and accessories including Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, Coleco ColecoVision, Coleco Gemini, Coleco Telstar, Commodore 64/128, GCE Vectrex, Mattel Aquarius, Mattel Intellivision, Mattel Odyssey 2, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, APF TV Fun, Miscellaneous Handheld Games, Miscellaneous PC Games, SC Eight Thousand, Sega Pods, Miscellaneous TV Games, NEC Turbo Duo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Nintendo 64, Nintendo Super NES, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Sega Saturn, SNK Neo Geo, SNK Neo Geo Pocket, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Texas Instruments TI 99/4A and even the VM Labs Nuon (go Nuon!)

To put the size of the auction in perspective, the picture below just represents the Sega Dreamcast items in the auction. There are similar amounts of gear for many of the other systems as well.

The collection includes a whopping 1768 video game items, including a number rare games and accessories. The seller has estimated the value of the collection at $14,639, but the entire lot can be your for the low, low “Buy-It-Now” price of $10,979. Of course, you’ll have to drop over $1,000 to ship this massive collection to your house.

The list of items is so long that it won’t even fit in the eBay listing, but you can check out the full detail of everything in the collection here.

According to the crew over at RARE, the game will be a full port of the Xbox 360 game, not some watered-down minigame like many portable games. It’s even being developed by the same team that made the 360 version. One RARE staffer was quoted as saying, “it’s the same game [as the 360 title], starting with ruined garden, attracting Pinata, growing flowers and trees, buying things from shops… it takes advantage of the hardware available, so you interact using the stylus.”

No release date has been announced for the title, but this is definitely one to keep an eye out for.

[via IGN]

The Lomo Meccano Erector set is a complete kit that lets you build five different photographic devices. In addition to the classic LOMO camera, you can assemble a negative film viewer, film enlarger, a slide projector and a magnifying glass (though I don’t think there’s much “building” involved in that one.)

The Lomographic Society has a limited stock of just 100 of these very rare pieces that date back to the late 1980’s Russia. While it won’t keep up with today’s digital marvels, it’s a fascinating piece of history that’s well worth the $125 price tag.

According to a forums post over on Wii60, a person claiming to be a “Floor Manager” for the show has revealed the following items as some of the key items that Microsoft will show for their Xbox 360 console:

• New Crimson Skies game to be announced
• Bungie working on new title/series not related to the Halo/Marathon Universe
• Epic Games to show Gears of War 2 Trailer
• Microsoft have bought the Star Wars Battlefront 3 rights. Trailer/Demo to be shown
• Rare to show off Banjo Kazooie 3 (Banjo-Theerie?)
• Rare to announce 2 new games
• Rare to announce Kameo 2
• Lionhead Studios show more of Fable 2
• Microsoft to fund a new game based on Jason Bourne. It’ll be based on the books and not the film with Matt Damon
• Team Ninja to show off Ninja Gaiden 2. Labeled 360 Exclusive
• Apparently there’s news of a MGS Game for the 360. May or may not be the 4th Installment
• Dead Rising 2 to be shown. May not be ready

Now it seems to me that at least some of these items have a ring of truth to them (i.e. the RARE games, Fable 2). However, there’s also some some highly questionable items (the Bourne game, MS acquiring a Star Wars title).

I’m keeping my B.S. detector set to high on this. Besides, what’s really the likelihood that Floor Manager at E3 would a) risk his/her job by revealing this information and b) know so much about the specific products to be promoted in a show that’s almost a month away?

[via MaxConsole]

Yep, you too could be the proud owner of this original Apple set top box which I found over on eBay. It’s a prototype of Apple Interactive Television Box that Apple planned to release back in the early Nineties. The device was based on the old Macintosh Quadra 605/LC475 platform, and was intended to provide an interactive television experience, including some early DVR-like functionality that pre-dates TiVo. You can even check out this copy of the manual that was leaked onto the web before Apple decided to kill the project back in 1995.

Sure, you can’t stream music, movies or other media to it, nor will it really do anything since the box only worked with a now defunct subscription service. But if you’re feeling adventurous, maybe it would make an interesting case mod for your new Apple TV.

Made back in the late 90’s by a company called SunSeibu, The SGX is basically a modified SEGA Saturn mounted in a heavy-duty metal enclosure with a coin-op mechanism. It also has a special seven-CD changer for easy switching between multiple games.

The box has standard video and audio and controller ports so you can hook it up to any monitor and play. This particular SGX was never used, and comes in its original packaging and with all original accessories, including 2 controllers and a copy of Virtua Fighter 2. Bidding is already up to $710, which is about 70x what a used Saturn is selling for on eBay, so this one is just for the hardcore SEGA collectors out there.

[via TechEBlog]