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One of the rarest NES games of all time goes up for auction today

It’s not made of real gold but it might sell like it is.

Most of these cartridges featured standard gray NES shells, but 26 of them were upgraded with a shiny gold housing and given away to winners of Nintendo Power magazine’s Players’ Poll Contest that same year. According to Goldin, this particular gold cartridge was the one awarded to Patrick King of Cheyenne, Wyoming, whose name appeared in volume 18 of Nintendo Power, along with the other Players’ Poll Contest winners. The easiest way to confirm that this one is legit is to win the auction and plug the cartridge into an actual NES, but that could end up being a budget-busting approach best left to deep-pocketed collectors.

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