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Subscribe to our newsletter Every time a rare piece of video game history goes up for sale, the preservation community holds its collective breath.
Will that item be made available for historians to study, or will it rot in a collector's horde forever? That was the fear when an extremely unique prototype of Nintendo classic Punch-auction was Out off for more than $60,000 earlier this year.
Luckily, the anonymous collector who paid out for the likely one-of-a-kind cartridge has made the excellent guy move."An early NES prototype of Punch-Out!! was found in 2026," according to the folks at The Cutting Room Floor wiki, which documents early development versions of many games.
"The prototype cartridge allegedly belonged to a former Nintendo of America employee who had sold it in a garage sale
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The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news.
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