{"id":95306,"date":"2022-10-12T23:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/two-never-published-nes-games-are-up-for-auction-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:53:02","slug":"two-never-published-nes-games-are-up-for-auction-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/two-never-published-nes-games-are-up-for-auction-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Two never-published NES games are up for auction on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Frank Cifaldi, founder and co-director at the Video Game History Foundation, finds an unreleased original NES game on eBay, it’s cause for celebration. Unearthing never-before-published games is his \u201cresearch kink,\u201d and according to him, such discoveries only happen \u201conce every five years.\u201d yesterday, he found two<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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one game, Battlefields of Napoleon<\/em>, got so far along in its development process that it has finalized box art, but the game never saw the light of a retail store. The other game is even rarer. It’s a demo for the infamous Power Glove developed by Rare (yes, apparently that<\/em> Rare) and is one of only five known games for the peripheral in existence (if you count the two games Nintendo announced but never released). Cifaldi is now working to raise funds<\/a> to win both auctions so these never-before-seen pieces of video game history can be preserved and their contents shared with the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cifaldi said that while eBay saved searches are one of many tools he employs to find rare games, he actually knew Battlefields of Napoleon<\/em> would be coming up for sale. In fact, he’s had the game in his hands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOne of the services I provide is authentication of prototype items,\u201d he told The Verge<\/em> via Zoom. \u201cIf you actually look at that auction, there’s an authentication write-up by me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said the owner was a former developer who worked on the game and held onto it for decades before deciding to put it up for auction. For the Power Glove game, it’s not a developer putting it on the block but the wife of the game’s designer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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