Mar 30 2009Yeah, I Beat It: NES Test Cartridge On eBay
Want a NES Joystick Test Cartridge? Pfft, who doesn't! Well now you can, thanks to a $1,050 eBay auction. Best. Game. Ever!
This is a Joystick Test Cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System. These carts were given to game stores to test their Nintendo Entertainment Systems and were suppose to be returned to the company that provided the carts. These are very hard to find since they were never sold on the market. Any NES Collector could appreciate the value of such an item. There is wear on the label as can be seen in the picture.
Listen, just because something is "very hard to find", doesn't mean it's worth $1,050. Case in point: my penis. Little help over here!
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NES Joystick Test Cartridge lands on eBay, complete with lowest replay value ever [engadget]
Thanks to Tim, who made it to level 9 before he realized he was playing a Joystick Test Cartridge.
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Reader Comments
1. WHO DEYWHODEY - March 30, 2009 12:07 PM
FIRST
2. naas - March 30, 2009 12:10 PM
@1
GHEY
NES news is a little dated
3. Matt - March 30, 2009 12:10 PM
2nd
4. matt - March 30, 2009 12:10 PM
daaaaaaaaamn
5. naas - March 30, 2009 12:11 PM
@3
just as ghey as @1
God you firstarded are a bunch of fücking douches
6. Me - March 30, 2009 12:11 PM
Poor tim!
7. Timbo - March 30, 2009 12:14 PM
If I had $1,050 to wate I'd get something else..., but If I had $2,050 I'd get it...
Maybe...
8. Timbo - March 30, 2009 12:14 PM
No, I changed my mind I wouldn't get it....
9. WHO DEY - March 30, 2009 12:16 PM
@naas, I am sorry, you were the coolest person on earth and know everything about NES. Go cry to your mom and blow up your computer. SALTY
10. Watch - March 30, 2009 12:24 PM
I did not this cartridge existed!
SEND IN THE ROFLHOTELICOPTERS!!!!!!!!!!!11111
11. naas - March 30, 2009 12:35 PM
@9 ok, apology accepted. I haven't cried to mom since I was a baby & I need my computer to attack the firstarded like you. I don't know everything about NES really, but like colecovision it's just not news to me.
I'm also not salty unless I'm sweating & I don't hate you at all. It's just the first thing... it's old, lamers & weaksauce gheytopia
12. WHO DEY - March 30, 2009 12:39 PM
I love it when people claim they are first and FAIL.... Friends?
13. Angel Mass - March 30, 2009 12:41 PM
Crap, and I just throw away my NES yesterday
14. Madgame - March 30, 2009 12:57 PM
Looks like Mario is humping it in the picture.
15. naas loves you - March 30, 2009 12:57 PM
@12 if you can refrain from being a firsty then we're buds forever
16. WHO DEY - March 30, 2009 1:02 PM
I will try but it's sooo much fun when people FAIL.... even if I do
17. Dex - March 30, 2009 1:03 PM
There is no amount of money you can spend that will make you look/feel/believe you lived during a time that you didn't.
BUT
You might make stupid people believe it. Present company accepted.
18. softlicious - March 30, 2009 1:16 PM
OLD!
This is so old, I havn't played NES for ages. As for the money this was a total waste, I can't even afford to buy new games. I have the Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition, 4 games: LoZ, AoL, OoT, MM plus 2 movies and a little WW. Btw, speaking about Wind Waker, I found 2 glitches in WW:
1. Dragon Roost Cavern, first room, instead of removing statue, climb up, then get stuck between them and you're stuck.
2. Forbidden Forest, Boss fight. This one is a little trickier, count the number of hits it takes to kill the boss, reload and all but kill him (one hit remaining). Then throw your boomerang just before he closes and make sure that the returning boomerang hits while leaves are closed, really hard to do.
19. softlicious - March 30, 2009 1:22 PM
I just got a great idea! Is the offer to buy the NES Joystick Test Cartridge for $1,050 still standing? I'll buy it! Only problem for you is I'm going to pay with pennies smeared in poop, I'm going to hand it over to you in a huge load, left for you to count them, all 105.000 of them. I'll need a lot of this:
http://madonnablog.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/poop_05-29-2003.jpg
I'm gona collect until I got enough, and then I'm gona pay you good.
20. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 30, 2009 1:47 PM
@19
I'll gladly help you in this endeavor. Now hold still while I shit in your mouth.
21. Tiz Nizzle - March 30, 2009 3:51 PM
FIRST! wait...where am i??
22. Sauron - March 30, 2009 5:24 PM
I'm pretty good in finding 'hard to find things'! Haven't seen this one yet!
23. Daisy - March 30, 2009 6:29 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete potoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was fixing a NES system but couldn't test the "Joystick" because the NES didn't really have one, until the NES advantage came out.
24. Delgo - March 30, 2009 7:26 PM
I got one of these.
Whoever wants it can have it.
Bulk garbage night is Thursdays in my town.
25. Robert - March 30, 2009 7:32 PM
bull-shit!!!! no way i have like 5 of these things... 0_o; my dad owns a (former) Nintendo Authorized Repair center (Nintendo has closed them all down so yeah...)
26. Robert - March 30, 2009 7:38 PM
in fact.... the nylon looks like the nylon that is on our floor............... DAD!!!!
27. ech0z - March 30, 2009 10:26 PM
that is way cool! ive seen those at flea markets b4.
sick bait... ez way 2 get rich amirite?? id like 2 own one though
28. Mailman - March 31, 2009 3:38 AM
i appreciate the subtle joystick-penis reference, even if it was unintended.