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Back in late 1987 Bandai released Stadium Events, a game part of the Family Fun Fitness series. Early the next year Nintendo bought the right to the series and re-released it as the the Power Pad. The two Family Fun Fitness-branded games that had already been released, as well as Bandai’s version of the running pad accessory, were pulled from shelves and destroyed due to Nintendo’s new Power Pad brand. In that time period there are believed to have been only 2000 copies of Stadium Events created and out of those only 200 sold to the public. Stadium Events is possibly the rarest game for the system that turned around the home console video game industry in the late 80’s which has been booming ever since.

Recently an Ebay auction popped up featuring a serious video game collectors dream, a sealed copy of Stadium Events. A copy of the game with the box included can go for over $10,000 but a factory sealed copy which was thought to not exist just sold for $41,300 in an Ebay auction.

Here are the words of the seller:

This was bought over 20 years ago so my memories are fuzzy (we have over 175 games – which, btw will be going up for auction in the coming months - all with boxes! – some unopened).  What I remember is that we bought it thinking that we could play it by itself and then realized that we needed the pad (?).  Somewhere in there it was recalled so the pads weren’t available when we went to purchase it.  We never got around to returning the game…lucky us!

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In 1982, Tommy Tutone released a song that would change the way we look at phone numbers forever. Their song, 867-5309/Jenny, peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1982. The song caused thousands of people to attempt to dial 867-5309 which was a real phone number at the time in many areas, and ask for Jenny. One of the last available 867-5309 numbers, which is in the (201) area code, is currently being auctioned off on eBay. The number still recieves 8,000-10,000 calls from curious individuals looking for Jenny, over 25 years after the hit song was released. The current auction price as of Feb, 2 is $4,950.00 with 7 days before the auction ends.
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If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, somebody probably bought this piece of crap on eBay. My only question is does it have an 8-track to play the 1984 Ray Parker Jr classic.

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A piece of aviation history is for sale on eBay. The M200X was the first flying car type vehicle to successfully demonstrate that it was possible to hover and maneuver a personal VTOL aircraft by someone with virtually no pilot training.

The key to the ease with which the M200X could be flown was the use of a number of unique engines controlled by a central electronic computer and sensor module. The engines received computer commands every few milliseconds that told each engine what to do to keep the M200X stable no matter what environment it was operating in.

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