A little-known Nintendo game then is a well-known Nintendo game now -- at least to serious collectors who are known to fork over plenty of cash for it.

It's Stadium Events, and it's a game that's so serious for collectors that in its original packaging it evokes comparisons to someone you might know if you're into baseball cards.

"I never had a Honus Wagner," said Tod Curtis, a Bedford, Ind.-based orthodontist, who seriously collects NES games and was interviewed as part of an ESPN The Magazine story on this game and its legacy. "That's what this game is to this hobby. I don't know how many Honus Wagner cards are out there compared to how many Stadium Events there are. If the game is really that rare, you can see in 20 years it coming up at Christie's, where people are going to pay $900,000."

The story is a fascinating one with plenty of parallels to the card-collecting world, and, not surprisingly, the tale has prompted the attempted sale of a high-grade copy of the game.

You probably won't believe the asking price right now on eBay. 

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