Rare Game Boy Color Demo Cartridge for Sale
A rare Game Boy Color demo cartridge, a promotional item sent to shops before the handheld’s release, has appeared on Vinted. The cartridge displays a chalkboard message advertising its color capabilities and shows snippets of games like Links Awakening DX, Tetris DX, and Wario Land II.
The seller, ‘shipit’, picked up the item at a car boot sale in the UK and only realized its value upon returning home. The cartridge is listed for £400, which reflects its rarity in the retro gaming community.
Chatting with shipit on Vinted, they told me that they ‘didn’t actually know the cartridge’s value until they got home’, picking it up because it looked interesting. As a Nintendo fan they often keep an eye out for memorabilia after finding once finding a sealed copy of Pokémon Blue for the Game Boy – every Pokémaniac’s dream!
Do you have any stories of stumbling across rare gaming gems?
Someone i know used to repair game boys and DS consoles for Nintendo. He had some “Aging Cartridges” from them, used for long test runs.
At some point, he gave me those cartridges. I know own an NDS aging cartridge as well as 7 GBA ones, and two for the original DMG.
