“When she took it for validation to a used video game store in Charlotte, the young man behind the counter rustled open the plastic bag and beheld the game — pristine in its cardboard box covered by much of the original cellophane — coughing the words ‘Oh my god.’ He offered her all the money in the register for it. She turned him down.” ESPN on a boring Nintendo game from 1987 that became the most coveted cartridge ever.

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