I just wonder who Nintedo is lol

Edit: the spelling on the 3 in 1,  that is!

someone should buy my Super Mario I proto, LOL

He has more protos coming.

Anyone want to guess at how much the SMB2 proto goes for? My thinking is that it will easily hit $500+. It's currently at $200. I'm guessing any game collector who sees it pretty much has the same reaction- 'OMG I NEED THIS!!!!!!I WANT!I WANT!I WANT!'

Well it ended up selling for $470 USD after shipping it sold for just about $500. If any member on NA bought it please post a thread about what the SMB2 proto is like and if there's any differences from the original.

Wow, these sold for a lot less than I expected. I'm interested to see if there are any differences present.

I'm a little surprised that SM2 sold for more than the 3-1 as it's at least the third copy that's out there.

Yep, agreed.. I thought they'd go for a bit more, but what the heck do I know. But yeah I would really love to see what if any kind of differneces there are with these games.

Proof that the Christmas season may be a bad time to sell high priced items? I'm not sure, but I would have thought these to be more expensive as well.

I know that the other SM2 prototypes that have been found have had differences, so I think it's a likely possibility that this one will as well.  Like Dream mentioned earlier, the 3-1 will most likely be the same with maybe the exception of an early menu or something similar.

Oh, there's no doubt that was a factor.  I just bought a Magician prototype at open auction for just over $200.  Not only that, but it was sold on a Euro eBay site, and I thought the price was completely fair.  The fact that the 3-1 sold for under $400 is astounding when you compare it to the value of lesser prototypes.  Crazy stuff I tell you.

The SMB2 makes more sense that it sold for a reasonable price.  No one on the planet pays more for first party Nintendo prototypes than Van Halen, and I know he already has one.  I wonder if he already had a 3-1 and just stayed quite about it.

Here is an old article where Van Halen shows off many of the differences in his SMB 2 proto:

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net...

Cool stuff for sure.  Also, as others have said, I can't believe how low these went and I'm surprised that SMB 2 went for more than the 3-1 when there are 3 known copies of the first and one known copy of the latter.

I don't know why but I was expecting these to hit 4 figures .. I guess there is not that much demand for protos?

I would really like to know who got ahold of these.

you know what really sucks ... I was watching these items going previously on this auction ... it ended with no bids ... i just about bid but forgot about it double sad face ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI....

The auction did not end without bids, it was ended early.  The seller caught wind of the value and relisted them individually.  You didn't miss out on anything, I can assure you.

Naw, he pulled the auction.  Those games set off about a million saved searchers for people I'm sure.

Edit:  Beat to it!

thank goodness
i was gettin all flustered
stupid pulling ...