Sort of a side topic, but I found a picture of a Canadian version of one of these in one of the media kits I have.  It just had some random part number attached to it, so it wasn't a M series item.

Wow, auctions like this make me question if I'm a real collector. I would have guessed this thing might have been worth $1,500 - $2,000 and I wouldn't drop $1,000 on it myself. You guys are crazy!

My snipe didn't register either.

I said I personally valued it somewhere over $1000, just not $4000 (again, to ME PERSONALLY). And if you want to bring the M82 into it: it's sweet as shit, a fully interactive machine that you can play, and isn't something one of us could cobble together on a weekend if we wanted to. Sorry, that goes into my personal value determination. Your mileage obviously may vary.

pfffft, the M82 needs to drop a few pounds. She's a big girl. The M8 is nice and sleek, with curves in all the right places    .

Not a chance it would have ended at $1,300.

The M8 looks like a 12 year old boy. The M82 has some junk goin' on... something to hold onto.

Someone buy one of these then get it VGA graded. Please I wanna see that..

I am still glad I got my M82 for $300 shipped, well actually $280

Yeah the M8 and M82 were pretty cheap for a long time.

I got mine 6months ago

BTW I need my time machine back 

Doc...the flux capacitor is busted!!

Lol...and then it'd be $3000-something and then another few hundred (perhaps $1000?) or more to get it graded and put in a (ahem, extremely large) custom case .  One would have to admit, though, *that* would be a thing of beauty.  I've always thought an M9 would make one heck of a museum piece, for anyone at all that collects Nintendo memorabilia.  At the same time, though...while I wouldn't mind trying to put together such a museum in my basement (and have been subconsciously trying for the better part of 8 years )...I have not the money nor the space with which to perform such a feat.

Man, I still kick myself for not at least picking up the PAL one I saw a few years back. Ended for a mere $150 + shipping from the Netherlands (whatever that would've been)  .

I still kick myself for not ripping it out of the wall at ToysRus in 1987...geeez

I dunno about that. All you would see is the outside box.

Yes, and then we could get the graded display case graded as well! So we could then have a case inside a case inside a case!

lawlz.  Triple protection!

Can't get it graded, its not sealed!

This thing is massive, ~60 pounds. The parts inside are weird. The NES has no stickers other than "for display only" on the bottom, so boo no serial number. It has functional buttons and the AC/RF box, but no motherboard or shielding. The cart door is glued shut. Both carts have boards inside but I don't know if they are actual games. Controllers are both complete. I need to get a light bulb for the inside. No stickers or serial numbers on the case, but 007256 is hand written on the box. Not the same handwriting as the 009454 on my M8 box Still waiting for an M8 with Stack Up!

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Is that M9 sitting on top of a bunch of old Post Office boxes?

As for getting the graded case graded, we all know that double-wrapping it is never a good idea.

I thought they were a card catalog from a library. Oh how looking up stuff with the Decimal System brings back memories.

I laugh everytime I see that room.

That's exactly what it is.  I remember Bunnyboy showing me the Craigslist ad. 

Bet it holds 1000s of rom chips and labels.

A card catalog shelf is probably not a bad idea for those of you with thousands of loose instruction books laying around.