The eBay video game auction record of $20,100 for a copy of `Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991' has recently been overcome - with a factory-sealed copy of NES game `Stadium Events' fetching a whopping a $41,300!

Not many people really know what the Stadium Events game actually is - only a few copies of the game had hit the retail store shelves for a very brief period in 1987, under the Bandai label.

Soon after, the rights to the game were purchased by Nintendo, which recalled the game and redistributed it as World Class Track Meet. According to a comment made by the seller on the auction page, only one more factory-sealed copy of Stadium Events in existence after this.

The sudden windfall of $41,300 for Stadium Events' one pristine copy - still shrink-wrapped and bearing a $29.99 price-tag - came the way of its owner Dave from Kansas; who told Y! Games that he had practically groped around his basement to look for the copy of the game after he learnt that a similar game had fetched $13,000 in an eBay auction.

Perceptibly ecstatic at pocketing a substantial income in difficult times, Dave told Y! Games: "We had quite a collection (185+ games) that has sat in our basement for over 20 years. The games were on a list to be brought to Goodwill--in fact, within a month, Goodwill was going to have them."