Tanner Sandlin should count himself very lucky.  After all, it’s not every day a junky video game that isn’t very good manages to land you $31,600.  However, his copy of Men-A-Vision’s Air Raid, that he bought new at a discount store (because nobody wanted to buy it), sold at auction for $31,600 recently.  Unlike other rare video games, this one has only one owner, Tanner, and still has the original packaging with it, making it in some ways more remarkable than the $41,300 copy of Stadium Events, the most expensive video game ever sold.

According to Sandlin, the only reason he had the game after all this time was because nobody else wanted it.  He and his friends used to borrow and trade video games between one another as kids, yet Air Raid kept coming back to him because nobody else wanted it.  So the unwanted game turns out to be worth more than all the fun games combined.  It’s amazing how scarcity makes something valuable, isn’t it?  The only reason this game is worth anything is BECAUSE it was terrible!

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