Game news He was shocked to see this excellent video game console among the waste on his way to the landfill…
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We can find all kinds of things in a landfill. Whether it's simple household waste, chairs or even pieces of wood from our garden. However, this person did not expect to find a console box in one of the containers!
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When you know the rarity as well as the value of retro consoles, you don't expect to find this kind of nugget anywhere. However, a person shares a disturbing photo on the social network Reddit. You can see waste there, but not only that. Right in the middle of the image, a very well-known color pattern catches the eye. This is an original Super Nintendo box!
A real treasure?
Released on November 21, 1990, the retro console is increasingly difficult to obtain for collectors. The boxes of this console are just as rare, although less expensive on the market. According to the comments, the author of the post is saddened not to have noticed the person who threw this object. She probably would have liked to stop him. The author goes on to say that it was very hard to leave the place without being able to do anything for the company. Unsurprisingly, a few people write that you would have had to go into the container to retrieve the box, but that's a rather dangerous idea. Especially since the condition of the box is very complicated to determine. If it is in perfect condition, the box alone is worth around 100 euros. For clarification, if the Super NES was inside the box, the whole thing would be worth around 450 euros.
What to do in this situation?
Depending on your recycling center, it is possible to recover what is in the containers. Most of the time, this is prohibited for security reasons, but it is possible to recover certain bulky items. This is not considered theft, since the item was abandoned. Please note, we are not talking here about looting that takes place at night. This involves asking the responsible staff to collect an item. If you are convincing enough, they may agree to return an item to you. That said, it would have been difficult for the author of the Reddit post to recover the Super Nintendo box. It seems that this object, full of nostalgia for some, will become nothing more than a common piece of cardboard.