If you’re into retro Nintendo video games, now’s your probability to take a look at two that nobody’s ever performed earlier than.

The Verge first reported that two never-released NES video games have hit the market through eBay. News of the video games’ existence was first broadly made recognized by Frank Cifaldi, the founder and co-director on the Video Game History Foundation. The basis finds, preserves, and writes about retro video video games, and Cifaldi took to Twitter on Tuesday to debate the video games, which he’s deemed a fairly miraculous discovery.

“There are currently TWO unreleased, one-of-a-kind, never-digitized games for the original NES on eBay right now,” Cifaldi tweeted. “This has literally never happened before. Our resources are stretched thin, and we could use help,” he mentioned, asking for donations to assist the Foundation buy and protect the video games.

What are the video games? One is known as Battlefields of Napoleon and the quilt artwork and packaging for it appears like this:

What is the sport about? The packaging supplies a short abstract that sounds fairly wild:

It’s the late 18th century, the time of Napoleon Bonaparte—solely now it’s you who controls Napoleon’s armies on all the most important battlefields of Europe!…Relive Napoleon’s best campaigns with a military of as much as 240 males.

Sounds bloodthirsty and wicked. Love it!

The different recreation shouldn’t be fairly as completed however guarantees some intrigue of its personal. Cifaldi described it as a “less complete, but maybe more interesting” demo recreation, developed by the corporate Rare, for the Power Glove. If you don’t know in regards to the Power Glove, take a look at our current protection of its wonderful resurgence into cultural relevance. “Everyone loves the Power Glove, but did you know there’s only one released game that actually takes advantage of it? Well, here’s a second!”

“Both of these are really cool,” he added.

Gizmodo discovered what seems to be the posting for the video games on eBay:

Currently, the highest bid for Battlefields of Napolean is $5,200 and the Rare prototype demo goes for $5,655. The vendor describes the video games as having been “rescued from a dumpster” after one gaming firm purchased out one other in 1998. If you’re feeling like proudly owning a bit of online game historical past and have a number of grand to spare, you possibly can attempt your luck at a bidding battle with different nerds on the e-commerce website.

Better but, we’d counsel sending some donations to Cifaldi and/or the VGHF so that somebody who actually is aware of what they’re doing can maintain onto these bizarre cultural articles and share them with the remainder of the world. If you’re involved in that, Cifaldi has requested that you simply slide into his DMs, the place you possibly can “discuss tax-deductible options [for donation] if you’re in the U.S.”