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SNES game goes for a grand
A CRAZY VIDEO GAME collector has forked out over twelve hundred Benjamins for a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on the SNES, via auctions-for-idiots mecca, Ebay.
You can see the auction for yourself right here.
Quite what possesses someone to buy a video game and then leave it sealed on a shelf for more than a decade we're not sure, but the chap must certainly be glad now. He's also making a quids in, charging $7 for shipping on top of the $1,231 final sale price. Cheap, much?
Chrono Trigger is one of the big boys of the old-school RPG class, being made by Square software, better known for their work on Final Fantasy - to which Chrono was a spinoff. It was considered revolutionary at the time, as Wikipedia will attest.
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"...forked out over twelve hundred Benjamins for a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger.."

12,000 Benjamins * $100 = $120,000

Can I have some? :)
Washingtons, not benjamins :P
...those old classics are not to be SNES'd at.
"twelve hundred Benjamins" would be 1,200 x 100USD = 120,000USD. An otherwise chuckle-inducing article.
Ben Franklin is on the US $100 bill. George Washington is on the $1. So either the game cost 12 benjamins, or 1200 georges ... although nobody every says that. For that matter, only rappers use "benjamins".
A 'Benjamin' is a $100 bill, so 1200 would be $120,000.

I believe you were looking for 'bucks', or 'clams' or even 'greenbacks'.
The game is just that good. I bet it will only go up in price.
If you look at the feedback and states this game was pushed up and no one paid that price as it was never bought... no feedback was left by either seller or buyer - its a rubbish ebay sale