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Rare Nintendo Game Has Been Restored After 50 Years

A incredibly rare piece of Nintendo history has been found on eBay and fully rebuilt more than 50 years after its limited release.

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After a chance find on an eBay auction, one skilled collector has managed to fully reassemble an ultra-rare 1970s Nintendo product.

The Wild Gunman ’74 Resurrection

Callan Brown didn’t set out to fully rebuild this super rare Nintendo arcade machine from 1974 when he purchased some rare reels on eBay, but that is exactly what he ended up doing. Brown, an arcade collector and gaming enthusiast from Canada, recently documented the whole story of how his Wild Gunman ’74 cabinet came into being.

Brown’s journey to restore Wild Gunman ’74 began when he purchased some film reels with........

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