Rare Yoshi edition DS Phat tests your love of Nintendo

Sure, you've bought every console since the original NES, monitor forum threads religiously for any Wii bashing, and may even have a Koopa tattoo somewhere on your body, but are you enough of a fanboy to pay $500 for first-generation Nintendo DS emblazoned with a wire-frame cartoon dinosaur? Well apparently eBayer "joedick" is one such individual, whose $480 Buy-It-Now-dollars earned him one of the only 200 "Hot Summer Yoshi" edition DS Phats ever made, which were part of a larger series of six versions available only to Club Nintendo members in 2005. Congratulations, good sir -- just remember not to play with it or anything, or you won't be able to sell it for ten times what you paid a few years down the road.

[Via DS Fanboy]

[paul.davis @ Dec 14th 2007 2:51PM]

Different strokes for different folks....

I hope this guy vacuum seals this B@#$% and keeps it in a bank vault until WWIII is over.

[paul.davis @ Dec 14th 2007 3:06PM]

BAH.. WRONG POST!!!!

[Matthew Hilario @ Dec 14th 2007 4:25PM]

i think it's value will diminish as soon as the DSLite with a Cool Winter Yoshi comes out.

[abadtooth @ Dec 14th 2007 2:53PM]

Thats crazt..

[Iain @ Dec 14th 2007 3:00PM]

Anyone else see a fat kid holding a ball?

[JosephMohmed @ Dec 14th 2007 3:14PM]

Shit, now I can't see Yoshi.

[Anthony @ Dec 14th 2007 3:29PM]

Yeah- but what about those horns coming out of his back?

[JosephMohmed @ Dec 14th 2007 3:45PM]

Obviously the kid has horns coming out of his back.

[Iain @ Dec 14th 2007 3:47PM]

It's a fat kid dressed as yoshi

[Matthew Hilario @ Dec 14th 2007 4:22PM]

sadly i see the fat kid in a hoodie squatting holding a giant ball.

[ace_spades @ Dec 14th 2007 5:58PM]

Shit! Now I see it too! You ruined my Yoshi viewing! I don't want one anymore (I actually want my DS "phat" over my current lite because the latter hurts my hands).

[tongman @ Dec 15th 2007 12:24AM]

If thats a fat kid holding a ball whats coming out of his pants?

[holycow @ Dec 14th 2007 3:08PM]

wtf was that ? .. SPYMAC ? Do us all a favor and stop spamming!

[Anthony @ Dec 14th 2007 3:28PM]

Engadget ed: Please bounce this POS poster off the site.

[Mark @ Dec 14th 2007 3:43PM]

But does it play Doom?

[Luigi193 @ Dec 14th 2007 3:47PM]

http://www.dsdoom.com/

[Carbonize @ Dec 14th 2007 3:59PM]

Just reported his sorry arse to Spymac.

[Metayoshi @ Dec 14th 2007 4:39PM]

Wow, I'm a sucker for Yoshi items, and this really hits the spot. Had I been richer, I would have went and bought that little sucker this instant. Sure, I would keep it in a glass casing and have it preserved for life since I already have a DS and DS Lite, but heck... I want it!

[IndiaTech @ Dec 14th 2007 5:02PM]

Boobies... I love round boobies....
Oh! Wait!!! Those are not line sketch boobies, Are they?

[quadrent @ Dec 14th 2007 6:49PM]

This is lame.

[The Dude @ Dec 14th 2007 10:09PM]

Fooled me. It looked like a beak-less chicken with a huge uni-boob to me.

[Shinogu @ Dec 15th 2007 1:46AM]

Err... there used to be a service at Nintendo World where you could get these engraved on your PS3, so the whole limited value of this model is lost on me. :\

[master_sword @ Dec 20th 2007 8:01AM]

cool!