$9,000 eBay auction might hold a secret Pokemon game that's been lost for 20 years
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By Dustin Bailey
Published on July 30, 2026.
PokePark Fishing Rally, a real, official Pokemon game released for the Nintendo DS in 2005, has been lost media since its distribution ended in 2006. However, a recent eBay auction seeking a $9,000 bid for a "Nintendo DS Development/Test Cartridge" with a starting bid of €7,999. The seller included an image of this cartridge booting to a screen filled with Japanese text, identifying it as a part of PokePark Fishing rally. While there were later distributions of Poke Park Fishing Rally later, no copies of the game or its ROM are known to exist publicly. The key question is whether the cartridge actually contains the data for the game itself, or merely some back-end program.
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