Charity puts exceptionally rare Hulk Xbox console up for auction

A very rare Xbox has been donated to a British charity and is currently being sold online.

The gaming console was donated to a local British Heart Foundation shop in Oxford and is now been listed as for sale on the charity’s eBay site, with the hope of it raising a large sum for the charity.

‌The rare console – a Pepsi Hulk Console – was handed over and has so far been bid on 19 times and is currently selling for £1,270.

There are eight days left on the eBay listing, meaning that price could continue to rocket.

There were only 36 of the Pepsi Hulk consoles made and it was released in 2003.

Avid gamers and collectors will be closely watching the auction of the limited edition collectable and experts said it could fetch up to £9,000.

The striking green console, which is in working condition, was never available for retail sale and was a competition prize used to promote the 2003 release of Hulk in UK cinemas.

The listing states is has been tested and works perfectly fine.

Paul Smith, a BHF tester, discovered the machine's possible value while he was working on it.

He said: “This one really caught my eye. I’m a games enthusiast myself but the rare green colour combined with the Hulk and Pepsi logo really stood out."

Mr Smith said the device was a prize in a UK cinema scratchcard competition and only 36 of the consoles were won and only 20 have been seen since.

The charity's eBay listing says: “In the USA, a green Xbox was created for the brand Mountain Dew, they made 5,000 of those and they are highly sought after, so this is even rarer.

"There are none on eBay and none have been sold in the past, so these are rare, the likelihood of finding another is slim."

All money from the sale will go towards research into heart and circulatory diseases.