The NUON DVD players and games have been discontinued for a long time now. Most of the things you see on their are new, in-stock items. Occasionally you'll see a marketplace seller with a NUON item or two, but that's about it (but the prices are generally bloated and it's increasingly rare).
Especially for around $8.50 (shipped) and it was new and still in the plastic.
The popping surprised me a little. Either it was a quick port of their Atari Karts engine, or the Nuon struggles with 3D. I would guess it was a quick port, as Iron Soldier 3 appeared to have more polygons on screen.
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory