Got a spare $500,000? You can buy this bloke's video game collection
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[QUOTE]After a life spent collecting video games I decide to sell off my entire collection. I just have too much things and the space to store them is finished long ago... also I realized that if I want to play at least half of my games, I should live two or three entire human life... Just to give an idea of the huge amount of items present in my collection, I spent the last two months of my life taking pictures and making lists, working about eight hours a day just in order to make an inventory and to figure out what I have. Even now after all the time spent checking things I’m not sure to have included all in the lists...
Due to the sheer amount of items is even difficult to present it, and I don’t really know were to start... so I try to do my best even if I’m sure I might forget something. Instead to pick up some favourite consoles and maybe try to complete all the games related, I choosed to collect most systems possible with the most rapresentative and rare games for each console. This collection is the story of the videogames from A to Z, from the game & watch and old pong systems to the actual generation of PS3 and XBOX360. I think that with all the stuff in this auction you can actually open a museum...
And now some numbers. I divide the collection in various categories:
- The games count over 6850 pcs. with about 6780 boxed and 70 loose, and are in various format NTSC Japan or Usa and also PAL.
- The consoles are over330, with 307 system boxed and 24 loose, and even in this case we have all the different standards.
- The controllers are about 220 with 167 boxed and 52 loose. I included all the kind of controller, from the simple joypad to the special controller like all the konami bemani to the densha de go train controller, and the arcade joystick as well.
- The accessories are about 185, and in this category I put the ac adapters, the various av cables, the rumble packs, the memory cards, battery packs, the converters for the region locked games, and various other items like screens, printers etc.
- The promo and various items are composed by promotional items like soudtracks or gadgets relate to a specific game or console, demo disc not for sale, limited edition item like the resident evil umbrella box or the Kratos twin blades, various action figures, strategy guides etc.etc.[/QUOTE]
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Check the listings for [I]many[/I] more images. Anyone want to club together?
I'll buy.
Those are some impressive boxed:loose ratios.
I would.
Does it include the house?
someone start a kickstarter
edit: ninjas coming out of the walls
You know what has to be done garry.
6850 games? sounds like the average steam account
No one will buy this. He's better off piecing it out. The only people who want a collection like this would be just like him ie they already have a huge collection
[QUOTE=-nesto-;39507776]No one will buy this. He's better off piecing it out. The only people who want a collection like this would be just like him ie they already have a huge collection[/QUOTE]
I imagine he's just starting at the top and working down. It would so much easier to get rid of it all in one go.
Laugh the building caught fire.
It took him two months, eight hours each day to categorize that? Holy shit he works slow
Does this collection beat AVGN's?
I hope he deals outside of Ebay.
[QUOTE=genkaz92;39508062]Does this collection beat AVGN's?[/QUOTE]
he should have the collection
I wonder if it's Mike Mozart.
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39507938]Laugh the building caught fire.[/QUOTE]
You would laugh if the man lost his home? What's wrong with you?
[QUOTE=-nesto-;39507776]No one will buy this. He's better off piecing it out. The only people who want a collection like this would be just like him ie they already have a huge collection[/QUOTE]
what about a nerd that may have recently won the lottery/inherited a massive amount of money from a distant relative's death
you never know
Its cool but id rather spend the cash on a pagani zonda
i like the boglins in the second pic
Does he have Battletoads?
Oh hey, he even has the special edition Super Mario Bros Game & Watch.
The only other time I've seen somebody who had them was some asshole hoarder who had about five or six of them.
Why the fuck do you need more than one of them, he wasn't going to sell any of them.
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Is that a PS1 guitar hero-like game I see?
Imagine the shipping cost..
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Is that a PS1 guitar hero-like game I see?[/QUOTE]
Yes. Guitar Freaks
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Freaks[/url]
[QUOTE=chimitos;39508387]Is that a PS1 guitar hero-like game I see?[/QUOTE]
The main box itself only contains the guitar I think.
Those special editions...
HHHHNNNNNNGGGG he could be the biggest nerd poindexter or whatever ever, he would still be cool as fuck.
He has enough games there to play till the end of time. I wouldn't sell it, unless something came up.
Yet another "If only I were a filthy stinking rich billionaire" moment...
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39507938]Laugh the building caught fire.[/QUOTE]
This post actually made me sad cause I knew some old guy with a massive miniature train system that I used to visit when I was a kid. Then one day I learned it all burned down.
[QUOTE=gman_freeman;39508589]Yet another "If only I were a millionaire" moment...[/QUOTE]
why would you waste 500k collecting old games
if i could afford things like this i would just buy stuff individually myself so i can shape the collection to things i like not what this guy likes
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