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Huge Console Auction Debuts

Posted by michael on from the comic-book-guy dept.

neura writes "In quite possibly the largest console auction ever, someone is selling just about every development kit and production game console ever made in Japan. They also have listed tons (almost literally) of software to go along with the systems. Anybody ever seen the original Super Famicom development system? The pictures alone are worth taking a gander. :)"

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  1. Very impressive by chewy_2000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ..but I wonder how much more he would have made if he'd listed each item individually, instead of a bulk lot? It'd be a fair bit of work (not massive, since he's already got the details for most of the items), but you think it'd probably be worth it.

  2. Actually a good investment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Buy this whole kit and kaboodle for $100K
    2) Open the most bitching video game museum ever

    say it with me now

    3) PROFIT!!!

    Seriously, I would easily pay $10 or $20 to see some of this stuff. This is probably the best chance an existing computer museum has to get a piece of console history in one fell swoop.

    Of course, it's not like this guy couldn't have been so dedicated as to milk phones from a zillion different auctions and make up this whole thing as a prank.

    - JoeShmoe
    .

  3. Illegal to sell the dev. kits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As far as I know, the development kits are still Sony's property - they're understandably rather touchy about their intellectual property and would not want such a machine to fall into the hands of the general public. Specifically: I thought all development machines were still owned by Sony, you just pay for being able to use them.

    I would not be suprised if he receives a visit from Sony's lawyers demanding the return of their development hardware...

  4. Ownership/License doesn't allow sale of DevSystems by PenguinOpus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My experience with console development systems is that you have almost no rights to transfer/sell. Everything must be handled through Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo. I predict that, if they want to, they can confiscate all of his development systems. Maybe the rules are different in Japan, but I doubt it.

  5. Re:100k??? by ghack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nope...this stuff will not get into the US.

    Customs will put a stop to this so fast, it will make your head spin. Current laws allow you to ship yourself ONE dvd/vhs/video game from overseas AT A TIME, and something tells me that 50 freaking game consoles and thousands of games would not make it through customs. Customs would assume that some of them had to be pirated, and would just keep the stuff, with likely there being some legal problems for the bidder.

    DOn't belive me? http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=customs+seize+dvd & http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q= customs+seize+nintendo