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Biggest Console System Collection on eBay
Cire writes "Someone named 'Mr. Soundtrack' is selling over 1300 games in one ebay auction. Included are more than 300 systems and a massive arsenal of gaming peripherals. The lot contains 23 Atari 2600s, 78 Nintendo NES's, 33 PlayStations, 60 SNES's, as well as some harder-to-find systems like the Bally Retrocade System, a Sega Nomad, and a couple 3DO systems."
What we have here is someone who appears to have spent most of his lifetime earnings on what is now electronic junk. P.T. Barnum winks from the grave. Another sucker, another sucker...
It all "fell off" the back of a truck.
Really, you'd think that a collection like this could be dissected, then placed into one giant cabinet for people to play with.
However, it's interesting that he's selling all these at once. What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks? Play Zelda on 78 different TVs?
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
78 Nintendo NES
Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!
Help prevent the slashdot effect; stop reading the articles.
When will /. editors learn not to directly link to sites in the articals? With so many ways to mirror pages available, why must they do this? Just because of one man's neglect, some startup called 'eBay' is going to have to deal with a dead server...
He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)
Go here for teh [sic] funny.
He's a bigger moron than you think. He paid 30K US for it.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Mr. Soundtrack got married last week.
--Gentoo Baby!
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[1] Thucictholous - Man - Published 42 AD
[2] Dickinson - I Am The Dickinster - 1999 Hughs Books
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I'm Scruffy.
His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The owner of the truck managed to get the flux capacitor working, but it was intermittent and kept stalling.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I accept your reasoning, it seems quite sound. Now the next question is, if he obtained this uber-cool collection through legitimate means, WHY IS HE GETTING RID OF IT?!
Poor sod must have gotten married.
This just screams..... "It's the toys or the pussy! u pick."
"Never trust a computer you can't throw." -- The Mac
... he read the /. article yesterday about videogames being addictive, and is now selling everything to pay for rehab.
I dare you to go ahead and bid 10,001.02.
"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."
Hmm, that would make sense. I love this comment in his auction listing: "... game systems aren't my specialty..."
Aren't his specialty?! Sweet tap-dancing Buddha, this is supposed to be just a minor sideline? What's his real interest? Does he have four hundred thousand RC cars out back, or what?
Yes, all 200 copies ever sold.
...selling this shit is my fiance's condition for my upcoming marriage, and my only hope for covering the costs! bid generously, if only to ease the pain of parting...
"A Well Thought-Out Englilsh Paper"
by: Kyle "The Yellow Dart" Smith
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In conclusion, I, "The Yellow Dart," think I have done a great job illustrating the many differing opinions about hustle and bustle, may they both rest in peace. Also, I think Strong Bad should decrease The Cheat's allowance.
Thanks much to Strong Bad for this crapfully crappy piece of literature.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
Could we all club together, buy them and hand them over to some geek from around here please.
If they were all linked together, we could then stop forever trying to imagine a Beowulf Cluster of 2600s, Nintendos, Playstations etc.
--we could go SEE them!!
AT&ROFLMAO
Fuck em. Half the time I try to ebay and am actually willing to spend cash up front via "buy now" some moron puts up a $1 bid on a 4 day auction just so "buy now" won't work.
/. posting and there is no indication that /. has had any effect on the auction.
btw your theory about a jealous "$2000.00" bidder is pretty unlikely. The price has only gone up $300 since the
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Only on Slashdot could someone look at at auction like this and conclude that the guy isn't selling enough hardware.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?
Actually, if you got 78 Nintendo ROB's, you could could control them all and have yourself a fairly respectable army of robots that could destroy your enemies by stacking up little piles of discs.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
Congratulations on winning the auction! Your total due is:
Winning bid: $15,000
Postage and Packing (via USPS) $278,445
Enjoy your games!
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