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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.
78 Nintendo NES
Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!
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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.
His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...
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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.
What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?
Beowulf cluster.
ex$$
This just screams..... "It's the toys or the pussy! u pick."
"Never trust a computer you can't throw." -- The Mac
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?
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
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!