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."

Comments

This is Bigger

[Microlith]

Check this out.

Huge auctions like these are futile, rarely would anyone ever put up that much money all at once for a gigantic collection.

Parting these things out into sets would probably work better (and hell, I'd go after a few if I could.)

Re:This is Bigger

[ProtoCat]

I've been a hardware and software collector for as a hobby for a long time. That original link is just some putz who is liquidating their store assetts. I've seen someone collect over 1,500 Mario Bros/Duck Hunt carts.

This guy we have here.. He knows what to collect and does it good. The odds and ends section alone are just are all rare and obscure, as if casually dismissed (Gee, only the rarest titles for some platforms very few have heard about outside of Japan -- and the only rare game for the Game.com!). It really would take a lifetime to get this sort of collection and it almost pains me to see such a beautiful assortment like this go up on eBay.

I think $70,00 is a fair price. I have trouble assessing the worth of some of it just due to how ungodly difficult it is to obtain, even if the price isn't that considerable.

To give you an example? Galactic Policewoman Legend Sapphire for PC Engine? Only about 300 copies of that game exist. Then the autographed games... Including a Nocturne in the Moonlight. Christ.

I'm far more impressed by this guy than the Slashvertisement in the article. I really hope this guy finds his collection a good home.

museum

[AssProphet]

Does anyone know if museums are archiving any of these pecies of our geek history?

Re:Not as bad as this guy

[UserGoogol]

Most of the charm of an Apple I probably comes from the warm fuzzies of having something of which only 30-50 exist. When you make your own, that kind of defeats the purpose. Seems kind of a silly thing to care about though.

There are people who have made Apple I replicas, although for practical reasons they don't use the same exact chips, which probably lowers the "warm fuzzies" even more.

And to be a stickler, Woz was the one giving them out. Besides the fact that he was the one who actually designed the thing, Jobs doesn't seem like the kind of guy to give out schematics.

Re:More like Mr. Moron

[TopShelf]

Actually, this sounds like an interesting idea for a geek lounge. One could set this up near a college campus and probably do pretty good business...