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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.
.. with the sheer volume and number of \.ers, how can't it?
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300 systems?
is the guy a millionaire, or did he rob the whole freakin' neighborhood?
We could all find a way to post our ebay auctions on the front page of /.
And a few days after the auction is won, who wants to bet that 1300 hard-to-find ROMs for obscure game systems are going to appear on popular emulation sites?
"Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon!" -- Montgomery Scott, ST:III
There are a total of 21 boxes to be shipped. All are double walled except the smallest one. The boxes weigh on average of 69 lbs.
Selling them individually or in smaller lots, I bet will be more profitable. BUT, getting it listed on slashdot may just pull it out in the end.
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too many items . i feel one heck of a shipping cost.
although it may be cheaper to drive there and pick up yourself, if you live not too far from NC.
well, i wouldn't worry about that, should be only a fraction of the bid, currently at $5100
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
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?
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I dont know about you but if I had 5g's I would buy all that stuff just to relive my child hood. Thats all the stuff I grew up drooling over and never got. I woudl be the envy of all my friends. I'm being serious when I say this.
All that stuff for $5k looks like a good deal to me if you were into the stuff.
Not as bad as this moron expecting $12,000US for an early mac...
RST
78 Nintendo NES
Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!
Help prevent the slashdot effect; stop reading the articles.
"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."
-Randy
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...
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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.)
3DO and Nomad "hard to find"? A 3DO will run you no more than 50 bucks (you're getting ripped off at 50 too), and Nomad's are all over the place.
A few weeks ago another dude had a collection of truly rare stuff, like Hi-Saturns, PC-FX's, tons of different "special edition" consoles, 1000s of games, and a dev kit for pretty much every console there is.
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How many video game stores did you knock off for these, eh? Beat up any little kids for consoles lately?
What a hell of a collection....
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That is an impressive amount of stuff he's got there. Figure he was working somewhere and got surplus? Or just a enthusiast (understatement to the nth degree)
someone's used game store went under.
This auction is for those who want to give it their shot.
you have to wonder what made him give up any gamers dream collection, a new wife perhaps?
Does anyone know if museums are archiving any of these pecies of our geek history?
like a woman's scorn for Sega."
I would bet it's a small trade a game type shop or well....his wife/gf wants him to get a real job?
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He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)
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Think of all the bubbles you can pop after unpacking the bubblewrap!
No Neo Geo? Unconsionable! The most collectable of all consoles, and it's not here.
Also missing: Apple Pipin.
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Sorry, its funny, because it was my only gaming system for a while, but times have changed, I can't see how it still commands a dollar value above 10$. Maybe its becoming a collectors item?
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God spoke to me.
Mr. Soundtrack got married last week.
--Gentoo Baby!
Is *TRUELY* News for Nerds. My god, so much stuff. How did he amass it all?
This guy must be an EB veteren or something, getting "5-finger" discounts for the past 20 years. Who the hell acquires 78 NES's?
I believe the summary is incorrect. He is not selling over 1300 games, it looks like there are only a few games he is selling over 1300 *items*, mostly consoles and controllers and such.
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I saw this 15 hours ago and I thought "oh that'd make a good article on slashdot" then I realised it would go for triple it's $3,000 price tag so I figured I'd let the person win it first before slashdotting it. But no, now it's going to go up a very large amount. I bet it was someone who was only willing to pay $2,000 for it that slashdotted it.
You evil, evil people.
"Honey! When are you going to get rid of that old junk in the garage?!?! All it does is collect dust."
...
And the guy comes back with a nice paypal receipt from Ebay. So if you are like this poor man, having your marriage ruined by excessive video games, Ebay is the solution!
Think of it, it's cheaper than a family lawyer and you can do it all from your computer at home.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder?
I think I creamed my pants.
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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.
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The collection doesn't include a Vectrex or a NeoGeo, whats the point?
"Help, Spike!" "Oh no, Molly!"
With 42 photos, the only thing left to watch on auctionwatch.com is its smouldering servers.
The photos are already slow at loading. The photos loading are actual photos, not thumbnails.
I wonder if this is the guy that won the Omega Collection...
No one has spent their life savings buying 75 NESs, 50 ps1s, etc. This is clearly excess inventory from a game shop, or something
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You get your shipment, only to realize that the auction is for game systems........aside from perhaps a cart for the Virtua Boy......no games are included in the lot. That would be like winning an auction for someones massive p0rn collection, only to realize later that they're all on Betamax.
When she finally moves in and there isnt enough room for her plants.
and in 3 hours and 58 mins *Mrs.* Soundtrack will let go of this guy's short ones.
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Someone will win it for ~$6000 (currently with 4 hours to go) and then pay that again for shipping... 21 boxes at an average of 69 lbs each?!?!
The counter, at the bottom of the page, is interesting...
;-)
First time I looked at it, 5 minutes ago, the auction was 308.000 times viewed.
Now, 11:36 pm in germany, 318.441 times.
24 hours more and we know more about the slashdot-effect
This guy doesn't have the one I wanted as a kid: the NEC Turbo Express. It was, to my knowledge, the first color handheld, and used the exact same games as the TurboGrafx 16. The system never really caught on big, but it was WAY ahead of its time.
I never did buy one. It cost about $300 IIRC, and when you're a kid with a paper route, that might as well be a million.
He's saving to buy an XBox2 (with the metal rack to hold it) and PSP.
At this point, he might have enough left over to treat himself to a couple of tacos once those are purchased. Common, someone bid up so he can afford Arby's instead!
There are 78 NES's. Let's say everything goes for $10 and he keeps 2 of everything. Selling only the systems he'll be able to sell them for $2850, he'll make over half his money back (if it stays under $6000). And I don't think he plans on selling everything for $10.
that's an apple 1, not a mac. duh.
... he read the /. article yesterday about videogames being addictive, and is now selling everything to pay for rehab.
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a Beowulf cluster of these things?
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(Since it is Slashdot, It had to be said
Can I get my auctions posted on slashdot?
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Is such a thing possible?
;)
We'll never know untill we try
1. Start eBay auction with lots of old video game crap. /. so that lovers of said old videogame crap will see it and bid with all the money they have saved from not having dates their whole lives.
2. Post auction to
3. ???
4. Profit!!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
If your store is going out of business and you want to make some quick cash on your all-but-lost inventory, bundle it all up and sell it on eBay! The millions of hits via the Slashdot effect are guaranteed to land quite a few suckers willing to pay thousands of dollars!
Selling your trash can add cash to your stash!
the reason i turned off sigs in my slashdot preferences is due to the increasing number of "legitimate" yet "highly annoying" and "utterly fucking lame" free ipod references. please do not paste that shit into the message.
Still no Dreamcast broadband adapter.
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I have an Atari 7800, Sega Master System, Sega CD/Genesis/32X, NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Game Gear.
And a Tandy CoCo2 and 3.
I found the comment about making the NES function interesting.
I remember my old NES required a combination of blowing into the machine, pushing up/down on the cartridge, hitting/kicking the console and praying to get most games to load.
In fact, I think those were my formative days for more modern PC troubleshooting. ;)
If people who resell the machines find a need to replace the contacts inside with *functional* contacts, I wonder why Nintendo didn't do it in the first place?
At least Microsoft gets the hardware right in the xbox (am I right about that? the HW is decent, right?). ;)
Good luck to the winner... I don't know how anyone could turn a profit from *that much* junk. I could easily imagine a few old consoles being worth significant coin, but dozens or hundreds? Flood the market? Just to keep a few dozen hundred pound boxes lying around costs a lot.
The sellers previous auctions are interesting: the vast majority are listed as 'private'. Seems strange that so much positive feedback would be based on 'unconfirmable' sales. I'd think twice before handing over tens of thousands of dollars. Also, just verifying the contents of the 21 boxes would take hours... it'd be hard to catch if it was a scam.
All those systems and no Xboxes, guess everybody is gearing up for Halo 2.
It would be sweet to get a liquidation of xboxes for lan parties when Halo 2 comes out. Yes, I know it's on Live but LAN parties are still where it's at.
what?
Yes, all 200 copies ever sold.
It would be a little odd if the system has LAUNCHED as the Retrocade. Although if anyone wanted to sell a version of it today - that would certainly be an appropriate name.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
...as well as some harder-to-find systems like the Bally Retrocade System...
Wasn't the Bally system called ASTROcade? It's retro now, but at the time it was made I believe it was rather contemporary.
I'll have to have a look anyways. Any Colecovision/ADAM stuff in there? That system ROCKED! It was much easier to program than the Atari 2600 too since it had lots of video RAM and sprites, good sound etc...AND it had a real BIOS that had service routines for everything right down to playing background music--all you had to do was point registers to the start of the sound data, call an init routine, then call an update routine in the NMI interrupt handler and the BIOS routines would take care of the rest...literally only a handfull of assembly instructions (can't remember--6 or so?).
Others I'd like to see are the Vetrex and Magnavox Odyssey^2and some not ever sold in N.America like the original Famicom and the Sega SG-1000 and it's home computer cousin.
then why did he have to test them? He would know already whether each of them works.
It's often said that ebay is a clearing house for stolen goods. 290 machines he claims he's "built up over the years"?
They'll sell like hotcakes precisely because they are erm, hot.
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Hmm... It seems strange someone would collect 194 of the same consoles, but hey, glad they're sold on eBay, so I can at least be sure they're 'acquired legally'.
I see no turbo graphix do you?????
LAME collection...not worth 2 cents without a TG16......
Obligatory:
1. Hold massive console auction
2. Post to Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit!
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Mess It's Mame plus all the consoles you'd ever care to emulate, all in one.
Now all you have to do is find your ROMs that you, ummm, misplaced, online, as a torrent file.
Joseph Elwell.
what was that movie... it was made by nintendo in the late 80's... had some "rainman" type kid who kicked ass at all the video games... pretty amusingly (stupid).
Is Cire really "Mr. Soundtrack" plugging his auction on Slashdot so that he can get a higher price for his crap?
I wonder....
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
...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...
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by: Kyle "The Yellow Dart" Smith
Since maybe like the Middle Ages, there have been many differing opinions about hustle and bustle. This cannot be denied. It is my intention to sit down and play video games for several hours.
First, moving around quickly, and with purpose, is a true sign of character. Secondarily, bustle(e.g. hustle) yields more product for the working types. "Hustle and bustle are like my right and left arms," said Li'l Spicy in his famous "Hustle and Bustle Are Like My Right and Left Arms" speech. Webster's defines bustle as "excited and often noisy activity; a stir." A stir, indeed. Finally, sometimes gross stuff can be funny.
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.
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And occasionally whores for Karma.
look at his hit counter! 350K+ views... now I know why slashdotting is so effective.
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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!!
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One Intellivision system with ZERO cartridges....
There are emulators for just about every historic piece of gaming hardware. Some of them even run in Linux :) Getting the ROMs is more difficult (and often illegal), but possible.
I think that Will Wright ought to buy it and "un-collect" it all.
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Why do people do private auctions anyway? I never understood that.
"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
At first I thought, so what, what's the big deal? then I went to the auction and now I have to change my pants....
This guy has a gazillion Atari 2600s but not one stinking TurboGrafx? This is yet more proof that I was the only loser to purchase one. TurboGrafx the loser of the 16bit revolution...how ignominious is that?
This is quite sad, yes its nice to see some games are being sold but there is better stories out there for example:
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- GmailFS is now availible for windows (http://viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm)
- Cars that read road signs (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/06/roadsign.reco
- Google Print: The Next Big Thing (yes there is an article, but more the fact its top on google news tech section....)
Still this article seems more like the buyer wanting to push up his final price then any actual piece of news.
a PSP.... you never know.
This collection used to be Iraq's main supercomputer, used for weapons development.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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.
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This is a huge collection that I've amassed over the years, and I'm letting it all go to one high bidder. I've considered parting with each system one at a time and making a fortune, but game systems aren't my specialty
BS Flag, Mr. Soundtrack, Thirty yard penalty.
One would think anybody who has spent all that money over their entire damn life amassing all of that crap is going to know quite a bit about videogaming. Or maybe that's just me.
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If he threw in a couple of furbies, Sky-Net could be created.
3.Profit!!
Science is the Real TRUTH!
Update- Bidding closes, and the high bid is $11,500
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Just over $38 per system or ~$8.50 an item.
that is a lot of cash for out of date games
this happened before when someone was selling thousands of games, systems, limited edition systems, and SDKs. the game companies shut it down though.
-illumina+us "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
Someone's girlfriend is moving in...
This is an auction for 1300+ games related items. Sure there are over 300 game systems but there are only 5-7 games being sold in this lot.
Nintendo DS?
It rocks.
For somebody with an unneccessary amount of each console, you'd think you'd find some rarities in there, like a 64DD
Look it's a joke about my sig IN MY SIG! LOL!
...the auction that is linked to in this story? Seeing this story reminded me of that, and I'd love to see it again
"I think everyone is an agnostic but just doesn't know" - Frazz
is games for VT 200 console for VAX!
Looks like he finally got married!
He/she (probably he) could be a recovered game addict!
Retro is in right now. The buyer should be able to parlay that into a profit.
Anyhow, the auctions were all bid up to about $26-28 with $6-9 shipping. Someone was selling it buy it now for $25 with $5 shipping. Gee whiz, guess which one I bid on?
Why do people bid up an item when the exact same item is selling on the exact same website for less?
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And if you had read the auction listing, you would've seen that the seller was well aware of that and was selling it all together for different reasons.
" Describing your merchandise as "shit" is an interesting sales technique!"
Salvador Dali sold his own excrement (shit) in wooden boxes with signature or certificate or whatever. So, he actually sold shit as art.
Either he was taking the piss (having a laugh) or he was off his scone. Either his customers believed they were buying a unique piece of shit in a wooden box or they bought into the idea that it was high art. High is about right...Whew!!!
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