Slashdot Mirror
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.
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
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.
Laboratree - Scientific collaboration based on OpenSocial.
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!
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...
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.)
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.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
someone's used game store went under.
This auction is for those who want to give it their shot.
Ever given away your systems? No? Well I have. I've given away my Amiga to my mother's friend and my Master System to my grandparents. Both of them are now broken but I gave them away to people who would let irresponsible people use them. It's quite possible his entire neighbourhood gave away their systems to him. It's also possible he got a lot of them at garage sales, second-hand stores, dug through garbage bins and replaced the broken bits (if there were any), etc, etc. It's also possible the whole auction is a fake.
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?
Vote early. Vote often. Vote CowboyNeal.
He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)
Go here for teh [sic] funny.
Mr. Soundtrack got married last week.
--Gentoo Baby!
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.
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.
No, it's not. Maybe some of the really old models, remember with the fake 70s wood veneer, fetch an extra couple of bucks, but 2600s aren't worth crap.
Atari produced them from like 1978 till 1992, or something ridiculous like that. There are literally more Atari 2600s out there than any other home console.
Video game collecting isn't something you do for financial rewards. I can list on one hand games that have increased in value due to rarity (Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn, or Dracula X for PCE/TG16), but those are extreme cases where the publisher screwed up and didnt make enough copies of an excellent game. Usually they flood the market with copies, and there's rarely a scarcity.
You buy a game 50 bucks new, and in 10 years, it'll be worth 50 cents. That's just the way it is. People like me collect the shit because we like video games.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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.
Only took 20 minutes to go up another $623.68. That sort of thing usually only happens in the last minute or two. The Slashdot effect may have an entirely new result in this case.
Anyone wanna make a guess as to the final selling price?
I guess $10,001.03.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop?
Actually, shipping is part of my job. The best way to ship it would be on a pallet, on an LTL carrier. Second best would be UPS - find a business using them already, and you could take advantage of the Hundredweight program to get LTL-like prices. Probably around $225-250 cross-country. ;)
Self-referential sigs are rarely entertaining.
... 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.
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.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
"A Well Thought-Out Englilsh Paper"
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.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
look at his hit counter! 350K+ views... now I know why slashdotting is so effective.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
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
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!
that is a lot of cash for out of date games