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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.
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?
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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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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...
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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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Simple, relist them on ebay individually or in small bundles (say an NES system, a few games, a few accessories). I bet you could double your money easily in a week or two.
Does anyone know if museums are archiving any of these pecies of our geek history?
He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)
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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.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?
Beowulf cluster.
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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.
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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.
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. ;)
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I dare you to go ahead and bid 10,001.02.
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.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
It's an Apple I, not a Mac. The Apple I was not mass produced - they were created in Steve Job's parents garage pretty much by hand. And yes, it's worth more than $12,000 (assuming it is the real thing).
The Mac, on the other hand, was always mass produced and was created after Apple was already a successful and publicly traded company.
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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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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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