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Biggest Console System Collection on eBay

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-omegathon-but-close dept.

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."

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  1. More like Mr. Moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:More like Mr. Moron by 'nother+poster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, what we have here is most likely a liquidated "used game" store.

  2. And by GiveMeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    It all "fell off" the back of a truck.

    1. Re:And by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 5, Funny

      What - it fell of a truck from 1983, 1987, and 1994?

  3. Now if only... by dudemm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We could all find a way to post our ebay auctions on the front page of /.

  4. Hmm a la carte would have been more profitable by PrvtBurrito · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  5. Parallel Gaming by Iamthewalrus · · Score: 5, Funny

    78 Nintendo NES

    Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!

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  6. This just screams......... by ARRRLovin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."

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    1. Re:This just screams......... by captfi · · Score: 5, Funny

      This just screams..... "It's the toys or the pussy! u pick."

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    2. Re:This just screams......... by dave_mcmillen · · Score: 5, Funny

      "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?

  7. Such Irresposibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  8. This is Bigger by Microlith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.)

    1. Re:This is Bigger by ProtoCat · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

  9. Please by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Please by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hell, this guy has a lot of stuff, but nothing remotely rare.
      He's definately not a collector. No NeoGeo, no Pippin, no Playdia, no PCFX, no SuperGrafx -- Hell, no TurboGrafx! No colecovision, Odyssey II..

      What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..

      All mainstream consoles and games. Like another poster said, this screams "my video game store went out of business".

      So is the guy a friend of "Zonk", or did he pay to have his eBay auction advertised on slashdot?

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    2. Re:Please by Frizzle+Fry · · Score: 4, Funny

      What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..

      Only on Slashdot could someone look at at auction like this and conclude that the guy isn't selling enough hardware.
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  10. museum by AssProphet · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

  11. Gamestop by Iscariot_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)

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  12. He had no choice by revery · · Score: 5, Funny

    His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...

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  13. Why, yes ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny
    What - it fell of a truck from 1983, 1987, and 1994?


    The owner of the truck managed to get the flux capacitor working, but it was intermittent and kept stalling. :-P

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  14. Re:Jesus Christ. by taviso · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?

    Beowulf cluster.

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  15. Re:shipping? by micromoog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dare you to go ahead and bid 10,001.02.

  16. This could mean something BIG.. by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  17. Nintendo ROB Army by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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