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Huge NES Collection PAX Omegathon Prize
Joystiq brought to my attention the enormous collection of NES games currently up for bid on eBay. From the auction: "First off 776 nintendo nes games.. THAT is only 10 games from having the complete set of usa released nes games...I quit collecting six or seven months ago, but i'm sure the last ten games are on ebay right now.. this list is far to long for a two finger typer like myself to type so I'll try to make this as easy as possible.. First thing you need to do is google search MIKE ETLER'S RARITY LIST.. Print this list out... You need the first 17 pages.." Amazingly, Tycho Brahe (of PA) wrote in to mention that "We just picked this up to be the Omegathon Prize at PAX." Quite an incentive, eh?
Nice idea. Submit to Slashdot. Nobody'll bid on it there.
WHERES THE LINK!?
Clicky to see the item details. Of course, bidding has already ended and it sold for more than US $10,000!
.. if it were a ROM-set on a CD I could download from Torrent ..
.. okay, yes i would.
Okay, I jest. I definitely would not like to own so many NES games for my emu box
d'oh! stupid ethics!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
ed2k link- paste into your edonkey client of choice:
N ES %20v2.01%20(10783%20roms)%20by%20PandMonium%20(the %20most%20comprehensive%20collection).rar|20201836 2|FE2A438709B94A39A159286EFC0664B7|/
/. inserts in links. this is a complete goodNES set, v 2.01
ed2k://|file|[Roms]%20Nintendo%20NES%20-%20Good
and watch the download begin.
remove the spaces
Reserve not met. That means nobody won the auction, though perhaps the Penny Arcade people got it through other means...
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
He has a $10,000+ reserve and he couldn't post a single picture of the collection? No way would i pay that much without at least seeing the huge pile of stuff at least.
They're NE-friggin_eSs games! Who hasn't played them to their heart's delight already? Who still cares about them and doesn't own all their favorites? I'm guessing whoever wins this "prize" will dump them on ebay for $10,000.
As someone in TFA said, no power glove? But "It's so bad!"
Meanwhile, PA is TU.
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Quote from the article: A woman on eBay is selling "a collection of games and ass.
I didn't get any further. This prize is MINE!
I'd be very wary if I were bidding on this. I would definitely use a third party escrow account, considering the amount of money involved. This is the first sale the seller has ever made, and the last two purchases that have links are for stickers. Add to that the fact that not a single image of the collection is posted. I hope this sale is legit, but it really smells like someone was cranking up their feedback in order to get away with a fraudulent sale.
"640 NES games ought to be enought for everyone."
Keep open minded - but not that open your brain falls out...
You just saw this, maybe you need to start reading some game sites that don't just rehash what everyone else has been posting about for a week.
That said, with $10,000 at stake I would definitely use an escrow account of some kind anyway.
As humorous the concept of a zombie astronomer devoting himself to NES games is, it would perhaps be more accurate to call him by his actual name: Mike Krahulik. After all, it's not like he can adopt the persona of a character in his webcomic and claim it for his own, regardless of how he makes news posts in that proxy. Oh yes, and on the subject of such a number of NES games, where would you even spare the time to play them all? It's a trophy collection if anything.
If you read Penny-Arcade, you probably already know that the hiliarious duo just purchased the set, and they plan on giving it away for free at their next convention.
--Zachary Lewis