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Huge NES Collection PAX Omegathon Prize

Posted by Zonk on from the you-are-the-champion-my-friend dept.

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?

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  1. Link to the auction item by jasonmicron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clicky to see the item details. Of course, bidding has already ended and it sold for more than US $10,000!

  2. Next best thing... by I(rispee_I(reme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ed2k link- paste into your edonkey client of choice:

    ed2k://|file|[Roms]%20Nintendo%20NES%20-%20GoodN ES %20v2.01%20(10783%20roms)%20by%20PandMonium%20(the %20most%20comprehensive%20collection).rar|20201836 2|FE2A438709B94A39A159286EFC0664B7|/

    and watch the download begin.
    remove the spaces /. inserts in links. this is a complete goodNES set, v 2.01

  3. Auction ended for: $10,099.99 (Reserve not met) by Khopesh · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Clicky to see the item details. Of course, bidding has already ended and it sold for more than US $10,000!

    Reserve not met. That means nobody won the auction, though perhaps the Penny Arcade people got it through other means...

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  4. Not that bad by jgoemat · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well normally she is a buyer, probably most of the auctions that don't have links were for NES games or paraphenalia, we won't know since ebay doesn't keep the data past 90 days and she mostly stopped collecting 6 months ago. She has 147 positive feedbacks from 125 unique EBAY members going back to December of 2003, so she probably didn't just set this account up to pull a scam now. Considering she picked the name 'neswoman' over 18 months ago, she probably is into the NES.

    That said, with $10,000 at stake I would definitely use an escrow account of some kind anyway.