$1.2 Million Ultimate Games Collection

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$1.2 Million Ultimate Games Collection

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 9, 2012 @04:54AM from the lots-of-free-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you're a collector of video games, counting the complete back catalog of titles for one system as part of your collection is a commendable achievement, but what about having full gaming sets for 22 different systems? I doubt anyone has ever done that through game purchases alone, but one eBay seller is offering such a set. The price? A cool $1.2 million. That's a crazy amount of cash to spend on games, but when you find out what's included in this auction, and the condition the games are in, it might actually sound like a good deal. Here's the list of systems the auction is offering full game sets for along with the number of games for each one:

Nintendo Famicon – 1,050 games
Nintendo Famicon Disk – 200 games
Nintendo Virtual Boy – 19 games
Nintendo Super Famicon – 1,500 games
Nintendo 64 – 200 games
Nintendo DD64 – 10 games
Nintendo Gamecube – 320 games
Sega Master System (Europe) – 300 games
Sega Mark 3 & Master System (Japan) – 80 games
Sega Game Gear – 200 games
Sega Megadrive – 450 games
Sega 32 X – 19 games
Sega Mega CD – 115 games
Sega Saturn – 1,150 games
Sega Dreamcast – 550 games
PC Engine Hucard – 300 games
PC Engine Supergrafx – 6 games
PC Engine CD – 120 games
PC Engine Super CD – 300 games
PC Engine Arcade CD – 12 games
PC-FX – total games not stated
Pioneer Laseractive – total games not listed."

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what, no atari 2600? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 04:58 · Score: 4, Insightful

Sheesh
1. Re:what, no atari 2600? by ackthpt · 2012-07-09 05:24 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Tell me about it. The platform I loved the most was the C64. Of course, the Amiga has some rockin' games, too.
  
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2. Re:what, no atari 2600? by ezakimak · 2012-07-09 05:35 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  no Atari 5200?
  no Atari Jaguar?
  no Colecovision?
3. Re:what, no atari 2600? by logical_failure · 2012-07-09 05:49 · Score: 3
  
  No Intellivision, either.
  
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4. Re:what, no atari 2600? by optimism · 2012-07-09 06:32 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  How was this not modded up?
  The Atari 2600 games, and the cabinet arcade games of 1978-1983, were the foundation. There is no such thing as an "ultimate games collection" without them.
5. Re:what, no atari 2600? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:40 · Score: 0
  
  He got my mod point. I fully agree that the game collection is pretty cool and impressive, but it's hard to say it's complete. The odyssey was pretty cool too.
  --wmbetts
6. Re:what, no atari 2600? by tuffy · 2012-07-09 06:41 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  It's obvious why just by looking at the pictures. The games are almost entirely Japanese, so US systems like Atari aren't represented.
  
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7. Re:what, no atari 2600? by Mr+Z · 2012-07-09 07:12 · Score: 2
  
  I came here to say that...
  
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8. Re:what, no atari 2600? by gl4ss · 2012-07-09 08:49 · Score: 2
  
  It's obvious why just by looking at the pictures. The games are almost entirely Japanese, so US systems like Atari aren't represented.
  even then, where the fuck is neogeo? or is that collection up for 12 million as a separate bid?
  
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9. Re:what, no atari 2600? by SternisheFan · 2012-07-09 12:58 · Score: 1
  
  Tell me about it. The platform I loved the most was the C64. Of course, the Amiga has some rockin' games, too.
  Yep, I had a ton of C64 floppy game disks that had their copy protection cracked thanks to a friend's little computer whiz brother. We never paid for our games then. Archon II, Beachhead I & II, all the arcade games of that era My dream is that one day someone will gather up every game made for all those old systems and put them all in one easy to download MAME file. Or would that be too much to hope for with copyright worries?
10. Re:what, no atari 2600? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 14:05 · Score: 0
  
  Gamebase 64 will have to do.
  www.gb64.com
11. Re:what, no atari 2600? by damien_kane · 2012-07-10 03:16 · Score: 1
  
  even then, where the fuck is neogeo? or is that collection up for 12 million as a separate bid?
  From TFS:
  PC Engine Hucard – 300 games
  PC Engine Supergrafx – 6 games
  PC Engine CD – 120 games
  PC Engine Super CD – 300 games
  PC Engine Arcade CD – 12 games
  PC-FX – total games not stated
for collecting, not for playing by tuffy · 2012-07-09 04:59 · Score: 5, Informative

It's over 6,000 different games, many of which have never been opened. No one has enough free time to play them all, so the collecting itself becomes its own reward.

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1. Re:for collecting, not for playing by SJHillman · 2012-07-09 05:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  6,901 + unstated number of Pioneer Laseractive and PC-FX.
  Let's assume 7,000 in total. If you spent just 30 minutes on each game and played 8 hours a day, every day, it would take approximately 62.5 weeks to play them all.
2. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Just like torrenting porn you never watch.
3. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Hatta · 2012-07-09 05:17 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  If you want to play classic video games, you're better off buying flash adapters and modchips.
  
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4. Re:for collecting, not for playing by zero.kalvin · 2012-07-09 05:26 · Score: 1
  
  People do that ?
5. Re:for collecting, not for playing by ackthpt · 2012-07-09 05:31 · Score: 1
  
  It's over 6,000 different games, many of which have never been opened. No one has enough free time to play them all, so the collecting itself becomes its own reward.
  Considering the quality of some I've seen that list should be pared down considerably to those which are actually playable, rather than some poorly thought out crud (or poorly executed port) which you wouldn't want for free, even if the time spent playing it didn't subtract from your lifespan.
  
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6. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:41 · Score: 1
  
  There's always time for porn!
7. Re:for collecting, not for playing by SomePgmr · 2012-07-09 05:47 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Obviously I'll never have that kind of cash, but just a quick look shows some of those single items are like $750 ea, and I'm sure some are more. If 10% of the items are worth something like that, that's already $525,000 on the face of it. That puts the rest around $107 ea.
  For someone that would have to spend years hunting down all that stuff in original factory wrap, and that has that kind of expendable money, maybe it's actually worth it.
  Hard to say... I'll never be that person.
8. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:01 · Score: 0
  
  A friend of a friend do it all the time.
9. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:09 · Score: 0
  
  i download a lot of porn, but i watch every single video. there are about 30 videos in my queue ATM.
10. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:29 · Score: 0
  
  ... and if you want to play today's video games in 2030, you can't.
11. Re:for collecting, not for playing by tmosley · 2012-07-09 06:34 · Score: 2
  
  I wouldn't bet on that. Future emulators will likely be able to emulate not only the system, but the online servers as well.
12. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2012-07-09 06:41 · Score: 1
  
  You have 30 videos in your ATM queue?
  That's oddly specific. Do you have a job, or do they not care if you take long bathroom breaks?
  
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13. Re:for collecting, not for playing by EdIII · 2012-07-09 07:16 · Score: 2
  
  Depends on how you watch it.
  Yeah, if you break out a glass of wine and actually watch the whole thing to give a review on the riveting plot twists and depth of the characters... it might take you some time.
  It's like being a tourist or being a Navy Seal that is rapidly inserted into the field of battle to kill them all and let God sort them out later.
  I think most men are probably the latter with porn (we got shit to do man) and have seen pretty much all the good parts that would be put in the movie trailer.
14. Re:for collecting, not for playing by mister_playboy · 2012-07-09 07:18 · Score: 1
  
  I think you misspelled "download emulators and roms".
  USB adaptors are available for many system's controllers if you want accuracy of input.
  
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15. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Hatta · 2012-07-09 07:28 · Score: 1
  
  No thank you. Emulators are inferior to actual consoles. Get a console, any console, and compare it to an emulator hooked up to the same display with a video switch. You'll see.
  
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16. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Surt · 2012-07-09 07:28 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  That'd be a nice trick. Who is going to rewrite the thousands of hours worth of server code that doesn't ship with the client and is never released to the public?
  
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17. Re:for collecting, not for playing by EdIII · 2012-07-09 07:44 · Score: 1
  
  Do you have a job, or do they not care if you take long bathroom breaks?
  He could be a government worker with an office and a closed door.......
18. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 07:51 · Score: 0
  
  It's over 6,000 different games, many of which have never been opened. No one has enough free time to play them all, so the collecting itself becomes its own reward.
  You're seriously underestimating how many games you can play in a family with kids around.
  The average US kid or teen wastes between 3-4h on TV. Adults tend to watch it for 4-6h, depending their sex and age group. Each group wastes another few hours on the Internet. If half of that time was spent trying new computer games instead, I'd wager 6000 games would keep a 4-person household busy for a year at the very most. (Not all games are good; many of my own ~600 iPad games sucked enough that they got deleted within minutes.)
19. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 08:00 · Score: 0
  
  Emulators are good enough. I don't need them to be perfectly accurate.
20. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 09:11 · Score: 0
  
  If there's a will, there's a way. Check out the SWGemu team and how far they've come.
21. Re:for collecting, not for playing by gl4ss · 2012-07-09 09:23 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  ..you'd be surprised about some projects on the net.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_MMORPGs_with_a_server_emulator
  
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22. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:30 · Score: 0
  
  Friend of a friend.... Wait a minute, that could be a circular reference for... YOU!
  Captcha: yanked
23. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:35 · Score: 0
  
  Bullshit. The emulator can usually provide a superior image as it can render to nearly any resolution you tell it to. Plus with features like save state, instant load without swapping a cartridge or disc, cheats, pause (for systems that never had a pause button/switch), the emu is nearly always better than the original system.
  People simply let nostalgia cloud their judgement. It's like audiophiles and their magic cables.
24. Re:for collecting, not for playing by jedwidz · 2012-07-09 13:35 · Score: 1
  
  Latency is inevitably worse on an emulated system. The length of time between say, pushing a button and having that action getting back to your eyes and ears is longer, and likely to be less synchronized.
  It's particularly bad if you're substituting a modern LCD TV for a CRT TV.
  This is a big deal of course, as many classic games are tuned to human reaction times. If a game requires you to react in 200ms, and you lose 50ms to extra latency in your system, you don't stand a chance.
  Think Space Invaders when the aliens are right in front of you.
  Also, light guns don't work on an LCD.
25. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 15:36 · Score: 0
  
  Actually it seems that $1.2 million was the reward.
26. Re:for collecting, not for playing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 17:38 · Score: 0
  
  There is nothing inevitable about it, once you have hardware powerfull enough to fully emulate the system with room to spare it is not a question of emulation any more. You have to worry about inputs and outputs (e.g. your tangent about TVs actually has truth to it, but has nothing to do with emulation per se), emiulation is not a bottleneck.
27. Re:for collecting, not for playing by LocalH · 2012-07-09 17:47 · Score: 1
  
  And in the case of the PS2 when it becomes "classic" instead of merely "last-gen", there's always softmods requiring no hardware hacking. Also in existence for the original Xbox and not sure about any other systems as those two are the main ones I'd care about going forward that aren't truly "classic" or even "vintage" at this point, of which those are pretty much already covered with accurate emulators and hardware solutions that also require no hardware hacking.
  
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28. Re:for collecting, not for playing by LocalH · 2012-07-09 17:53 · Score: 1
  
  The correct answer is somewhere in the middle. For years, emulation was barely accurate enough to run the most popular games. Even on somewhat newer systems like the SNES, there have been games that have only recently been properly and accurately emulated. Until an emulator for a given system reaches, and surpasses, that sort of "uncanny valley" to appropriate terminology, then the real hardware will always be superior no matter how many addon features the emulator has.
  Plus, for tile-based systems prior to the introduction of hardware 3D, rendering to "nearly any resolution" is a useless feature as there is no increase in quality, just bigger pixels. The systems output 240 lines of discrete rasters, which will always be limited to those 240 lines (unless you go the EmuDX route which will most likely result in shitty quality as it takes much more skill to redraw existing 8-bit assets in 4x resolution and 32bpp).
  This isn't so cut and dry as with the whole "high-end audio cable" bullshit. Sometimes, the authentic hardware is superior. Other times, the emulator is superior. It depends on the quality of the emulator.
  
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29. Re:for collecting, not for playing by jedwidz · 2012-07-09 19:35 · Score: 1
  
  The latency issue is all (well, 90%+) about I/O, and no emulated system is complete without I/O.
  Have a look at the latency measurements here. Around 70ms at best. These aren't emulated games, but I don't think that makes much difference.
  On the original systems, typical latency would be just one frame, around 2ms.
  If cherry-picking hardware is allowed, replace the LCD with a CRT, replace the wireless USB with a parallel port game controller, and block your ears.
30. Re:for collecting, not for playing by benhattman · 2012-07-10 04:34 · Score: 1
  
  And that is different than Pokemon how?
  Actually, if you break it down a lot of time spent in many video game genres is actually just collecting. You have actual collecting quests FPS. You also have collecting a full set of accomplishments (get all secrets in a level to get a gold star for that level) in platform games. RPGs are almost entirely about collecting (collect this great loot, collect completing all these arbitrary missions).
  When you think about it, this guy just took it to another meta-level.
31. Re:for collecting, not for playing by jedwidz · 2012-07-12 12:28 · Score: 1
  
  Oops - that should be 20ms latency on the original system, not 2ms.
  (I figured that as 25 frames per second, with an average response time of half a frame.)
AMIGAAAAAAA by unixhero · 2012-07-09 04:59 · Score: 1

Where are the Amiga games?
1. Re:AMIGAAAAAAA by INeededALogin · 2012-07-09 05:24 · Score: 2
  
  Where are the Amiga games?
  Commodore was a Canadian company. This was an auction of his Japanese related property. RTFA(Read the f'n Auction:-P
2. Re:AMIGAAAAAAA by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:26 · Score: 0
  
  Who gives a shit about the Amiga
  Wheres the ATARI games?
3. Re:AMIGAAAAAAA by ackthpt · 2012-07-09 05:28 · Score: 1
  
  Where are the Amiga games?
  Most addictive game I played on Amiga was Ralph Reed's BattleMech. Must have spent over 1,000 hours on that game alone.
  Most regretable was Ultima V, which some idiot bypassed the keyboard API and wrote his own keyboard polling routines, which worked like $#!% on the Amiga 2000 - I think my profanity laced phone call to support had a lot to do with that lack of successor, but considering I have a game I heavily anticipated and paid a lot for, I think I was justified.
  
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4. Re:AMIGAAAAAAA by An+ominous+Cow+art · 2012-07-09 06:46 · Score: 1
  
  Most addictive game I played on Amiga was Ralph Reed's BattleMech. Must have spent over 1,000 hours on that game alone
  You're not alone :-).
Hmmm... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2012-07-09 04:59 · Score: 1

.torrent?

If we ignore, for a moment, the probably-imperfect state of emulation of some of the odder consoles on that list, does anybody have a good ballpark figure for the total size required to contain this collection?
1. Re:Hmmm... by SJHillman · 2012-07-09 05:06 · Score: 2
  
  Most of them are older games, so even 7,000 games would probably fit on a modest sized thumb drive.
2. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:16 · Score: 0
  
  Except there are over 2000 CDs and 300 mini-DVDs (1.4GB) in that collection which could be almost 2TB of data.
3. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:18 · Score: 0
  
  I've got a pretty good collection floating around in my archives. NES, SNES, SEGA Genesis, and Atari, all together it all fits on two CDRs, but seriously you can't build that same collection through pirating, piracy tends to settle towards a common denominator, namely the quality of the emulator, so my N64 collection was very limited fourth gen coverage was pretty good, but not quite complete. Almost a decade ago, I had some rare roms, but not close to this collection.
4. Re:Hmmm... by Hatta · 2012-07-09 05:23 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Complete sets for all of these consoles are available through torrents. I have downloaded most of these, and they come in under a terabyte. IIRC, the Dreamcast and PC Engine CD are the largest torrents, each a couple hundred gigs. The cartridge based systems obviously take much less space.
  FWIW, a complete PSX torrent comes out at about 500GB. And that's USA only, with ECM stripped and 7zipped.
  
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5. Re:Hmmm... by Applekid · 2012-07-09 06:04 · Score: 2
  
  No need to ignore software emulation limitations anymore. There are many devices today that can run games loaded off commodity flash drives, on actual hardware. See: Everdrive, Powerpack, Acekard, and others.
  
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6. Re:Hmmm... by Charliemopps · 2012-07-09 06:05 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  You're assuming those CDs and mini-DVDs are full... They are not. Even WII games usually come in under 200MB unless its a premier title like Zelda. I think where your real space hogs would be is in those pioneer discs. Those have real video, that's played at key points when you make the choices. Even the crappy games (probably all of them) fill the entire disc.
7. Re:Hmmm... by Frosty+Piss · 2012-07-09 06:42 · Score: 2
  
  Complete sets for all of these consoles are available through torrents
  How do you load a Torrent onto an old Nintendo or Sega game box?
  
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8. Re:Hmmm... by Hatta · 2012-07-09 06:48 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  They sell flash devices now that read the ROM file and present it to the console as if it were a real cartridge. For the NES, the only one around AFAIK is the PowerPak. For the Genesis, your best bet is the Everdrive. For the PCE, there is a card from NeoFlash but I don't recommend it, mine broke. The creator of the Everdrive is rumored to have a PCE card in the works, so I'd wait for that.
  
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9. Re:Hmmm... by Quila · 2012-07-09 07:01 · Score: 2
  
  For the Nintendo 64 at least, that's a maximum of 12.8 GB. However, few games actually hit that 64 MB max, and many were down in the single-digit range. So I'd guess no more than 8 GB.
10. Re:Hmmm... by PopeRatzo · 2012-07-09 07:21 · Score: 1
  
  does anybody have a good ballpark figure for the total size required to contain this collection?
  I would say about half of a shipping container, maybe a little more since they're all in their original packaging.
  
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11. Re:Hmmm... by mister_playboy · 2012-07-09 07:22 · Score: 1
  
  ever heard of romhustler dot net?
  Not as easy as a all-in-one torrent, but they have lots of stuff and nice hosting.
  
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12. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 09:08 · Score: 0
  
  That's why I used "could be". Didn't know that GC games could be this small, I guess lots of them are just shovelware. Still, I'd guess it could be around 1TB worth of games.
13. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 13:29 · Score: 0
  
  The Turbo Everdrive is actually out now, check retrogate and stoneagegamer
14. Re:Hmmm... by Legion303 · 2012-07-10 02:01 · Score: 1
  
  We had floppy-based systems for SNES and Genesis. About time someone updated that to use flash drives.
If you take away the Gamecube... by BTWR · 2012-07-09 04:59 · Score: 1

Then this is mostly mid-80s to mid 90s technology. Seems like an awesome collection, but... a million dollars!?!? Seems like a lot cooler ways to nerd out for that kind of dough...
Gaming is fun by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:00 · Score: 0

And so commences the speedrun to end all speedruns!
Average price by sanosuke001 · 2012-07-09 05:00 · Score: 1

So, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-FX#Software) PC-FX had 62 games and Pioneer Laseractive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_LaserActive#Software) had 49 (including region specifics), that means its ~$164 per game. How does that sound like a deal? You could probably scrounge around the internet for 1/4 of that...

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1. Re:Average price by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2012-07-09 05:06 · Score: 1
  
  For the fanatic completionist, it may actually be a good deal. For anybody else, not so much. 60-80% of the games can probably had for peanuts, if they are even worth enough to not have been tossed by now; but there are always some that are damn rare. The difficulty increases, naturally, if you are one of those poor souls haunted by the fact that a mass-produced consumer product's ineffable, virginal, essences escape once the shrinkwrap is removed...
2. Re:Average price by Hentes · 2012-07-09 05:13 · Score: 1
  
  You could probably scrounge around the internet for 1/4 of that...
  It saves you the work of doing that 5k times, I guess.
3. Re:Average price by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-09 06:34 · Score: 1
  
  Exactly, if you buy this and add it to a complete collection of mint Xbox and PS series then you'll probably find someone who will pay $3m for it in a decade. It's not about games, it's about future interest. Think spending half a million (today's money) on a tulip is outrageous? Not if somebody will pay $600,000 a year later...
  
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4. Re:Average price by tmosley · 2012-07-09 06:38 · Score: 1
  
  I think you greatly underestimate the "in original packaging" price multiplier.
5. Re:Average price by dark_requiem · 2012-07-09 07:22 · Score: 1
  
  Well, apart from the fact that many of them are in the original packaging, and many of them are factory sealed (this is a huge boost to price for classics), you can't just take an average. For example, I'm currently selling my game collection (hate to do it, but it must be done before I move). I've got most of my games as complete boxed sets. Zelda A Link to the Past sold for $50, while Chrono Trigger sold for over $400 (and a mint sealed copy will net 7 or 8 grand)! Just looking at an average price per game treats all the games as interchangeable commodities, when in reality some games are more prized, more sought-after, and therefore more expensive than others, sometimes by a wide margin.
6. Re:Average price by PopeRatzo · 2012-07-09 07:25 · Score: 2
  
  Think spending half a million (today's money) on a tulip [wikipedia.org] is outrageous? Not if somebody will pay $600,000 a year later...
  But if nobody will pay more than $15 a year later, then "outrageous" wouldn't even begin to cover it.
  
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7. Re:Average price by LocalH · 2012-07-09 17:56 · Score: 1
  
  You're leaving out the actual systems, and the fact that many of the games are sealed (which is a huge price boost). I'd say that $164 per game on average is a steal, considering the rarity of some of the stuff the guy had.
  
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A day late by Dinghy · 2012-07-09 05:00 · Score: 5, Informative

The auction ended Jul 08, 201213:59:58 PDT, so even if you dreamed of getting this collection, it's too late.
old people will buy anything for nostaligia by alen · 2012-07-09 05:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

baseball cards, my brother has a bunch of old ones including Mark McGuire rookie. I think he also has barry bonds and some other good rookie cards. dumb middle agers will pay lots of money for paper cards with photos of baseball players
1980's GI Joe and other action figures. look at ebay prices. dumb middle agers will pay top dollar for toys their parents never bought them
comic books, the list goes on
so WTF are you going to do with this stuff? put it in your closet, keep it in "mint" condition, kill anyone who dares to touch it and think how worth it everything was?
1. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:07 · Score: 1
  
  No Neo-Geo I would expect it for that sort of cash.
2. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by gman003 · 2012-07-09 05:23 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  so WTF are you going to do with this stuff? put it in your closet, keep it in "mint" condition, kill anyone who dares to touch it and think how worth it everything was?
  Well, if I were to have all those games, I'd open a museum. Buy as many consoles + TVs as possible (old CRTs, if possible, for max realism), pop in as many games as possible. Put up a little placard next to each, describing the history and historical importance of the game. Keep the most popular ones on constantly, but rotate out all the rest. Supplement it with other material - old game magazines, videos, etc. Do some proper archival work as well - have all the games backed up militantly, so the games will never truly be "lost" (maybe do the playing on the duplicated copies, if cost-effective).
  Charge $5 to $25 to come in and play the games all day. Run some special events, maybe have the Minibosses or the Protomen do a promotional concert every so often.
3. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by slyrat · 2012-07-09 06:31 · Score: 2
  
  so WTF are you going to do with this stuff? put it in your closet, keep it in "mint" condition, kill anyone who dares to touch it and think how worth it everything was?
  Well, if I were to have all those games, I'd open a museum. Buy as many consoles + TVs as possible (old CRTs, if possible, for max realism), pop in as many games as possible. Put up a little placard next to each, describing the history and historical importance of the game. Keep the most popular ones on constantly, but rotate out all the rest. Supplement it with other material - old game magazines, videos, etc. Do some proper archival work as well - have all the games backed up militantly, so the games will never truly be "lost" (maybe do the playing on the duplicated copies, if cost-effective).
  Charge $5 to $25 to come in and play the games all day. Run some special events, maybe have the Minibosses or the Protomen do a promotional concert every so often.
  I actually saw something similar to this in an arcade in Nashville, TN. It was an arcade with a bunch of pinball on the left, older arcade games on the right. In the middle was a large screen tv and a smaller screen tv. They had older systems and a very large shelf of games. You could pay to play by the hour and get to use any of the games in the library.
4. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:44 · Score: 1
  
  dumb middle agers will pay lots of money for paper cards with photos of baseball players
  
  dumb middle agers will pay top dollar for toys their parents never bought them
  "Dumb" does not mean "values something more than I do". And yes, that IS what you meant.
5. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by TheRealMindChild · 2012-07-09 07:14 · Score: 1
  
  Apparently you are only looking at the price these are valued at, not what people actually pay for them. Baseball cards and comic books are a great example of something worth something only on paper. Your price guide may list your item X at $300, but there is some asshole, or 10, willing to sell it for $2.
  
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6. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 09:52 · Score: 0
  
  dumb middle agers will pay lots of money for paper cards with photos of baseball players
  
  dumb middle agers will pay top dollar for toys their parents never bought them
  "Dumb" does not mean "values something more than I do". And yes, that IS what you meant.
  on the contrary, that is the usual use for the word in a context like this.
7. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by Crag · 2012-07-09 11:19 · Score: 1
  
  The Oneups (if they're still playing, last show was over a year ago) and Metroid Metal are also good game-themed bands. Given how popular PAX is, this plan is clearly viable.
8. Re:old people will buy anything for nostaligia by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 14:44 · Score: 0
  
  Usual, yes. Correct, no. There is no context where this meaning is correct, and there never can be.
Looks great until you realize... by XiaoMing · 2012-07-09 05:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Shipping kills the deal. Red, T/D.
1. Re:Looks great until you realize... by hawguy · 2012-07-09 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Shipping kills the deal. Red, T/D.
  Yeah, no kidding, I almost placed a bid until I saw that the shipping was around $1200 -- I hate when eBay sellers price a product cheap and then jack up the shipping charges.
2. Re:Looks great until you realize... by Applekid · 2012-07-09 06:07 · Score: 1
  
  Well, how much does it cost to ship such a large collection? What about insurance for $1.2M worth of irreplaceable goods? Can they even use a commodity courier service or do they have to spring for the same kind of shipping museums and the like use?
  
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3. Re:Looks great until you realize... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:43 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah. I was about to transfer a million from my PayPal account but then realized it would be a million and 1200 dollars so I was like fuck that!
4. Re:Looks great until you realize... by mister_playboy · 2012-07-09 07:26 · Score: 1
  
  I believe hawguy was being sarcastic... :)
  
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Average price: around $173 per game? by bipbop · 2012-07-09 05:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

This is about 6900 games, and $1.2M / 6900 is about $173. Sure, there are probably some valuable games in there. But that price seems very, very excessive for what it is.
1. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by slashmydots · 2012-07-09 05:14 · Score: 2
  
  I think it's low. Dot Hack 1-4 and GU 1-3 for the PS2 all sealed would be worth $500-1000 easy. A ton of Japanese games are worth a fortune in other countries and some whole console + game sets are exclusively japanese in that list. I think there are enough multi-hundred dollar to a thousand dollar games in there to put the average at high-ish but not insane per game.
2. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Enderandrew · 2012-07-09 05:15 · Score: 2
  
  At the same time, assembling such a collection is quite a bit of work. Assuming you're a multimillionaire, what is your time worth? And how much time would it take to assemble this collection otherwise?
  
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3. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Bigby · 2012-07-09 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  You have to account for the price of having the full collection. This is one of those cases where the whole is worth a lot more than the pieces.
  If you had one Ruby Slipper from the original Wizard of Oz movie set, it would be worth some money. But having a full pair is worth SO much more.
4. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:24 · Score: 1
  
  I'm not so sure about this. A lot of games that are expensive in the U.S. are dirt cheap in Japan. E.G. ChronoTrigger for the SNES, loose, is worth $65. In Japan, you can find it loose in stores for the Super Famicom around 100-400 yen.
5. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:25 · Score: 0
  
  and... SOLD for around $173/game.
6. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Nadaka · 2012-07-09 05:33 · Score: 2
  
  And the purpose of collecting is the hunt.
  This guy probably got every thing he spent his life looking for, and realized that he had nothing left to find.
  To just buy a complete collection whole?
  Kinda pointless.
7. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:35 · Score: 0
  
  I'm so glad we have you to tell us what the purpose of collecting is FOR EVERYONE WHO COLLECTS.
8. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by p0p0 · 2012-07-09 05:39 · Score: 1
  
  A lot of those games are i n the high hundred/low thousands range in cost because of rarity. Not to mention the effort gone to collect and preserve the collection it definitely equals out.
9. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:44 · Score: 0
  
  I and PT Barnum will be laughing our collective arses off if someone actually pays that much for a collection of 30-year old arcade games...
10. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:41 · Score: 0
  
  And if you're not in Japan, all you need to do is get to Japan. There's no expense there, at all. If you were going to go to Japan and assemble a collection this size of JP games, yeah the games could possibly be acquired inexpensively and the airfare is relatively smaller.. but it'll cost you a lot of time + food + lodging + transpo. After you've found it all, you get to pay to ship it all back.
11. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:43 · Score: 0
  
  If all you do is collect and let it sit on a shelf, I'll let you in on a little secret:
  Your life has no meaning and your existence is pointless.
  One day you will wake up, realize this, sell your collection (like this guy did), and move on.
12. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by SternisheFan · 2012-07-09 13:15 · Score: 1
  
  I and PT Barnum will be laughing our collective arses off if someone actually pays that much for a collection of 30-year old arcade games...
  http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html
13. Re:Average price: around $173 per game? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 14:52 · Score: 0
  
  Here's a secret for you:
  Whether or not a person lets their collectibles "sit on a shelf" indicates nothing whatsoever about their life or existence.
  However, the fact that you're stupid enough to suggest that it does proves that your life is meaningless, and that you are objectively worthless as a person and always will be.
Why? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:10 · Score: 1

Why?
What? No Intellivision? by gemtech · 2012-07-09 05:14 · Score: 1

That was the first game system that I bought. But in the end, not very popular.

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Obligatory eBay link by Anubis+IV · 2012-07-09 05:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Since they forgot to put it in the summary
Anyway, the auction already ended with a sale. Also, shipping on it was 1000 euros. Pretty ridiculous, but I suppose it would take quite a few boxes.
1. Re:Obligatory eBay link by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:06 · Score: 0
  
  There is literally a ton of stuff there, and it's large relative to its weight (compared to say a ton of rock). I'm not sure how you could ship it for less than 1000 euros unless you rented a truck yourself and delivered it personally and didn't value your time and labor.
2. Re:Obligatory eBay link by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:26 · Score: 0
  
  Thanks for the link.
  
  100% Complete Nintendo 64 Fullset: All releases (around 200 games), complete in box with instructions!
  Except for Conker's Bad Fur Day. I wonder what else is missing.
3. Re:Obligatory eBay link by gamanimatron · 2012-07-09 06:55 · Score: 1
  
  These were Japanese fullsets, so BFD isn't "missing", it's just not relevant.
  
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4. Re:Obligatory eBay link by Anubis+IV · 2012-07-09 06:56 · Score: 1
  
  I suspect that might have to do with it never receiving a Japanese release, as far as I can tell. Nonetheless, I don't see him specifying that his N64 collection is Japanese-only, as he does with some of his other collections.
5. Re:Obligatory eBay link by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 07:53 · Score: 0
  
  According to the ebay auctions comments, gathering the collection took the person 15 years (if I'm reading the French correctly).
  I thought to myself, who would buy something for 999,999.99 euros? Then I had a mental picture of Woz with a big grin.
6. Re:Obligatory eBay link by gl4ss · 2012-07-09 09:26 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks for the link.
  
  100% Complete Nintendo 64 Fullset: All releases (around 200 games), complete in box with instructions!
  Except for Conker's Bad Fur Day. I wonder what else is missing.
  it's obvious. he kept it. wouldn't you have?
  
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7. Re:Obligatory eBay link by chrismcb · 2012-07-09 12:44 · Score: 1
  
  Seriously? You are complaining about the cost of the shipping?
  He is selling 22 game consoles. Each console probably costs 30 or 40 dollars to ship. That is like $600+ JUST for the consoles, let alone the 6,000 carts. How many carts can you fit in one box? a hundred? or two hundred? At two hundred that is over 30 boxes.
  1000 euros actually sounds like a decent deal. Of course he probably is throwing it on a pallet and shipping it.
8. Re:Obligatory eBay link by Anubis+IV · 2012-07-09 20:04 · Score: 1
  
  I wasn't complaining. I was applying an adjective. Besides, if I had the 1M euros to buy that, I doubt I'd be quibbling over 0.1% more for shipping.
Really? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:16 · Score: 0

Ill give you $100 for the lot.. Collector value!? Get outta dodge.
I wonder what this bozo's listing fee is going to be.. Any bids on it yet?
Famicom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:17 · Score: 0

Its' famicom, not famicon.
1. Re:Famicom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:23 · Score: 0
  
  Welcome to japanese romanization. Yes, it's short for family computer. But if you do a direct romanization of the katakana (which you can see here, since I don't trust slashdot to do unicode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System), it's famikon or famicon.
2. Re:Famicom by INeededALogin · 2012-07-09 05:35 · Score: 1
  
  Its' famicom, not famicon.
  Both are technically right.
  
  Family Computer => famicom
  
  My poor attempt at Romaji since Slashdot doesn't support Japanese...
  famarii conputa => famicon
  
  Since the product came from Japan and was never marketed as such to the US...
All I want is.. by Brad1138 · 2012-07-09 05:19 · Score: 1

the Sega Dreamcast w/ 550 games. The best console that never made it hands down.

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I saw it on ebay yesterday by kelemvor4 · 2012-07-09 05:21 · Score: 1

Offered him 500 bucks for it. 1.2 million? He must be joking.
1. Re:I saw it on ebay yesterday by Formorian · 2012-07-09 05:48 · Score: 1
  
  Since he got 999,999.99, no he must not be joking. Some of those games are so rare, worth in the 1.5k range. I'm not surprised he got a mil for it. Since he was taking bids, his number must have been right around 1mil and decided to end it and get his cash.
Where's the CD-i and 3DO by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:27 · Score: 0

Just saying....
Its Been Sold by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:32 · Score: 0

Apparently according to the ebay listing its been sold!
NOT fullsets, for at least one system. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 05:48 · Score: 0

NOT fullset, for the Nintendo 64 at least. Look at the list of games on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_64_games) and compare to his list (http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item4605501c13#ht_165718wt_1163). He says around 200 games, wikipedia says 387 official releases (some were region exclusive though, but even if you count only the ones available in Europe, since the seller is in France, it's more than 200)
1. Re:NOT fullsets, for at least one system. by MetalliQaZ · 2012-07-09 07:32 · Score: 2
  
  He claims JAPAN-ONLY fullsets. If the game wasn't released in Japan, he didn't include.
  
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And no NEO-GEO? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:01 · Score: 0

I don't see the NEO-GEO in there, so no, that IS NOT the Ultimate Gaming Collection!
/I could only dream of owning one
Preservation by Flipstylee · 2012-07-09 06:10 · Score: 1

Inspect every single one on arrival and place them into a pressure/temperature controlled chamber.

If these are all in the kinds of condition that would warrant such a high price per piece.... where is the inner geek here?
We must preserve these, as every good geek knows, you can emulate away, but nothing compares to the solid, mint, original.

To those that believe this is a rip-off: You now know how to make 1.2 million dollars, good luck hunting!
1. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:48 · Score: 0
  
  You "preservationists" really make no sense. Cart the item off into a vault, never to be used again. Yeah, that's a great idea. Completely, utterly, pointless. What you have is a form of OCD, and should seek some counseling.
  How to make 1.2 million dollars: Spend 1.5 million dollars and 30 years of your life scouring for obscure shit... No thanks.
Magnavox Odyssey II by jgotts · 2012-07-09 06:13 · Score: 1

You can't have an ultimate video game collection without Odyssey II.
1. Re:Magnavox Odyssey II by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 06:50 · Score: 0
  
  I absolutely loved the Odyssey II when I was little. I still have a working system and a few game :).
  -wmbetts
19 VirtualBoy Games... by W.+Justice+Black · 2012-07-09 06:34 · Score: 1

...in other words, all of them. Wow.

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He missed one of the best by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 07:08 · Score: 0

NEO-GEO
The hobby shop / video game store near where I grew up had one on demo. At the time it lpoked better than any arcade game. Plus the giant carts and 10 pound six button joysticks were so boss... The Ferrari of vintage gaming.
1. Re:He missed one of the best by TheRealMindChild · 2012-07-09 07:19 · Score: 1
  
  At the time it lpoked better than any arcade game.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system)
  
  The Neo Geo ( Neo Jio?) is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.
  
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direct link to auction by YokimaSun · 2012-07-09 08:13 · Score: 1

heres the direct link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item4605501c13#ht_165718wt_1163&clk_rvr_id=362785461392
Does it have the rarest NES cart of them all? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 08:58 · Score: 0

Does it have the 1990 NES World Championship Gold Cartridge? Only 25 of them were ever made, and only a handful of them are confirmed to still exist.
Paypal fees by Mindl · 2012-07-09 10:17 · Score: 0

The paypal fees on this auction are about $46,800. That is a decent chunk of cash for moving some bits around.
imagine the paypal fees by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 10:27 · Score: 0

or if paypal freezes the account for suspicious activity.
Location: France, Price: in EUR by DrYak · 2012-07-09 11:04 · Score: 4, Informative

The Atari 2600 games, and the cabinet arcade games of 1978-1983, were the foundation.

but it's hard to say it's complete. The odyssey was pretty cool too.
Location of the eBay entry: France.
(Read the following with a strong french accent:)
Sorry, what are zeese "Atari" and "Odyssey" you're speaking about? I've never heard about zem.
(/accent)
Joking aside, the european video gaming console scene has went through a slightly different history than the USA.
For one, the japanese console manufacturer have had a stronger bigger presence (at the time when they arrived, Europe hasn't been through a big video game crash, unlike the USA, and thus wasn't suspictious of video games).
Also, home computers (either european like Amstrad and Sinclair, or north american like Commodore) played a much bigger role in the general gaming scene too.
That explains why this guy's collection is mostly japanese brands (Sega, Nintendo, NEC... though not SNK as NeoGeo was considered as a luxury overpriced import for people wanting the real arcade hardware at home, not for video console enthousiasts) and no US-american hardware at all (nothing from Atari, Magnavox, etc. - they weren't widely available in regular commercial channels. The ST was the first machine from Atari that I remember seeing here around in europe).

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1. Re:Location: France, Price: in EUR by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 12:37 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Bullshit. I lived in England for most of the 80s and Japanese consoles were not popular there at that time. Nobody had a Nintendo or a Sega, they had Ataris and Commodores.
2. Re:Location: France, Price: in EUR by Kokuyo · 2012-07-09 18:45 · Score: 1
  
  Nintendo was quite well-known in Switzerland, as were Commodore and Amiga (I believe they're different things, yes? I was a NES kid...).
  Yet, I just know of two people who owned Sega. One had the color handheld (which, frankly, blew the Gameboy out of all waters) and the other had... well, everything, it seemed.
3. Re:Location: France, Price: in EUR by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-10 01:25 · Score: 0
  
  The Sega Game Gear was the size of 3 Gameboys, and lasted about 1/10th the time on batteries. Those were the areas where it certainly did not blow the Gameboy away, and that's why the Gameboy won. It isn't all that portable if you have to plug it in to use it.
3 type of situations. by DrYak · 2012-07-09 11:25 · Score: 2

Situation A:
- its a single player game. the online component only serves as an advanced form of DRM, under the false excuse of some community-related social stuff (online score boards and the like).
The game is probably cracked nowadays already. And the server components in that situation are pretty much minimal, so full emulation isn't that much complicated.
Situation B:
- its an online multiplayer game. as in a MMORPG, most probably.
- the game is any where in the range of "a few people did hear about it" to "its a massive planet-scale crack addiction (a.k.a. World of Warcraft, Everquest, and the like)"
Well, as pointed by other /.ers, there are already server emulation solution *NOW*. Either based on stolen code. Or reverse engineered/re-implemented independant project. Sometimes several of them at the same time. Even if the game ISNOT a world-wide drug-like addiction. Even games which are only locally popular (Ragnarok online is really popular only in asia. A little bit in europe too. But didn't manage to withstand the WoW barrage in the US. And it features *a few different* servers based on stolen code, and *several other* servers based on re-implementation of the same procol).
Situation C:
- its also an online multiplayer game. probably still an MMORPG
- the game is absolutely un-popular. only a few people have ever heard about it or even played it.
Server code is designed to run headless on the server. Thus it is mostly pure game logic. Almost no physics. No eye candy at all (beside probably a nice dashboard to have a look on all the running instances).
In consequence, it doesn't rely on some 3rd party expensive 3D engine (for exemple Unreal is a popular engine with some MMOs). It doesn't count on a few 3rd party middleware (for physics, for video, for sound engines, etc.)
Thus, it's almost entirely developped in-house. Thus the original developpers of the server bit have the copyright on almost anything on the server.
Also it's highly customised. Beside a few networking code, there's not much to leverage/recycle for another game. There's little long-term IP value in the server-code.
In the end: it's not completely unheard of that, before completely dying, the company release the server code, sometimes even with source code. And it's not impossible that some future company like "Good Old Games" tracks down the copyright holders and asks for the server code.
So even if you want to play some obscure on-line game, chance are that in 2030, you'll be able to find some server emulation code (and in addition to that: a few bots to simulate other players, so you can enjoy the real "multiplayer" experience).

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Auction was a sham by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 12:53 · Score: 0

I got word from a quality source that the brother of the seller "won" the auction. There will be no sale, it was just a stunt to get thousands of eyes around to world to take notice. Fucking publicity stunt.
1. Re:Auction was a sham by LocalH · 2012-07-09 18:06 · Score: 1
  
  [citation needed]
  Oh, hey, I also got word from a quality source that the post I'm replying to was written by a goat-fucking man suffering from micropenis and gynecomastia. How do you like that goatass?
  
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Paypal finance charge? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-09 13:01 · Score: 0

I wonder what the largest paypal payment has ever been? I wonder what the paypal transaction fee would be for this one.
Do I know you? by DrYak · 2012-07-09 22:57 · Score: 1

One had the color handheld (which, frankly, blew the Gameboy out of all waters)
That could be me. I think I may know you personnally... :-D

as were Commodore and Amiga (I believe they're different things, yes? I was a NES kid...)
Yes, sort of. Back then,
- "Commodore" did refer to the "Commodore C64=", a 8bit home computer commercialized by the "Commodore International Limited"
- "Amiga" did refer to the "Amiga 1000" a 32bit successor home computer commercialized again by, but later, "Commodore International Limited"
(So commodore is also the name of the company selling these machines)

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Not impressive by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-10 01:43 · Score: 0

I have the complete collections for Atari 2600, Colecovision, and Intellivision, and not one but TWO completely new, factory-sealed PONG gamesets that were purchased at Sears in New York City when it launched in 1975 (still have the receipts preserved); an original, unopened TRS-80 Model I; and an original, brand new Pacman upright still in its original shipping crate.
This doesn't even get the list started, either...
1. Re:Not impressive by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-12 15:49 · Score: 0
  
  Not impressive