$1.2 Million Ultimate Games Collection

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."

Comments

for collecting, not for playing

[tuffy]

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.

Re:for collecting, not for playing

[gl4ss]

..you'd be surprised about some projects on the net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_MMORPGs_with_a_server_emulator

A day late

[Dinghy]

The auction ended Jul 08, 201213:59:58 PDT, so even if you dreamed of getting this collection, it's too late.

Obligatory eBay link

[Anubis IV]

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.

Re:Hmmm...

[Hatta]

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.

Re:what, no atari 2600?

[ezakimak]

no Atari 5200?
no Atari Jaguar?
no Colecovision?

Re:what, no atari 2600?

[tuffy]

It's obvious why just by looking at the pictures. The games are almost entirely Japanese, so US systems like Atari aren't represented.

Location: France, Price: in EUR

[DrYak]

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).

Re:Location: France, Price: in EUR

[Anonymous Coward]

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.