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Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-I-want-for-christmas dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BSNES author and game collector Byuu has decided to put his entire collection of SNES games up for sale — at the low price of 24,999USD. The collection covers *every* game ever made for SNES, all in the original covers. From the article: 'The seller, who goes by the name "Byuu" on Reddit, says that every single game in the collection comes with its original box and approximately 85 percent of the games come with their original manuals. The collection does not include unlicensed games, and every game has been professionally cleaned and tested. "They all work perfectly," Byuu says.'"

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  1. These belong in a museum! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These belong in a public museum, not some private collection. I hope that somebody who is rich and who appreciates video games makes the purchase, and donates them to the Smithsonian or some other reputable museum so that they can be publicly displayed for all to see and to experience.

    1. Re:These belong in a museum! by UltraZelda64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As a gamer, I actually strongly agree on this... they should be taken care of, preserved, ba a part of a museum. That's lots of history he's selling.

      BSNES is awesome, by the way.

    2. Re:These belong in a museum! by byuu · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The thing I disliked most was the way emulated images do not come with any box art or instruction manuals. That was always part of the fun as a kid for me.

      Ironically, you can consider my effort to be undermining the very value of owning the set: I've scanned all of this stuff in at high resolution so it'll be available long after the games are gone. That's why I bought them in the first place. I'm only selling them so I can buy more games from other regions to do the same.

    3. Re:These belong in a museum! by spazdor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You're doing God's work, Byuu.

      I mean, that's a cutely hyperbolic and very Internet thing to say, but seriously, kudos. It may otherwise become impossible to find the material which you are preserving for us.

      --
      DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
    4. Re:These belong in a museum! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you give them to the Smithsonian, they're going in storage. They've only got so much display space. But they would likely be well preserved.