World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

This isn't going to hit the reserve, still sitting at $90k.

I said it before: the used games market is as dead as an abducted Inuit in death valley.

500k and the reserve still isn't met.

This guy is trolling.

Herp derp, my minimum bid is its appraised value, why won't it sell.

Buying something at its actual value is called being a sucker.

Reserve is met at 700k.

What happened to Sean? Rage quit?

spronk_sl said:

he fell in love with a tranny and they moved to nigeria

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How's supertouch handling the betrayal by his "woman"?

The market for sealed video games is nuts. I sold a sealed copy of Majora's Mask for $500 a couple years ago. And that was without sending it in to get it graded by whatever company does that shit.

So what is the over under with Ripley's Believe It or Not, or a museum with too much earmarked funds on their hands from picking this up?

or a billionaire's son from somewhere in the world.

My guess would be someone very wealthy, possibly directly related to the video game industry, with an interest in the preservation of the medium. A Gabe Nevell for instance.

Current Bid:$750,250.00 by peeps_10091970

Closing in a little over an hour. That price works out to about $68 per game, which seems like a little bit of a rip off since I bet most of them are "worth" about $5 tops. I don't see anywhere where the seller says that the hardware to play the games is included in the auction either.

How much do you think it cost him to amass such a collection?

If I had to lend a guess - tons of time, but the money is probably negligible since it was business related.

Melvin_sl said:

Current Bid:$750,250.00 by peeps_10091970

Closing in a little over an hour. That price works out to about $68 per game, which seems like a little bit of a rip off since I bet most of them are "worth" about $5 tops. I don't see anywhere where the seller says that the hardware to play the games is included in the auction either.

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Kind of irrelevant since a lot of it is mint in box and a collector wouldn't want to open them. If you actually play these games, odds are you'll do it on an emulator regardless of if you own them.

I wasn't really thinking about them being playable at all, just looking at the pictures and seeing all kinds of hardware that might add a few thousand dollars to the overall value of the auction, since the $68 per game price seems too steep to be true. Then looking at the text description and seeing absolutely nothing about the hardware.