half a million? those who bought it. must be some sort of moron. much more stupid than patrick the star fish!
Game collection asking for $550,000
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
eBay listing for 30-year trove of 6,850 games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers, and 185 accessories seeking more than half a million.
eBay user "videogames.museum" is unloading a trove of 6,850 games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers, and 185 accessories, with bidding starting at $550,000.
The collection has no offers thus far.
The eBay user explained that the collection is the result of more than 30 years of collecting games. "I just have too much things and the space to store them is finished long ago."
The user, who lives in Milan, Italy, spent more than eight hours a day for the past two months simply taking pictures and cataloging the inventory.
The listing includes various collector's items, including the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles pearl white GameCube, the Metal Gear limited-edition PSP, the Hitachi Gamenavi Sega Saturn, and both of the Bio Hazard Dreamcast systems in red and blue. A full list of items included in the collection is available here.
Last year, a French game collector's eBay listing for more than 7,000 games across 22 systems sold for over $1.3 million.
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.
209 comments
30 years of history and collection for a price of 500'000ish is not worth it this guy should make space for this
@GamerLegend10 @Uiltetwr it's more than i'll make as a teacher over the next ten years
1.who bought these for him growing up...this isn't just a copy of mega-man.
2.if he can afford this habit even now, cant the guy just buy more space?
I'd make an 8 story tower, with all consoles on top---you just grab a game or two on the way up...playing atop your open air tower over-looking Italy.
wtf is this guy? I bet he's not gonna sell, and just wants to showcase.
@gargungulunk Looking at the link, most of this stuff looks mint or near mint condition. Not sure why he would sell this.
@Vengentz @gargungulunk Probably been collecting all these years for the sole purpose of cashing in his chips at some point, lets face it if some one does pay half a mill for it then its been one hell of an investment.
Why are they using ebay for this. So much of it is just going to ebay when they could do it so many other ways.
Wow! If I was filthy stinking rich I might just buy that..
But what confuses me is that it says he's got 330 consoles, but only 220 controllers for them. He's missing a lot of controllers, unless those 330 consoles includes handhelds.
@JLCrogue well no they wont all be different consoles, he might for example have 10 xbox360's, one could be halo limited edition, another gow etc. so the same controller would work on 10 of his consoles. Also he probably has quite a few handhelds in that collection.
@JLCrogue Maybe he means additional controllers past the one required to play the system.
@JLCrogue Handhelds don't need controllers, they are the controllers. At least that is my guess anyway.
13 Like I love how we're on a gaming website, yet so many people are calling this guy a nerd with no life and no girlfriend. Just when I thought this community couldn't possibly get worse... Boy do I love my daily dose of insanity loss though.
If I had this collection, I would try to create a local museum for it, because that would be pretty dang awesome.
1 Like Depends, does he have Goldeneye 007 in there? I seriously have lost it over 15 times since 1997 and had to rebuy. Willing to pay $500,000 for another copy.
@OneSamTwoCups
really? I have 2 copies, japanese and english. Ill sell it to you for half that price.
You would think with taking 2 months to catalogue and take pictures of the whole collection that the seller would have taken the time to spellcheck his listing and, I don't know, maybe make paragraph breaks. I know he's from Italy, but come on.
Scary price tag, but all things considered I guess it's not unusual. I'd like the CC Edition Gamecube myself lol.
330 consoles, but only 220 controllers. That's awkward. Obviously, many of those consoles are repeats thus not needing another set of controllers, but it still sounds awkward. You'd think he'd have one per at the very least.
I have probably close to that amount of games on my pc alone only taking up hard drive space. And I still have not been able to fill my 20 terabytes of hard disk storage.
I think a museum should make a bid for this - am sure there's lots of collectibles there worth showcasing to the public
Just can't see an individual buying this unless he's got truckloads of disposable income and 2 lifetimes to finish playing all of it
NErd.....you actually need space to store so many games, not to mention the amount of time wasted. TY, I'll stick to my Roms. Nostalgia is a thing of the past and such feelins cannot be reborn by playing a authentic vintage console.
@xolivierx Really? Playing my 80's/90's consoles always takes me way back, and I love it.
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1 Like That is a pretty good price for all of that for the Mother Collection alone.
He should really sell all of that stuff individually.
2 Like I wonder if he'd fair better selling the stuff off individuality or in smaller packages
1 Like Just put it in a museum. PLEASE!
Opportunities like these don't come around every day. With a collection like this people can observe every game, console, and accessory ever created starting from the beginning.
I shouldn't have sold my first nintendo, super nintendo, sega or playstation to gamestop.
1 Like Some people dont get that if you buy this you are a collector. You will do the same thing as him, basically have the games and consoles on display. You are not actually buying this collection to play it.
1 Like $ 500,000 to spend the rest of your life locked away playing video games.
I wish I could do this lol.
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