what are the 2 red snes cartridges?
Most probably Doom and Maximum Carnage.
what are the 2 red snes cartridges?
Hey everybody, sorry, I’m just seeing this thread right now. I was hoping to make some sort of post first hand, but was beat to it, no worries. Just a short reasoning if anyone is interested. Oh, also, I’d like to apologize for being completely absent from the site. Sadly between work, house stuff, kids and working on this auction, time for my favorite hobby has been greatly diminished. I’m hoping things will calm down, but I admit it may be awhile before that happens. Due to the house stuff I’ve placed myself on a budget/collecting freeze. If some amazing deal comes around then I might still have to pick it up, ha… but other than that I’ll probably not add any games for a year or more. (That said, I have found a good deal I want to share with the community hopefully later today).
I'm not leaving the site or collecting, but I am open to selling everything if the right offer came around. I'm currently in the process of moving. My house is going up for sale very soon and everything collection-wise is already boxed up. I have the opportunity to build a new house but will most likely not be ready to move into that house for another year or more. In the meantime, since the collections boxed up, since I'm going to have a great deal of house building expenses I thought what the heck, why not list it all.
One of two scenarios will happen. First, I get a good enough offer, sell the collection put 95% of that money towards the house and leave the remaining 5% for a new game collection. If that happens my next collection will be much more small scale. Local garage sale, thrift store finds. Without a doubt my passion for retro gaming, collecting and the community has not diminished at all. Second, if I don't get a good offer, then that's fine, I'll hang onto it and continue to enjoy it, no big deal. I am planning on having a gameroom in the new house either way. I’ve been thinking in the back of my mind different displays I’d like to build.
It should be interesting I guess we will see what happens.
$164,000 for 5700+ games and 50+ systems?
Does that seem like too low a price to anyone else?
God damn.
Maybe I'm confusing this one with the one from June...or is it the same?
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/06/want-to-buy-the-largest-video-game-collection-in-the-world/
One of them is definitely Maximum Carnage, played that game for so many hours as a kid
Added to OP. Cheers, friend.
@$30/piece is a bit on the high end.
Just buying a lot of those games at lower prices, you can build a shadow of a collection this size without breaking the piggy open. A $29-30 average per game is pretty substandard to me.
I was looking through the imgur gallery - was Megaman X2 considered rare?
@$30/piece is a bit on the high end.
The guy has a wife and kids already. In fact, he's posted pictures of his kids playing in this very room.
Jesus, that is an understanding family. Surprised his collection has lasted this long. Gaming can be an expensive hobby even for those who skirt the hardcore line, let alone something as enormous as this. Even looking at his more modern stuff, he is still constantly adding to this, just not a retro collection he has been sitting on. I guess if he sells it, that is the justification of the collection, that it could be worth this $167K some day. Anyone care to do the rough math on whether this is even close to being a profit for him? Do these huge lots ever sell?
Honestly, the quality of everything is probably why it's a little high. I mean, his whole collection is almost immaculate. 150K for everything wouldn't be unreasonable by any means.
I was looking through the imgur gallery - was Megaman X2 considered rare?
If you're looking at it from that perspective, I suppose.@$30/piece is a bit on the high end.
The other guy posted in this topic, the one the poster confused with this guy - he has a wife and kids too. These people are loaded. The other collector posted, for example, has matching his and hers Lamborghinis. You have to walk through their car room to get to his private arcade.
Some people just have lots, and lots of money.
Guess that's true. For some reason the decor of that room made me think the dude wasn't very wealthy. The room has a very, "mom's basement" or average house look to it. Not some insane baller A/V room I have seen in GAF and other forum threads.
Plebs stuff. Where's the NeoGeo stuff?
Too cute.
Guess that's true. For some reason the decor of that room made me think the dude wasn't very wealthy. The room has a very, "mom's basement" or average house look to it. Not some insane baller A/V room I have seen in GAF and other forum threads.
Most of it is loose-cart. Honestly, that's a bit high. It's just a lot of games, they're not in extraordinary condition or anything.
I've seen complete, CIB NES, SNES, and N64 collections. Those are worth a ton, because their boxes are so hard to come by, especially for some titles.
There was that dude on assembler Adol or something like that with those complete sets of sealed games. Multiple systems at that. Shit like that just blows my mind. I had a friend with a CIB NES collection, and even that was a sight to behold.