Video game collection sold for $1,230,699.99

[appleb]

I'm wondering if this is fake or not. I can't imagine anyone being able to even assemble this collection, and who has 1.2 million sitting around to buy video games?

Link to the auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item4605501c13#ht_161279wt_1163

Comes with:

1) 100% Complete Famicom Cartridge Fullset (around 1050 games): All games complete in box with instructions, many of them being brand new, and many extra stuff, like not for sale games, contest games (Gradius Archimendes, Mike Tyson's Punch Out Gold cart to name a few), rare hardware,etc..
2) 100% Complete Famicom Disk system fullset (around 200 games): All games are complete in box with instructions, 50% of them being factory sealed! Including the very rare "write-only" releases, such as Clu Clu Land, all with original instructions, this one (Clu Clu Land) being worth up to $1500, as well as contest prize games (All 3 Gold Disks),etc..
3) 100% Complete Virtual Boy Fullset (19 games,including Virtual Bowling, SD Gundam Dimension War, Virtual Lab, Space Invaders..): all complete in box with instructions or brand new. Virtual Bowling being sold for $2000 alone!
4) 100% Complete Super Famicom Fullset (around 1500 titles): All games are complete in box with instructions, all games having plastic baggies, warning papers, all games being protected by special plastic protection boxes to remain in perfect condition, and around 500 of them being BRAND NEW (including Randering Ranger,etc..i'll update the list later to inform you which ones are brand new)!! This fullset includes ALL rare "Nintendo Power only" releases (Columns,Dokyusei 2,Wizardry I-II-III, Super Punch Out,etc..), all SM Teacher games, all Sufami Turbo releases, all contest/not for sale games (Far East of Eden Zero V-Jump, Chrono Trigger V Jump, Slam Dunk Shueisha Limited, Yoshi no Cookie Oven Version, Magical Drop 2 Special Version, Kunio-Kun Dodgeball Gold Cart, Super Formation Soccer Xaqua to name some)...
5) 100% Complete Nintendo 64 Fullset: All releases (around 200 games), complete in box with instructions!
6) 100% Complete Nintendo DD64 fullset: All releases (10 games), complete in box with instructions, mostly brand new!
7) 100% Complete BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Gamecube Fullset: ALL releases, around 320 games, all factory sealed!
8) 100% Complete Sega Master System European Fullset, plus Australian&US&Brazilian exclusives (around 300 games): all complete in box with instructions, including the most rare ones then (Les Schtroumpfs autour du monde, Mah-jong,etc..)
9) 100% complete Sega Mark 3 & Sega Master System Japanese Fullset: all releases (around 80 games), complete in box with instructions, including rare not for sale/contest games such as Great Ice Hockey!
10) 100% Complete Sega Game Gear Fullset: All releases (around 200 games), complete in box with instructions, including "budget"releases and rare hardware (GG White system,etc)
11) 100% Complete Sega Megadrive Fullset: All releases (around 450 games), all complete in box with instructions, including rare not for sale games: Go-Net, Smisey Home, Mega Anser, Nagoya Home Banking and more!
12) 100% Complete Sega 32 X Fullset: all releases (19 games), complete in box with instructions!
13) 100% Complete Sega Mega CD Fullset: all releases (around 115 games), most of them BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED (for around 85 of them, the 30 other ones are mint complete in box with instructions)!
14) 100% Complete Sega Saturn Fullset: All releases (around 1150 games), all complete with case and instructions,and ALL even with spine cards! And some nice extra not for sale games ( Heim Waltz,etc, comes to mind)
15) 100% Complete Sega Dreamcast BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: Around 550 games, all of them factory sealed, including all Dorikore reprints, rare Sega Direct exclusive prints, etc..
16) 100% Complete PC Engine Hucard BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: around 300 games, ALL Factory Sealed, and including all rare extra not for sale games: Youkai Dochuuki Gold Hucard, all 7 Caravan Hucards, Darius Alpha,etc..
17) 100% Complete PC Engine Supergrafx BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: 6 games,if you include Darius Plus, all Factory Sealed.
18) 100% Complete PC Engine CD BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: Around 120 games, ALL FACTORY SEALED!
19) 100% Complete PC ENGINE SUPER CD BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: Around 300 games, ALL FACTORY SEALED, including RARE Not for sale games such as Akiyamajin (worth $3000 alone), Super Real Mahjong P 2-3 Special Custom Version (worth $2500 either), etc..
20) 100% Complete PC ENGINE ARCADE CD BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: 12 Games, ALL FACTORY SEALED, including rare ones such as Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire (original genuine 1st print of course)!
21) 100% Complete PC-FX BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Fullset: All releases are factory sealed (even Kishindouji Zenki, Zeroigar,etc), including all mooks, all "programming" stuff such as rare Nnyuu mook release, etc..
22) 100% Complete Pioneer Laseractive Fullset: All Mega-LD releases + LD-Rom² exclusives!

[CrazyJo82]

i personally would like the pc engine set. i grew up playing that. my uncle has the whole pce/tg16 collection.

but seriously for $1mil? i have a better use for that amount of money. i really doubt someone would actually bid. did you read those questions? lol

[duyh]

I wonder if it actually sold.. can't say he doesn't deserve it though.

[brucedlx]

The full thing bought individually would have cost well over 1million. This guy is losing money here lol.

[nippleholic]

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-enormous-video-game-ebay-20120709,0,6539757.story

[Techgeek32]

Great collection but 1m to buy it is insane!

[sandikosh]

For a collection like that, the buyer will need to build his own museum to display it. It would be better if the seller had all versions of the consoles.

[valinrace]

If you are really rich and has nothing to do with your money, this one is a good deal. But if the seller will sell this one one by one or by set, He will get more than 1 million because some people are really collecting rare stuff.

[sandikosh]

Someone in Canada bought it.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/massive-video-game-collection-sells-1-2m-ebay-120809438.html

[john widow]

lol imagine the shipping process.

well the ebay user name is collectors king and the store is japan games heaven. So maybe it's a store in japan. And that's where a bunch of games are made.
I wonder if the games are used and traded in only if they are in good conidition...
It's only as worth as much as how much someone cares about it.

Who has time to play all those games. Just imagine all of it being destroyed in a flood or something.

[zod]

lol imagine the shipping process.

well the ebay user name is collectors king and the store is japan games heaven. So maybe it's a store in japan. And that's where a bunch of games are made.
I wonder if the games are used and traded in only if they are in good conidition...
It's only as worth as much as how much someone cares about it.

Who has time to play all those games. Just imagine all of it being destroyed in a flood or something.

It's probably more about the collection than playing the games. A friend of mine collects NES games yet rarely finds time to play them. I think he enjoys finding rare games and the process of collecting them more than playing the actual games.

I'm that way with Vinyl. I like to collect the rare stuff from the 90s when vinyl had no popularity whatsover (but alot of my favorite music is from that era). Some of that stuff is expensive because there are so few copies....

To each their own. Shelling out over a million for a completed collection though, it sort of takes all the fun out of collecting ? :)

[actuarial]

lol imagine the shipping process.

well the ebay user name is collectors king and the store is japan games heaven. So maybe it's a store in japan. And that's where a bunch of games are made.
I wonder if the games are used and traded in only if they are in good conidition...
It's only as worth as much as how much someone cares about it.

Who has time to play all those games. Just imagine all of it being destroyed in a flood or something.

They are all supposed to be BNIB, which is what makes it so crazy!

[ConsoleWatcher]

I hope he's using the mail, and not UPS/Fedex- "Sir, here's your delivery. That'll be $314,298 in Customs and Brokerage charges":D

[Haz]

I hope he's using the mail, and not UPS/Fedex- "Sir, here's your delivery. That'll be $314,298 in Customs and Brokerage charges":D

If I was willing to fork over that much cash, I'd spend extra to fly there and then charter a flight back with the haul.

[audoin231]

I think its fake. its not real.