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Mizzou B-ball fan

07-10-2012 07:45 AM

It pays to be a video game geek........

To the tune of $1.2M......

Massive old-school video game collection fetches $1.2 million on eBay | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games

BillJasper

07-10-2012 08:29 AM

But how much did he spend putting the collection together?

sterlingice

07-10-2012 08:40 AM

And, the most important question: did he actually play the games or just spend a ton of money putting it together only to sell it off?

SI

Matthean

07-10-2012 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillJasper (Post 2686201)

But how much did he spend putting the collection together?

My guess is a lot less than 1.2 million.

Subby

07-10-2012 08:48 AM

Sounds like most of those games are factory sealed, so I think this was just an obsessive pursuit.

If the transaction goes through, eBay makes 100K.

sabotai

07-10-2012 01:54 PM

Quote:

"I perfected some full sets by getting every title of them factory sealed, just for the challenge of it," he said. "Some titles are extremely hard to come by brand new when they're 25 years old. Now that the mission is complete, maybe it's time to move on."

This reminds me of an Adam Savage TED Talk where he describes his pursuit in making a perfect replica of the Maltese Falcon and something else (forgot what it was). The message of the talk was that the end result wasn't the point of these pursuits, but the pursuit itself was.

Mustang

07-10-2012 08:46 PM

I don't see E.T in there...

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