You've just won 5 million dollars!!! What do you do? (V.G.W)

[Anthony1]

Ok, you bought a lotto ticket at a gas station, and you end up winning 10 million dollars. You take the lump sum cash option, and get a check for 5 million dollars. What do you do V.G.W. ? (Video Game Wise)



Basically, if all of a sudden came into a sudden fortune, what would you do, as far as your video game hobby goes? How would your Video Game life be altered?

[kai123]

I would complete my favorite game system collections. Buy a new house car and pay off my school loans. Then live the good life.

[jaydubnb]

I would own every NEO*GEO AES game that i ever lusted for.

A few candy cabs, too. Would love to own Outrun and Afterburner II.

[Slipdeath]

I would complete my favorite game system collections. Buy a new house car and pay off my school loans. Then live the good life.
couldnt have said it any better

[thegreatescape]

Step 1: Do the usual house, car , etc thing
Step 2: My own kick ass arcade
Step 3: Spend whatever it takes to get sega to finish and release Propeller Arena. :D

-SMi

[djbeatmongrel]

i'd get my hands on a Top Skater arcade machine along with a neo geo stand up. buy the original american Thrill Kill proto and use the rest of the money to go game hunting and take trips to most of the classic game shows in the US. I'd also keep up with all new titles that seem decent.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Maybe i bought all the machines i need to complete my collection and the rest of the money it´s for me...maybe i won´t need to work in all my life

[Anthony1]

Here is what I would do. I would definitely get an incredible home. I would make sure that the home is on like a third of an acre of land. Then what I would do is build a special arcade type room that would be external from the house. That way, I could play games really loud in there if I wanted, and it wouldn't bother the wifey.


This room that I would have built, would be like the size of two relatively decent sized living rooms put together, or one "great room", as they are sometimes refered to. It would kind of be like a game room, but it would be specifically geared towards gaming.

On one wall of the room, I would have like 6 or 7 33 inch Wells-Gardner RGB monitors lined up. Each one would be hooked up to a game system, and each one would also have a nice stereo speaker system hooked up to them. Then at one end of the room, I would have a 91 inch movie screen. I would have a 20 grand DLP Projector system, and I would have systems like the XBOX and GameCube hooked up to it, for 91 inches of progressive scan, High Definition Gaming. The Sound System for the main screen, would also be the equivalent of what you would find at a freaking movie theater!!!!. I would probably drop like 20 grand on the freaking sound system alone.

Also, this room would be made sound insulated in a way where somebody could be standing outside, about 30 feet away, and they wouldn't hear anything. Even If I was playing a game with the sound cranked way, way up.

In another corner of the room, I would also have a few choice arcade cabinets.

Along the walls, would be shelves that would house virtually every known home video game to man.


Then what I would do, is have retro gamers from all over California, come up occasionally and visit.

It would be freaking awesome. I'm guessing that this one room that I'm talking about, that would be built kinda off to the left of the main house, in the backyard, would cost like 200 grand, considering all the contruction, and all the audio/video gear that would be in it.

Of course I would also need a James Bond quality theft deterent system. I would probably get a couple of pit bulls, that would just sit outside the room and guard it, from potential thieves.

[Ed Oscuro]

BUY EVERY COPY OF KIZUNA ENCOUNTER!!!!!111

Well, okay, I'd just go get a whole bunch of prototypes and other good stuff :D

But I'd keep the bulk of it for an investment. You can't live of $5M, especially if you blow it all in the first year :P

[buttasuperb]

Hmmm.

For starters, I would get every US MVS cart or kit, some of the Neo Geo homecarts, every US CPS2 cart, a 6 slot MVS cab, a CPS2 dedicated cab with a 30" monitor, a SF3 cab with Warzard as well, a few huge TV's, a whole shitload of 2D fighting game OST's, and maybe buy some stock in Sony or Microsoft.

[Duncan]

1) Invest a third of it in steady-growth funds, etc. Gotta plan ahead a little...

2) Buy a new car. Or two, or three. And maybe an old (1930s to 1960s) gas station to restore and run on a whim.

3) Buy a modest new home, big enough to be both comfortable and accomodating of a lot of random stuff. (Here it comes...)

4) Build up my Sega collections: finish off my SMS stash, get the majority of good Genesis/CD/32X stuff, and finally plunge into the Saturn and Dreamcast arenas. Then work on Nintendo systems...

5) Create a dedicated museum of home video gaming. Yes, I'd plan on being a video game philanthropist. The centerpiece of the facility would be a massive research and information center dedicated to cataloging and classifying any and every video game or related product ever made, anywhere in the world. Of course, there would be playable real-time demo stations to try out anything in the way it was originally meant to be experienced (built upon to-notch emulator technology with controller adapters, however, if only to prevent needless console wear). An in-house restoration team would also be on hand, for both the museum's equipment and (for a modest fee) to repair items from other collectors and historical agencies. And should this concept take off...

6) I'd create the arcade to end all arcades, with the entire history of coin-operated entertainment (or as much as possible) organized by era and completely open to the public. I've always loved the kind of places where one can move directly from a nickel pinball machine over to an original Space Invaders cabinet without missing a beat. This endeavor would be a related part of the gaming museum, with the proceeds from the coin-ops going right back into the research and restoration efforts.

Sound good? :)

Duncan :D

[Shadysmurf]

The First 2 Million Would go into investments Ie Cds,Stocks,Mutual Funds Etc.. then when I turned 18 I would buy myself a nice sized house with a fully furnished basement one half of the basement would be arcade machine the other half would be 2 big flatscreen tv's with a varity of systems hooked up.. the first systems I would buy would be a Japanse Neo Geo Aes and a collection of games Metal Slug 1-4 Samurai Showdown Etc.. then I would get a a bunch of import saturn games i've wanted for awhile as well as an import ps2, and gamecube with accessories and games.. then on the arcade side I would get an original Galaga machine then next to it Galaxian and then Golden Axe, Lucky and Wild, and WWF Wrestemania circa 1989 ;)

[toddst]

1. Get drunk
2. Get my friends drunk
3. Go on vacation and bring a bunch of friends with me
4. Pick up an Innocenti Mini http://www.staufferclassics.com/innocenti.html
5. Pick up a restored Lambretta SX200
6. Donate a bunch to various charities/organizations
7. Splurge on various cds, LPs, videogames...
8. Find a nicer apartment to rent
9. Put the rest into savings/investments for sometime in the future...
10. Take a nap


-Todd

[Keir]

Ok, you bought a lotto ticket at a gas station, and you end up winning 10 million dollars. You take the lump sum cash option, and get a check for 5 million dollars.
Arr... what be that in gold dubloons?

[chadtower]

Retire, pay off my loans/house, buy my mother a house. Hire a very well researched financial manager and pay him about $150k/year to manage my money for me. Live off the interest, go back to school to finish my computer science degree and spend my time MAKING games, rather than buying them.

[jonjandran]

:duh: :duh: :duh: :duh:


Except It should say " I'm with ChadTower "

[Kroogah]

Video Game Wise, eh? You mean like ignoring all rules of wisdom and common sense? Sounds good. LOL

I'd buy the following arcade machines:
DDR 5th Mix, DDR Extreme, DDR Solo 2000
Beatmania IIDX 9th Style, maybe a few others (dunno which ones though)
Beatmania Complete Mix 1 and 2
DDR 2nd Mix Link Ver. + IIDX SubStream
Pop'n Music 9, Pop'n Music 10
Guitar Freaks 6th Mix + Drummania 5th Mix + Keyboardmania 3rd Mix
Dance Maniax J-Append
Pop'n Stage
Mambo a Go Go
Para Para Paradise (for the sake of completion)
Taiko no Tatsujin 3
Pump it Up The Premiere
Technomotion (heh heh)

And then the next logical step would be, of course, to open my own arcade.

[RetroYoungen]

1. Buy all the arcade cabinets I want to own (Robotron 2084, the latest DDR, all the Metal Slugs, Virtual ON, etc.).
2. Buy a house to put them all in. Not a mansion, but a nice comfy little place with growth potential if need be.
3. Get myself through school.
4. Put the bulk of what's left in an account with as high an interest yield as possible, and put the rest in mutual funds and stocks good for growth.

Then I'll get around and find a lot of honeys to love me, of course for me and not my money. :D

[Balloon Fight]

Invest a mil in sony. Get some more arcade games (especially Robotron.)

Complete my SMS, 32X, and NES collections. Buy some protos.

Buy a Ferrari. Then waste the reast.

[TheRedEye]

I'd track down and purchase all twenty-six gold Nintendo World Championship carts. Then I would hire Speilberg to shoot a documentary about me destroying all of them, slowly and painfully. Then I'd hoard the video and not show it to anyone, because it's mine and I paid for it.

Then I'd buy a TV. I need a TV.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I'd buy a big Warehouse and make it a huge personal Arcade/Gaming Room.
Filling it with Arcade machines etc..
Sure I'd do the regular things like a house etc..
But I'd by tons video games stuff..
I'd make a Go Cart/Dirt bike track in the back(like I used to have)

I'd invest the money in a food chain franchise..Bank some and live off the income from that..
When this cash flow is set then I'd buy every system every made..and Have complete collections to everything..

Then I'd probably get killed in a freak accident.. :beaten:

[Delgrace]

First, I'd go on a roadtrip ALL across Australia, and hit every single pawnshop from here to Canberra. Every single one. And every market, and every garage sale, picking up each and every game I found. When I got home, I'd do the following.

1. Move back to New Zealand

2. Buy my family a new house and car, and then another house and another car for me when I eventually move out

3. Build a little hidden gaming room in the middle of the property, perhaps by some flowers and trees, so that the house rings it entirely and you're unable to see it unless you're looking from inside the home. This would hook up to the house with like a secret passage or somethin; this way no-one would know I had a million bucks worth of videogames, and anyone simply passing through would think it was a toolshed or something.

4. Deck out my gaming room with shelves, and cabinets, more shelves and bookcases of gaming magazines (which I have always loved). Plus lots of games! Finally get a credit card, go hit eBay (wow, a mint Radiant Silvergun! wow, another! I'll take both!), and grab all that cool crap I could never afford before (like those Sonic plushies, and those official Saturn artwork books that I'll probably never see on eBay again, ever, and RPG soundtracks).

5. Buy a mint in box Dreamcast. That is my latest obsession.

6. Buy a new Onyx Gameboy Advance SP, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Boktai. And about 20...nah, why not 50?...new games.

7. Find out how to build my own MAME cabinet (this would totally r0><0rz). You know, actually learn enough to do it.

8. Buy an upright Neo-Geo cab. The red on black...ugh, the colour scheme is even badass. Plus Metal Slug. And more Metal Slug.

9. Grab the meanest looking couches and chairs I can find.

10. Buy several massive screen TVs, and a wicked soundsystem to hook it all up on.

I'd throw the rest in the bank, maybe see if I could get into the videogame seen somehow, either as an artist or videogame journalism. That would rock. I'd live a happy man.

[Tritoch]

1) Pay off all my bills.
2) Pay off all of my parents' bills.
3) Pay off all of my siblings' bills.
4) Pay off all of my immediate extended family's bills.
5) Repeat 1-4 for my wife's side.
6) Donate $500,000 to various church things.
7) Invest a couple million in safe, low yield investments.
8) Quit my job.
9) Finally get to the video game part, where I'd...be in no hurry. I have a ton of 'em to play through already, and when I needed more I'd go buy some. I wouldn't try to complete any collections or anything, although I might attempt to corner the market on a few rare games just for spite (20+ gold NWCs in one room?!?). :evil:

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

I would give Some of it to my Parents and my brother
Invest alot of it in what ever is nessary.
The Rest will be put to game related stuff mainly arcade games.

[ROBOTRON]

House
Car
Pay bills
invest
Buy all the neo-geo carts I am missing in my collection
chill

[Sotenga]

Many Neo Geo games, Radiant Silvergun, Kaze Kiri, Gradius Gaiden, and Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo. Booya. :pimp:

[ARCZero]

It might be more than 5 million, but what I would do is open up a coin-op arcade museum off the Las Vegas strip and have rooms in this multi-story building dedicated to video game time periods. There'd be a pinball themed room, and early 80's arcade themed room, and so-on. I'd go all the way back to the mechanical games in the thirties. I'd have themed restaurants and gift shops for the different periods. It'd be kinda like an arcade version of the Smithsonian and would surely be a loosing investment.

One of the world's most famous pinheads lives in Las Vegas and he has actually implemented a pinballers / video gamers dream. He built a decent sized warehouse on his property and has over 400 games (mostly pinball.) There are many rare pinballs including several prototypes. He has some great arcade games too such as Tempest, Crazy Climber, and many of the early Nintendo games. A few times a year he holds a charity event and has a free play night. I just went last Friday and it was a blast as always! It's somthing I look forward to throughout the year, and I'm very thankful he makes the free play nights possible.

- ARCZero