$100K videogame collection on ebay!!!!

[Crush Crawfish]

I love to buy it, but I'd probably end up living in one of those console boxes! I also REALLY want that chobits GBA.

[sniperCCJVQ]

The topic should be in the YMEI forum.

[Jibbajaba]

Bah. I already have most of that stuff anyways... x_x ......no......

This is off-topic but I just want to say that letsallgameon has my favorite avatar on the board.

[Ed Oscuro]

makes 2500 games + 150 (or whatever) consoles, i'd guess those systems average about 250$ as there are more special editions than normal ones, that makes 250*150=37k
2500 games, which imho could be worth about 30 (and that's a very very low guess) on average make another 2500*30=75k
makes 112k @_@

Those figures look pretty good. Now a lot of the PC-Engine library is truly dirt cheap (i.e. historical sims and the like, sub-$6 games) but a lot of it is decently priced and some's damned expensive. Completeness is a factor.

I'd say that $250 on average for systems is low, because I see more things on that list that should pull more than $300 than things which won't - like the boxed N64 and Mega Drive. There's also closer to 170 systems than 150. Not a bad guess, though, because I've reason to believe the games include enough expensive items to bring the average up.

[Parodius]

The Japanese library of MegaDrive games has some of the rarest and most expensive titles of any system, as the system never took off over there. I'd say there are a good 20+ games that go for $100+.

The Hi-Saturn Navi would probably go for around $1000!

A boxed PC Engine LT - $700-ish

A Duo Monitor!!! You know how rare these things are??

The Famicom titler. I've been looking for one for ages and I have NEVER come across one.

The Divers Dreamcast!!!!!


etc. ad nauseum, and seemingly ad infinitum.

[Ed Oscuro]

The Japanese library of MegaDrive games has some of the rarest and most expensive titles of any system, as the system never took off over there. I'd say there are a good 20+ games that go for $100+.

With many over $150 - Alien Soldier, Alisia Dragoon, Battle Mania 2, Captain Lang, Comix Zone, Contra The Hard Corps, Eliminate Down, Gauntlet, Gleylancer, Panorama Cotton, Paperboy, Pengo, Ristar, Rockman Mega World, Slap Fight MD, Snow Bros., Virtual Bart,

- but do you expect these to show up? I wouldn't. Have to ask Lingjr.

A Duo Monitor!!! You know how rare these things are??

http://www.gamechoice.com.hk/search....tegory=Console

I remember them having a price...forgotten now, though. I believe there's also a Duo-R monitor.

The Famicom titler. I've been looking for one for ages and I have NEVER come across one.

$500 or so right there.

The Divers has an "$email" link on it @ GameChoice, but if you select Add To Cart, it'll show up as $890. O:

[atomicthumbs]

[anagrama]

Well fuck me silly! :O That's gotta be the most impressive hardware coillection ever seen on eBay, right?

[Pantechnicon]

why in the world would you try to sell that huge of a lot. is their some super
rich video game collector out there. I know most of us are cheap. I imagine
this must be a going out of buisness sale or something. If I only had
$100,000 to spend... i don't think I would spend it on that even though
I wish I could have all that stuff.

Look for bidding by an Ebayer named jamesz28. The man seems to have a bottomless pit of money at his disposal. It was just in the last two months the guy dropped $10,000 (dollars, not yen) on some obscenely rare NeoGeo game. I dunno, this might be even bigger than jamesz28 can handle, but...if anybody has a serious chance at scoring this collection, it is he.

Holy shite. I think I'm gonna have to watch this auction...

[maxlords]

That's just obscene...and worth WELL over what the asking price is I'd think. A lot of that stuff is $1000 an item easy. VERY VERY rare. All easy to sell too. And those guys are reliable...they're dealers. I'd buy it in an INSTANT if I had the money.

[Ed Oscuro]

What's over $1K a piece? Very few items look to be worth that much to me (outside overhyped Saturn and Dreamcast stuff, but...)

[charitycasegreg]

Doesnt that guy have a website and he collected all these and now is selliing them? I remember seeing a site a few weeks ago with tons of pictures about the same as these.

[SoulBlazer]

I can't help but wonder....why not sell it in small bits? Does ANYONE seriously have 100,000 to SPEND on all of this? That's more then many of us make in three years of work!

[Ed Oscuro]

This does make me suspicious. I feel that LingJr gets absolutely as much money as possible out of all his items and he usually has tons of stuff listed at once. I'm thinking one of the major draws here would be all the software, but that's not listed. There has to be a catch here, because nothing's stopped LingJr from posting tons of stuff before.

[kevincure]

This isn't so much an "auction" as it is an advertisement. Would anyone drop 100k without seeing the goods in person? Of course not. If I had the means, would I? Of course. Quite honestly, this is the kind of collection that could be used to start a decent videogame museum - perhaps Joe and the CGE crew have some extra cash :-) ? Whoever would be interested would surely be willing to fly to HK to check out the merchandise, though.

The Playstation stuff is what interests me the most - they essentially have anything Dev related for the Playstation. Everything they have, for the most part, is complete to boot. Wow. I don't think a similar collection of US only stuff would even be possible!

[Ed Oscuro]

This isn't so much an "auction" as it is an advertisement.

Hmm, interesting take on that.

I was just advised that there are only 500 PC-Engine games, not *5000* (which was sort of suspicious anyways - there aren't that many unique titles for the whole system!)

So that makes things look even more in his favor.

More thoughts:

While the Red Sharp Twin Famicom has some sort of wrap over it, it's "used." I hear the Black, AN 500B model (what GameChoice sent me by accident instead of the red) may be slightly more rare, and that's worth, once again, $300 new. So I think he's not doing too badly here.

I guess that clinches it - if you've got that sort of money, you should be on Yahoo! Auctions Japan anyways.

[TheScaryOne]

I'm guessing this guy worked at a game store, and kept some of the stuff that didn't sell. But that is pretty awesome, but not worth buying. I'm happy with what i've got.

[Ed Oscuro]

Game stores in Hong Kong don't usually get US systems or dev units. I think he's just got really good connections.

[Parodius]

While the Red Sharp Twin Famicom has some sort of wrap over it, it's "used." I hear the Black, AN 500B model (what GameChoice sent me by accident instead of the red) may be slightly more rare, and that's worth, once again, $300 new. So I think he's not doing too badly here.

My impression was that the red one was the most sought after!?


How reliable is Game Choice Club?? I was thinking of plunking down the green for a titler but I know nothing about this place.

What about the way they package their goods??

Customs risk?

etc.

Thank you for any help.

[XtremeGamerz]

wow, thats simpley insane. as impressive as this lot seems, all hes going to do is get hit with ebay charges. i mean really, whos going to bid on it? i see it ending to alot of hits and no bidders. he needs to break those up into a good 100 smaller auctions, lol.