Huge Console Auction Debuts 393
neura writes "In quite possibly the largest console auction ever, someone is selling just about every development kit and production game console ever made in Japan. They also have listed tons (almost literally) of software to go along with the systems. Anybody ever seen the original Super Famicom development system? The pictures alone are worth taking a gander. :)"
Very impressive (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually a good investment (Score:5, Interesting)
2) Open the most bitching video game museum ever
say it with me now
3) PROFIT!!!
Seriously, I would easily pay $10 or $20 to see some of this stuff. This is probably the best chance an existing computer museum has to get a piece of console history in one fell swoop.
Of course, it's not like this guy couldn't have been so dedicated as to milk phones from a zillion different auctions and make up this whole thing as a prank.
- JoeShmoe
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Illegal to sell the dev. kits? (Score:5, Interesting)
I would not be suprised if he receives a visit from Sony's lawyers demanding the return of their development hardware...
Ownership/License doesn't allow sale of DevSystems (Score:5, Interesting)
Wow, this guy is a joke... (Score:1, Interesting)
So let me get this straight: lacking complete and utter command over the English language suddenly makes you a poor businessman?
Let's ask you a question: how many languages do you speak?
I'm sure you're a millionaire computer geek who knows it all, right? You MUST be entitled to talk down to anyone who isn't as holy as you. Someone who doesn't meet your expectations is somehow less of a person, right?
Take a break, you don't have to be an asshole every day of your life.
Re:Let's get this out of the way (Score:2, Interesting)
Wot?No Play Station? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Actually a good investment (Score:4, Interesting)
Hmm.. well I'd pay a banner ad or two and settle for a few digital pictures.
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:3, Interesting)
If you have many (or any) Japanese friends, you've probably noticed, for instance, that when faced with an "Is that word spelled with an L or an R?" choice, they will usually get it wrong. A close friend of mine has a master's degree in EE, works for a large Japanese electronics company, spends many months out of the year in the United States (in places where there aren't a lot of Japanese), speaks English extremely well, and still flubs the l/r thing all the time.
The guy's spelling level is in line with his overall grammar, and we don't know anything about his educational background. He may have learned English at a conversation school, where spelling isn't taught at all.
He may be going on nothing but what he learned in high school plus his experience since then.
I'm sure he really is a native Chinese speaker.
Re:W@W!!!L@@K!!!R@RE!!!!!!!MINT IN BOX!!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, he's got an Oric. I'll hand that to him. But what would set the colleciton off would be a Jupiter Ace, maybe some MSX machines, a SAM Coupe.
As it stands, it might be worth buying to resell individually on eBay, but few items are boxed so that makes single items all the more unattractive.
In sum: Not worth the space you'd have to devote to it.
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Re:100k??? (Score:5, Interesting)
Customs will put a stop to this so fast, it will make your head spin. Current laws allow you to ship yourself ONE dvd/vhs/video game from overseas AT A TIME, and something tells me that 50 freaking game consoles and thousands of games would not make it through customs. Customs would assume that some of them had to be pirated, and would just keep the stuff, with likely there being some legal problems for the bidder.
DOn't belive me? http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
Yeah, the US is grand at that cultures thing (Score:3, Interesting)
Ha! As someone with a fair amount of experience dealing with US businesses trying to work in other cultures, I can tell you this assumption is unfortunately naive.
My brother's spending a lot of time in China lately. The country's crawling with American businessmen, small businessmen, who'd be analogous to this electronics/junk dealer. You'd be amazed at the attitudes, given your post. (Translator? They'll come to us, right?) It's screwy, but even when their small business depends on this one contract, they just don't "get" it.
That's leaving alone far more approachable, familiar, western cultures. I went to France in March. You want to be sympathetic to your American overseas, it's a situation they might not know that well -- but you know, fairly often they make no effort at all. Even in the UK, where there's a common language, there's a large share of American business types who just don't try to be polite, let alone spell "colour" like the natives would spell it.
Re:Wot?No Play Station? (Score:3, Interesting)
The Play Station was a failed colaboration between Sony and Nintendo to produce a SNES with a CD-ROM. I remember when working for a PS1 developer in the '90s that sony used to get very upset with people who used the phrase "Play Station" instead of "PlayStation", there's the reason why.
Edge magazine here in the UK had a picture of a Play Station a while back so pictures do exist but I cant find one on the web. The best I can find are these two links which mention the project in passing.
http://www.nintendoland.com/home2.htm?snes/snescdr .htm [nintendoland.com] 2 08 [pcvsconsole.com]
http://hankfiles.pcvsconsole.com/answer.php?file=
Re:Illegal to sell the dev. kits? (Score:2, Interesting)
auction has been removed (Score:2, Interesting)
[why was this auction removed ? im speculating the dev. kits, that or ebay thought something was fishy when his page got 20,000 hits in a matter of a few hrs.]