Biggest Console System Collection on eBay

Cire writes "Someone named 'Mr. Soundtrack' is selling over 1300 games in one ebay auction. Included are more than 300 systems and a massive arsenal of gaming peripherals. The lot contains 23 Atari 2600s, 78 Nintendo NES's, 33 PlayStations, 60 SNES's, as well as some harder-to-find systems like the Bally Retrocade System, a Sega Nomad, and a couple 3DO systems."

More like Mr. Moron

[Anonymous Coward]

What we have here is someone who appears to have spent most of his lifetime earnings on what is now electronic junk. P.T. Barnum winks from the grave. Another sucker, another sucker...

And

[GiveMeLinux]

It all "fell off" the back of a truck.

Jesus Christ.

[Tuxedo Jack]

Really, you'd think that a collection like this could be dissected, then placed into one giant cabinet for people to play with.

However, it's interesting that he's selling all these at once. What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks? Play Zelda on 78 different TVs?

Parallel Gaming

[Iamthewalrus]

78 Nintendo NES

Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!

Such Irresposibility

[Anonymous Coward]

When will /. editors learn not to directly link to sites in the articals? With so many ways to mirror pages available, why must they do this? Just because of one man's neglect, some startup called 'eBay' is going to have to deal with a dead server...

Re:And

[lukewarmfusion]

What - it fell of a truck from 1983, 1987, and 1994?

Gamestop

[Iscariot_]

He's probably doing this because Gamestop offered him $50 for it all :)

Re:And

[GiveMeLinux]

It was a looong truck.

Re:Not as bad as this guy

[Timesprout]

He's a bigger moron than you think. He paid 30K US for it.

And in other news...

[dasMeanYogurt]

Mr. Soundtrack got married last week.

An essay on Biggest Console System Collection

[scruffymcgee]

An essay on Biggest Console System Collection

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[2] Dickinson - I Am The Dickinster - 1999 Hughs Books

[3] Weekly Biggest Console System Collection - Issue 54 - Rhino Media

He had no choice

[revery]

His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...

--

Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.

Why, yes ...

[gstoddart]

What - it fell of a truck from 1983, 1987, and 1994?

The owner of the truck managed to get the flux capacitor working, but it was intermittent and kept stalling. :-P

Re:huh?

[ilovelinux]

I accept your reasoning, it seems quite sound. Now the next question is, if he obtained this uber-cool collection through legitimate means, WHY IS HE GETTING RID OF IT?!

Poor sod must have gotten married.

Re:Jesus Christ.

[taviso]

What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?

Beowulf cluster.

Re:Gamestop

[N0decam]

$50 store credit, no less.

Re:Parallel Gaming

[nsillik]

No, even better, remember the Olympics game for NES? Imagine 78 (or maybe 154 if playing 2player) people stomping on those damn pads all at the same time.

Re:This just screams.........

[captfi]

This just screams..... "It's the toys or the pussy! u pick."

Maybe...

[Sir Osis]

... he read the /. article yesterday about videogames being addictive, and is now selling everything to pay for rehab.

Re:shipping?

[micromoog]

I dare you to go ahead and bid 10,001.02.

Re:This just screams.........

[dave_mcmillen]

"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."

Hmm, that would make sense. I love this comment in his auction listing: "... game systems aren't my specialty..."

Aren't his specialty?! Sweet tap-dancing Buddha, this is supposed to be just a minor sideline? What's his real interest? Does he have four hundred thousand RC cars out back, or what?

Re:But does it include...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, all 200 copies ever sold.

to put the "used game store" rumour to rest...

[Anonymous Coward]

...selling this shit is my fiance's condition for my upcoming marriage, and my only hope for covering the costs! bid generously, if only to ease the pain of parting...

Re:An essay on Biggest Console System Collection

[default luser]

"A Well Thought-Out Englilsh Paper"
by: Kyle "The Yellow Dart" Smith

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Thanks much to Strong Bad for this crapfully crappy piece of literature.

This could mean something BIG..

[Linker3000]

Could we all club together, buy them and hand them over to some geek from around here please.

If they were all linked together, we could then stop forever trying to imagine a Beowulf Cluster of 2600s, Nintendos, Playstations etc.

--we could go SEE them!!

Re:You people are horrible

[bogie]

Fuck em. Half the time I try to ebay and am actually willing to spend cash up front via "buy now" some moron puts up a $1 bid on a 4 day auction just so "buy now" won't work.

btw your theory about a jealous "$2000.00" bidder is pretty unlikely. The price has only gone up $300 since the /. posting and there is no indication that /. has had any effect on the auction.

Re:Please

[Frizzle Fry]

What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..

Only on Slashdot could someone look at at auction like this and conclude that the guy isn't selling enough hardware.

Nintendo ROB Army

[Ilan Volow]

What the heck, though, is someone going to do with 78 NES decks?

Actually, if you got 78 Nintendo ROB [vidgame.net]'s, you could could control them all and have yourself a fairly respectable army of robots that could destroy your enemies by stacking up little piles of discs.

Re:More like mr. didn't RTFA

[David Horn]

Congratulations on winning the auction! Your total due is:

Winning bid: $15,000
Postage and Packing (via USPS) $278,445

Enjoy your games!