"Worlds Largest" game collection up for sale again
Found this on the game collecting reddit forum.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/27/the-worlds-largest-video-game-collection-is-up-for-sale-again/?ncid=rss_truncated
Looks like this time he's skipping the Internet and going to an auction house. With his notoriety I wouldn't doubt that Christies would deny his collection either.
I'd imagine a young rich celebrity, or website owner would even bid on it thinking of it as an investment of sorts and making the mistake of thinking the $750000 price earlier this year is the actual value of the lot.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/27/the-worlds-largest-video-game-collection-is-up-for-sale-again/?ncid=rss_truncated
Looks like this time he's skipping the Internet and going to an auction house. With his notoriety I wouldn't doubt that Christies would deny his collection either.
I'd imagine a young rich celebrity, or website owner would even bid on it thinking of it as an investment of sorts and making the mistake of thinking the $750000 price earlier this year is the actual value of the lot.
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I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!
With the ammount of guiness records I really doubt they do must investigating, im sure people come to them to break records.
I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!
With the ammount of guiness records I really doubt they do must investigating, im sure people come to them to break records.
Yeah, I think I remember reading in the last thread that some members like DreamTR contacted them but they never responded or something...
--- LOL good luck with that!
There are other people with more games, but we've already been down that road before, lol.....
http://kotaku.com/a-game-collection-that-looks-like-a-museum-1650518160
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!
Syd Bolton has more than 15 000 games, so why does this guy have the record when he only has 11 000?
Originally posted by: JustinParks
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!
Syd Bolton has more than 15 000 games, so why does this guy have the record when he only has 11 000?
I have more than 17,000 different just console. We've been over this numerous times in numerous threads. Guinness contacted me before all this years ago blah blah beat dead horse, etc. Syd doesn't even have the largest collection in Canada, that goes to videogames in Edmonton.
On top of that Syd is essentially a museum as well taking donations part of that would not even count towards Guinness.
Trust me when I say it comes down to ianoid, Joe Santulli, videogames in Edmonton, rick Weis, myself, bojay, adol (unless he sold everything) and that guy I linked everyone too, and who knows about mystery people in Japan.
Every one of those guys has 15K+ easy non duplicates.
Originally posted by: DreamTR
Now I don't know how many "different" games this guy has, but he estimates 40,000-50,000 with variants..not sure if this is with computer games ( I think it is) but either way he's got a lot of stuff.
http://kotaku.com/a-game-collecti...
The subtitles are a little unclear. He says he has 16k games if you count compilations discs or carts as one. If you'd count every single game on a compilation as one he would be at 40-50k.
He was also quite clear that PC games are part of that 16k figure.
Edit: Rick Weis is contender for the biggest collection? I thought he "only" had pretty much everything that ever came out for the 2600 and only smaller bits for other consoles.
Originally posted by: Beliskner
Originally posted by: DreamTR
Now I don't know how many "different" games this guy has, but he estimates 40,000-50,000 with variants..not sure if this is with computer games ( I think it is) but either way he's got a lot of stuff.
http://kotaku.com/a-game-collection-that-looks-like-a-museum...
The subtitles are a little unclear. He says he has 16k games if you count compilations discs or carts as one. If you'd count every single game on a compilation as one he would be at 40-50k.
He was also quite clear that PC games are part of that 16k figure.
Edit: Rick Weis is contender for the biggest collection? I thought he "only" had pretty much everything that ever came out for the 2600 and only smaller bits for other consoles.
I mean, regardless the guy has a lot (European guy) and yes, Rick has a ton of stuff...NWC gray, etc.
Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.
Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.
Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.
Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
Yeah, I guess that could be a bit of a "problem" so to speak when it comes to collecting relatively modern, mass-produced items while disregarding quality/completeness (and to some extent, even when you include those parameters). Simply having a lot of money and basic knowledge of using ebay+collector's forums I'd imagine that you could become a contender for largest collection within a relatively short period of time.
Originally posted by: DreamTR
Now I don't know how many "different" games this guy has, but he estimates 40,000-50,000 with variants..not sure if this is with computer games ( I think it is) but either way he's got a lot of stuff.
http://kotaku.com/a-game-collecti...
that guys PC collection is amazing.
I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!
They don't need to do the footwork. That's not what they do. People go to them.
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.
Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.
Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
He sold his collection before and had to start over. So what you are describing isn't only possible its already been done.
Originally posted by: buyatari2
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.
Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.
Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
He sold his collection before and had to start over. So what you are describing isn't only possible its already been done.
Well, let's be honest, all he has to do to "start over" is get the 6,000+ games as duplicates he has in his store to count towards the collection again or so....I am sure he has that many different titles or close to it in his store stock that were not counted in the tally.