Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
IL is not cheap, depends on where you live. You cant find a house in a nice suburb of Chicago for 100k. Head south to the middle of nowhere or a bad neighbor hood and no problem.
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
Believe it or not, the latter. 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake
So Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest was lost too in that Earthquake?
What a horrible night to have an earthquake
Everything konami japanese piece prior to that date, basically. Castle, Castle 2, stinger, rush n attack, Drac X, jackal, anything konami famicom or super famicom to 95, etc etc
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
IL is not cheap, depends on where you live. You cant find a house in a nice suburb of Chicago for 100k. Head south to the middle of nowhere or a bad neighbor hood and no problem.
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
There's a few ways to skin that cat but there's certainly some subjectivity involved.
I've bought and sold a number of pieces in the 5-20k range so there's a pretty good established baseline there for a certain quality of piece that is well below something like contra. That's coming at it from a game art collecting POV.
You can also come at it from a game collecting POV and ask yourself, OK, this is a very special item, what do other very special items go for? The most I know of a nintendo game selling for is 125k. That was a bit nuts and a windfall for a boardie that won't be named (the game wasn't worth that to anyone else), but its a historical point as are sales for sealed stadium events and other top notch pieces. Heck if a sealed 4th edition hangtab SMB is 30k, what's a sealed 1st edition hangtab SMB worth? 60k? If that's 60k and its a mass produced item that WILL, sooner or later, have another copy found, what's something like this? So that's a game collecting POV.
You can also look at it from the POV of other pop culture artwork. 100k is barely even a special price anymore for a comic book cover art if its a well known comic. Hundreds (honestly, probably thousands?) of individual pieces would cross that barrier. If a comic cover with the relevance to comics of a contra sold, it would be more like 500k than 100k. Or say movie poster artwork - something like Halloween is a bit of cult favorite (but nothing even close to top tier like Star Wars or Indy Jones) and that sold for right around 100k. Robocop sold for right around 50k. ET sold for 400k (strong price on that one). Star Wars would be fucking bananas and 7 figures I'm sure. Stuff like Indy Jones and so on I'm guessing 500k ish, maybe 750k. Garbage Pail Kid art is 20k for first series and those are TINY paintings with a fraction of the cultural relevance of something like contra. That's an artwork POV.
So, there are a few ways to skin the cat and over time you become comfortable with those different perspectives.
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Good luck Bronty. One of the most satisfying things in life is trying to search out something lost to time and from human sight. I used to collect animation cels in the early 2000's. There was always a rush when I found the setup to a shot noone had physically seen since filming, even if many were familiar with the shot it made. It was like owning history.
The Contra art you seek: it was born into a world with no cel phones, hd tv's, no internet. The Berlin Wall still stood when the paint dried on that. The art to a game slightly more advanced than Atari, but would help lead the gaming world into a mainstream of photostatic polygons whose annual income rivals all of Hollywood.
It deserves to see the light of day in 2018, and I hope to read how you made it so.
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
There's a few ways to skin that cat but there's certainly some subjectivity involved.
I've bought and sold a number of pieces in the 5-20k range so there's a pretty good established baseline there for a certain quality of piece that is well below something like contra. That's coming at it from a game art collecting POV.
You can also come at it from a game collecting POV and ask yourself, OK, this is a very special item, what do other very special items go for? The most I know of a nintendo game selling for is 125k. That was a bit nuts and a windfall for a boardie that won't be named (the game wasn't worth that to anyone else), but its a historical point as are sales for sealed stadium events and other top notch pieces. Heck if a sealed 4th edition hangtab SMB is 30k, what's a sealed 1st edition hangtab SMB worth? 60k? If that's 60k and its a mass produced item that WILL, sooner or later, have another copy found, what's something like this? So that's a game collecting POV.
You can also look at it from the POV of other pop culture artwork. 100k is barely even a special price anymore for a comic book cover art if its a well known comic. Hundreds (honestly, probably thousands?) of individual pieces would cross that barrier. If a comic cover with the relevance to comics of a contra sold, it would be more like 500k than 100k. Or say movie poster artwork - something like Halloween is a bit of cult favorite (but nothing even close to top tier like Star Wars or Indy Jones) and that sold for right around 100k. Robocop sold for right around 50k. ET sold for 400k (strong price on that one). Star Wars would be fucking bananas and 7 figures I'm sure. Stuff like Indy Jones and so on I'm guessing 500k ish, maybe 750k. Garbage Pail Kid art is 20k for first series and those are TINY paintings with a fraction of the cultural relevance of something like contra. That's an artwork POV.
So, there are a few ways to skin the cat and over time you become comfortable with those different perspectives.
Thanks for that breakdown. Definitely makes sense when you take all of these factors into account, especially when you know the hobby so well.
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
SONUVABITCH!!! lol!! How's it going Deniz?
It's going great now that I know I have the highest offer on a video game item ever. Whew, was worried someone would beat me to it but glad I am taking the gamble.
I hope to see some game art auctions in the near future on any random ol auction websites that may exist...
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
SONUVABITCH!!! lol!! How's it going Deniz?
I hope to see some game art auctions in the near future on any random ol auction websites that may exist...
That would be fun to see, but I just don't see where the supply would come from
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Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
I've been in my $89k house going on six years now.
Also, there is a half a million dollar mansion less than a quarter of a mile from me around the corner. It's a strange neighborhood, but it's nice.
Originally posted by: MrWunderful
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
IL is not cheap, depends on where you live. You cant find a house in a nice suburb of Chicago for 100k. Head south to the middle of nowhere or a bad neighbor hood and no problem.
Believe it or not, the latter. 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake
So Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest was lost too in that Earthquake?
What a horrible night to have an earthquake
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
I have good reason to believe it exists
Believe it or not, the latter. 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake
So Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest was lost too in that Earthquake?
What a horrible night to have an earthquake
Everything konami japanese piece prior to that date, basically. Castle, Castle 2, stinger, rush n attack, Drac X, jackal, anything konami famicom or super famicom to 95, etc etc
I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Are you sure this thing even exists to begin with? People are different, as a collector/fan you think this is awesome and a grail but for a creator a draft can mean nothing more than scribbled writings on their way to the finished product. Maybe the dude himself threw it in the trashcan when he was done thinking nothing of it?
I have good reason to believe it exists
How so, is it a secret?
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
IL is not cheap, depends on where you live. You cant find a house in a nice suburb of Chicago for 100k. Head south to the middle of nowhere or a bad neighbor hood and no problem.
Can't get a shoebox condo here for 100k
Good luck.
I did think 45k was a but of a low-ball
Ouch, that hurts bro Not saying you're wrong, but that hurts
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
I think it depends on how much he wants it, how much its worth to him.
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
In Washington 100K wouldn't even buy you a cardboard box to live in.
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
There's a few ways to skin that cat but there's certainly some subjectivity involved.
I've bought and sold a number of pieces in the 5-20k range so there's a pretty good established baseline there for a certain quality of piece that is well below something like contra. That's coming at it from a game art collecting POV.
You can also come at it from a game collecting POV and ask yourself, OK, this is a very special item, what do other very special items go for? The most I know of a nintendo game selling for is 125k. That was a bit nuts and a windfall for a boardie that won't be named (the game wasn't worth that to anyone else), but its a historical point as are sales for sealed stadium events and other top notch pieces. Heck if a sealed 4th edition hangtab SMB is 30k, what's a sealed 1st edition hangtab SMB worth? 60k? If that's 60k and its a mass produced item that WILL, sooner or later, have another copy found, what's something like this? So that's a game collecting POV.
You can also look at it from the POV of other pop culture artwork. 100k is barely even a special price anymore for a comic book cover art if its a well known comic. Hundreds (honestly, probably thousands?) of individual pieces would cross that barrier. If a comic cover with the relevance to comics of a contra sold, it would be more like 500k than 100k. Or say movie poster artwork - something like Halloween is a bit of cult favorite (but nothing even close to top tier like Star Wars or Indy Jones) and that sold for right around 100k. Robocop sold for right around 50k. ET sold for 400k (strong price on that one). Star Wars would be fucking bananas and 7 figures I'm sure. Stuff like Indy Jones and so on I'm guessing 500k ish, maybe 750k. Garbage Pail Kid art is 20k for first series and those are TINY paintings with a fraction of the cultural relevance of something like contra. That's an artwork POV.
So, there are a few ways to skin the cat and over time you become comfortable with those different perspectives.
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
I think it depends on how much he wants it, how much its worth to him.
Some truth to that also.
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can’t imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
In Washington 100K wouldn't even buy you a cardboard box to live in.
Preach on brother. Fuck the snow though, I'm staying West Coast!
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
Not an art collector, but I bet it's something like this:
- Do I want this item?
- Is there competition for this item?
- How much do I think my competition values it at?
- How much money do I think my competition has access to?
- How much more am I willing to offer than what I belive my competition is willing to offer for this item?
Just a guess.I posted in the Contra cover thread that I'd pay $45,000 for the original art to the Contra/Gryzor cover.
I've been thinking more about that and really I'd pay as much as I could come up with. To that end I am offering the first (?) $100,000 bounty: for the original art to the Contra cover.
Details including payment timing would have to be mutually agreed and the condition of the art would have to be acceptable, etc. Some element of time payment would be needed, but I'd love to make it happen if anyone can supply the art.
Dan
Good luck Bronty. One of the most satisfying things in life is trying to search out something lost to time and from human sight. I used to collect animation cels in the early 2000's. There was always a rush when I found the setup to a shot noone had physically seen since filming, even if many were familiar with the shot it made. It was like owning history.
The Contra art you seek: it was born into a world with no cel phones, hd tv's, no internet. The Berlin Wall still stood when the paint dried on that. The art to a game slightly more advanced than Atari, but would help lead the gaming world into a mainstream of photostatic polygons whose annual income rivals all of Hollywood.
It deserves to see the light of day in 2018, and I hope to read how you made it so.
Damn, I couldn't imagine even paying that much for a house.
Good luck with the search. I hope you find it.
You can't imagine paying 100 K for a house? I know illinois is cheap but damn
In Washington 100K wouldn't even buy you a cardboard box to live in.
Preach on brother. Fuck the snow though, I'm staying West Coast!
I have an old refrigerator box I would gladly sell you for $100k. In fact I'll go half off if you buy today.
(its the west coast after all).
Thanks brother. Jeez yes that's a good point about the Berlin wall. A whole other era.
Gets you in the feels, doesn't it?
How do you come up with a price for something like this? Is there some guideline you go by? Recently sold prices on similar paintings of the time?
There's a few ways to skin that cat but there's certainly some subjectivity involved.
I've bought and sold a number of pieces in the 5-20k range so there's a pretty good established baseline there for a certain quality of piece that is well below something like contra. That's coming at it from a game art collecting POV.
You can also come at it from a game collecting POV and ask yourself, OK, this is a very special item, what do other very special items go for? The most I know of a nintendo game selling for is 125k. That was a bit nuts and a windfall for a boardie that won't be named (the game wasn't worth that to anyone else), but its a historical point as are sales for sealed stadium events and other top notch pieces. Heck if a sealed 4th edition hangtab SMB is 30k, what's a sealed 1st edition hangtab SMB worth? 60k? If that's 60k and its a mass produced item that WILL, sooner or later, have another copy found, what's something like this? So that's a game collecting POV.
You can also look at it from the POV of other pop culture artwork. 100k is barely even a special price anymore for a comic book cover art if its a well known comic. Hundreds (honestly, probably thousands?) of individual pieces would cross that barrier. If a comic cover with the relevance to comics of a contra sold, it would be more like 500k than 100k. Or say movie poster artwork - something like Halloween is a bit of cult favorite (but nothing even close to top tier like Star Wars or Indy Jones) and that sold for right around 100k. Robocop sold for right around 50k. ET sold for 400k (strong price on that one). Star Wars would be fucking bananas and 7 figures I'm sure. Stuff like Indy Jones and so on I'm guessing 500k ish, maybe 750k. Garbage Pail Kid art is 20k for first series and those are TINY paintings with a fraction of the cultural relevance of something like contra. That's an artwork POV.
So, there are a few ways to skin the cat and over time you become comfortable with those different perspectives.
Thanks for that breakdown. Definitely makes sense when you take all of these factors into account, especially when you know the hobby so well.
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
SONUVABITCH!!! lol!! How's it going Deniz?
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
SONUVABITCH!!! lol!! How's it going Deniz?
It's going great now that I know I have the highest offer on a video game item ever. Whew, was worried someone would beat me to it but glad I am taking the gamble.
I hope to see some game art auctions in the near future on any random ol auction websites that may exist...
Quick piggyback on this thread to let everyone know that have sold off a good portion of my collection and am offering $101,000 USD for the original art to Contra. And my money will be real dollars not that Canadian crap.
SONUVABITCH!!! lol!! How's it going Deniz?
I hope to see some game art auctions in the near future on any random ol auction websites that may exist...
That would be fun to see, but I just don't see where the supply would come from