9

Jul

2012

RETROspective – Would you pay $1.2 millon for every console game ever?

Posted By on Monday July 9, 2012 at 4:30 pm
To RETROspective, Video Games

Just a tiny fraction of all the games this auction included

If you have a ton of disposable income, (about 1.2 million dollars worth), you can own just about every console game ever made by Nintendo, Sega, and NEC.

Well, at least you could have. The ebay auction is now closed, but it included over 22 full sets, and almost 7000 games in total. The collection was accumulated by a 32 year old lawyer in France who is plain batshit crazy. He initially set out to get complete sets by console, but then decided to push it even further, and get complete sets in the factory box, you know, “for the challenge”. The set includes a bunch of crazy rare games, including “Go-Net” for the Genesis, of which there are only two known copies, and “Kunio-Kun Dodgeball Gold” for the Super Famicom, of which only 8 carts are known to exist. The whole collection includes every game on all Nintendo hardware, from the original famicom all the way through the Gamecube (including the Japanese Famicom and the disk system, Virtual Boy, Super Famicom, N64, the Japanese DD64, and Gamecube), all games for all Sega home hardware (the Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, 32x, Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast), and all the games for the NEC PC engine (or TurboGraphix-16 as we called it here in the states), including the CD-ROM attachment. That’s a simply insane amount of games. And the crazy part? Andre says he still has thousands of other games, and this is just a small part of his collection.

He just sold it for a million euros, or about 1.2 million in American money. He hasn’t been paid yet, and he said if the sale falls through, he’ll just list it again. So hope for a miracle, and cash in all your Pepsi Points and maybe you too can own almost every game ever. Will you be able to ever play them all? Probably not. But still, it would be an epic thing to say you owned.


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