Game collection sells for $1.2 million

Wow, that's a huge collection. How much money did he spend by buying all those games? :-o

wow

Pass.  I have every NES, SNES, N64, PS1, Saturn, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, GBC, GBA, Neo Geo, Sega CD, 32x, 3do, arcade, etc. game on my pc in one nice, simple box.  No cartridge swapping, no disc scratches, no fuss.  I can use my walls for my ps3, XBox1, blu ray, dvd, vinyl and cassettes instead.

Hopefully the person who bought the collection will continue to build the game collection. Having every Sega system game and Nintendo game is impressive. But continue to compete the collection until you have every videogame system. The 8th generation is just underway.

If you can spend 1.3 million on videogames you hopefully you actually play them? I would. But it would be impossible to play every game for every system made. I would have fun trying.

id love a chance to play them all but im guessing he/she wont touch em and will keep them in a personal bank for them all to sit there and slowly degrade

this is why developers and publishers are pushing for digital only game releases, the wankers (its my (game) property like if I bought a car and after a few years someone offered me something then I have a right to sell)

...so if any developer or publisher is pushing for releasing digital only games, constant online connection (SP or MP), day one DLC or day one DiscLockedContent...

then SHOUT NO WITH A BIG F.U. AND MIDDLE FINGER WITH YOUR WALLET!

Damn that's a ton of games!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hard to believe someone would buy a collection for that much. I know in the past people have posted their stuff on ebay just to bid on it themselves just to "show off" what they have. I have a hard time selling my own stuff for the amount I want.

Now I know what to do for retirement.

Now up to  verify which games work and which are damaged.

Wonder who bought it. I hope it goes to that whole video game preservation thing.

I would rather have a Buggati Veyron to play with than a bunch of games I could download on the internet in sealed condition, in which I'll never open. They'll just sit there so you can boast about it, but I guess that's why I'm not that much of a collector myself. 

Holy.... crap....

I'm sort of a collector myself but I would never dish out that amount of money for a pile of games.  Basically everything can be found on the internet these days in the form of emulation.  I know that's a completely different thing and it all depends on the person.  For me it's not really about owning the original thing, it's just about owning the game in the first place.  As for the disc based games, you can burn the ripped data onto a CD and use it in your existing system.  You can even print the artwork and stuff onto the disc if you wanted to.  I know there's some obsessed people out there but I can think of a ton of things I would much rather spend a million dollars on.

you no what im not speechless i can get those games fr free on the pc heard of a emulator. Waste

im speechless

The person that bought it must really have wanted it to be willing to pay that much money. I know that isn't what I would've bought if I had that much money.

Considering how fast he sold his whole collection he could have started with a much higher price... =P

He lacked a little foresight of how desperate some gamers would be to shell out TONS AND TONS of cash for such collection!!

I think that hearing about lots of sealed games on there, including sealed consoles and such, I bet if you did the math using the average go rate for each item, it would total more than 1.2 Mil

In other news, "Microsoft holds huge bonfire celebrating the history of gaming" :P

Yea, you shouldn't cash in on them but to a guy like me...games aren't my passion. I absolutely love playing them though but after the thrill is gone, I'm gone to Gamestop or Ebay. 

A great reason not to cash your games in...

That collection probably cost half that much to acquire, but still, nice windfall.

Surely this big a sale of used games will be the death knell of the industry!

I'm surprised at the commentators that would decline the money and keep this collection around. I mean, 1.2 million bucks? That's the gross pay of a $50,000/year job over 24 years. Bank the money in a high interest savings account and keep it there, and you can yield $27,500 a year ($2,750/month), assuming a reasonable 2.75 APR.

To put that in other terms, you're making $20/hour, $800/week in 40 hour work week, doing absolutely NOTHING. Granted you won't be buying any private islands, but that's more than enough to cover a monthly mortgage/nice apartment and a car payment.

Invest that money in safe, more aggressive investments, and you can really make that cash pile grow.

The seller made the right choice. Video games are fun, but a pile of cartridges and discs can only add so much to your quality of life.

Unless, of course, you sell them.

If I had the money I would've bought it myself.  Just sayin'...

Well I have hope for my collection in the future.

lol shipping going to be a pain :P

And this is why you don't want to give up your physical collections for worthless digital downloads.

wow, that's heavy

WHY would you EVER sell that?!?