Aussie collector NFG’s house in Queensland was among those affected, flood waters getting into his home and destroying many of his personal belongings. Among those belongings was an amazing collection of retro gaming hardware, once a glittering array of the medium’s past, now a worthless pile of mud-soaked plastic and chipboards (and rare Nintendo hanafuda cards).
PC-Engines, old Sega consoles, Neo Geos, Spectrums, FM Town Martys, old Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds… all gone. You can check out the damage in the gallery below.
The floods so far have cost 20 lives, with grave fears for dozens more still reported missing. To give you an idea of the scale of the disaster, late last week the total area of the state of Queensland lying underwater was larger than Germany and France put together.
[Gallery @ NFG]
Ben
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 8:13 AMThats heart renching, most of them will never be replaced.
Wayno@War
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 9:18 AMFucken spewin!!!
Kris Butler
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 9:33 AMomg.. that sucks…
Mr Explody
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 9:43 AMJust blow on the cartridge, she’ll be right!
Jimu Hsien _Creative Director
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 3:00 PMHeh, seconded!
Dutch
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10:11 AMMy condolences, NFG. That was horrible to see, and the collection wasn’t even mine. Best of luck for recouping the losses.
Pioneer
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:06 AMAs much as it sucks, at least he didn’t be a fool and die trying to save them. At least he can clean ‘em up and display them still…
metalisticpain
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 12:49 PMThe NES will still work ill bet:P
StrifeX87
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 1:43 PMpoor guy he probably spent years collecting all that stuff that really sucks.
popcultured
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 1:56 PMYeah coz the consoles and games are more important than the “The floods so far have cost 20 lives” part.
Clap, Clap, Community.
Jimu Hsien _Creative Director
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 3:01 PMGet a life , dood. This is a gaming website!
Robstar
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 6:12 PMYou fool, this is not the place or the subject to be throwing low blows. Have some decency.
wepoo
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 1:29 PMHey why even care about those 20 people when we could instead mourn the millions killed in WWII? Or the complete destruction of a far away star and it’s effected planets.
Seriously dude, devaluing one tragedy for another is endless futility.
Incognito
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 1:27 AMLow blow.
A Rod H
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 7:10 PMI so hope that all of that hasn’t been just chucked in a skip, ‘cos I think with a clean water wash, copious amounts of isopropyl and a decent period of drying. A fair number of those rarity’s could be saved.