To begin with, this collection is impressive. Mightily impressive. It features every single NTSC game released on the NES, in addition to a number of other insanely rare titles. Now its being sold on ebay – yours for the reasonable price of $75,000US!
The description on ebay reads as follows…
Listed here is the results of over 10 years of collecting for the NES. It is a complete set of every NES game issued in the U.S. plus a bunch more. The only two titles missing are arguably not needed for a complete set. Not included are Myriad 6 in 1 (a variant of Caltron 6 in 1, which is included), and Nintendo World Championships (an “alternate” version is included in this auction). Every game is as complete as possible with three exceptions. Peek-a-boo Poker and Wacky Races are both missing manuals, and Stadium Events is cart only. Also included in this lot are most of the PAL exclusive games, a complete Sachen set, and some authentic unreleased games. The condition of the games range from fair (only a few) to mint.
I thought about posting the entire list of games in the package here, but seriously, it’s an utterly ludicrous list. Head to the auction itself to check it out. The asking price of $75k is pretty high (and the seller himself even admits he doesn’t expect to get that price) but you can also make him an offer.
ndroste
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 9:33 AMFor some reason I would have guessed that this would cost more than 75,000.
Dark_Templar
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 3:31 PMSame, I thought this was cheap
Tom
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:15 AMthe seller clearly hasn’t heard of emulators before.
Chazz
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:26 AMYou clearly haven’t heard that some people prefer the real thing.
Burrito
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:48 AMYou clearly haven’t heard that anyone who’d want to own every NES game ever made wouldn’t have $75,000.
Chazz
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:20 PMHe’s doing the reverse haggle. It’s a great way to test the waters for a proper price and weed out timewasters.
matt
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:27 AMThis is my auction. And yes, I have heard of emulators, they are what makes me more willing to part with this.
Ginny
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:41 AMTell ‘im he’s dreamin’
Greyson
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 1:43 PMHahah nice one! made me lol irl
Nick
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:31 PM^^^ you sir, made me lol.
R
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 1:54 PMActually, $75,000 is fairly reasonable for 850-900 games which are not being released anymore. A couple of the titles in there are easily worth in the hundreds, to thousands of dollars for cart only (Stadium Events ring a bell, anyone? Sells for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, if people are actually paying the auction when it’s over). Having Bubble Bath Babes and Peek-A-Boo Poker in the box (one of which is complete) is very difficult to find. As well as the authentic unreleased games, which you can’t realistically put a price on.
If I had $75K, I would totally buy this. Beats the hell out of my 249 CIB collection, which only really has one rare title in it.
Fredrick
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 5:33 PMHis collection doesn’t seem to include the PAL Mr Gimmick :P cost me around 200 dollars.
Mic
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 6:05 PMCall me picky, but anyone else a tad annoyed at ‘An NES’? It’s just niggling me a bit. It’s ‘A NES’
Wyldcat34
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:52 PMMeh, not everyone knows how to use ‘an’ and ‘a’ correctly. Hell I didn’t til
I looked it up a few weeks ago and I’m 36.
scott
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 3:22 PMwhen deciding which article to use, ‘a’ or ‘an’ the rule is to use ‘a’ when the next sound is a consonant. We use ‘an’ when the next word begins with a vowel pronunciation. We do no refer to spelling (take an hour for example). NES is pronounced ‘en i es’. Therefore, he has an NES collection.