While galore a collector tin assertion to person any fig of uncommon video games and memorabilia, few, if any, really ain a bulk of each console saltation manufactured successful the past 50 years. But that’s precisely what 1 France-based collector has conscionable enactment up for auction, immoderate 2,400 antithetic consoles—from standard-issue to peculiar editions to variations ne'er officially for sale—for the chill asking terms of €984,000.00, oregon astir a cardinal U.S. dollars.
Listed connected French eBay and spotted by Consolevariations.com, video crippled uber-enthusiast Kaori30’s sale includes immoderate 2,400 consoles, “from the archetypal to the precise last,” a fig of games for said consoles, and a clump of amusive statues and different video crippled collectibles. While the existent terms “Buy It Now” terms of astir 1 cardinal Euros mightiness beryllium good extracurricular of your fund (not to notation however overmuch retention abstraction you’d need), the pictures and videos of Kaori30’s postulation are much than worthy a look. Check retired their Sega collection, for example
Kotaku has reached retired to Kaori30.
A Google translation of the eBay listing reveals that Kaori30 began collecting successful the aboriginal ‘90s, earlier collecting might’ve been considered a thing. The roadworthy to this existent mega postulation was not without immoderate backmost and forth, arsenic they sold their full ‘90s postulation astatine the crook of the century.
Though they kept collecting during the ‘00s, it came to an extremity successful 2011 erstwhile they stopped for “lack of time” and the trouble successful uncovering uncommon items. But the communicative doesn’t extremity there.
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In 2018, they “fell backmost into the trap” of collecting aft visiting Tokyo, wherever they acquired astir everything they sold disconnected previously. That twist is what leads them to this gargantuan postulation of a bulk of consoles ever made each successful 1 place. And it is simply a show to behold. As they accidental connected their eBay auction, they bash not judge it’s imaginable to find immoderate of these items anymore, adjacent if 1 had the fiscal means. They besides suggest that their stunning postulation mightiness beryllium a bully acceptable for a museum.
I person neither the wallet nor the abstraction to adjacent deliberation astir thing similar this, but it definite is amusive to peruse the pictures and videos and ideate the chaotic logistics. There’s worldly successful determination I ne'er knew existed!