[h=2]Bid for The World's Largest Video Game Collection recognized by Guinness - 11,000+ Games http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=958029 [/h]
I'd rob this guy well that would be the normal "Guy with large collection he can't possibility have played" reaction, but it's for a good selfless cause. Hope the games get a good home/homes.
He's crazy for selling it. If anyone buys it and already have even just one game cart at home, and get GoWR to come out, he'd become the new record holder.
I agree that it is crazy to sell it. But then again just that he has all that stuff is pretty crazy to begin with. But if he sells it I think he can safely assume he'll never see all of that again.
What a happy looking guy lol. Also, 1/4 is factory sealed. Nice. I really don't follow these things. Why collect if you are going to sell "many times" like is said there...
I've mentioned this in other forums, but: 1) This is not even close to being the actual worlds largest video game collection. People like Joe Santulli and DreamTR have thousands more unique games than him. 2) Look at the contents of the collection. Although he has a lot of games, he has very few remarkable games (aside from those in the complete Saturn and Sega CD collections). For instance, if you look at his SNES collection (about 220 games), he lacks common, notable games like Final Fantasy II and III, Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island and Super Metroid. A large bulk of this collection are for disc-based systems, and most likely bought in bulk. This is a collection of low hanging Maddens. A complete mainstream cart-based collection for a single system is more impressive than this lot. The current price of nearly $100,000 is pretty generous for this collection (bringing it to about $9 per game), when you consider the sheer amount of $1 filler there is in the lot, and the lack of holy grail level items.
A lot of Guinness records are just for the first person to have them check that he/she's done something. A record like this could be broken by anyone who has Guinness come to his/her house and check every game. Most probably don't care enough for it.
It holds up only in so far that it is the largest that someone has submitted. You can be sure that there are larger (and more fleshed out) collections out there but the owners simply don't want the publicity.
It isn't even that. Apparently a couple of years before this guy got the "record", Guinness contacted DreamTR. He filed all the paperwork, but they never got back to him. Considering that DreamTR has many complete cart-based systems, I would say his collection is much better than this, even if they had the same number of games. The Guinness record is kind of bullshit, because they couldn't be bothered to even do minimal research to find the actual record holder.
Badinsults take it easy man, its not that big of a deal, someone somewhere will always have more. It's good to see a group sale have some value. Hopefully the purchaser is going to use the games to create a museum or an archive.
A lot of what he has was like disc only and so on so, of course not the largest collection. However it's the largest collection someone has been public about and contacted the world records. It can go for anything that a record is, it just has to be recorded.
