What 1 thing would you buy with $1 billion?

The fact that you don't put any money aside for protection is perplexing and arousing to me. . . .

 

Realistically: buy a big wine farm in the Cape, and live in luxury for the rest of my life...

Not realistically: Bring Sega back, billion should be enough for R&D and release of the Dreamcast 2

 

Donate all of it to worthy causes. I want to make my own money, thank you. I would never be satisfied spending money that just 'fell from the sky', so to speak.

 

I will buy a new jet for Orbis the eye hospital, they need a new one desperately.

 

On Second thought, I'd try to buy Sega and Capcom and start development of a shit load of titles, including Shenmue III, Jet Set Radio III, Grandia III, Space Chanel 5 - III, Sonic Adventure III, SEGA incarnation III.

 

A billion dollars probably wouldn't get you either of those companies, let alone have enough left to start developing any games.

 

Not LG, but you'll be pleased to know that those exist: http://na.suzohapp.com/monitors/monitors.htm

As for me, Square Enix and Tri-Ace would quickly become subsidiaries of PouncingKitten Games...

 

A really nice open plan house by the sea along with the council tax and bills paid upfront for 50 years.

 

If you're going to go that far, why not just set up a plan to continue producing CRTs for another 50 years or so?

 

Baby, when you got a billion dollars, you don't have to protect anything.

 

The 1st billion dollar porno.

 

Dinosaur Planet.

 

Start a development with NASA for a working portal gun for me...

 

A whole planet? Have you learned nothing from Jurassic Park?

 

2x F-22 please.

 

I'd pay full development costs for a sequel to Policenauts and Snatcher for next-gen.

 

Id buy blackberry co, then proceed to unfuck it. Heck I could but 1 black berry device, then spend a billion in dev cycles to unfuck it.
Meh, I guess I would just buy a large franchise, and help other people have jobs.

 

For a billion you can build a hypersonic SSTO spacecraft which will be a lot more fun than just two expensive fighters with a lot of flaws in avionics.

 

Lmao

 

Well, following the trend of the house-buying, I always wanted to buy one of my favourite houses in California, designed by one of my favourite architects. Unfortunately, it burnt down several years ago! If money wasn't a problem, I'd love to buy the land and rebuild the house (sadly, what remained after the fire was levelled before they put the land up for sale). The land is only $6 million, though.

I think what I'd most likely do with that sort of money to play with is make my own computer museum. I always wanted to do this in the old Atari HQ on Borregas, so maybe I'd buy it. I believe the US Defense Department no longer inhabit the first building and, considering the rent is $115,000 per month, it would be many millions if they sold. The newer building is leased, so it would be a question of paying the current tenants (yup, multiple!) off as well as buying the building! All in all, it would probably be better to build a custom (and much larger than Atari) building. So yeah, that's where my money would go.

On the topic of islands, a lot of them are uninhabitable - those that have buildings and any decent amount of space are seriously expensive. However, I once saw an interesting property for sale. It was a man-made island (I think off Florida-ish, but may be wrong). I believe it was originally made by the US Air Force or some military operation. The guy who was selling it a few years ago had been told that he needed more sun, or less sun, I forget... and that was either the reason why he bought the island or why he was selling. Anyway, it was far from pretty, being basically a concrete slab, but it was pretty self-sufficient. He had made an amazing workshop, so you could make just about anything you'd need. Certainly for us techy types, it was amazing! If anyone knows the island I'm talking about and can point me to information on it (is it still for sale?), I'd be most grateful!

Oh, that won't be a problem. Even if he found a billion people who would turn to prostitution for a dollar (and that's basically expecting almost the entire population of China, i.e. one seventh of the World population, to say yes to that!), if he were to spend one second with each one, it would take him over 31 years to get through them all. And that's not counting the fact that one second of fun time would be followed by several seconds switching prostitute, eating, using the bathroom, sleeping....

More realistically, you could pay 100,000 girls (assuming that's your poison) $10,000 each to sleep with you. If you requested an hour of each girl, that's over 11 years of non-stop sex. Naturally, you'd need your sleep! If you said 10 girls a day, that would give you a good 27 years of action... if you lasted!