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Keep seeing stories about this gentleman, and there was a profile of him in the latest GameInformer.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ny-mans-10-607-video-games-sets-guinness-record-2D11792439

Are he or the previous record holder, Richard Lecce, members of, or at least familiar with our site? :)

Not on the site, but community members. Also, there are people with more, but not sure what the standards are for Guinness.

Our own Am4zingGam3r's gotta be close to this guy's numbers...

My guess he is the highest total. Just the highest that will go public about it. Don't get me wrong still impressive.

Wow, I just had an epiphany.  I've just been collecting indiscriminately since I started almost two years, and have now amassed a collection of roughly 1000 games.  At the rate I'm going, I'll likely have 3-5 thousand in my collection by the time I'm the same age as this guy.  Every single one of my game shelves is overflowing to the point where I've had to resort to stacking games on the floor.  I still want to collect, but I think about half of my N64 collection alone is made up of useless sports titles.  I think it may be time for me to downsize a bit.  If nothing else, I can at least do away with the worthless sports games and the like.

But I digress.  Definitely a cool achievement to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for video game collecting.  Congrats to the new title holder.

You would think if you were gonna pose for this picture you would show off a bit and stage all your rare stuff haha.  The rarest thing I see is the boxed fm towns marty. But I suppose Maybe the award is showing off enough.

If Guinness includes variants he might be close to a complete NES set and that's it.

I saw a couple of headines popup on this but never read it before.  Funny part is this guy lives pretty close to me based on the article.  He's a bit younger than me but has a few more games.

I know this was mentioned elsewhere but I figured I could update and bump my old thread about this guy.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gift-guide/nows-your-chance-bid-worlds-biggest-video-game-collection-n124771

http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=958029

wow it went from $9000 to $50,000 in less than 24 hours

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/largest-video-game-collection-auction-2014-6

Anyone else feel like this is just a stunt, and the reserve price will never get met?

Or the reserve price gets met and the winning person never pays.

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Reserves are stupid. I don't get why people don't just start the auction at the minimum amount they are willing to accept instead of pretending they are letting it go for a good price.

This particular auction is even worse. STARTS AT ONE DOLLAR! With a crazy stupid high reserve and a minimum bid increment of 250$s

You mean Michael Thommason be trollin'?

He set the reserve price at eleventy billion dollars.

Reserve prices are set to where you only have to sell if you get a ridiculous price. It's just a publicity stunt if you ask me. Look how much press it has received.

Unfortunately (?) it's not a stunt.

I had the opportunity to chat at length with Mr. Thommason at CORGS-Con a few days ago.  Really, really nice guy.  There are severe medical issues with extended family, to the point that insurance coverage is pretty much used up and just the daily medication costs are beyond their means.  Mr. Thommason was originally thinking of using the collection to fund his retirement, but instead is assisting with his family.  The reason the collection's reserve is so high is not out of greed, but because it wouldn't make sense to sell unless it can get somewhere near what is needed to pay said bills. 

Considering we bought some rather rare stuff from him for very, very low prices, this gentleman isn't exactly greedy.  I'd vouch for his character, if not for his expectations in this pursuit. :)

It's up to $230,000 now. I suspect that someone's pushing up the price just because they can. Yet, Reserve Price Not Yet Met...
Even if it were 12,000 games, that'd average close to $20/game. Even with consoles and sealed games mixed in, I'm not quite sure I'd value it at that.

What a feat.   I sincerely hope that he makes his goals.  Super happy to see this auction on Game Gavel, too.  I bet Mike Kennedy cried when it happened.  I also bet that Kennedy didn't charge him anything to do it.

Well, the bid was at $230,000 USD with 16 bids, but it now down to $90,251 with 15 bids.  Very curious (retracted bid?), so I checked the bidding history.  It doesn't show it, but one of the bidders looks familiar...

Doug with those deep pockets :P

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Mine are deeper.

Safe to bid since the reserve isn't met? ;)

Hellz yeah!

Well in one sense I am glad to hear that this is a legitimate auction, but it's a shame that he has to sell for that reason. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

if that's the reason he's selling, he should say so in the auction. i'm sure he'd get more interest that way and a lot of "sympathy bids". it might also help with people who are questioning the motives and the reserve price

He does mention it's for medical bills.

oh does he? reading comprehension at it's finest right here

Well, tbh, not sure if it was the auction or the NBC News article, but he mentioned that it was for family medical bills.

Almost up to 100,000 bucks...

I read none of the news links and just caught slackurs post.
I kinda feel dickish now for bidding since i obviously would never have that kind of money to pony up.

Oh well at least i helped get closer to the reserve. Never going to get there unless there is competition amongst bidders.

inb4 you win it

http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=958029

Looks like the auction is over.  $750,250!  I wonder if the winning bidder will actually pay....

The only person I see that put in an actual bid is palmertech. izret may end up having to pay. MUAHAHAHAH.

My bid was below the reserve. I am free and clear.

Was contacted today. Apparently every high bidder who was above reserve has backed out.

Doug if your bid was serious you might still have a shot.

Wait - so...basically everything we said would come true did? Anyway to screen cap that email notification saying none of the post-reserve bidders wanted it?

I"d love to post that to Game-Rave's Facebook / Twitter feed...

Izret said he'll touch base with you on that when he gets home. ;)

I had a distinct feeling that this wouldn't bode well..and to be honest...not that impressed...nice guy & nice collection but too put my two cents in not impressed...John the "Sega Guy" (lives in Washington I believe) has quite a more impressive collection in my opinion. 

Does this work?
I could screen cap on my phone instead if you want it in a tighter image.

And your response was lol?

"To be completely honest I put my bid in in the hopes of getting it closer to the reserve (while staying under). I assumed his reserve price would have been significantly lower than it was and knowing what he needs the money for and what I could realistically offer are vastly apart.

I apologize for bidding and feel bad that the people who did get up over the reserve price backed out. If he broke it down even to a system by system lots I think he could have a more realistic chance of moving it. But it is really just a ton of money for even top tier collectors to shell out."


To lazy to take another screen cap and edit it in paint.
Even my offer of ~98k was WAY more than i could even think about offering. Christ my collection now doesn't fit into my apartment and i have whittled it down to under 1k primarily DVD based games.

If i had 98k to spend i would be getting a house.

That was well written IZ

Well played and gentlemanly.

Also, for those that care, the seller has been having a meltdown at digitpress. Jason Wilson even stepped up to the plate. It's a frighteningly bizarre and crazy read. A situation that got out of control spirals out into a train wreck.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?171706-World-record-collection-for-sale/page8

Thanks for the info Dangerboy

Ooooo something to start reading!

I think it was on page 7 where someone said "Who said DP is dead" and the reply was "Nothing brings DP together like drama."

A truer statement has never been said.

Wow that DP thread is nuts. Kind of made my head hurt.

That, and the color scheme.  RFG, never change your color scheme.  :)

I only made it to through the second page of that DP thread. It got me thinking, maybe we could use more drama around here, can one or two of you guys fly off the handle and liven things up a bit?

Mr. LucasBarton198965345 needs to come back.

I was going to post earlier that this whole thing kind of reminded me of that "New York Test Market NES" thread but I didn't want to dredge up bad memories ;)

Don't worry...after his stunt(s) at NintendoAge, you won't have to deal with him. Arrangements were made...

Shallow grave. Never know he might claw his way out.

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I've said too much! Move along now! Nothing to see here!

^Zombies?!?!?!?!?!

I am thankful for all of you after seeing what people were saying over there. I am perfectly happy without negativity and drama. Reading that forum felt like watching something on TLC...too much time and effort going into something completely negative, and I have said before and will always say that this site has always been the one place I have found on the internet not full of trolls and half-wits with giant online egos to stroke.

I admit, in life there needs to be a difference of opinion for any relationship to develop, or any progress to be made as a civilization, but the line is drawn with respect. We talk on here all the time about our opinions and we give each other tons of guff about what we believe, but it never turns into an attack on somebody for what they say. Respect is never lost from what I have seen here and I know I have learned a lot from those differences in opinions. Again...thank you guys for being above this type of mindless and useless drama, there is enough of it in life away from the internet as it is.

We need to bring Karma back so I can +1 posts like this ^...........and neg Duke of course!

Thank you, Crabby. Plus...even if someone tried to start something negative, nobody here would feed the troll. ha ha ha

I totally agree boshamp! Drama sucks this is a great community and we all for the most part get along on here which is nice...while I don't really know a ton about the other drama on dp, I do see quite a bit on nintendo age.

gahh couldn't get past page 3 almost put me to sleep...again so happy to be on here! -

He even started causing trouble in my local retro gamers facebook group.  That guy really got around.

Yeah he likes to pop up every now and then I hope he stays away from here I was pretty reserved in his last thread but next time not so much because I deal with guys like him all the time at my job and it's starting to wear on me ;-)

What I don't understand is why the hell was that thread titled Sega Pico Variants?  Did it just load up weird in my browser?

Now who wants to buy my never before been touched by human hands original New York NES from 1985FUCK ALL OF YOU YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS OF MY COLLECTION AND I HATE ALL OF YOU RARGHRARGHRAGHRRAGH!  SOMEONE ACKNOWLEDGE MY EXISTENCE AND GIVE ME THE LOVE THAT I AM CLEARLY MISSING FROM MY LIFE!

Lol the title was changed in an effort to troll harder I think.

I just dumped wayyyy too much time into reading that thread lol. I'm actually wondering what the reserve was. Could someone post it? I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I've been crawling around DP looking for it for a while now lol.

Just going off of memory I think it was somewhere around 700k.  So basically way way too much.

I think it was 750k Which if memory serves comes out to far more than if he were to part it out and sell it individually.
Which is pretty much never how selling lots works in my personal experience.