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Do you need 100 GameCubes?
Posted on July 20th, 2010 6 comments
Or 40 Famicoms? Or 20 Nintendo 64′s? 100 N64 controllers, maybe? Or how about 100 Super Famicoms, with 400 controllers and a random selection of 2000 loose SFC carts to go with it? (Presumably there are a lot of Romancing SaGas and Super Mario Worlds in that pile.)
All this and more is up on Yahoo! Auctions over in Japan at the moment from a seller based in Osaka, presumably either the owner of a used-game shop that went out of business or the repo man who wound up inheriting all of his inventory.
There was a time when the seller’s collection of 20 Famicom network adapters was worth its weight in gold in the Japanese collectors’ market, but a combination of warehouse finds and a general price depression in 8-bit games has lowered the price a great deal. It’s sort of like how the NES market is right now — a few titles are worth tons, but the majority is no more than a few hundred yen or so each.
Amusingly, he has only eight Mega Drives available in his vast flog-off, and there’s no Saturn or Dreamcast stuff whatsoever. Nintendo stuff has a tendency to clog up used-game shop shelves, I suppose.
2 responses to “Do you need 100 GameCubes?”
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You’re telling me! It seems like HardOff and the lake have plastic bins just overflowing with FC and SFC crap that no one wants. And from the look of things, we’re headed into a similar situation with PS1 games.
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ferricide July 20th, 2010 at 23:41