Nintendo PlayStation auction

[Nixie]

https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/n ... ion-071515



Current bid already higher than I paid for my apartment.

Only known unit in circulation though.

[SonnyJim]

It always amuses me to think that somewhere back in the 90's, there might have been a kid in a school playground telling his mates about this awesome 'Nintendo Playstation' that his uncle had and all the other kids taking the piss out of him for making up stories.

IIRC the owner has been offered $1.3M for it before, so it's likely that this will maybe go that high.

[gilesgoat]

And I keep telling Yak DO NOT THROW AWAY CERTAIN STUFF WE HAVE !!

I wonder in some little more years time how much it could be worth ...

[merman]

This is a clear example where a piece of gaming history should be preserved in a gaming museum, not owaned by a grubby collector who pays way over the odds for it...


(But at the same time, kudos to whoever keeps outbidding Palmer Luck...)

[Whiteball]

This is a clear example where a piece of gaming history should be preserved in a gaming museum, not owaned by a grubby collector who pays way over the odds for it...


(But at the same time, kudos to whoever keeps outbidding Palmer Luck...)

While I agree it would be nice for such things to be in a museum for all to see and enjoy, I don't think there is any need for the 'grubby collector' part of the comment. Not in such a disparaging way at least.

Without 'collectors' most of this stuff would have long since been lost to time. Most would not have probably even lasted past the protoype stage without disappearing forever more in the first instance either.

[gilesgoat]

This is a clear example where a piece of gaming history should be preserved in a gaming museum, not owaned by a grubby collector who pays way over the odds for it...


(But at the same time, kudos to whoever keeps outbidding Palmer Luck...)

While I agree it would be nice for such things to be in a museum for all to see and enjoy, I don't think there is any need for the 'grubby collector' part of the comment. Not in such a disparaging way at least.

Without 'collectors' most of this stuff would have long since been lost to time. Most would not have probably even lasted past the protoype stage without disappearing forever more in the first instance either.

I would like to add YES for the museum BUT *NOT* to end up behind a glass "frozen in time", those things should be kept on display WORKING, showing them how they really work !!

Otherwise it's just "a dead picture".

And yes some collectors have "more money than sense" BUT would really be not for them, some stuff would be lost forever .. like tears in the rain ...

[Nixie]

I would like to add YES for the museum BUT *NOT* to end up behind a glass "frozen in time", those things should be kept on display WORKING, showing them how they really work !!

Otherwise it's just "a dead picture".

How long can it last to run like that though. And anyway I think there's no Roms that exist to run on it. Isn't it effectively a snea with a cd drive?

[Nixie]

Wtf just saw a sealed copy of halo on Xbox going for 3000 dollars. Goldeneye on n64 sealed 600 bucks!! Mental!

[SonnyJim]

And anyway I think there's no Roms that exist to run on it. Isn't it effectively a snea with a cd drive?

Correct. There's no extra 'fun stuff' like a SuperFX chip, just some hardware to glue the CD drive into the SNES data bus.

Up to $350k now.