I began to explain I mostly collect for Playstation and Sega consoles, as those were the systems I had the most interest in.
I don't remember the exact response, but the tone of his voice suggested he was unimpressed with my choice of the first two Ratchet & Clank games. "The real money was in Atlus games. Have you heard of Persona?" Despite answering "yes", he proceeded to give a surface level explanation of it to me as if I said nothing at all.
As the man continued to yap at me, my guard started to lower and the realization of what I was dealing with struck me to core. What stood before me was a Type of Guy(tm) that those of us who collect and play retro games have heard stories of but have never personally seen. Like a serial killer that was never caught and walks amoung us.
. . .
When I see Nintendo Quest, I see that same Kind of Guy: the vapid collector with too much time and money on his hands, scooping up games not for play but to keep in their suburban dungeons for years until they're ripe enough again to resell. I see a bunch of nerds who want respect but deserve nothing but contempt.
BanSwitch2Buyers
Locked the megathread on one of my posts once again. I see what you're doin' mods.
He ended up selling the collection to some private collector in the US that was only doing it because it's for charity and it was his money that amounts to the donation to the Canadian Alzheimer's charity which they didn't actually say how much they gave or have any confirmation or anything like a big cheque sequence or anything. It's so fucking stupid.
Spent 7 hours watching this manchild buy N64 games "for charity."
"slavic-looking"
Also they'd remove the USSR one.
Here's the transcript from what I can make out. They're speaking in coded language, I believe.
LEMMY: SHY GUY, this is LEMMY. Do you read? Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, I read. Over.
LEMMY: Is the race still planned (?, or banned) for tomorrow? Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, LEMMY, everything's still happening. Over.
LEMMY: Good. Good. I'm the road -- rainbow road currently -- carrying the blue shell for the race. Over.
SHY GUY: I'll show 'em (?, or maybe that'll troll them). Hope they drop more than a few coins (?) because of it. Over.
LEMMY: Well, (couple words I can't make out). Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, leave luck to (word I can't make out, sounds like what Lemmy just said) Over and out.
If the Japanese game got retranslated or a different script there's a chance of that happening, but they're not going to do anything special for the English release and include 2 scripts with it, I don't think. Fan mod could happen I guess.
Dude bought 10 games twice by accident in the first couple days or something. Come on, dude.
Jesus. I think that's cheaper in North America. The top rare/expensive games they showed was rental store exclusives and some of the good but underappreciated games like the Goemon games, Snowboard Kids 2, Harvest Moon, Ogre Battle, etc. No Kirby 64 as far as I saw.
"I was so excited to see that many N64 games that I forgot to look at the prices"
-guy making a documentary on buying N64 games
The Eva response is so good.