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The World's Largest Video Game Collection Is Up For Sale

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Michael Thommason, who is certified as having the world's largest collection of video games, is putting them up for sale. Meaning the buyer isn't just getting a ton of games, they're getting a title as well.

 
Guinness confirmed Thommason had 10,607 games last year, but he's since picked up a few hundred more, so the winning bidder will be getting over 11,000 video games.

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Well... if you want over 11,000 games and a Guinness World Record, buy this NOW! 

 

Sourcearino: http://kotaku.com/the-worlds-largest-video-game-collection-is-up-for-sale-1586844288

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So he's giving up his dream because his wife doesn't like video games?

Pretty much :/

Well, he DOES have like $100K in video games :P 

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I think it's going to be a TAD bit more than that. 

Would steam games count? Because then I'll go on steam anbd buy 20000 sub 1$ games :P 

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So he's giving up his dream because his wife doesn't like video games?

 

Time to get a new wife

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Would steam games count? Because then I'll go on steam anbd buy 20000 sub 1$ games :P

and still go broke for no reason :D

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How did he even find a space for them in the first place. You would pretty much need another house for a collection like that.

 

Question is, will anyone be interested in buying all of those games whole sale. And how will he determine the total value? There must be many rare games in his collection. This will be a difficult bundle to sell. He might have to give it away for less than its worth or sell it piece by piece.

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How did he even find a space for them in the first place. You would pretty much need another house for a collection like that.

 

Question is, will anyone be interested in buying all of those games whole sale. And how will he determine the total value? There must be many rare games in his collection. This will be a difficult bundle to sell. He might have to give it away for less than its worth or sell it piece by piece.

I bet some dumb mother trucker will buy it. Just because they have so much money they don't know what to do with it. 

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you heard of this one thing called Steam? :D

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So he's giving up his dream because his wife doesn't like video games?

 

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Holly crap, I bet there are some very valuable games in this collection.

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Holly crap, I bet there are some very valuable games in this collection.

No kidding.

 

I forgot to include this in OP, can't be bothered editing it in:

 

If you're wondering about the condition the games are in, Thommason says "2600+" are "factory shrink-wrapped", while "over 8,300" are complete with box and manual.

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I think it's going to be a TAD bit more than that. 

I'm pretty sure as well, this collection could go for for hundreds of thousands of bucks, there might even be a chance if he has very rare sealed games that it will go in the millions.

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So he's giving up his dream because his wife doesn't like video games?

That is what people seem to be jumping to the conclusion of. What if his wife got cancer and they need the money to pay the medical bills? I don't see anywhere in the article describing exactly why he has to sell them, just that he has family matters that require him selling them.

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This is like the indiscriminate spending that goes on during Steam Summer Sale, only worse, but without the Summer sale, or Steam for that matter.

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So he's giving up his dream because his wife doesn't like video games?

he has a wife?

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I'll give you 5$. 

I'm sure he'd go for that, provided there are 110,000 $5 bills.

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I potentially have 1969267647 games. Just download each one from torrents. I have world Guinness record! :D

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Perhaps Lord Gaben's light shined down upon him...

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