NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner "Worlds Largest" game collection up for sale again http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-12-05T11:51:58 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-12-02T21:24:23 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: buyatari2

Originally posted by: JosephLeo

This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.

Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.

Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
He sold his collection before and had to start over. So what you are describing isn't only possible its already been done. 

 
Well, let's be honest, all he has to do to "start over" is get the 6,000+ games as duplicates he has in his store to count towards the collection again or so....I am sure he has that many different titles or close to it in his store stock that were not counted in the tally. 

]]> "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-30T23:24:18 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: JosephLeo

This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.

Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.

Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets. He sold his collection before and had to start over. So what you are describing isn't only possible its already been done. 


]]> "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T19:40:54 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: theirontoupee

I'm certainly curious why the sale fell through the first time. I'm also curious why Guiness hasn't reached out to the NA community more to see if this collection can be beat, which I think it certainly is by some members on here!


They don't need to do the footwork. That's not what they do. People go to them. ]]> "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T13:52:42 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: DreamTR

Now I don't know how many "different" games this guy has, but he estimates 40,000-50,000 with variants..not sure if this is with computer games ( I think it is) but either way he's got a lot of stuff.

http://kotaku.com/a-game-collecti...

that guys PC collection is amazing.   ]]> "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T13:42:25 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: JosephLeo

This brings up an interesting question now. How much of an effort would you need to put into a collection like this if you were just going to bankroll right through it.

Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.

Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets.
Yeah, I guess that could be a bit of a "problem" so to speak when it comes to collecting relatively modern, mass-produced items while disregarding quality/completeness (and to some extent, even when you include those parameters). Simply having a lot of money and basic knowledge of using ebay+collector's forums I'd imagine that you could become a contender for largest collection within a relatively short period of time.  ]]> "Worlds Largest" game collection up for sale again http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T13:30:41 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 "Worlds Largest" game collection up for sale again http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T12:32:04 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23
Any day of the week there are hundreds of bulk lots at open auction. You can easily hit a few thousand unique titles in about two or three weeks. even if you go slow, you can probably hit the 5k mark at 2 months. I bet you can even take your time and make a set like this in as little as a year if you *really* take your time and just bankroll EVERYTHING.

Heck, after a while it won't even cost you as much since you can sell your doubles, triples, etc. After a years worth of work you can even dedicate another year to gathering the missing rares in your various sets. ]]> "Worlds Largest" game collection up for sale again http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T11:46:01 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 "Worlds Largest http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=138963 2014-11-29T11:45:06 -05.00 PowerPlayers 23 Originally posted by: Beliskner

Originally posted by: DreamTR

Now I don't know how many "different" games this guy has, but he estimates 40,000-50,000 with variants..not sure if this is with computer games ( I think it is) but either way he's got a lot of stuff.

http://kotaku.com/a-game-collection-that-looks-like-a-museum...

The subtitles are a little unclear. He says he has 16k games if you count compilations discs or carts as one. If you'd count every single game on a compilation as one he would be at 40-50k.
He was also quite clear that PC games are part of that 16k figure.

Edit: Rick Weis is contender for the biggest collection? I thought he "only" had pretty much everything that ever came out for the 2600 and only smaller bits for other consoles.
I mean, regardless the guy has a lot (European guy) and yes, Rick has a ton of stuff...NWC gray, etc. 


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