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If you have 15 grand lying around and gathering dust, why not spend it on buying every single Super Nintendo game ever? YES. DO IT. Also, why not hang out with me after you buy it so we can play all 721 SNES games you just bought? Sounds like a plan!
A guy is selling 721 Super Nintendo games released in the US, Canada and Mexico for £15,000-odd on eBay and he promises that all the games work and that nearly all come with the original game boxes (and manuals). Byuu, the seller, built up this amazing SNES collection through half a decade of collecting video games. The dude is thorough:
I have made an effort to clean the set to the best of my ability.
Any stickers were carefully removed with a hot air gun from boxes, and with isopropyl alcohol from cartridges.
I’ve removed any magic marker writing from cartridges with isopropyl alcohol and light detergents.
I have manually cleaned every single game’s PCB contacts, and tested them to ensure the games were fully working.
I’ve tested every battery terminal with a multimeter and replaced any dead batteries that I could find.
There was little I could do about existing damage to items, and yellowing caused by UV exposure.
If you want to check out his full list of SNES games, head over to the eBay listing here. Man, the memories of some of these video games! Somebody rich buy it please. [eBay, Reddit via BuzzFeed]
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Imagine trying to blow on all those cartridges to get the dust out.
Not even all the hot air from the X Factor final would be enough.
Is it wrong that I’m slightly tempted? (especially given that I believe these sort of things are going to at least hold their value)
With SNES consoles going for >£40, this has got to be a steal.
4 crates and 400lbs in total, you’ll probably double your cost just getting it shipped to the UK.
P.S. no it’s not wrong!
Actually you’d be a fool to consider buying them all. Apparently the ROM chips used for SNES titles are only rated for about 20 or so years, so you may have problems with bit rot sooner than you think with this kind of hardware.
Speaking of which, floppy disks are actually rated for about 30 years, so it’s likely a lot of floppies will start to degrade past the point of readability now. There’s a great article on tested that covers the whole reason why there is this auction and the man behind it.
You wouldn’t be able to play these on your Snes anyway, you’d need the American Snes as the Cartridges were different shapes, original Region proofing was so much easier!
Pfft, any proper SNES gamer has a multi-region adapter.
Well OOH LARDY DAH!!! Get her Mildred, all up on the multi region adapter! LOL!!
http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Les_Dawson-4-small.jpg
I have an American SNES and an adapter to play UK cartridges! Mwahahahahaha
that picture makes me want to lick your face, i would do it but i think you’d be too blasé about it.
I doubt you’d miss the extra money for an adaptor anyway after forking out £15,000 for the games.