June 15, 2004

Some insane guy selling a million retro computers on eBay. Excuse the hyperbole, but that's a lot of stuff. Quirky little auction. Paging everyone who lives in Wales! [Via Gizmodo.]
posted by The Sacred and Profane 20 years ago
  • Jesus. That's not a collection, that a hoard! Why would anyone need 10 oldschool Nintendos? My single on serves me just fine. Hey! Maybe we should buy it and open a retro gaming museum, or some kind of tournament hall. Any takers?
  • Yeah, ok.
  • Maybe we could build a spaceship.
  • EXCELLENT IDEA DOCTOR SARCASMO.
  • No one needs all this, but millions of us would want it. Worst case scenario is that you turn around and sell the extras on ebay, make a little of your money back, and you've still got the old-school geek hoard to end all old-school geek hoards.
  • 200 = "a million"? is this some computer thingie i don't know about? kind of like loaves and fishies?
  • Think binary, SideDish.
  • SideDish, we'll give them rudimentary intelligence and they can build the next generation and so on, until the earth is completely ruled by robot Nintendos and we live in little pods, programmed to believe we're really living in a utopian world with lots of badgers.
  • I want! I want! Lots of neat stuff in there. You gotta think that this guy would be able to make alot more if we sold this stuff in more manageable batches. It's times like these I wish I lived in Wales
  • ) for tracicle. also, you owe me a new keyboard.
  • umm... that's if HE sold it it more managelable batches. No we I was ever a part of would be selling anything of this sort.
  • First that other guy selling a ton of videogame cosnoles and development systems, and now this one. Is it the summer?
  • I'd be interested in all that stuff if he threw in a free wedding dress.
  • Or a hole in the internet.
  • Or a frozen dead mountainclimber.
  • 200 = "a million"? Isn't that how Enron did accounting?
  • Or an apartment that looks like the USS Enterprise.
  • First that other guy selling a ton of videogame cosnoles and development systems, and now this one. Is it the summer? If you're talking about the one I'd seen, (US) ebay pulled that one. Sony and Nintendo forbid the resale of all their development kits.
  • Dammit. I've been waiting ages to buy a cosnole.
  • Hey, people who don't know what HYPERBOLE means, try Dictionary Dot Com. You just type "hyperbole" into the search field, and it tells you what it means! Thanks for informing us that 200 and 1,000,000 are in fact two different numbers! High fives all around! I shall now resume my holding of the press.
  • Doctor Sarcasmo, meet Not-Quite-Sincere Boy.
  • GODDAMNIT, not another dance-off.
  • Or possibly girl? - dern these androgynous usernames. No, dern this gendered language. Hey everyone! Let's go Altaic! (interesting link, btw, s n p)
  • We can all get those Ataris and *shudder* play hours of pong.
  • If anyone doesn't remember pong then here's a visual reminder.
  • I think sacred needs a beer.
  • Belly up to the bar boys! I'll buy the first round.
  • Speaking of pong...
  • seriously, Sacred, chill out! Doctor Sarcasmo prescribes a chill-pill, a beer, and possibly a phatty blunt. 3-D Pong via addictinggames.com
  • Hey, GramMa's buyin'! Cockpunch, rocks, with a twist for me.
  • well if bluehorse is buying I'm thirsty. unless, of course, the "boys" in the invitation is literal. I am a girl, a girl trapped in a land of gender-specific language. drat. a girl who likes beer...
  • Yes, yes, it's been dreadful! I haven't been intoxicated or blazed for two whole days! Pity me. :( Wait... okay, for one whole day. It's Tuesday?
  • *drinks up* *again* *again* *reels, giggles, flashes random stranger*
  • Are you sure you want Cockpunch?
  • Due to to NO Bandwidth! All but 1 picture has been deleted. As mentioned above, please contact me at [baleted!] and I will email you all the images. D'oh. I think we flung too much poop at his server.
  • The dued is broke, y'all.