Jumpstart your vintage video game console museum

So there are video game console auctions, and then there are video game console auctions. This one would definitely fall into the latter category, boasting "Über 90 Telespielkonsolen" (over 90 video game consoles) and encompassing most of the glorious achievements and glorious failures of the video game industry. Sure fire winners include a Magnavox Odyssey, Virtual Boy, Neo Geo Pocket, Intellivision and Atari Lynx, with a NES clone thrown in there for good measure. In fact, the collection could probably be better defined by what's not included, which other than the exception of current-gen consoles is not a whole dang lot. Make sure you peep the read link for all bazillion consoles from their various angles, and if you've got a few grand laying around -- and can stomach the shipping cost from Hamburg -- why not give it a shot?

[Computer Articles @ Jul 15th 2008 10:26PM]

Between now and maybe 50 years, you should find day jobs for food and etc., since it would take that long for those items to have significant values again.
I guess its better than trashing them immediately.

[gabgab @ Jul 15th 2008 10:31PM]

takes a long time for these consoles to regain their significance or historical value ... say 100 years from now ...hahaha, will you be be there to sell it?

[LostCarcosa @ Dec 29th 2006 8:31PM]

Thats a whole lot of consoles, but...

Magnavox Odyssey 300 FTW!
Boy do I love that yellow color. :D

[citykids @ Dec 29th 2006 8:40PM]

I'm guessing this guy is in his 40's and needs some emergency cash for a new place to stay after his mother finally kicked him out of his room in the basement!

[Karl Wickman @ Mar 26th 2007 8:56PM]

Ohhh.... That's cold. Maybe she's just fed up and is making him pay rent...?
www.LoungeThree.com

[Narwaffle @ Dec 29th 2006 8:59PM]

"The large amaount of classical consoles such as Coloeco CBS, Intelivision, megadrive and Neo geo may not be missing also."

Oh cruddy translation, how I love thou. Let me count thy ways...

[Jonathan B @ Dec 29th 2006 9:01PM]

And I thought I was the only person with a Gamegear...

[SKI @ Dec 29th 2006 9:01PM]

No N64?! I shall not bid on this.

[moofree @ Dec 29th 2006 9:02PM]

And I thought I had alot of consoles cluttering up my place.

[F-Money @ Dec 30th 2006 12:02AM]

Hello, are you forgetting about the Vectrex game console?

[Derka @ Dec 29th 2006 9:15PM]

Alot of classics there. Brings back memories.

[Dylan @ Jul 11th 2007 11:13AM]

The box is going to be frikan huge! and the shipping!

[Mike Jenkins @ Dec 29th 2006 10:19PM]

Wouldn't all of these systems be PAL? The guy is German, right?

[nivz @ Dec 29th 2006 11:01PM]

engadget, buy this lot and start a museum or suttin, so we can come around and have a look. (or even better, buy it and give it to us needy ppl!)... Thing's (sales/auctions) like these make me wish if i was born 10yrs earlier, so i would've had a job by now and had the money to buy these.. I so wanna cry.. i hate this world..

[Jeff @ Dec 29th 2006 11:10PM]

"Wouldn't all of these systems be PAL? The guy is German, right?"

He specifically says some of them are from the US and are NTSC. I'm guessing that the ones we recognize as American systems really are American.

This is a great anthology of systems, but the weird thing about this is that almost all of them are dirt common. When you see an auction like this with like 400 systems in it, there are almost always a bunch of rarities thrown in there. The rarest thing I see here is the Coleco Telstar Arcade, which is about $80 on its own.

It's almost like he just made it his life's work to collect every system he could easily get his hands on before moving on to the rare stuff, then when he got to that point he decided he didn't have the stomach for it and just gave up. Either that, or he's really got a collection double this size and he's just selling off all the systems he knows aren't worth the space they take up in his house. (I've got a similar collection, so I know the feeling.)

[emmzee @ Dec 29th 2006 11:35PM]

lol @ Barcode Battler! (It's the one in the top left corner of Engadget's picture.) Anyone else remember this thing? The idea was you scanned in the barcodes for anything using its built-in scanner, and each barcode would generate something based on its numbers, a warrior, item, etc, to be used in the game. It sounded neat back in the 'day but turned out to be rather boring :D

[Forrest Hirtzel @ Dec 30th 2006 12:05AM]

What about the Vectrex Gaming Console, that thing was awesome!

[LittleJoe @ Dec 30th 2006 1:03AM]

Sega Saturn... ha... those were the days. Sage Rally day and night! Woot!

[Daniel @ Dec 30th 2006 1:11PM]

By the way: if you like retro consoles and ever come to Vienna, check out this shop at the MuseumsQartier: http://shop.subotron.com It always brings a smile to my face when I visit it.

[Matt @ Dec 30th 2006 10:50AM]

Oh man, a virtual boy...the headaches you got are what made it so much fun. AND he's got a super scope. Now all he needs to throw in is one of those NES power gloves and we'll be all set. Anyway, thanks for providing some fodder for my new blog at http://www.obscuregaming.com

[Hahns @ Dec 30th 2006 5:02PM]

Looks like he had to get rid of some stuff to make space for the PS3

[Josh @ Dec 30th 2006 2:16PM]

What, no vectrex?

[Ali @ Jan 2nd 2007 10:47PM]

Did I miss the listed Hot Boy console?

[nettospielzeit @ Jan 18th 2007 2:50PM]

nice collection, but my collection is also nice ;-)

www.nettospielzeit.de