ru-vid.com/show-UCkkNnZ8BZhzRG47YbmGG-Og I had the old school Nintendo from the 1980's and remember playing Mike Tyson's punchout so many times until I started beating up Tyson and overturning the game almost everytime I played the game. lol
He would only be paid for the losses, not at their highest possible sale value. The true damage is he would never be able to replace this much content if it were lost to fire.
In order for Guinness record, yea everything needs to be logged..so he has that covered..as for the insurance, I'm sure he's smart enough to know he needs it
LOL you think he lets them even touch those?,he's sick he doesn't play games just collect them,and i can guarantee you he doesn't let anyone touch these games,they must stay where they are exactly,you are fool for even thinking that.
@Markarth Guard Yeah iv'e seen this behavior too many times,some people are doing it with digital collection which makes even less sense,since there's no guarantee you will be in possesion of those games,if certain digital publisher or how ever you wanna call them decides otherwise. I know that this is highly unlikely to happen,reasons making money and keeping reputation,but still there is a possibilty,that aside i consider my self as someone who plays games a lot on multiple platforms,and the number of the games i finished is still around 300 or so,i would need to check to be precise,which is i guess high number,but that is the last 15 years of me playing games.
I hope one day collections like this can be made into a museum. It would be amazing to look at all the things up close and discover things we never knew about. Amazing colelction !!!
I agree I'm pretty sure he does love the last gamer shame his health and other stuff has put his channel on hold but I agree not that this guy doesn't have an impressive collection Joel's presentation is amazing with his collection
I've worked very hard to have a 700+ games collection. Not even close to Antonio's, but the motivation is the same: playing the games that I loved as a kid and getting the games that I love as an adult.
I've downsized so many times. Selling off saturn games, psp collection, and my ps4 collection. Just collect ps1,2,3 switch, pc engine and random wii u, 3ds, ds, snes and genesis games.
@@bioboost12 If I ever decide to sell, I'll sell the whole lot. Selling by console or one by one would be a huge pain to me hahaha, I prefer to suffer the loss just once.
@stonerdemon Well mainly because I was being realistic on what I'm gonna play. I'm not even sure I'll get to everything I have right now lol. Having hundreds or games will probably take a lifetime to beat...especially when half of them are rpgs.
@@stonerdemonselling as a lot means buyers want the lowest per item price they can get. Like $1-$5 a game. So be prepared to sell it all for at least 50% of market value. And it’ll likely be to a retro gaming store or a reseller who intends to resell them for a good profit.
There's a higher value in money in his collection than the total amount of money most people will ever get in their lifetime by working. He must have a pretty good job.
Well a lot of games lose value than they become more value over time. Like Mega Man on the NES you could find for $2 at a couple of yard sales now it's +$80 for an example
@@shadowking141ghost In a video after rumors were spread, Joel from the Last Gamer said he was offered enough money to retire on but turned it down. In his latest video, he was packing up all his games due to moving.
i dont think it's unfortunate. he has a collection that big crammed into a hallway and a couple of small rooms but it feels like he has a life outside of it without any game stuff which is better for his mental health
This guy isn't into video games. He's obsessed with obtaining. You can tell by how empty his explanation was for what drives him to keep going. Something about the fantasy and stories or something. Yeah, ok bro. The Sega Genesis alone is like 65% sports titles. Not to mention the endless shovel wear this guy must own. The Wii and Xbox 360 are rife with pure garbage titles. I mean, from a historian perspective, he's sitting on important artifacts. But I wish he would be honest about what this passion really is because it's not video games. It's buying things.
I started console gaming in 1981 and collecting in 1989. Obviously, the collection shown in this video required and requires an enormous amount of cash to put together. But what impresses me more is the space and, especially, the time required to manage such a collection, and keep adding to it. I should think that would be close to a full time job! Also, I wonder how far back the collection goes. If it dates from Atari 2600 or pre-Atari, and if most everything is boxed/complete, probably including some sealed games, then it must be worth more than $1.6 million. My collecting journey has been of a different nature because I have purchased very few of my games at retail price, either from stores, fellow collectors, or game dealers. Nevertheless, my NES collection (as one example) is complete (all boxed) except for Stadium Events and a couple others. This was “doable” only because I started so long ago, when games that are super expensive now were cheap and plentiful in the wild. It’s been fun.
@@mrmojorisin8752 oh no, it’s the objective truth. I’m a collector myself and this is beyond a hobby, it’s an obsessive compulsive mental disorder. He isn’t buying them to play them, he’s buying them to keep the collection complete because if he doesn’t it will induce anxiety and torment him mentally. He’s an addict.
@@Ephesians-yn8ux I admit you have an interesting take. At what does a passionate collector become obsessive/compulsive? When has the line been crossed and how do you (or we) know? As I noted, I have almost every NES game complete in the box (short about 3 or 4) but I’ve never played 90% of them. No one would call me an addict.
@@mrmojorisin8752 Thats actually a very well formulated response and question to hit me with, let me take a crack at it. I would say the two positions aren’t always synonymous and that you can be a collector of something without it becoming an addiction, while being aware that it has the ability to evolve into addiction territory if discipline and moderation aren’t exercised. Nothing wrong with having nostalgia for the things we had as kids being a motivator to collect. If you are playing the games you buy and having fun this doesn’t apply to you. I would say a couple warning signs off the top of my head would be If you are buying games due to the fear of missing out, compulsion, or you are trying to compete with another person to beat their collection size, or are motivated to attain a title that someone else doesn’t have purely to incite jealousy or envy from said person. If you are buying games instead of spending money on necessities or bills, things of that nature. There could be a thousand other hypothetical scenarios we could come up with but I think if you’re honest with yourself you can find out what it is that’s creating the desire to buy a particular game, and if that reason is purely to slip it into the shelf in its alphabetical place and then move on to the next purchase, well if you make that a habit it can go south fast. This doesn’t mean just because you’ve done that a few times in the process of getting your NES collection complete that this is a judgment against you. If your goal is to get a complete set then you knew what you were getting into and surely there are going to be some titles that don’t interest you but you don’t meet your goal without them. I get that. If this is happening with several consoles at the same time or your goal is to get as many games as possible just for the sake of amassing a large pile of plastic that you can show off to guests, I would say that’s skating on thin ice and you’re in the business of consuming, not collecting or gaming.
I thought I had a lot of games, at 4500 and over 100 consoles (including many limited or collector editions) but this is an amazing collection, I’m glad he must have a very supportive wife and a very passionate gaming family……..I would love to see a very slow pan and see the titles of some I missed or may be interested in….crazy hitman PS4 ……take care and thank you for the video
I think "The Last Gamer" in Australia may have this beat. He took the Guinness World title in 2009 but never re-upped it due to it taking 3 weeks to inventory his then massive collection. Currently, he has a custom-built warehouse that is approximately the size of 4 Super Walmart Centers showcasing his Unbelievable collection of Arcade cabinets, Computer Gaming consoles, Game Consoles, & Handhelds. He has his very own Food court inside of it which he often caters to private parties. He keeps adding to it daily and gets over several tons of donations monthly. It's like a living museum of video game history. This is still nonetheless an impressive collection!
@@MrTBAJoel Hopkins aka Last Gamer and former Guinness record holder, had put up a video years ago describing this. I also believe he has a bigger collection of console, computer and arcade games than this guy. Joel also put way more money and effort into the presentation, housing and setup than this guy. Not to take anything away from this incredible collection, but you asked 🤷🏻♂️
perhaps he has the biggest collection including consoles, pinballs, arcades, controllers etc... etc... and as such this guy may have more games. by the way do you see people here talking about insurance, it made me think about thelastgamer and how a lot of his stuff was damaged by a lightening strike and none of his stuff was insure @@wolfgangpuff7030
@My name is Clash ??? Sorry I misclarified, *this* world record currently (the one in this video), states he has 23k games. But he obviously doesn't have the world record, considering how Last Gamer from 3 years ago had 44k. Imagine his collection now!
@@bucketbucket. Last gamer has not officially tried to beat it yet, he said he might ask them to come look in the future but right now he has no plans to go for it even though we all know he has the most games!
Hello, Antonio! I'm a member of your club on Facebook and I feel the same way about video games. I played PS2 games since I was a toddler and I'm still playing video games, today. I was shocked and amazed about how much video games you have collected through your life. I'm glad to meet someone who has the same passion for video games as me.
This man is the greatest I’ve seen him before on here he literally has every console and every game full complete sets think the only one he still has to work on is the rest of the ps1 games
This is an unfortunate disease called addiction. Unfortunately for him, a very expensive addiction. The overwhelming majority of those games are not worth what he bought them for thus not an appreciating asset... Plus the time and effort it would take to sell them secondhand... I'm sorry man, you should have picked a different hobby.
@@ripmyname3533 might be true, but his collection like 90% of videogame collections (quantity over quality) are filler. Seriously, a good chunk of the stupid expensive games aren't even fun; just stupid rare. Playing with the top 1000 videogames ever made is very doable.
20,000 games, fully played. If each game only took one hour to fully play, so let's say beat is fully play, that's 20,000 hrs. That's 833 days to play 20000 games at an hour each never sleeping or eating or doing anything but playing. Except the majority take well over an hour to beat. Some take 60 hours. I think his statement is true.
Yeah I had my PS4 games stacked like that for a while now and under all that weight the cover inserts start getting damaged, from what I noticed so I now stack them side ways.
Yeah at a certain point space becomes an issue and getting rid of shelves is a solution. I wouldn't ever do that but he probably has rooms full of games.
Dude looks like he could be in his 40's. If this was his main hobby and focus in life (which it looks like it is) since his 20s or so, wouldn't have to be some high baller to have a collection like this. I mean just imagine if you put aside 20-25% of your paycheck each month for 15-20 years. Plus most of that collection would have gone up in value over the years and im sure he got most of them got got prices, this collection could have only cost him 75-100k considering how much games have shot up in the last 5 years
@@Robstrap putting aside 20-25% of your paycheck is a huge privilege that most people cannot afford. Being a collectionist of almost anything is an elitist hobby.
"Dad, can I play *obscure sealed game in mint conditino worth 10k* ? " "Why don't you go play Fortnite instead? Here, buy yourself some skins" Yep, that's how you elevate a medium.
There are billions of other new releases coming out your going to want these are useless the best games are on PS5 Xbox series X PS4 xbox one what you have aren’t that great anymore all your doing is collecting not being serious buying what’s the best games not one console got all great games every console got hundreds of trash games
I’ve always wondered if money truly changed hands on these million dollar transactions, or even the ones for hundreds of thousands. A fellow collector says he knows a guy who sold single sealed games for $100k plus, and he guarantees they guy collected his money.
Nice collection! he seems like the type of person who actually collects games for the enjoyment and does not collection (at least not completely) for monetary value. I enjoy looking at my game shelf. Albeit my is just a single shelf, but thinking of the history of a specific era of games is like stepping into a time machine to a different era. I feel we have lost some of the magic with the loss of physical copies, and rental stores.
And then you die and left with nothing. What use if you never even can play them all? This isn't counting android games, homebrew, international ones, rare PC games, online games. I think probably at least 50.000 games been released on consoles and PC. But plus online, mobile it's probably more than a million :D
For the collection the be worth 1.6 million, each game would have to have an average value of 69 dollars which I find to be extremely unlikely. For every game in the collection worth over 1000 dollars, there are probably over a hundred games in the collection worth under 5 dollars
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And well over Half of those games are total garbage AKA “Shovelware” I guess if you just love to collect…then by all means. For me, I’d rather have Great games I’ll love and play for years. The leftover money, spent on other things
Don't get me wrong it's an impressive collection of video games but buying every single video game serves no purpose I'd rather have only the best of iconic and legendary hits versus garbage waste of money
This is too much. I'm sure he tells himself it's a passion, but I know for a fact it is an addiction he has a hard time breaking. This is not normal collecting.
I had a really big collection once, obviously nothing like this, but it never made me happy. I thought I would love it but its all just junk at the end of the day. I kept my mint GC complete exclusives collection and some other pieces, but all the NES, SNES, N64, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, PS Vita, GB, GBA, DS, 3DS, X box, 360, Pc big boxes etc all got sold. I made thousands off it. Whenever I miss it i watch stuff like this to remind my self that all collecting will end up like this guy. A room full of trash and little of it cherished. My take anyway, not that you asked.
That hitman Playstation is by far the coolest console I've ever seen. Nothing comes close. Imagine a partially opened suitcase sitting on the table plugged into the TV. What a conversation starter
Easy to get mesmerized by the sheer volume, plus some seriously valuable stuff. As a retro gamer myself though looking at those 5 to 8 foot high stacks of games, I know the ones on the bottom are slowly being crushed! lol. When you have this much though, shelf space disappears quickly I would imagine
@@marybetheby5184 and Last Gamer had a more kickass collection and set up Sadly I think he sold his collection to a guy in Sweden last year. Dude was more passionate than this guy. Just look up his room tour from 2017 or Games Room which was the more recent when he added an actually arcade room with over 97 machines
@@brianbruce4261 Oh,I know all about Last Gamer.His recreation of Flashback and his entire house was incredible.Followed him for 11 years.Hope he didn't sell.What a shame that would be..
As a collector of games over 1k half of it digital, half of physical. That’s someone I respect a lot to keep collection. I don’t think he play every single one but from his eyes he tries to play the ones that mean most to him and that’s alot of goodness.
