WoW! Look at all of these SNES games!

[disgaeniac]

Anyone see this yet?!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/collector-selling-every-snes-game-for-25000-6401333

Not much of a SNES collector/expert myself, so I'm wondering...is this outrageous, or what?

[kimimi]

You'd be able to buy them cheaper if you did it yourself (if you paid their full total you'd be paying almost $35 a game), but part of the price of these complete sets is the (apparent) prestige of having an insta-collection and not having to go searching yourself.

Full sets don't interest me in the slightest, I don't understand people buying crappy games that they know they won't want to play.

[darko]

Everything better be MINT, totally complete (inserts included), and there better be every competition cart, etc. Even then, I think that's too much. Maybe $15,000?

[soera]

He's a member of NA named Byuu (I believe thats his name) and there are a couple threads to his sale on there.

[foxhack]

Yeah, that's byuu, coder of the bsnes SNES emulator. He bought all these games to redump and scan them.

25 grand for all of these is cheap.

[turf]

These types of auctions pop up all the time.  I figure this is just some dude asking a crazy high price for a collection to brag for a bit.  If someone bites, sure he'll sell it.  If not, tons of people talking about it on forums all over the internet; just like we're doing here.

[foxhack]

It's not just some crazy dude.

Well, he is kinda crazy, but not because of this price. I'm pretty sure he spent that much money just to dump the games properly.

[jcalder8]

I don't think the price is that excessive since they all have boxes. Of course it's not how I would want to buy it or how I would spend the money if I had it.

[ko1ru]

I think it's a reasonable price considering just how many of these are complete and in decent condition (according to the seller).  Would I buy them all in one go?  Probably not.  For one, the thrill and satisfaction of amassing such a complete collection is going out and finding each and every one of these games for yourself, not relying on someone else to have already done the work.  Also, I certainly don't have that kind of money anyway.