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A prototype of a never-produced video game machine colloquially known as the “Nintendo Play Station” has sold at…
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Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in…
Oct 18 2019
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A dentist named Eric Naierman sunk a cool $1.02 million on some first-edition, sticker-sealed games in September,…
Aug 9 2019
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Danielle Smith has spent half a million dollars on rare video games, most of it in the last nine months. And she’s…
Feb 2 2018
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While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s…
Dec 28 2017
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Rudy stands in front of his regal mahogany bookcase stocked full with classics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Arabi…
Dec 8 2017
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I can’t stop buying Final Fantasy Trading Card Game booster packs. The iconic artwork printed on high-quality card…
May 16 2017
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With only 114 U.S. game releases and fairly reasonable aftermarket prices, the Sega Master System is an increasingly…
Jan 27 2017
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Including last October’s release of Just Dance 2017, 1,262 games have been released in North America for the…
Apr 28 2015
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The latest patch for action MOBA Smite dropped today, adding achievements, a brand new god, a revamped store…
Nov 11 2014
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Michael Thommason, who is certified as having the world's largest collection of video games, is putting them up for…
Apr 26 2014
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Redditor OhioStateBuck has collected every Nintendo 64 cartridge released in North America. Doesn't seem like much,…
May 11 2013
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About a month ago, renewed interest in the "Sega Pluto"—a prototype console that was more or less an online-enabled…
Apr 21 2013
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Only two Sega Plutos ever were made—it was a prototype console made in the late 1990s—and the owner of this one just put it up for auction on GameGavel. High bid is currently $7,600. Read more
Apr 20 2013
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The woman who purchased from a Goodwill store one of the rarest collectible video games in the world—valued by some…
Apr 16 2013
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It's the archetypal jackpot story of flea markets, pawn shops and antiques roadshows. Someone pays a few dollars for…
Feb 19 2013
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Aussie games collector Onur Gonullu has, in just five years, amassed a haul of 550 mostly retro video games, which…
Aug 28 2012
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In today's manic-action-packed installment of the TAY-powered Speak Up on Kotaku, our favorite OCD gamer, Daemon_Gild…
Jul 18 2012
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Three years ago, J.J. Hendricks (above, left) of Denver paid $17,500 for a rare Nintendo cartridge— Nintendo World…