Collecting is a unique hobby, it can be free items found like seashells, left-over items like corks from wine bottles or more expensive options like rare coins and artwork. Why one particular object of desire is collected over another varies from person to person, in this case it was a man’s 30 year obsession, video game systems, games and accessories. These items are now available on eBay to the highest bidder in one lot.
There is so much stuff listed that the seller can’t even list it all, but it seems to start around the Atari 2600 system through present. Current high bid is $7,600 with 2+ days to go. Check out the auction here and get your bid on.
I reported it here first… well, not first, but whatever, I reported it and I’m gonna link back to it. For those of you who spent the last 9 hours sleeping instead of PLAYING THE LATEST CHAPTER OF ONE OF THE BEST VIDEO GAME FRANCHISES OF ALL TIME, then you weren’t aware that Halo 3 from Microsoft and Bungie Games dropped at midnight. If most of your male and/or nerdy co-workers are absent today, it’s because they’ve been up all night shit-talking to 12-year-olds in Kansas via XBOX Live and shooting the shit out of each other in Slayer mode. Halo 3 is Microsoft’s core game (with Master Chief being it’s new hero) and they apparently had everyone at Bungie working their asses off to make this deadline. Well, they did, beating out RockStar Games (GTA4 got pushed back until freaking 2008) and making this the sure hit of 2007.
Sadly, I have not gotten the chance to try it out yet. My buddy Dan is picking it up after work and hopefully he won’t kick me off his front lawn where I will sit until he lets me in to play.
Here’s a screenshot from the game to hold you over until you get home from work:
In what could possibly be one of the most unique marketing ideas in a while, big bad box store Wal-Mart will have dedicated check-out lines for the release of the much anticipated Xbox 360 Game, Halo 3. This is rather unique in that most Wal-Mart stores are open 24 hours and they have agreed to sell the game at midnight.
If you talk to any hardcore gamer who’s into these sorts of games, they will tell you that they have probably already pre-ordered it. Some will even stand in lines the day / night of the sale, just to get the game before others do. With Wal-Mart advertising checkout lines just for the sale of this game, it could lead to more people skipping the traditional gamer stores and hitting up the big box giant, not only boosting Wal-Mart sales but could prove to be a nail in the coffin of the smaller mall based game stores like GameStop. Take a look at this 3 page forum post where most are agreeing that they would rather go to Wal-Mart and get fast checkout then deal with their local game store.
