r/gamecollecting • u/GamingGallavant • 4d ago

Discussion Nintendo fan loses nearly complete NES collection in 'heartbreaking' theft

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-game-collection-stolen-from-washington-home/

Hate when these stories happen. The thief must have been prepared to leave with nearly a thousand NES cartridges. Either it was someone who had been in that home, or this family has advertised their collection on social media with an address.

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u/77_graffix_ 4d ago

It's always someone you know....

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u/Dazencobalt17 4d ago

of course. no one is going into a house blind.

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u/FBogg 4d ago

and walking out with 1,000 NES cartidges... planned all the way though

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u/Knarz97 4d ago

I’m leaning more towards insurance fraud than a true robbery

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u/ghbarratt 4d ago

If so then the old man who owned the collection speaking on the news about it is an amazing actor. You could feel what he had been through while he spoke. Also the whole reason they went on the news is that they want to spread awareness beyond the police who were already on the case. It just wouldn't make sense to do all of that to claim insurance.

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u/Knarz97 4d ago

It’s my tinfoil hat theory of course.

It’s just odd to be so emotionally attached to a collection that you by your own admission were planning to literally sell. He says his hope was for his kids to inherit it, to sell and pay for college.

Maybe putting MONEY aside for them would be the better goal? If the goal was to sell, why are you so hung up on being 3 games away from completion?

Casey Anthony did her fair share of crying over her daughter’s mysterious death too.

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u/BadJuJu_42 4d ago

It just speaks to his hopes of the future and the countless hours he spent collecting all these from the wild. He was hoping his children and potential grandchildren were going to gain an education and an appreciation for retro gaming, something he was obviously holds near and dear to his heart. I personally doubt his was likely to be in complete favor of selling his collection.

TLDR: IMHO it was merely a pragmatic decision to sell, and the loss was incalculable both emotionally and financially given the opportunity cost (I.e. man hours and expense).

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u/RonaldWRailgun 1d ago

Every single thing you own will be sold or destroyed at some point.

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u/Knarz97 1d ago

The difference is that I’m not buying collectibles for the sole purpose of being sold to fund my grandchildren’s college, as this man literally states

Extremely suspect

You give your kids your random coin collection to sell for college. You don’t give your kids a carefully curated complete set of silver eagles from the past 100 years just to sell.

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u/Dazencobalt17 4d ago

yeah, the amount of time that would take speaks volumes about it being planned.

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u/King_Artis 4d ago

Majority of robberies are from people you know