Vintage gaming collection washed away in Aussie floods

[G-Darius]

OUCH!

http://kotaku.com/5735493/vintage-gamin ... s/gallery/

[Lord_Santa]

similar thing happened to me, when I left my C-64 at a friend's house in a Denmark, upon moving to Sweden

411 disks, 375 tapes, 1 printer, 3-4 diskdrives, 3 tape-drives, a bunch of cartridges (including Shadow of the beast), 6 joysticks, 1 monitor, the C-64 itself, etc.,etc.

all gone due to a flooded basement

needless to say, that was 15 years of collecting

[flojocabron]

Sadness!!!

although games can be bought again lives cannot! so lets give a moment to our Austrailian friends.

we've all lost a game or two due to old age or accident, but there are worse things out there like the link above.

Where I live there may not be any flooding, but theres always the threat of an earthquake!

mother nature holds in her hand the human reset button!

[AmishSamurai]

similar thing happened to me, when I left my C-64 at a friend's house in a Denmark, upon moving to Sweden

411 disks, 375 tapes, 1 printer, 3-4 diskdrives, 3 tape-drives, a bunch of cartridges (including Shadow of the beast), 6 joysticks, 1 monitor, the C-64 itself, etc.,etc.

all gone due to a flooded basement

needless to say, that was 15 years of collecting

Sweet Jesus. Almost makes me glad my collection is rather small.

[D.D.D.]

RIP for the folk that died in the floods.

But yeah, that dudes collection was pretty epic. http://nfgphoto.com/grafx/index.php?pat ... FGameFlood
It looks like he had 7 or 8 AES'.

[Gunstar Green]

That really hurts. I often worry about losing my own, much smaller collection to a fire or natural disaster.

Nothing you can do about it though. I'm not trying to marginalize the loss of life of course but looking at these pictures of the trashed collection is like a punch in the gut for me.

[Croooow!]

Wow that sucks. I've seen enough flooded basements working in insurance that I'll never have games or books down there out of the possibility of water loss.

[Hatta]

It's worse knowing how much you guys pay for retro gear down there. I hope he at least runs some of this stuff through a dishwasher, some of the consoles might be salvageable.

[AppleQueso]

It's worse knowing how much you guys pay for retro gear down there. I hope he at least runs some of this stuff through a dishwasher, some of the consoles might be salvageable.

...electronics?

through a dish washer?

[pureevil]

poor fuckers I wish them well