>A Nintendo fan has been left devastated after thieves stole more than 860 NES games he had spent almost 40 years collecting – just three games short of completing the entire library.>Roger Holler, from Puyallup, Washington, began collecting Nintendo games as a child after his mother bought him his first NES when he was 11 years old.>Over the years, he added to the collection by picking up more games at stores and by attending gaming conventions, with the collection valued between $50,000 and $100,000 at the time it was stolen.>Speaking to KING 5, Holler said the sight of the empty shelves following the break-in has been difficult to deal with.>“I shake, I get headaches,” he said, adding that he now wants to remove the shelf entirely because he knows what used to be there.
Your computer can also be stolen. In fact your computer is probably already stolen and you don't realize it.
Your all digital future doesn't sound so bad after all now does it?
>>746097816>over 40 years old>still collecting toyskinda cringe honestly
>>746097816who the fuck steals nintendo cartridges?
>>746097816Man, that sucks. I hope he had some insurance on it at least, though it obviously wasn't about the price for that guy. Unless this does turn out to be insurance fraud.Seattle's such a shithole now.
This is honestly a huge fear of mine and I only value my physical game collection at about 3k-4k USD
>>746098041those were all his possessions, the rest of the house is emptyalso they're very easy to resell with no way of tracing their origin
>>746097816Actually, his mother threw them all out when he went away to camp.
The thieves were white
It had to have been someone who knew him, right?No random burglar is going for goddamn NES games.
If he couldn't stop the thieves from taking it, he didn't deserve to have it.
>>746097816>see WA>immediately wonder>google>35 miles south of Seattlehehe what a strange coincidence
Not to justify stealing desu but if the total sum of your belongings save your house or car couldn't fit into the largest check in suit case size for air travel then you're probably mentally ill.
>Maybe I will collect every NES gameThe moment this idea comes into your head any rational mind would realise how long it woud take, how expensive it would be, and how pointless it would be, and dismiss it instantly>>746098041People who target you for your proudly-flaunted collection of trinkets and sell it to some other collector who probably set all this up in the first place
>>746097816>>746098107His problem was that he had it on full display in his living room. Never do that, keep your collection squirreled away from prying eyes. Even AVGN keeps his mountain of crap in the basement where it's significantly harder to access as an intruder also he lives in an open carry state, imagine getting blasted by The Fucking Nerd for stealing his video games
>>746098207Usually yeah, maybe not someone he knows super well but most likely someone he knows, youre not gonna take a chance entering a random dude's home just to get blasted
>>746098041>>746098207member those paid news segments bought from those grading companies about how graded nintendo games are worth millions of dollars? this is the end resultjust imagine the burglars face when he checks ebay and all those ass games are worth 5-15 bucks
was he insured
>>746098445Just don't live in a shithole. Even if you somehow get robbed in your gated community proper countries have insurance companies that aren't allowed to rob you a second time by denying a clear cut claim.
>>746097816nigga got an insurance claim
>>746097816people get stolen from all the time, especially minoritieslosing your toys is NOT a big deal
>>746097816>not having a gps tracking device in your collection>not tracking the mfs down who took your bingbongwahoo>not knocking them out with your gamerfragnance>not dressing them up as peach and forcing them to unbirth your bogling collectionshiggydiggy
>>746097816He made 3 mistakes:1. Have it on full display and probably gloating about it online and with friends2. Collecting physical media when you can literally get entire library in a single usb drive3. Living close to NIGGERS
>>746099156I have a big vidya collection and my neighborhood became majority black in the last 6 years.
>>746099293You need to run
>>746099293Get an insurance on all your shit, not just vidya. Move out asap.
it was bound to happenwho hasn't looked at some internet talking heads bragging hoard and wished to swipe something from iti had a neighbor who was known about town as a car guy, thieves stole an engine right out of a car in the garage which clearly has to be planed out
Live in a rural, low crime area you retardI don't even lock my doors at night because everyone on my street is white and owns at least 2 firearms. I know all of my neighbors, most people have dogs. I have a fence and a gate and I don't think there's been a robbery in my neighborhood in over 10 years.Live around white people. As long as you're not in some incredibly low income area filled with methheads, you will be completely safe in some redneck area filled with armed hillbillies.
>>746097816Physical cuck delusion:>"You don't own anything digital because they can take away your entire library at any time!"Reality:>People's entire physical library can be taken away at any time. Digital is far more resilient.
>>746099529If being robbed is only a matter of time for you, you have much larger problems than video games. Also you're very likely brown.
>>746099365>>746099383I can't move I'm a NEET and this house is all I'll inherit. Seriously though I walked past the local park last year and it was like 50 black teenagers just loitering around. It wasn't like this a little while ago.
>>746099529what if they steal your pc with all your games on it
>>746099636>jobless brokie lives among other jobless brokiesWell, it's not like you have much to rob in that case.
>>746097816This is just life. Insurance exists for a reason. Material possessions get stolen or destroyed all the time. Is this the first time you heard of this? Wait until you learn about fires and water damage... your mind is going to be blow anon.
>>746099636Sell your house and buy a new one somewhere else you idiot. Your house has value, although that value is set to drop given what you're saying about your neighborhood. Sell it while you can.
>>746099636sell as fast as you can your property value will go down faster the more black people are near it
>>746099498You need to live in a secluded, all white, middle income neighborhood to be completely safe. High income starts to become a magnet for roaming junkies and niggers from out of town as I've had the misfortune of finding out.
>>746099620Burglary, not Robbery. There's 750,000 burglaries per year in the USA. That doesn't include fires, flooding, tornadoes, etc.There have been zero irrecoverably lost steam accounts. You can always get your account back.>>746099667Then you just re-download the games when you get a PC again.
>>746099886Middle income for me, yeah. Also the guy across the street is a cop who parks his patrol car in his driveway so that helps.
>>746098289Sitting in a circle on the floor looking at the wall at anon's house
>>746099761anyone else think that most fires are just fake for insurance fraud? the last 2 fires ive heard of were very fishy>failing restaurant because its old and needs to renovated>owner has no money>kitchen catches fire, everything burns down>insurance pays>rebuilds restaurant nicer than before>no longer failingstory 2>guy owns 2 houses>1 old and shitty 1 just shitty>old house roof catches fire due to old cables catching on fire>only the roof gets destroyed>lets the rain ruin the rest of the house>insurance pays>pimps out new house>old house is still a ruinfor all the stories of insurances not paying those 2 sons of bitches must have made bank
>>746098615>worth 5-15 bucksI wish. my last look on ebay has them all at like 70 dollars each for common games.I wish I had got into collecting 10-15 years ago when they were like 5 dollars each on ebay.
>>746098289
>>746098289sparta wont come back
How could a collection be worth $100k when NES games are 100% free?
He either told someone about his gigantic $100,000 usd worth collection of NES cartridges, setting himself up to be stolen from deserved or this is gofundmebait / insurance fraud.
>still living in Washington in the year of our lord 2026I can never leave ;_;
>>746097816>non zero chance it was nintendo itself
>>746100561kek
>>746100461>NES games are 100% free?No they aren't, but of course a mentally ill tranime poster will be confused and mix up nes games with nes pirate roms.
everyone who typed the words NES cartridges are toys, should not be on this board.
>>746097816I have the entire NES/SNES library in one sd card. Should I hire guards and install lasers, sensors and shit?
>>746098835You need the receipt of any purchase for this to work right?
>>746097935Having a rootkit doesn't steal your computer, are you retarded?
>>746097816>tfw If my full no-intro nes rom collection gets deleted I can just download it again for $0.00
>>746100817Do not worry anon, no one steal shit from bums
>>746097816Lmfao get fucking rekt. Imagine being a plastic fag.
>>746100931wow no shit sherlock
>>746097816>physical games will survive digital librariesYeah there ends the cope every time natural disaster hits or nigger disaster hits and steals your games
Why do I get a feeling this guy was probably on the news talking about his collection before the robbery happened.
>>746097995Nintenbabies never grow up he even said that his shitty games collection are more important than his son. I hope and wish it was the son that stole and sold that shit. What a piece of shit manchild of a father.
>>746100461>How could a collection be worth $100kBecause people buy physical retro games which gives them value. By comparison digital games can't be resold so they have no value.
Pirateniggers are so obnoxiois and pretentious.
>>746097816Digital wouldn't have been stolen, what a loser
>>746101345digital is always physically somewhere
>>746097935Oh shit!>open romset folder>all roms in thereSafe, for at least one more day...
>>746098184>The thieves were whiteWhy do you think that?There are enough black people in greater Seattle to have them be the perp and they definitely know the value of video games, that's the first thing they grab
>>746101495is that the uber eats driver or the scammer
>>746101534Its not like you couldn't download them in 1 minute if you wanted why would you care if they are still wasting space on your disc while you don't even play them
>>746101612yes
>>746101674What if the intahnetto dies tomorrow anon?
>>746101582>Why do you think that?Because white people would recognize that NES games are worth somethingOtherwise it would have been the TV that got stolen.Plus if they weren't white they would have been caught already trying to sell this shit to a pawn shop in the same city.
>>746101674What if the internet suddenly dies for a while?
>>746098615Collectors will buy them and drive the price up. That said if the thief is too old he may wind up selling them for a small amount because "a lot of money" is really ambiguous.
>>746101940>for a whileIt would have to be a lot longer then a while.
>>746100870No. Just documentation of their existence. Like pictures of everything, making sure to list them when filling for insurance because anything that valueable needs to be declared.
>>746098615>just imagine the burglars face when he checks ebay and all those ass games are worth 5-15 bucks5-15 bucks are 5-15 bucks anon they won't gove a shit, and if he really had an almost full physical romset there has to be something rare in there.
>>746099636>all these guys telling you to sellJust make arrangements with the government to pay you to shelter those Niggers while you stay far away.
>>746097816The actual entire NES collection including every language, obscure beta, demo, and all other rarities is like 2mb, and they're free from plastic DRM.
is there any physical media you guys collect or are you all digital only?
>>746102440Only physical things worth having are inherently physical, such as original paintings, figures, lego, plushies. Mass produced media that's only meant to hold information is completely meaningless, including books unless they were hand written. What matters is what data they contain, I put no value on what's holding that data.
>>746102440Mostly manga but I also occasionally buy a figure if I think it looks nice and isn't too expensive. Pic related is something I preordered recently
>>746102440Not really, unless you count the 2-3 doujinshi I import per year.When you can download 20 generations' worth of media in a day you start to get a warped view of the world. I hope drives remain to be accesible for my lifetime at least.
Really proud of this guy and the unplanned donation he made to a vulnerable member of the community who needed it more than he did. Really commendable.
>>746097816I wonder if some of those games were unreleased never dumped games.
>>746102440I buy half of my games physically and anime/manga/movies that I'd like to re-read/rewatch.
>>746097816His fault for making it known that he has something worth stealing in his home.
>>746103171i didn't know there were disabled women that were hotim starting to think hitler might've been wrong
>>746103084You have no issues with BD and DVD? I heard some friend has a BD player but somehow several of his movies and/or animes don't play on it despite them being in the correct region.
>>746103473From my experience no. For anime I get blurays meant for European players so they've always worked for me. For movies I mainly buy 4Ks that don't have any region lock to begin with.
>>746097816just use an emulator. collectorfags are the dumbest motherfuckers in this hobby which is no small feat
>>746100170I still have all of my old games from when I was a child, I want to sell them because I'm tired of keeping them stored but I also don't want to get ripped off or robbed so I have no idea how to safely do it while still getting close to max value.
>>746103640I see, thanks.
>>746103171...would
>>746097816>Live in shithole Washington>Tell people about your vidya collection>Tell people that you are going out of town>Vidya stolenProbably didn't have any kind of security system either.
>>746097816good riddance lmao
>>746103438Tis a tranny I'm afraid
>>746099636>I can't move I'm a NEET and this house is all I'll inherit.Sell your house before its value completely collapses.
Nigga stole a bunch of junk hahaha
>>746103891isnt washington the capital of the usa? how is it a shithole?
>>746103171;_;They always say "OK psycho," never "Are you okay, psycho?"
>>746097935All a foid has to do to ruin your life and take your computer away is say you have pdf files on your computer and the police can come and take it away without a warrant.
You invest that much into a collection and don't have security?I don't own many expensive things and I've turned my house into a fortress over the years, cameras, gates, bars on the windows, alarms, even a rat can't get in here and a lot of it is off the grid so even if power goes out I'm safe.
>>746103949neat so anons can splooge inside without risk
>>746103891It was also most likely people he knew as well and had already been inside his house to look at it
>>746104086do you live in south afrika or is it just a hobby for you?
>>746104174inb4 rural norway
>>746104041You're thinking of Washington D.C., which is on the opposite side of the country. D.C. is also an even bigger shithole, or at least it was until The Donald brought down the boot and then sent fuckers out to clean up/fix everything that had been left to rot.
>>746104041>artificial city designed and built in a compromise plain with nothing interesting around for the express reason to be the capitalAll these are shitholes. Brasilia, La Plata, Washington, Canberra, etc.
>>746101612the scammer, he made shovelware games with malware in them to steal crypto wallet credentialsfeds caught him due to the obscene amount of UberEats deliveries across multiple accounts to his specific address paid for with the stolen money
>>746098445The last thing you see before you get blasted and the nerd takes a dump on your body
>>746099498They're bringing the meth heads to us now by building homeless shelters in any area that seems too nice for plebs
>>746098445>also he lives in an open carry stateImagine not living in a constitutional carry state.
>>746104376Just move to a jewish neighborhood.
>>746098306it would have been easy as hell if you started 30 years ago, shit was worthless then
>>746098184You wish
>>746099498I live in a semi-rural city, and still had some retarded meth head wander in off the main road and walk into my neighborhood. He ignored my neighbor's flood lights as he walked across his yard, and then started walking up my driveway. My flood light camera came on and announced that he was being recorded. Stopped him in his tracks and he turned and walked right back out of the neighborhood.
>>746097816>buy digital>money stolen>buy physical>money stolen
>>746099636>omg are those teenagers? in a park?God damn white people are soft lmao.
>>746104526nta but yeah I remember that. my cousin bought every mega man on nes + snes back in like 2005 for literally like 15 bucksI picked up all the arc the lad games for 5 dollars
>>746100662Lolmad
>>746104281ah i see thanks
>>746104174I don't live in the nicest place I'll admit, but its more for my mom, dad died 3 years ago and I work night shift so she's all alone at night and I don't like that. I'm at peace when I'm working because she's safe.What really started me on this was after hurricane Maria, thieving nigs and weirdos everywhere, never been more thankful for my neighbors owning a shitbull.
>THE CITY OF PHYSICALFAGS>THE CITY OF CORPOWORSHIPPERS>THE CITY OF ANTIPIRATES
>>746104576>acquire digital without pecuniary investment whatsoever>nothing to be stolen to begin with
>>746098207I used to work at a Wal-Mart and you'd be surprised at how often Pokémon and sport cards get stolen. That shit makes a killing regardless on if you get rare cards or not.
>>746104806thats a nice reasonyoure a good guy kepping momma save
>>746097816Inside job
>>746098289>he genuinely thinks photos of college guys' rooms are an accurate representation of how grown men livePeople have belongings. You're the anomaly.
>>746097816I had a long time friend who went to jail, and when he got out I really wanted to try to hang out with him more so that he didn't fall back into the things that got him into jail in the first place. Not entirely his fault, he got dealt a pretty rough hand, yada yada. So I brought over my SNES and we played it. I trust him, so I just left it there. Apparently he was also hanging out with the wrong crowd again, and someone stole my SNES with like Earthbound and all the expensive games. Looking back, I kinda new better than to leave the SNES there, but I was trying to "save" my bro. He didn't really wanna be saved though, because not long after that he was doing dozens of bars a day, inviting me over to what had basically become a trap house, and not even remembering whether or not I showed up.
>>746104907Sure, but those at least are small or in bulk containers. Easy to grab and go.With an entire collection of NES games, whoever nabbed them had to have been prepared.
>>746099636It feels so good to live away from black people. I had to save every fucking penny for 6 years like mr money mustache. Working constant overtime. Then I got a really nice house in a nice neighborhood and got 3 roommates to pay the mortgage for me. Despite how hard I've worked for this house, there are no black people in sight.
>>746105053I mean you should have known better lad, you would have been better off getting him a old 100-200 dollar computer and just downloading a million roms for him
>>746104907I'll never understand sports cards. At least Pokemon cards have custom artwork even if people are retards for spending entire paychecks on single cards. What do sports cards have, some retard posing after hitting a ball?
>>746097816oh no!anyways
>>746097816Never understood why people enjoy hoarding overpriced plastic cartridges and discs. Odds are you're never going to play 90% of those games ever again. Just emulate like a normal person.
>>746105647Just human nature of collecting things and completing setsThese same people will avoid contributing to stock portfolios because "you can't take it with you when you die!"
>>746101245>his shitty games collection are more important than his sonsource or quote where he says that?
>>746097816Bing Bing Boo Hoo
>>746105647normal people pay for roms in Nintendos walled garden
>>746098042Fraud was my first thought. Or a rival that specifically targeted him. You'd need a van or truck to even fit all of those games and you'd need multiple bags and people to load it all up. And in this day and age when everyone has a ring camera no one noticed a suspicious van or truck drive by that day? Something sounds off here. Whoever did this definitely had a plan.
>>746097816Guess some crackhead hoodnigga saw that short/TikTok about scraping gold from broken NES carts and saw a goldmine for crack. Little bro probably smoked through the entire stash already by the time this boomer realized he got robbed.
>>746097816just flock camera the thieves whats the problem?
>>746105896
>>746106105/Thread
>>746103171From the looks of it it seems like cerebral palsy. I had one guy at my school who had it, his motoric skills were fucked up, his walking stride was very weird, it was like combination of limping with overextending certain movements. I still remember people being weirded out coming to know that there's a normal person inside just like us and he had no mental retardation of any kind, it was just his movement that was super weird. The girl in the webm reminds me of his symptoms a lot.
>>746104070>dbans self
>>746105453Believe it or not but sports normies see athletes like pokemon
>>746098816>a clear cut claimWe'll let the courts determine that, claim denied
>>746106105you have the brain of a rock
>>746102440I collect yugioh But yugioh is like the only TCG that isn't worth stealing
>>746104625>he lacks basic pattern recognitionAnon's post and news headline will end up in a png in a /pol/tard's folder.
>>746106903Doesn't YGO have a few orders of magnitude more """"""ridiculously expensive""" cards than MTG or the like and deckbox stealing is a real problem in tourneys?
>>746107190Lol noIt'd probably cost you more in gas money to travel to a YGO tournament then you'd get selling someone's deck.Unlike most card games, yugioh cards value tends to depreciate quickly because konami has a decent reprint policy.
Meanwhile I dumped 3 boxes of videogames at the recycling centre.
>>746107756Based modern day buddha
>>746097995yeah dudenow tell us how you were a fucking millionaire when you were 5, fucking little bitch
>>746107190The expensive cards that see play get reprinted. What you heard about were probably first edition shiny cards, or cards exclusive to some rare event.
>>746097816Genuinely feel terrible for him.
>>746097816>the s wordThey were taken as reparations. Dumb cracka.
>>746107947>or cards exclusive to some rare eventBeen a while but I think it was something like that, yes. How the first place in big events wins exclusive cards that supposedly can fetch ridiculous sums.
>>746104308>American thief gets caught because he's so fat he only spent the money he stole on foodSasuga burgerland
>>746098306>probably set all this up in the first placehe had a friend do it...report it as stolen, get 60% of the value if had sold on ebay via an insurance check...and gets to keep it. boom
>>746107756Based I hope they were filled with unmolested boxed Earthbounds
>>746097816NOOOO NOT THE GAMES THAT SIT ON TEH SHELF ALL DAY AND NEVER GET PLAYED THE HORROR
>>746097816What's the point of collecting NES games when you can literally download every game in the library probably under 1 GB and play them for free
>>746108119>that supposedly can fetch ridiculous sums.Last year Jesse Kotton won a big tournament and then posted posted on twitter that he was leaving his prize on the table for anyone to pick up lol.They have no value. Yugioh is a game where there are no true collectors. If you like yugioh, its usually to play it and paradoxily, most prize cards are vanilla monsters with no effects.I can literally pull up one of the yugioh prize cards right now on ebay. I'm seeing listings as low as 80$. That is pathetic for a prize card.
>>746108553>What's the point of collecting NES games when you can literally download every game in the library probably under 1 GB and play them for freei can see keeping your own ones you had as a kid for nostalgia sake...but to go out and buy 'new to you' copies just to put on a shelf is gay/mentally ill. unless it's to flip later for profit
>>746097816>save money buy stocks>brokerage takes it away because they find out your racist posting history>save money buy property>the state takes it away because they find out you didn't finish jamal off after he enjoyed your wife>save money buy vidya>gets stolenthere's really no way to make it today...
>>746108553Being a e-celeb known for having a big collection.Obviously this also means every thief knows about your collection too.
>>746108750>Being a e-celebkek, you'd have to kill me. million ways to make a buck without being known. im up like 12 grand on flipping this cyberleek crypto peaks/valleys. boss is bitching that i havent been at work for a few days
>>746108738Why do racist chuds always think about bbc?
>the numbers suggest the average value of a NES cart is $86I don't believe it.
>>746103171qt pie
>>746102141>>746100870Yeah. Just have plenty of information and evidence, plus the RIGHT insurance. Also, if you've been insured for at least a year, that helps drastically.He probably grew up, realized he was sitting on a bunch of garbage and had a friend steal it all away to make himself a nice hundred grand.
>>746097990>Your all digital future doesn't sound so bad after all now does it?Until you accidentally say a bad word one day...
>>746098042>Seattle's such a shithole now.I'm not American. Was it ever a decent place? All I know about it is that grunge artists were from Seattle and we all know how most of them ended up
