Do you own hardware with some "interesting" history?I got my cps2 mainboard for 20 euros about 15 years ago, turns out it belonged to some arcade called Videotronics in the UK.
back in like 95ish I found a copy of pic related just sitting in the gutter while walking to schoolidk if that counts as interesting history
Not hardware, but i met Ralph Baer in person and own a signed copy of a book he wrote.
my macintosh classic had about 10 years of bookkeeping documents and letters from some construction company still sitting there. they used that fucker up until 2003.
>>12059596That depends entirely on your personal definition of "'interesting' history". I got nearly all my arcade hardware second hand. So all "that belonged to some arcade". The Galaga cab I bought for $25 in 1985 belonged to some arcade. Every bandwagoners arcade cab/board belonged to some arcade.Personally I find stories like >>12059630 far more interesting. Any faggot can buy something on ebay. Finding something in some unexpected situation is far more interesting.Similar to that, several years ago one of my neighbors was doing renovations and had a yuge pile of supplies and c&d by the sidewalk under a tarp. To hold down the tarp they used a bunch of cinder blocks, and one Saturn (OG xbox wasn't popular in my village). The Saturn was yellow and the PSU was shot but otherwise worked fine.
>>12059596huh they are still around
I own an Atari game that i am assuming belonged to James Rolf's(AVGN) personal collection. I was at a con a number of years ago where he was signing shit/meet&greet, but he was also selling some personal stuff of his next to his AVGN merch, just some random games. I was up looking at that stuff and found a game I didn't have, asked him how much, and because he was so busy with other stuff, he ended up autographing it. I told him after it was his game, and then he finally realized it and said 5 bucks, so i said "well damn, guess i gotta get it now." So now i have a random Atari game that was owned and signed by him, but as far as I know, has never featured in any video of his as a topic.
>>12059596Not hardware related but I spoke to the guy who made the custom character animations for streets of rage remake
>>12060241That's pretty cool
I wasn't the lucky bastard who won it(came in 3rd place), but at a gaming expo in the early 2000s, i was in a Nintendo World Championship 1990 tournament where the winner got the actual cartridge it was played on. I'm trying to imagine how much it was worth at the time that the tournament holders were just willing to give it away like that, had to atleast been 500 dollars. Got a free year of Hollywood video rentals as a prize though.
>>12060241what game
>>12059596I don't have it anymore, but I got my first GBA sp by trading my gp32 with a broken scree to my friend who insisted on trading even though I felt bad trading a broken thing for a working thing. I remember offering him to trade back if he ever wanted to. Though, I can't blame him the gp32, at the time (2004ish). Was a crazy thing for a young teen to have. I remember I got it because I was looking at them on eBay and didn't realize my dad was signed in and clicked "buy it now". In those days, it automatically bought the item and I was screwed I got in a shit ton of trouble and was sent to work with my friend (who I ended up trading) on my step dad's bread route, but he just got high all day and gave us money and we sat in his dingy apartment and watched shitty cable tv for a week. strange memory.
>>12059596Was at the market in something like 2003. Guy in his about 40's selling Atari 2600, wonder if he was the original owner. Brought Daytona CCE from him, happened to be the same one I played in a demo pod at a game store years before.Brought Dreamcast from a different store, was the same demo pod system I had played previously.
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As a kid i had bought a black nes controller at a flea market. Used it as my main controller for years and only much later found out it was the one that went with the Sharp NES tv.
>>12059596I bought this cartridge in 2017 while on holiday in L.A. It's one of the Cartoon Network collections for GBAVideo. Great store, really. Poorly lit, dusty and with litteral piles of DVDs on the floor (I had to lift them up to take out the ones that interested me - I did buy a couple).
I have a nes cartridge, don't remember ever buying it, with "adam's property" written on the back with sharpieI don't know any adams, maybe it was a prototype cartridge or something?
>>12059596My mom used to be an elementary school teacher. She found a copy of Donkey Kong Country for the GBC on the playground and gave it to me. I still have it.
>>12062204I remember in high-school, some kid i knew on the bus found a copy of metroid fusion out in the middle of the street while he was waiting for the bus.
>>12059596i have Tony's Diddy Kong Racing cartridge. No, you cannot see it.
>>12059596My LaserDisc player was owned by Apple
>>12059596an imac g3, took a chance on it getting destroyed in shipping but it was fine, MFer knew to ship CRTs face down. It had belonged to a Dr Alaric Hopgood, a geologist of St.Andrews University in the UK. It had a load of book outlines, older research notes, university beaurcracy stuff. It was all an utter mess of files + folders, so i just zipped the whole thing. I'll sort it someday.
My PS2 slums power brick was apparently in prison because it has those void stickers all over with the name of said prison. No idea how I got it but I thought it was cool so I left them on.
>>12064025Fuck i forgot pic. It says "Jastrzębie Zdrój penitentiary. Tampering with this sticker removes the right to use the device." Apparently dudes inside were using those power bricks and rumble motors from controllers to make makeshift tattoo machines.
>>12064049I recently got one of those transparent plastic prison crts.
