Yesterday a few of us had a chance to meet a legendary video game player Ben Gold. He was in town to meet up with Callan Hendricks and was gracious enough to stick around for us to stop by and meet him. For those of you that went "Who?", here is a link to an article that explains what Ben has accomplished better than I can: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/commu...video-5437.ece. Or just google "Ben Gold arcade player".
One of his latest projects is to establish a high end video game collectables auction site. This is something that I think is very exciting. Most of us collect rare and memorable video game items when we can get them and when it is time to part with them, off they go to eBay where they go for pennies. His concept is to get the best of the collectible items and aution them off the same way they do Picassos and 2,000 year old Ming vases. In a fine art style on-line auction. He has some pretty cool items up right now. If you haven't gone out to his site, it deserves a look. Right now he has Walter Day's referee uniform, a Kong Off cabinet, one of the "naked" centipede posters and some other cool items.
I think Ben has doen a really nice job of laying out the site. As I said, it is modeled after the fine art type on-line auctions, so it is a radical departure from the "c'mon down to America's garage sale" format eBay uses. I think it could work. But it needs people to stop in and register and it needs some more cool things. If I had known that this stuff would have turned into collectibles, I would have been stealing, I mean saving, stuff from Williams by the car load.
The url for the auction site is: www.ivgah.com
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One of his latest projects is to establish a high end video game collectables auction site. This is something that I think is very exciting. Most of us collect rare and memorable video game items when we can get them and when it is time to part with them, off they go to eBay where they go for pennies. His concept is to get the best of the collectible items and aution them off the same way they do Picassos and 2,000 year old Ming vases. In a fine art style on-line auction. He has some pretty cool items up right now. If you haven't gone out to his site, it deserves a look. Right now he has Walter Day's referee uniform, a Kong Off cabinet, one of the "naked" centipede posters and some other cool items.
I think Ben has doen a really nice job of laying out the site. As I said, it is modeled after the fine art type on-line auctions, so it is a radical departure from the "c'mon down to America's garage sale" format eBay uses. I think it could work. But it needs people to stop in and register and it needs some more cool things. If I had known that this stuff would have turned into collectibles, I would have been stealing, I mean saving, stuff from Williams by the car load.
The url for the auction site is: www.ivgah.com
ken