At the other end of the spectrum is the old Colecovision unit like the one that appeared under the Christmas tree one year after his grandparents gave him his first game for it. They had mistakenly believed his parents had gotten their hands on the video game system, which was a hot item that year. It stands to this day as the best present his parents ever gave him.
"It's my first love, so it's sentimental," Thomasson said. But the games also were quality, with very little of the "shovelware" — mediocre, rushed releases — typical of many systems, he said. "They looked good, they played good. For the time they sounded good," he said, "for the bleeps and blips of the '80s."
Thomasson began collecting almost immediately, he said, but the path to the world record had a couple of restarts. He sold off his collection twice, first in 1989 to raise money for a Sega Genesis, then again to pay for his 1998 wedding. ("I was into collecting when we married so she knew what she was getting into," he said of his wife, JoAnn.)
Since then, Thomasson has methodically rebuilt the collection, averaging two games per day on a strict US$3,000-a-year (approximately NT$90,800) budget that means never paying full price. He estimates the collection is worth up to US$800,000 (approximately NT$24.2 million).
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