Hey, do need to personal a retro online game retailer in California? And (that is vital) are you not Elon Musk? Nicely, excellent news, somebody is promoting a sport retailer, its total inventory, and even its 15-foot-tall Mario effigy on Craigslist proper now, all for a cool $1,000,000. Why? As a result of the present proprietor simply needs to retire after operating the place for three-odd many years.
Situated in Sacramento, California, Dave’s Retro Video games opened within the late Eighties. As chronicled in an article printed by Rio Miranda Excessive Faculty in 2018, the shop’s proprietor and founder, Dave Smith, began promoting video games again within the early ‘80s at flea markets in Roseville, California. Finally, he was making more cash promoting video games on the weekend than he did in his regular job, so he give up and opened his personal retailer. For the final 35 years the place has develop into an area favourite resulting from its big choice and comfortable environment. Nonetheless, after many years of amassing, shopping for, and promoting video video games, it appears Smith is able to retire.
On June 25, Smith posted an advert on Craigslist titled “Video Sport Retailer, 35 years, 20,000 video games – $1,000,000 (Sacramento).” And because the title suggests, Smith is promoting his big assortment of video games, consoles, equipment, and extra to anybody who has a spare million {dollars} to spend.
You possibly can see Smith and his retailer on this native information section from earlier this 12 months:
What all do you get for $1 million?
Within the advert, Smith pitches any potential patrons with the concept this retailer may very well be handed over to a “gamer youngster over 21 that received’t go away the home.” Smith says shopping for this retailer to your “gamer youngster” is a “small value to pay to get her or him to go away.”
So what does $1 million get you? (The advert notes that the worth is $1.5 million in case your title is Elon Musk.) Nicely, you get the shop, all of the stuff in it, even its large, inflatable-lookin’ Mario and all of the video games in his storage. Smith says his storage is so stuffed with video video games he not has room for his automobile. The proprietor estimates he has over 20,000 video games in his huge assortment.
Kotaku has contacted Smith for remark.
So why he’s calling quits and promoting the place? I imply, past the truth that he seems like he needs his storage again. Nicely, based on Smith, he’s simply able to cease working, writing bluntly in his advert: “Simply pay the cash. I’m able to retire.” Buddy, I hear you.
