Video game collector Greg McLemore, who founded Pets.com and Toys.com during the dot-com boom, won the console, outbidding other collectors including Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey.
McLemore's collection includes coin-operated arcade games like Atari's "Pong," which is the first commercially successful video game. "The other 199 prototypes purported to exist were allegedly destroyed when the partnership between Nintendo and Sony was officially severed, and, though it isn't certain, it is entirely possible this unit narrowly missed that fate," Valarie McLeckie, consignment director of video games at Heritage Auctions, which held the auction for the console, said in a press release.
That is stupid.
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