The $1.6 Million Video Game Collection Is The Largest In The World | The Vault | Forbes
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- Antonio Romero Monteiro has almost every video game you've ever heard of - from Nintendo to Poop Slinger. He started collecting as a kid, enjoying the gameplay and fantasy stories. According to The Guinness Book Of World Records, Monteiro has the biggest collection of video games in the world. At 23,063 games, Monteiro estimates his collection to be worth around $1.6 million. In this episode of The Vault, Monteiro shows us some of the rarest games and consoles he has from around the world.
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GameStop estimates this to be valued at $312.16 cash or $352.65 store credit
Underrated comment 😂
I was confused as a kid trading in my Mafia 1 game on ps2 for like $2 I walked out with a candy cause that is all I could get
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Thanks for the kind words. Family and I had a blast hosting the interview. Hope you enjoy a glimpse of my collection 🙂
Living your passion... nothings better than that
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I had the old school Nintendo from the 1980's and remember playing Mike Tyson's punchout so many times until I started beating up Tyson and overturning the game almost everytime I played the game. lol
Wall to wall games and stacking. You sir are a game horder. I feel sorry for all those game cases.
@@monfr0 damn ur jealous
@@monfr0 you are sad
My biggest hope for him is that he has documented every one and has them insured.
He would only be paid for the losses, not at their highest possible sale value. The true damage is he would never be able to replace this much content if it were lost to fire.
@@Ichabod_Jericho not true. There’s special insurance for collectibles
There is another video of a another collector who did this. The archived their entire collection using bar codes.
In order for Guinness record, yea everything needs to be logged..so he has that covered..as for the insurance, I'm sure he's smart enough to know he needs it
@@Shookzy doesn't matter, the point is they would not be replaceable. It's like saying who cares if you die, you have a 500k life insurance payout.
The way he enjoy his life through that collection..so cool and great!
I hope one day collections like this can be made into a museum. It would be amazing to look at all the things up close and discover things we never knew about.
Amazing colelction !!!
This man and his kids literally can play any game they want to
LOL you think he lets them even touch those?,he's sick he doesn't play games just collect them,and i can guarantee you he doesn't let anyone touch these games,they must stay where they are exactly,you are fool for even thinking that.
@Markarth Guard Yeah iv'e seen this behavior too many times,some people are doing it with digital collection which makes even less sense,since there's no guarantee you will be in possesion of those games,if certain digital publisher or how ever you wanna call them decides otherwise.
I know that this is highly unlikely to happen,reasons making money and keeping reputation,but still there is a possibilty,that aside i consider my self as someone who plays games a lot on multiple platforms,and the number of the games i finished is still around 300 or so,i would need to check to be precise,which is i guess high number,but that is the last 15 years of me playing games.
@Markarth Guard yeah bro a good small collection is always better.
@@EyefyourGf touch grass
so can you if you pirate
Whatever makes you happy. I can imagine the great feeling this guy has every time he enters the games room.
That dopamine rush that feeds the addiction
@@Ephesians-yn8ux lol
@@Ephesians-yn8ux yeah because when you game you're immediately addicted?.... tf you talking about
I bet. I'd live in that game room
As a huge Hitman fan that Ps4briefcase is mind blowing
except he said protagonist is Hitman lol not Agent 47
THIS I just mentioned that in a comment. I was massively disappointed. @@jakoah7142
I've worked very hard to have a 700+ games collection. Not even close to Antonio's, but the motivation is the same: playing the games that I loved as a kid and getting the games that I love as an adult.
I've downsized so many times. Selling off saturn games, psp collection, and my ps4 collection. Just collect ps1,2,3 switch, pc engine and random wii u, 3ds, ds, snes and genesis games.
@@bioboost12 If I ever decide to sell, I'll sell the whole lot. Selling by console or one by one would be a huge pain to me hahaha, I prefer to suffer the loss just once.
@stonerdemon Well mainly because I was being realistic on what I'm gonna play. I'm not even sure I'll get to everything I have right now lol. Having hundreds or games will probably take a lifetime to beat...especially when half of them are rpgs.
@@stonerdemonselling as a lot means buyers want the lowest per item price they can get. Like $1-$5 a game. So be prepared to sell it all for at least 50% of market value. And it’ll likely be to a retro gaming store or a reseller who intends to resell them for a good profit.
@@bioboost12 i sold a lot of mine too. Starting to really want a quality>quantity collection
Hello, Antonio! I'm a member of your club on Facebook and I feel the same way about video games. I played PS2 games since I was a toddler and I'm still playing video games, today. I was shocked and amazed about how much video games you have collected through your life. I'm glad to meet someone who has the same passion for video games as me.
This dude seems very chill about his collection he's not overly chauvinistic like a lot ppl with big collections.
The only person in the world that plays Retroarch fully legal. 😄
Wow! That’s passion, dedication and just fascinating! An amazing story. The Hitman PS looks fantastic!
So many games and probably still have moment's like "achh, I have nothing to play" 😂
Happy to see you enjoying your unique collection!
There's a higher value in money in his collection than the total amount of money most people will ever get in their lifetime by working. He must have a pretty good job.
Well a lot of games lose value than they become more value over time. Like Mega Man on the NES you could find for $2 at a couple of yard sales now it's +$80 for an example
@@d-manhiser1753 80% of his collection will still be worth $2 though so his estimation is miles out.
That hitman edition ps4 is priceless
Wow such a great collection to see! The organization is great!
Ive got the same collection on a couple of hard drives.
Whats crazy is he has them organized in alphabetical order. Lol wow
@_Decadent _Descent I do this each week with our inventory of about 3000 games. Chronological AND alphabetically
It makes it a lot easyer to find something, i have done the same with my 3650+ titles.
I always store my games in alphabetical order. It's easier to maintain and know if something comes up missing.
Might be the largest, but I think the last gamer has the most impressive collection.
I agree I'm pretty sure he does love the last gamer shame his health and other stuff has put his channel on hold but I agree not that this guy doesn't have an impressive collection Joel's presentation is amazing with his collection
Joel has more than twice as many games.
@@reidkemper not anymore. He sold it all
@@Sad-lawlessness Source? That was a rumor proven untrue.
@@Sad-lawlessness In that episode, he was packing up the games because he was moving again.
I love how he has started this collection world record, but Last Gamer 3 years ago had 44k. This WR Antonio has currently is 23k.
@My name is Clash ??? Sorry I misclarified, *this* world record currently (the one in this video), states he has 23k games. But he obviously doesn't have the world record, considering how Last Gamer from 3 years ago had 44k. Imagine his collection now!
My first thought on seeing this too.
@@bucketbucket. Last gamer has not officially tried to beat it yet, he said he might ask them to come look in the future but right now he has no plans to go for it even though we all know he has the most games!
@@YellowFTO He's currently too busy posting repeats of his old videos
Joel is my personal hero
collection like this is priceless !!!
I think "The Last Gamer" in Australia may have this beat. He took the Guinness World title in 2009 but never re-upped it due to it taking 3 weeks to inventory his then massive collection. Currently, he has a custom-built warehouse that is approximately the size of 4 Super Walmart Centers showcasing his Unbelievable collection of Arcade cabinets, Computer Gaming consoles, Game Consoles, & Handhelds. He has his very own Food court inside of it which he often caters to private parties. He keeps adding to it daily and gets over several tons of donations monthly. It's like a living museum of video game history.
This is still nonetheless an impressive collection!
How do you know this?
@@MrTBA That's his boyfriend.
@@MrTBA just search here for the „last gamer“ he have an channel here and yes, his collection is impressive
@@MrTBAJoel Hopkins aka Last Gamer and former Guinness record holder, had put up a video years ago describing this. I also believe he has a bigger collection of console, computer and arcade games than this guy. Joel also put way more money and effort into the presentation, housing and setup than this guy. Not to take anything away from this incredible collection, but you asked 🤷🏻♂️
perhaps he has the biggest collection including consoles, pinballs, arcades, controllers etc... etc... and as such this guy may have more games. by the way do you see people here talking about insurance, it made me think about thelastgamer and how a lot of his stuff was damaged by a lightening strike and none of his stuff was insure @@wolfgangpuff7030
This man is the greatest I’ve seen him before on here he literally has every console and every game full complete sets think the only one he still has to work on is the rest of the ps1 games
Wonder if hes near PA. We sold a guy like 150 PS1 games last year at a con
@@ObsessedCollector How much was that sale?
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That hitman Playstation is by far the coolest console I've ever seen. Nothing comes close. Imagine a partially opened suitcase sitting on the table plugged into the TV. What a conversation starter
The SNES is way cooler than that junk.
The ladies would get juicy
Easy to get mesmerized by the sheer volume, plus some seriously valuable stuff. As a retro gamer myself though looking at those 5 to 8 foot high stacks of games, I know the ones on the bottom are slowly being crushed! lol. When you have this much though, shelf space disappears quickly I would imagine
Physical >>>>>>>>>>>>> Digital, always has, and always will be that way until the end of time!
Just imagine if u traded it all in a games stop you would get 20 dollars in-store credit and 15 dollars in cash!
That is an amazing collection keep up the love of collecting and play video games.
I love this! Even game developers don’t want to preserve video game history! All history is important! Great work!
I guarantee you game developers want to preserve video game history. They created it.
@@1ledluverjlp They want to but are not doing a good job.
Nice collection! he seems like the type of person who actually collects games for the enjoyment and does not collection (at least not completely) for monetary value.
I enjoy looking at my game shelf. Albeit my is just a single shelf, but thinking of the history of a specific era of games is like stepping into a time machine to a different era. I feel we have lost some of the magic with the loss of physical copies, and rental stores.
Lost magic? More like gained more space for cooler stuff
I started console gaming in 1981 and collecting in 1989. Obviously, the collection shown in this video required and requires an enormous amount of cash to put together. But what impresses me more is the space and, especially, the time required to manage such a collection, and keep adding to it. I should think that would be close to a full time job! Also, I wonder how far back the collection goes. If it dates from Atari 2600 or pre-Atari, and if most everything is boxed/complete, probably including some sealed games, then it must be worth more than $1.6 million. My collecting journey has been of a different nature because I have purchased very few of my games at retail price, either from stores, fellow collectors, or game dealers. Nevertheless, my NES collection (as one example) is complete (all boxed) except for Stadium Events and a couple others. This was “doable” only because I started so long ago, when games that are super expensive now were cheap and plentiful in the wild. It’s been fun.
It’s only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Right now he has built a plastic prison for himself, and is indulging in pure hedonism.
@@Ephesians-yn8ux That’s purely how you look at it-sheer opinion, one that some, but not many in the collecting world, would share.
@@mrmojorisin8752 oh no, it’s the objective truth. I’m a collector myself and this is beyond a hobby, it’s an obsessive compulsive mental disorder. He isn’t buying them to play them, he’s buying them to keep the collection complete because if he doesn’t it will induce anxiety and torment him mentally.
He’s an addict.
@@Ephesians-yn8ux I admit you have an interesting take. At what does a passionate collector become obsessive/compulsive? When has the line been crossed and how do you (or we) know? As I noted, I have almost every NES game complete in the box (short about 3 or 4) but I’ve never played 90% of them. No one would call me an addict.
@@mrmojorisin8752 Thats actually a very well formulated response and question to hit me with, let me take a crack at it.
I would say the two positions aren’t always synonymous and that you can be a collector of something without it becoming an addiction, while being aware that it has the ability to evolve into addiction territory if discipline and moderation aren’t exercised.
Nothing wrong with having nostalgia for the things we had as kids being a motivator to collect. If you are playing the games you buy and having fun this doesn’t apply to you.
I would say a couple warning signs off the top of my head would be If you are buying games due to the fear of missing out, compulsion, or you are trying to compete with another person to beat their collection size, or are motivated to attain a title that someone else doesn’t have purely to incite jealousy or envy from said person. If you are buying games instead of spending money on necessities or bills, things of that nature.
There could be a thousand other hypothetical scenarios we could come up with but I think if you’re honest with yourself you can find out what it is that’s creating the desire to buy a particular game, and if that reason is purely to slip it into the shelf in its alphabetical place and then move on to the next purchase, well if you make that a habit it can go south fast.
This doesn’t mean just because you’ve done that a few times in the process of getting your NES collection complete that this is a judgment against you. If your goal is to get a complete set then you knew what you were getting into and surely there are going to be some titles that don’t interest you but you don’t meet your goal without them. I get that.
If this is happening with several consoles at the same time or your goal is to get as many games as possible just for the sake of amassing a large pile of plastic that you can show off to guests, I would say that’s skating on thin ice and you’re in the business of consuming, not collecting or gaming.
Wholesome and necessary video, thank you
Agreed~👍
Wow! This guy inspires me so much!
I Love this collection down side... I see you getting a bigger house to display those games better. That collection is freaking intense!!!
Cool. I know it "holds me back," but I will always have a spot for games in my heart. Even if
I hardly ever play them any more...
I thought I had a lot of games, at 4500 and over 100 consoles (including many limited or collector editions) but this is an amazing collection, I’m glad he must have a very supportive wife and a very passionate gaming family……..I would love to see a very slow pan and see the titles of some I missed or may be interested in….crazy hitman PS4 ……take care and thank you for the video
You do have a lot of games
I’ve Got A PS5 PS4 Wii Wii U Nintendo Switch Xbox One S And A Nes
@@IglooPlays I Also Have A 3DS
@@thecollinshow5020 I've got a dig bick.
Imagine being a kid growing up in this house! 😵 I’m not sure I’d ever have gone outside!
This is like having the entire game store in your house, the hardest part is not having the time to play all the games in one lifetime
you can feel his passion thorugh his words, thats really wholesome, and he is prob the best uncle a kid can have lol
As a collector of games over 1k half of it digital, half of physical. That’s someone I respect a lot to keep collection. I don’t think he play every single one but from his eyes he tries to play the ones that mean most to him and that’s alot of goodness.
How do you collect digital games? It doesn’t make sense to me.
@Trash Animations oh okay I guess that makes sense
That might as well be a video game shop
Superb collection!
As for me, my gaming collection is around 400. Steady climbing the bar, I love it as well!
What an Amazing collection! tbh I'm just scared that he get robbed or the house got burned, anything that can break the collection scares me.
Every time I think to myself that I have way too many games, I come across a video like this, lol.
I Love this Antonio ❤️❤️ I subbed to you.
Impressive Collection Antonio!
I would love to own a collection like this.
You’ll have to become a millionaire 1st young son
I had a really big collection once, obviously nothing like this, but it never made me happy. I thought I would love it but its all just junk at the end of the day. I kept my mint GC complete exclusives collection and some other pieces, but all the NES, SNES, N64, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, PS Vita, GB, GBA, DS, 3DS, X box, 360, Pc big boxes etc all got sold. I made thousands off it. Whenever I miss it i watch stuff like this to remind my self that all collecting will end up like this guy. A room full of trash and little of it cherished. My take anyway, not that you asked.
This is much cooler than my penny collection.
Amazing.
i would be crying if i where in this room it's just so beautiful
I'm greatful to be a video gamer because of players and collectors like him!
No he's a hoarder not a collector.
@@darkhalf9134he’s a collector. Cope
- mom, I wanna buy some games
- we have games at home.
*games at home*
good ending
Fine addition to my collection
Wow. Nice video. Wonder if a year later with me watching this if you still have the biggest collection!
I thought Last Gamer had the biggest collection in the world at 44,980?
This man literally feed a game studio.
collecting games in Japan is such a great experience!! 🤩
Such a wonderful light into his pation. I could have never guessed he spoe about games, wonderful guy.
Antonio has a breath taking collection, but the most amazing game room and collection is Last Gamer´s in Australia. He stop going after the guiness record years ago, his collection is epic.
It's not a competition.
@@nixonhoover2 Well, it is, when you involve the Guinness World Record. And it's true, Last Gamer's collection can't be even compared in quality and quantity (thanks to his personal ties to people in the game industry): makes this one look almost normal, in my opinion. And if we're talking about value, Last Gamer has a Tetris Mega Drive cart that's probably worth half of this collection, alone.
Obviously an amazing collection. My only concern is the games stacked vertically.
Yeah I had my PS4 games stacked like that for a while now and under all that weight the cover inserts start getting damaged, from what I noticed so I now stack them side ways.
Yeah at a certain point space becomes an issue and getting rid of shelves is a solution. I wouldn't ever do that but he probably has rooms full of games.
This is amazing!!!!
This is truly amazing
This guy needs to make a video with MetalJesusRocks
For the collection the be worth 1.6 million, each game would have to have an average value of 69 dollars which I find to be extremely unlikely. For every game in the collection worth over 1000 dollars, there are probably over a hundred games in the collection worth under 5 dollars
80% of his collection will be worth $2 or less, though so his estimation is miles out.
1.6 million is what he told the insurance company
Great collection buddy. Take care.
Awesome collection!
Ask him how many he’s actually finished 😂
Makes me wish I wasn’t so careless about my older consoles and games I had as a kid. I don’t even remember what happened to most of them.
As a kid as some point I think we sold star wars rogue squadron, and I gave away my pokemon stadium. I regret it so much. I also have not found my hexen n64 copy for about 8 years either. Other than that I still have my whole collection. My collectors focus was never to be a massive collector who has to collect everything he sees, instead I focused mainly on NES and have around 92% of all the games. Honestly I do not really care about having them all, I just wanted a huge enough collection to fill up a massive shelving unit in my basement.
I also collected somewhat for SNES and N64, but for SNES I mostly only concentrated on quality games, since its the console I hold the most dearly to me from my childhood and I just want to have a collection of games I will actually play. For nintendo 64 I think I focused on getting all the n64 fps games, and just random titles. I'm not one of those people who got to conventions, and active brag about my collection. I will say what I have, and that is mostly it. I havent really collected any new games in a few years, mostly just because all I have left for NES are the most expensive titles. and most of the "Expensive" titles arent so great anyway except for maybe 10 more that I might consider if prices drop a bit. Sadly it doesnt look like that is happening any time soon because it appears retro gaming has gotten even bigger / wannabe scalpers are just buying everything up artifically making a lot of worthless games 100x more expensive in the past couple years. Totally sucks when scumbags want to ruin a hobby people do for fun right? I could care less if tomorrow all my games together became worth 5$, I rather see retro gaming accessible to everyone.
bro high as f*ck during interview , with those eyes i can tell . you are my HERO
videogames are amazing like that. they speak to so many different people in every age group, culture, and any other demographic, they connect us all. so many people are so passionate about this incredible thing we call videogames.
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From the time you were born to the day you die, these games could never be fully played.
Not true, but either way what’s your point?
@@ripmyname3533 might be true, but his collection like 90% of videogame collections (quantity over quality) are filler. Seriously, a good chunk of the stupid expensive games aren't even fun; just stupid rare. Playing with the top 1000 videogames ever made is very doable.
20,000 games, fully played. If each game only took one hour to fully play, so let's say beat is fully play, that's 20,000 hrs. That's 833 days to play 20000 games at an hour each never sleeping or eating or doing anything but playing. Except the majority take well over an hour to beat. Some take 60 hours. I think his statement is true.
There’s people who have the same passion as him or even love the games even more and they have Antonio’s collection on a hard drive.
And a lot more cash in their wallets
@@Ephesians-yn8ux true.
Torrenting the games doesn't hold the same weight as Antonio going out of his way to complete his physical collection. You can't collect virtual copies of limited game consoles.
@@Gigi-zr6hp who needs more or the same console when the original does the same? I understand the difference between the Pro models but everything else is for the birds
This is what broke jealous people say lol
Broooo...that Hitman suitcase PS4 is sooo dope ! I never even knew about that console edition
Antonio you're the man!
"And I still don't have anything to play"
Last Gamer Has a much larger collection
I came to the comments looking for exactly this.
When collecting I know the need to get every last one of something can be very strong and I’ve wasted money myself in this way but so much money on so many games that you could never have time to play is staggering!
It’s full of old games no arcade machines that saved games from being hated
Man imagine being his kid ,you'd have the coolest dad in the world and be in heaven
Everyone : 1.6 million wooooow
Gamespot : we can give you bout 1,000$ for all of it
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Oh and its store credit only
I'm a collecter myself but i could never with the shovelware. But to each their own
Im impressed i want that collection tooo! 😩
"Excellent video!"
I only collect games I actually want to play. Hoarding to this degree is severe mental illness.
That's pretty cool , collecting games is a hard thing to do in life but this guy achieved his dream.
Now what I need to see is a big basement with every console connected and ready to play any game from the stock. How cool would that be
Basically a hoarder who will never play 99.9 percent of the games while they just sit and collect dust.
Jealous much?
$1.6 million is the price of one unopened Super Mario nowadays.
That 1.6M value was manipulated. Sold and purchased by the same people.
@@mntngr346 Wata scammers?
I’ve always wondered if money truly changed hands on these million dollar transactions, or even the ones for hundreds of thousands. A fellow collector says he knows a guy who sold single sealed games for $100k plus, and he guarantees they guy collected his money.
Wow this is incredible
Nice to see the old Toys To Life games on display like Skylanders, Disney Infinity and even some Starlink at the end!
Unfortunate the collection looks crammed. Last gamer had it set out decently if he ever stuck to a game plan.
Everytime I check on his channel he's redoing the room or expanding. Ocd
@@ryandann9362 i think he sold is collection Quote me if i’m wrong
@@shadowking141ghost In a video after rumors were spread, Joel from the Last Gamer said he was offered enough money to retire on but turned it down. In his latest video, he was packing up all his games due to moving.
@@ryandann9362 Not anymore..
i dont think it's unfortunate. he has a collection that big crammed into a hallway and a couple of small rooms but it feels like he has a life outside of it without any game stuff which is better for his mental health
Congrats,your house=gamestop.🤣
I actually checked once, and I have more games than GameStop has active game SKUs in their system 🤣
@@antoniosgamecollection4718 epic!!!
This man is probably very happy with his collection and proud but tbh I would never like to have every game of every system ever made in my collection, even if I had the money and room for it. In my collection there are only games that I really like. I would never buy games that I don't like or don't want to play just for the sake of completing a collection. But it is very impressive seeing someone with another mindset and having done that.
The Embracer Games archive in Sweden has over 60000 games. Sure, it’s a company owned archive, but should be the largest collection in the world.
This is more than 1.6mill imo
5-10m in todays hobby
That's a lot of games, almost as much as John Hancock's collection.
Hancock is a scamming thief.Dont send that guy anything...not a penny.
@@marybetheby5184 and Last Gamer had a more kickass collection and set up Sadly I think he sold his collection to a guy in Sweden last year. Dude was more passionate than this guy. Just look up his room tour from 2017 or Games Room which was the more recent when he added an actually arcade room with over 97 machines
@@brianbruce4261 Oh,I know all about Last Gamer.His recreation of Flashback and his entire house was incredible.Followed him for 11 years.Hope he didn't sell.What a shame that would be..
He didnt sell
Very nice collection 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏼👌🏼🙏🙏💯💯💯💯💯💯
How is this judged? "The last gamer" had a 45,000 game collection 3 years ago
He hasn’t resubmitted and maybe never will.