eBay Watch: Mini Arcade Replicas

Not real, but an incredible simulation.

Some amazingly cool U.K. artist is selling super-awesome mini arcade machine replicas on eBay for pretty darned cheap. These hand-made little gems are non-functioning and are for display only, but feature some amazingly precise detailing and very faithful cabinet design. For around $60 U.S. you can pick three designs from over 100, including all of your favorites like Pac-Man, Tempest and Paperboy, and they'll arrive fully constructed, signed and numbered by the artist himself. And since the replicas stand around 6" tall, they're a perfect match for your nerdy action figures!

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Mad Ducketts: Every Video Game Manual Ever

OK the title of this post was a bit exaggerated, but there's a gentleman on eBay selling his collection of over 800 classic video game manuals for only…drumroll please…$1,300. He's also taking best offers so you might throw him a lowball offer of like 20 bucks and see what happens. Who knows?
Here's the list of included items:

• Approx. 120 poster inserts
• 5 PS1 Manuals
• 2 large posters
• 10 PS2 Manuals
• 7 M Network Manuals
• 6 xbox live and other code papers. I do not know if the xbox live free months have been used.
• 8 Sega Dreamcast Manuals 
• 4 PS3 Manuals and 1 PS3 Art cover
• 5 NES Manuals
• 2 SNES Manuals
• 3 N64 Operational Cards
• Approx. 350 Random manuals and inserts
• 107 Sega Genesis & Game Gear Manuals
• 7 Atari/Sega Manuals
• 12 GameCube Manuals
• 5 Intellivision Manuals
• 16 Sega Saturn Manuals
• 10 Imagic Manuals
• 39 Activision Manuals
• 2 Xbox Manuals
• 2 Sears Tele-games
• 2 Wii Manuals
• 9 Sega CD Manuals
• 19 Coleco Vision Manuals
• 85 Atari

Before the internet, words lived on paper.

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Mad Ducketts: The $500 Pac-Man Watch

My kind of smart watch.

OK, these things don't come up often on eBay and when they do, they're gone PDQ. It's the Nelsonic Pac-Man watch and back in 198-whatever, they were hot, very hot, since the Holy Grail of gaming at that time was to bring Pac-Man into the home, even if he was a three millimeter dot on an LCD screen the size of a postage stamp. Nelsonic, who still exists today but just makes boring old regular watches (boo!) produced two different models of the highly coveted Pac-Man watch - one with the tiniest little joystick you've ever seen, and another that employed basic directional buttons instead - apparently the tiny joystick was too easily lost or broken for them to keep producing. 30 years later, Nelsonic's game watches are just as hot as they were when they were new (albeit in a much smaller market) and right now there's one on eBay that hails from the U.K., so I guess you wear it on your other wrist. The starting bid for this electronic bad boy? Just £299.99. That's about $500 to us Yanks, and there's three days left on the auction so I'm pretty sure the price will go up from there. Check out the video below to see a demo of someone else's awesome watch and then click the link to drop some mad ducketts on my Christmas present…and please include a gift receipt if you can. Thanks!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE LISTING FOR THE PAC-MAN WATCH