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Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn. If you'd kept it wrapped, you might have been able to sell that for a LOT of money

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

These "home pong" consoles were very common at the time. They don't really do much, so their main value is historical interest, and this isn't a particularly famous model. A quick eBay search seems to indicate it might go for GBP 80 at most, but probably more like GBP 20-40. So OP got a good deal, but they didn't find a lost Vermeer. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, it's a cheap pong clone, it doesn't have that much collector's value. Also I can just pack everything back up, it wasn't sealed just wrapped in plastic.