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Atari Spotted On Television Show Hoarders

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I watch this show on Netflix every night and I've noticed quite a few classic video game systems on there, my girlfriend was the one that brought the first couple to my attention, I missed them at first.

For anyone that doesn't know what this show is, it's people that just hoard things in their house. It's mostly people that just can't throw anything away, including garbage, and their house is piled floor to ceiling with junk and they just continue to buy useless crap. Eventually the walls rot out, bugs are everywhere and the city tells them to clean it up or it'll be bulldozed. Cameras film the hoard inside the house and often times there are video game systems hidden among the piles of garbage.

 

So far I've seen:

- World Class Track Meet running pad

- NES Zapper

- Nintendo64 Storage Unit

- And this.....Atari Jaguar in the box:

 

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I just took a picture of my television, hope you can make it out. The woman whom had this was 48 and had a collection of over 1000 dolls that she talked to and cared for like children. Real messed up in the head. I believe this is her living room. Most times they just throw most of the trash in a dumpster or donate it to get it out of the house so the city doesn't bulldoze it so this probably got tossed or donated.

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There was one episode a few years ago where the (young-ish) hoarder had some fairly rare Playstation RPGs -- they were just lying loose on the floor in amongst the dirt and filth. It was still painful to watch them go into the garbage. :(

 

Probably any hoarder will have a few items of value to a collector, but how easy is it to find that rare person? My Grandfather, for example, had many hundreds of vinyl records from obscure religious groups of the 1960s and 1970s. Somewhere, there probably exists someone who would value and cherish such a collection. When the time came to empty his house, however, we did not have the resources to find that person so off to landfill they went.

 

Happily, I did manage to find a buyer for many of the obscure religious books from his collection so those went to a good home.

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Wow, I've watched a bunch of Hoarders eps but don't recall seeing any video game stuff on them. I can't imagine that boxed Jag smells very good :)

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Wow, I've watched a bunch of Hoarders eps but don't recall seeing any video game stuff on them. I can't imagine that boxed Jag smells very good :)

Ya, Ebay should have new specifications:

- smoke free home

- pet free home

- hoard free home

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Watched another episode tonight and they found a N64 game. It went straight into the garbage, anyone know what it is? I couldn't get a good enough view of it and my stupid pause button covers it perfectly.

 

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Probably any hoarder will have a few items of value to a collector, but how easy is it to find that rare person? My Grandfather, for example, had many hundreds of vinyl records from obscure religious groups of the 1960s and 1970s. Somewhere, there probably exists someone who would value and cherish such a collection. When the time came to empty his house, however, we did not have the resources to find that person so off to landfill they went.

 

I loathe to throw away stuff someone in the world might still need but giving in to this urge bears a certain danger of ending up as a hoarder yourself.

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