I’m glad that the Nintendo Play Station is highlighting the need for video game preservation, and obviously I wish we’d been able to have it in the museum’s collection, but we’ve never had the goal of getting every single piece of gaming history. Electronic games curator for The Strong museum in Rochester, NY said, McLemore is currently working with museums across the United States to see the Nintendo PlayStation shared with the public as a piece of video game history.

I believe I got a great deal… To me it was worth it, especially when combined with the rest of my collection, the whole of which tells a story I want to save for society. It’s the single most expensive thing I’ve ever bought outside of a house. This was until a few weeks ago when Diebold placed the infamous prototype online for auction and was ultimately purchased for $360,000 by the founder of and Greg McLemore. During a company auction, the Nintendo PlayStation then found itself in the possession of Terry Diebold where he held onto the console for years to come. Olafsson’s time at Advanta only lasted three years and when he left, he did so without taking the Nintendo PlayStation with him. Olafsson resigned from Sony in 1996 and brought the prototype with him to his new venture at Advanta. 199 of these prototypes were allegedly destroyed after the two companies’ falling out, however one remained in the possession of Olaf Olafsson, founder of Sony Computer Entertainment.

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