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Monday, June 11, 2007

GameSniped - eBay The Easy Way For Game Rarities?

x.jpg Little slow on the uptake, here, but GameSniped is a fairly new site that does a great job of rounding up all the obscure, weird, and otherwise neat eBay video game rarities - lots of prototype hardware, software and merchandising - with new items listed daily.

The current highlight for oddness seems to be Sony Playstation Game Development Props, described as, uhh, follows: "This item was utilized in the Research and Development of making gaming character’s clothing appear more realistic. We took photos and digitized the gloves with our latest technology to capture the realism of the individual costumes for characters in War Games such as Socom and KillZone. These are also real Men’s Black Leather King Arms Motorcycle Gloves." So they're... gloves! OK!

And, whoa, this is the scariest Mario plush toy ever - "Here is another needlefelted artwork piece by Poorlulu of stabby critters fame. I absolutely have become addicted to needle felting. Needle felting is a very time consuming art process of stabbing wool roving a kazillion times with a very sharp barbed needle until the wool firms up and allows itself to be sculpted, it's very rewarding to see the process of wool resembling candy floss turn into the unique one of a kind toys/art pieces." Looks like Mario has been stabbed a lot, too - he's anemic and upsetting!

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You just had to spill the beans on this one and tell everyone about it, didn't you? Now I'll never get a Super Starfox Weekend game pak for a reasonable price!

I was debating whether I should mention it - I have a bid on one of the featured auctions right now - but I'm afraid my need to post overcame my need for self-preservation!

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