A Sad Collectors story and food for though.

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The floods in Austrailia are truely awful, even more so was the loss of belonging of a Retro game collector. I will ofcourse admit that physical objects can no way be compared to the loss of lives in the disaster, it's still a sad story.

Vintage Gaming Collection Washed Away In Aussie Floods
Over the past week, large areas of Australia's eastern seaboard have been ravaged by floods. Billions of dollars worth of damage has been done, and sitting quietly amidst that tally is this man's retro gaming hardware collection.

Aussie collector NFG's house in Queensland was among those affected, flood waters getting into his home and destroying many of his personal belongings. Among those belongings was an amazing collection of retro gaming hardware, once a glittering array of the medium's past, now a worthless pile of mud-soaked plastic and chipboards (and rare Nintendo hanafuda cards).

PC-Engines, old Sega consoles, Neo Geos, Spectrums, FM Town Martys, old Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds...all gone. You can check out the damage in the gallery below.

The floods so far have cost twenty lives, with grave fears for dozens more still reported missing. To give you an idea of the scale of the disaster, late last week the total area of the state of Queensland lying underwater was larger than that of Germany and France put together.

[Gallery @ NFG]

Check out the full story and pictures from Kotaku


This does bring up a big and important question, home insurance policies do not cover our games and items, in fact any collectable goods require special insurance. The maximum cover would be the retail price of new games and not the value of goods on ebay. Older games would be considered nothing.

It doesn't have to be a natural disaster, it could be fire or theft.

So has anyone considered this and taken any precautions, some of us have items worth in the thousands region.