The Last Move
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Michael Thomasson has devoted his life to video games. It’s been his passion and his obsession for more than three decades. He owns over 11,000 unique game titles for more than 100 different systems. His collection is so large, in fact, that it's currently recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. But now, with his mother sick and facing an enormous mortgage, Michael must put his collection up for sale and hope someone will pay enough to cover his costs.
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Main credits
Thomasson, Michael (interviewee)
Maierson, Eric (film producer)
Maierson, Eric (editor of moving image work)
Romero, Ligaiya (film producer)
Romero, Ligaiya (editor of moving image work)
Storm, Brian (film director)
Storm, Brian (film producer)
Other credits
Director of photography, Andrew Michael Ellis.
Distributor subjects
aging, healthcare, illness, family issues, psychology, sociology, video games, American studies; Expository; WOKeywords
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My father had his passion
which was fishing.
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He recognized my passion pretty early.
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I don\'t know if he ever understood
it but he always respected it.
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He was a tough man, but he had compassion.
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He thought of three kids if
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anybody was ever going to really
strike it rich, or make it big,
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it was gonna be me.
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I want to make my pop proud.
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According to Guinness
Book of World Records,
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I have the largest collection
of video games in the world.
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In the galaxy.
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I have over 11,000
distinctly different games.
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All unique.
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And over 108 game systems.
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Where it all originally stems from?
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I\'m not, I’m not totally sure.
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Little compulsive, I don\'t know.
I don\'t know.
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Why do I have 20 Pac-Mans?
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Well, there\'s something wrong and twisted
in the back of my head, I guess.
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Here’s Pac-Man for the Atari 5200.
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Here’s Ms. Pac-Man for the Atari 5200.
Waka waka.
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Here’s Ms. Pac-Man for the Atari 7800.
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Ms. Pac-Man.
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Pac-Man.
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Pac-Man.
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Pac-Man.
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I’ve bought Pac-Man twenty times over
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and even though its the exact
same game in every platform,
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I keep buying it.
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I\'ve had hundreds of different
joysticks in my life.
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But I have to say this is my favorite one.
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It’s the Epyx and it was
mostly made for the Atari
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but you could also use it for Commodore
computers and everything else.
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But if you listen,
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it has microswitches in it.
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It’s crazy noisy but it’s super accurate.
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Every time I hear that, my
heart thumps a little, right?
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Kind of like a first love.
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It’s great.
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Suddenly, coin video games
are turning up all over
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the country, in supermarkets, barbershops,
doctors’ offices, bookstores,
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even at the jury room at the municipal
court house in San Jose, California.
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Well, naturally we have some questions.
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Where do these games come from?
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What effect do they have on the players?
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And what happens when they
appear in our communities?
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To get some answers,
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let’s go to the source.
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Summer of \'78 I was living
in Lexington, Kentucky.
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My brother and sister and I jumped on our
bicycles and rode to the Dairy Queen.
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And there\'s this huge hulking
box in the center of the room.
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People are all gathered around it.
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I see a little glimpse of something moving.
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I don\'t know what it is.
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I squirm my way through
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and I see the Space Invaders.
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I didn\'t realize it was
interactive at the time.
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Like there\'s a person there
and everybody\'s watching it.
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And I\'m like,
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what kind of TV show is this?
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That was the eureka moment.
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Whoa, this isn\'t a television!
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This person is controlling it,
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interacting with it.
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Every young kid of the 80s
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played games.
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You couldn’t get away from them.
They were everywhere.
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You\'d walk into an arcade and
it wasn\'t just the kids.
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You\'d have the businessmen in
their suits and their ties.
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You\'d have the moms
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that are just coming
from the grocery stores.
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It was the golden age in
the video game industry.
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I’m going to get more coins than you.
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Papa, stop, don’t! Papa, don’t!
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Okay I’ll leave you some.
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Go get ‘em!
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Jumpsy, wumpsy, little calumpsy!
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Good job.
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Look. I’m up.
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Get up there, OK?
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Playing a game it can take me to a
place that I normally can’t visit.
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I can be an astronaut or I can
be a doctor, a race car driver.
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In some ways it’s an escape.
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Here he comes. See if you can whack him.
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It fulfills fantasy.
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Papa. I can’t. I can’t.
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Good clean fun.
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Get out of the way. Go get him. Go get him.
Get out of the way.
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Oh, no!
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I\'ve always been careful to make sure that
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my interest in games doesn\'t
interfere with my personal life.
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Too much.
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I love you, honey. You’re a good girl.
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You too.
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Now I lay me down to sleep,
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I pray to God my soul for God to keep.
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May angels watch me through the night.
And keep me safe till morning light.
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God bless:
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Aunt Trixie.
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Trixie.
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And Pappa.
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Georgia.
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Me.
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Anna.
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Stuffed animals.
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Goodnight, Pappa.
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Goodnight, Anna.
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I always make sure I
have my daughter in bed.
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And my wife’s in bed.
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And if I still got energy left in me,
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I’ll play some games.
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Oh, no, no!
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I\'m in Homosassa, Florida
visiting my mother.
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Right now her kidney numbers are
stabilized so she’s doing good.
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So excited to see you
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You look good.
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God, I forget how tall you are.
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I’m still tall.
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I know it.
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It’s all on you.
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Hi, Derby. How are you, Derby?
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He’s so happy to see you.
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Give me kisses.
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I can’t stand up very long.
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Excuse the mess.
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I figured you all wouldn’t
be here until eight or nine.
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I get here every couple of months
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and every time I leave I always wonder
if it\'s going to be the last time.
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It’s probably going to still be too tall.
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Well, it’s not too bad.
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It’s still too tall.
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Pull this off.
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They sure are pretty.
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Pretty flowers for a pretty mom.
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My mom, she doesn\'t have Alzheimer’s
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but she has some oxygen issues
and with the the kidney failure
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sometimes she has Alzheimer’s type systems.
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And you’re going to put
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vodka and tonic water in it?
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Yes, ma’am. I know what you want.
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Ice, too.
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And ice, yes. Not a lot of ice.
Just a cube or two.
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I’ll fill it to the top with ice.
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I know what you like.
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I need you out of the way
so I can do the dishes.
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You’re a pain.
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The best pain you got. And
you got a lot of pains.
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You’re right.
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Here. I’ll bring this for you.
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You just…you OK?
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I’m OK.
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Your cane is right there to your right.
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I know.
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As a mom I\'m very proud of
him because of who he is
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but of the games that
doesn\'t impress me much.
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They\'re just games to me.
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So that doesn\'t matter to
me one way or the other
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but if thats what he loves,
I think that\'s wonderful.
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I’m kind of limping around.
I’ve got a big butt.
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Step up.
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Wow. Look at the sun
coming in to that room.
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Oh, gosh.
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I got to go lay down.
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My dad set her up for success and he saved
well for when after he passed away.
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The original idea was a new home which
is smaller would be paid for in full
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with the old home after it sold
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and then give her money to live on.
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But we kind of got in an
unexpected situation,
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the whole housing market crashed
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and of course Florida got hit the hardest.
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We sold the old house at a huge loss.
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So instead of paying off the house in
full and giving her money to live on,
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it gave her a mortgage instead.
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Oh, would you make me a drink?
A drink-drink?
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No, you just had a drink.
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Well, I’d like another one.
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Well, I bet you would.
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How about some milk instead? And
a little lunch to go with it?
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Uh-uh.
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No?
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No, I’ll wait till dinner.
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OK.
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He doesn’t like me drinking.
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Two drinks are my limit usually.
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And tis is just my second one, so.
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It helps my back so much.
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Two drinks and my back
eases off a little bit.
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Well there was a commercial on TV,
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the question was, are you
going to outlive your money?
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And my mom looked at me and she
goes that\'s, that’s me isn\'t it?
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I said it might be but we\'re okay right now
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and we need to make some
moves and make some changes
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to make sure that that doesn\'t happen.
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Before my father passed away,
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I\'m pretty sure he asked my older
brother to look after mom.
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He\'s been very valiant at that
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at a lot of personal expense
on him and his family.
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I don’t feel like I’m pulling my weight.
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I don’t feel like I’ve been doing enough.
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I only have one mother and she
won\'t be around much longer.
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So now I’m selling the collection.
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And I don\'t want to be the guy that says I can\'t
get off work or I can\'t afford to get there.
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Or I can\'t afford to get there.
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So I can do it with this.
So I\'m going to do it.
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Hopefully somebody buys it.
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My name is Mike Kennedy
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and I\'m founder of video gaming
auction site gamegavel.com.
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We’re the only gaming
auction site in the world.
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So Michael contacted me
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seeing if i\'d be interested in
running this auction for him.
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He had some questions, of course.
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What benefits might he
have listing the auction
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with us versus a big site like eBay.
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One of the things we try to do
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is to verify all of the bidders.
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You know, it’s exciting for somebody
that operates a smaller site to,
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you know, have somebody put as high
profile auction on your site as this
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which, is I mean, is as high
profile as you get, frankly.
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So I’m logging in to GameGavel.
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It’s for auctions for gamers and geeks.
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This collection consists
of all 10,607 games
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that were verified by the Guinness Book of
World Records during the official count
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performed on December 3, 2012
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as well as 400 plus more games
that I’ve acquired since.
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In total over 11,000 games.
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Guinness did not count duplicates so
every game is unique with no repeats.
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And I am also including the
actual Guinness certificate.
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Go crazy.
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And finally, I just read about
this guy here in New York
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who was selling the world’s
largest video game collection
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which has 11,000 games.
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He doesn’t really want to sell it but he
needs some way to pay for his divorce.
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We have a great show.
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No way.
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The Oculus Rift creator, you’re
talking about the gentleman
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that is creating the new VR headset,
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that just got bought out by,
who are they working with now?
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Oculus Rift, Facebook.
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And he’s considering buying the world’s largest
game collection that’s up for auction?
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I have not seen that anywhere.
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If you could forward that to
me, that would be amazing.
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I am, I am
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shaking, I am shaking right now
with the news you just told me.
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If he’s in fact in the running,
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one, that let’s me that my collection is
going to go to a good home and be respected.
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And that means a lot to me.
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And two, that means
everything is going to be OK.
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I want this collection to go to
somebody that appreciates it.
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And I’d like to think that the person
that buys it, keeps growing it.
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Maybe he can take it farther
than I can take it.
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Because I have to stop.
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Hey, Mike.
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See the auction ended.
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Surprised to see no
movement at all at the end.
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So hope this guy is the real deal.
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I don\'t see his contact information
or how to contact him.
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So, I guess I need to hear
from you for the next step.
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So, if you could send me an email or
contact me that would be fantastic.
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Thank you so much.
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Bye.
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Going to feel a whole lot more real
when I start putting games in boxes.
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See the shelves empty one-by-one
until 11,000 of them are gone.
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That’s going to be the hard part
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when I’m touching the games
that I’m getting rid of.
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Then it’s going to seem more real.
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I think my dad, he‘d be very proud.
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That I was able to pull it off.
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I miss him.
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My biggest fan.
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Did you make this?
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Yeah.
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Happy Father’s Day. Will
you read this to me?
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And it says, love–
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Love, Anna.
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Anna, that’s you.
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I’m filled with a lot
of emotions right now.
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It’s refreshing.
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It\'s like I\'ve walked in to a new room.
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I don\'t know where its going to lead me,
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what’s going to happen but new
chapter in a new book, right?
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I’m sure I’ll be reading
the old books again.
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Books being video games, of course
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I\'ll buy my favorites
back and I\'ll be playing.
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I don\'t think this is going to be the end
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of Michael Thomasson.
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I want my daughter and my
wife, my brother to know that
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I will do anything for them.
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I don\'t have anything bigger to give.
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You never know the quality of the people
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that are going to be bidding
on something like this.
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We thought the guy that won it was legit.
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He said he was legit.
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And, you know, come to find
out soon after, he wasn’t.
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What do you do?
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There was a lot of time spent and
effort on many people’s parts
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to promote this auction.
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To tell the story of this auction.
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It was just kind of a big waste of time.
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I spent
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years setting this up.
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Had a very meticulous,
00:16:56.125 --> 00:16:59.124
well thought out, well
structured and organized plan.
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I was trying to be the
hero for a lot of people.
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I was just filled with a sadness.
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I don\'t think when he made his bid that
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he would realize some of the possible
ramifications that could come from this.
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He\'s hurting people.
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As a result I\'ve been having
conversations with my brother.
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We\'re hoping my mom could die in her home.
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That may not be the case now.
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We\'re talking about moving
her into an apartment.
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And with her not being able to
fully comprehend and understand
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what\'s going on in the world its
going to be a difficult thing to do.
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And even after she\'s there
she\'s not going to understand
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why she\'s there or how she got there.
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So it’s going to be a
continuous battle to deal with.
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And this is just one circumstance
because of his actions.
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I could be a lot more bitter about
what\'s happened with the auction
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than I am and some days I am.
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It’s tough to forgive.
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He did it and then it ended for him
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but it keeps going everyday for us.
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I like to think that what
he did wasn\'t malicious.
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Maybe maybe he can find in his
heart to apologize some day.
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I guess its okay to fail as
long as I tried to do my best
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and I know that I\'ve done that so
I\'m not going to have any regrets.
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This is just one more hill to
climb and we’ll get to the top
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and we’ll walk back down the other side.
00:19:01.417 --> 00:19:02.542
Let me rest for a second.
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I’ll race you.
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Here’s boxes. Here’s boxes.
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Two points.
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Can you do it? Try throwing it in the back.
Here, catch.
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Good catch. Good thing that’s not heavy.
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You’re little brother’s got some news.
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I sold the game collection.
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It actually sold on mom’s birthday
which I thought was a miraculous sign.
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But still waiting for all the contracts
but this time should be legit,
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I got a large deposit put down, so.
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I’d be very surprised with
that if it doesn’t happen.
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Well, the buyer wants the total to
remain private between him and me
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so I’m not revealing that number
to you or anybody else but
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it’s enough, it’s enough to
do what needs to be done.
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You know I did this for my
own family and help mom,
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but I’m tired of my
sister living in squalor
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and I’ve been thinking a lot and
that house you were looking at,
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I think I’d like to buy it for ya’.
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What’s that?
00:20:32.709 --> 00:20:38.829
I can barely understand you
over your tears, girl.
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You’re very welcome.
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And, don\'t thank me yet
but we’ll get there. OK?
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Love you, sis.
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Goodnight. Bye.
00:21:05.375 --> 00:21:08.833
We’re going to access the
situation with my mother.
00:21:08.834 --> 00:21:10.124
We need to make
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sure that she’s as comfortable as
can be while she’s still with us.
00:21:18.830 --> 00:21:20.208
It’ll be nice to know that I can
00:21:20.209 --> 00:21:23.049
pay the mortgage without worrying
where the money’s going to come from.
00:21:31.167 --> 00:21:33.750
I was happy and excited that it sold
00:21:33.751 --> 00:21:37.499
and I could do good and my heart
kind of sank, too because
00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:38.667
all the games got to go.
00:21:51.209 --> 00:21:53.333
It’s going to be hard
walking back in that room
00:21:53.334 --> 00:21:55.167
with it being empty.
00:22:03.292 --> 00:22:05.958
I don\'t know. I don\'t know
how I’m supposed to feel.
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I don\'t know how to describe how I feel.
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It’s good that there’s an ending.
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That makes me happy.