The buyer of the extremely rare Nintendo PlayStation has now been confirmed as video game collector Greg McLemore, one of the original founders of Pets.com. In the months leading up to the auction for the console, speculation was high about who would end up as the buyer, and what they would do with their piece of gaming history. As it turns out, the Nintendo PlayStation will be spending time at exhibitions and video game museums.

McLemore spoke with CNN Business, stating, “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." The “great deal” is certainly a relative statement as McLemore spent $380,000 USD to acquire the rare console, which is far lower than the estimates that the price would easily surpass over $1 million.

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Now it appears that the Nintendo PlayStation will spend time in several locations. McLemore is currently speaking with the USC Pacific Asia Museum in California who are planning an interactive gaming exhibition in the spring and summer of 2021, where the Nintendo PlayStation could be shown.

Apart from lending the piece of gaming history to museums and exhibitions, McLemore also states that he would like to open a permanent museum of his own, but is open to alternatives if his own plans do not work out as envisioned, "If that works, fantastic. If not, I've already identified other institutions that I think could be a good adoptive parent."

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Around the world, game collectors will be quite happy to hear that McLemore was the winner of the auction. In the lead up to the bidding, a major concern was that the console would be purchased and then quietly ushered away into a private collection, never to be seen again in the public eye in the same way that certain works of art are treated.

Instead, the decision to alternate between museums and traveling exhibitions is a step in the direction of continuing efforts for video game preservation, which has recently seen a surge of interest around the world. TheGamer recently wrote about how the National Video Game Museum in the United Kingdom is one of the more recent to open its doors, showing off the rich history of game development over the last five decades.

Wherever it ends up, it is great to see that the Nintendo PlayStation will be on display over the coming years as a piece of history.

Source: cnn.com

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