By Ap  Reporter PUBLISHED: 02:19 EST, 24 December 2013 | UPDATED: 03:45 EST, 24 December 2013 Maybe it was getting his first video game, Cosmic Avenger, for Christmas at the age of 12, and then having to wait an entire year for the hard-to-land Colecovision console to play it on that made Michael Thomasson so determined to get his hands on every video game and system he could find. Now, 31 years and roughly 11,000 games later, Thomasson is the newly crowned world record holder for having the largest collection of video games.
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Michael Thomasson has just made the new Guiness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition for having the largest collection of video games
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He estimates the cache, which he keeps in the basement of his Buffalo home, to be worth about $700,000 - $800,000
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While there are many favorite's, he says the worst of the bunch is the Pippin, apple's foray into games that was released in 1995
It took counters from the @placeholder days to get through Michael Thomasson's games 'archive'