<story><title>A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3749792/a-collector-is-selling-every-super-nintendo-game-for-24999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>At the risk of being down-voted into oblivion...Other than the fact that the guy selling the games is a programmer, so what? and why is this on HN?&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a rash viral digg/reddit style articles creeping onto the HN front page as of late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martincmartin</author><text>From the Hacker News Guidelines:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one&apos;s intellectual curiosity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3749792/a-collector-is-selling-every-super-nintendo-game-for-24999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>At the risk of being down-voted into oblivion...Other than the fact that the guy selling the games is a programmer, so what? and why is this on HN?&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a rash viral digg/reddit style articles creeping onto the HN front page as of late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Two reasons: Because his goal/usage of said games, and because complete collections like this is very rare.</text></comment>