I f you happen to be from a certain generation – an elder millennial, say, or slightly older – then you’ll instantly recall the childhood excitement of an unwrapped, brand-new desktop computer or video game console. They weren’t just novelty household luxuries near the end of the 20th Century; they were gateways to a new world of possibility. Now, nearly half a lifetime later, a glimpse of the same still-packaged items should ignite the same giddy life-emotions — because they could change your financial future and bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
That’s according to a man who’s made a mint from memorabilia, the New Jersey-based subject of Netflix’s reality series King of Collectibles – Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin Auctions. Goldin spends his days hunting down the most valuable and rare items in existence that can fetch sky-high prices. And some of them just might be in the back of your mom’s attic.
“The big thing that’s becoming popular recently is older technology that’s never been used,” Goldin tells The Independent . “Original Apple computers are very valuable; sealed old iPhones; sealed, original video game systems; sealed old original video games; sealed original VHS – things like that.” That’s assuming you never took it out the box.
“Because, if you think about, going back to the old Nintendo NES system, and even before that, the early Ataris, if you had a box with all the games, you gave it to somebody and the ki.
