"I don't understand your question" is my motto for the next year, thanks to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who took his time to avoid answering where the money for his possible eBay acquisition comes from.

Looks like that interview opened some kind of portal to hell circus, as Cohen has apparently decided to start "selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay." He created an account called ryan_5050 (50% cash, 50% stock, get it?) to see what appears to be Game Informer's vault of gaming memorabilia, as pointed out by Frank Cifaldi, the creator of the Video Game History Foundation.

The items listed by Cohen on eBay include a copy of Sumo Fighter for the Nintendo Game Boy released in 1993, Super Mario Bros 2 for NES, statues of Fallout's Vault Boy from GameStop headquarters, of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Halo 2's Master Chief, South Park's Mysterion and The Coon, GameStop store signs, signed baseball cards, a TTrump card, and dirty socks.

All of these come with a "Letter to eBay" as a "thank you" for support(?), signed by Cohen himself.

Well, at least we know where the remaining $16 billion will be coming from. I'd prefer to think it's a bizarre joke, but there's actually bidding happening for the items, ending in a week, so I'm not so sure. His account was suspended for a brief time, it seems, but you can now try to get these iconic things again.

But back to the vault. Here's the story: Game Informer is a magazine that was owned by GameStop for 24 years, but was closed in 2024 and later acquired by Gunzilla Games. When GameStop discontinued Game Informer, the vault of memorabilia was lost to the magazine, "which [senior video editor Alex Van Aken] described as containing development kits from old Nintendo and PlayStation consoles and sealed copies of games dating back to 1985," according to WECT.

Does it mean the vault's contents will soon be owned by eager fans? I can't confirm that what you see in the pictures is actually from the vault yet, but if so, this is a sad day for many Game Informer employees and fans.

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