Vectrex system video game Hyper Chase, ex. White Mountain collection, 1984

Characteristics: Hyper Chase video game for the Vectrex system with handwritten date of purchase "Fri 6/8/84 #2". Comes with its color overlay sheet, complete-in-box (CIB). Note that the video game has not been tested, sold as display collectible.

Provenance: Formerly from the Kennett Neily collection, of White Mountain pedigree fame. Kennett Neily assembled one of the best Silver Age comic book collections and made history during Sotheby’s sales in 1991-1993 (first major Comic Book and Comic Art auctions). Kennett Neily also collected video games and followed the same approach as for comic books, i.e., he kept them in sealed containers and wrote the date of purchase. Those pen marks have become the signature of objects once part of the White Mountain collection – It is only in the 2000’s that the hobby of collecting vintage video games really took off. The White Mountain collection, started in the early 1980s, is one of the earliest documented video game collections!

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