Did you recognize that each Dreamcast’s CPU accommodates about 50 milligrams of gold? I did not, however apparently that is true…not that I can discover a supply to again it up. Turns out there’s additionally a group of individuals on this massive outdated world who extract gold from CPUs for the aim of earning money. Although, based on this web site: “there’s little or no revenue from extracting the gold content material present in most pc chips and digital parts your self except you might have vital portions of recyclable materials to be processed.” So fret not my fellow Dreamcast followers, if you’re fortunate sufficient to personal a number of Dreamcasts, you might extract sufficient gold from them to afford some fries at McDonalds or one thing.

If you fancy a few of that Dreamcast gold goodness for your self, and cannot be bothered retrieving it from your individual console, ‘RetroOldTech‘ has simply the product for you: an engraved gold bar of Dreamcast gold – or a ‘lingot’ – as it’s listed, for the discount worth of €75.00 (£65.68/$77.19)! It is seemingly the “best gold on earth,” has a purity of “9.9.99” and is available in at a mighty 128 karats.

In case you haven’t figured it out but, this product is totally in jest. If you’re taking a fast look on the product’s web page, you’ll quickly realise this isn’t precise gold, and is merely a joke/novelty product.

In latest years, there was a surge of independently-crafted joke toys. Most seemingly impressed by parody artists comparable to Obvious Plant, creators throughout the web have took to creating and promoting their ironic do-it-yourself toys, all introduced relatively neatly with cardboard backings, simply how the outdated Star Wars 3.75 inch figures had been introduced. 

Probably the easiest way to reveal the lengths of absurdity this pattern has reached to, try Ben Gore’s ‘Saturn’s Son’ determine. Inspired by  Francis Goya’s notorious portray of Saturn Devouring His Son, you obtain his son, devoured, introduced as when you might’ve walked into Toys ‘R’ Us again within the day and located it amongst the motion figures. Products like this aren’t actually meant to be taken out of their packaging and are supposed as a novelty, the form of factor you’d show in your home to make your folks chuckle once they go to, so long as they’ve a really particular sense of humour.

Now you recognize this is not actual gold, maybe the value appears a bit on the excessive facet, however I suppose you simply need to do not forget that this would possibly not be a mass produced product, and is a almost definitely made in somebody’s residence only for the enjoyable of it.

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