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Until The Heist. | Vanity Fair]( [JASON BRASSARD SPENT HIS LIFETIME COLLECTING THE RAREST VIDEO GAMES. UNTIL THE HEIST.]( The contents of that safe had taken him nearly 30 years to acquire, a few titles only a handful of people had ever seen. “Every single game that was in the safe was very deliberate,” Brassard says. “I had the ultimate copies of those games, I had really sought them out over the years. They were in there for a reason. I identified with those games. Like … people know Jason owns those games that no one else has. And I shared them. I had archived them, preserved them.” It felt, he said, “like a tragedy for the video game community more than anything.” [Vanity Fair]( /posted [@nikolasworobey on Instagram]( [@nikolasworobey]( /bites - Take stunning, high-definition [photos and videos from the air]( completely hands-free with the Air NEO drone that’s dropped to $130 for the next week only - Stress messing with your sleep? 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