Origin Systems artifacts up for sale on eBay.
Origin Systems artifacts up for sale on eBay.
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New owner says don’t worry about Origin Museum game items being auctioned

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Sheri Graner Ray was distressed recently when she saw that someone was selling artifacts from The Origin Museum on eBay.

The Origin Museum was formerly run by Joe Garrity. It’s been sold now and is in a third set of hands, and Graner Ray, a longtime game developer, said she was worried what would become of the museum.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.