PHOTO: The archways, Holmes says, are echoed throughout the Asharoken home, which includes a variety of flooring surfaces. Photo Credit: Lucky to Live Here Realty
Before building a home in Asharoken in the late 1990s that he is now offering for sale for $5.75 million, video game pioneer Robert Holmes owned the house two doors down. At the time, Holmes — co-founder of Acclaim Entertainment, best known for video games such as NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat — was commuting to Manhattan and traveling regularly. He says he thought he should live closer to Manhattan.
“I looked for over a year,” Holmes says. “I drove a poor real estate agent crazy looking for waterfront property closer to the city.”
He ultimately found it … and it was about 300 feet closer to Manhattan. Just down the road from his original Asharoken home, Holmes had an 11,000-square-foot estate built on 4.2 acres with 225 feet of west-facing beachfront.
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