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Collecting for the N64 is much like collecting for the other cartridge based games, it is difficult to find the boxes in a good acceptable condition. I will eventually need to swap out Banjo-Kazooie, as it is the classics version. Super Mario 64 (1996) Approx Units Sold – 11.91 million In Super Mario 64, Mario…

I was recently gifted a box for a turquoise Nintendo DS Lite, which I thought would go lovely with the turquoise Nintendo DS Lite that I already have in my collection. So box in hand, I went searching for the DS, couldn’t find it anywhere in my collection, I looked everywhere I could think of…

This is the third post pricing up my gaming collection with the high street retailer CEX. I do this to get an idea of how much my collection grows in size and value. (See post from 2020 and 2022)…

So on a recent day off, I decided that I would tackle 3 projects that had been on the back burner for a bit of time. I first had to do a little retrobrighting on my Game Boy case, fix 2 joysticks with stuck buttons, and fix a NES with a blinking light issue….

Welcome to Collectors Edition, a semi regular series of posts where I talk about a few topics around what it is like being a retro gaming collector, along with anything else I want to talk about related to this whole retro gaming scene. I thought I’d start off with a big one and talk about the state of physical media in the 2024 gaming scene….

I have conceived a concept for a piece of wall art that would exhibit a selection of distinguished video game consoles, organized in a chronological timeline format. Beneath the graphical depiction of each console, there would be a notation indicating the year of its release….

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So 2 years ago I decided to see how much my collection was worth using the high street game store CEX (You can read the post here). I looked at their cash and voucher price that CEX would give me for my collection. I was quite shocked by how many games were omitted by CEX,…

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