Cartridges in 1996. Sony had already proven the CD was the future with the PlayStation a year earlier, and Sega was fumbling around with the Saturn. Then Nintendo shipped a 64-bit console that still read chunky plastic carts, and somehow it worked anyway. That decision explains almost everything interesting
Hold a translucent Atomic Purple Nintendo 64 up to a window and you'll see exactly why collectors keep bidding these up: the smoky-clear shell shows off the board, the heat sink, the whole industrial guts of a 1996 console Nintendo usually hid behind grey plastic. It'
Pop the back off a Game Boy Color copy of Pokemon Gold and you'll find the thing that decides whether the cartridge is worth buying: a CR2025 battery soldered to the board, quietly dying since 2000. That battery didn't just hold your save. It ran the
Flip a suspicious NES cartridge over and look at the two screws holding the shell together. If they're Phillips-head, you're holding a reproduction. Nintendo used a proprietary 3.8mm security bit on genuine grey carts, and no factory in 1988 shipped a game you could
That gold-label copy of Pokémon Crystal for a suspiciously low price? Flip it over. If the back sticker's font looks a hair too bold, the ESRB rating box is slightly off-centre, or the cartridge shell has a seam that doesn't quite line up, you&
A loose Super Mario 64 cart turns up at every car boot sale in the country, and it's worth about what you'd expect for a game that shipped by the truckload. Put that same cart back in its box with the manual and the cardboard tray,
September 9, 1999. Sega ran the "It's thinking" campaign and shipped a console with a built-in 56k modem when most people were still fighting their family for the phone line. The Dreamcast launched in North America that day and moved a genuinely huge number of
Ask anyone who's tried to play a boxed copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga on original Saturn hardware lately: the tax on "authentic" retro gaming keeps climbing. Working consoles die, capacitors leak, and CRTs are heavy enough to throw your back out. Which is exactly why the
Retro spil i Danmark bliver handlet på tværs af små webshops, loppemarkeder og private sælgere, og udbuddet svinger fra uge til uge. Det gør det svært at vide, hvor man skal kigge først. Nedenstående fem butikker sælger alle gennem Golisto, og de har lager nok til at være værd at
Pull that grey brick out of the loft and the first question is always the same: box or no box? With the Nintendo 64 it matters more than almost any other cartridge-era console, because Nintendo's cardboard boxes were flimsy, the styrofoam inserts got binned by every kid
September 9, 1999. Sega spent the day chanting "9/9/99" like a marketing incantation, and for once the hype was earned. The Dreamcast landed in North America with a launch lineup that actually mattered, a 128-bit Hitachi SH-4 CPU, and a built-in 56k modem
PAL was its own market, with its own scarcity and prices – and a handful of games that never left the region. Here's how to hunt regional retro games without overpaying.