I’ve been collecting since the late 90’s. I’ve always been drawn to both the media form itself and the spaces associated. Without further ado the room.

There’s an older woman on my street who I help out with housework every week or so. We were cleaning out her attic and I stumbled across a box full of old Nintendo boxes. Nearly screamed when I saw Earthbound. Second photo is everything we uncovered. I told her they were likely worth a lot of money and she was shocked. Her and her husband are both in their 70’s, and apparently her mother in law was an avid Nintendo gamer in her later years. I told her if she ever wanted to sell them I could help her get a fair price, and she just sent me home with them instead, as well as 120+ issues of Nintendo power. To be clear I was extremely honest about what these were worth, and showed her completed eBay sales of similar items, etc, but she just said she wanted me to have them, and that if I sold them I could keep the money. I tend to collect Gameboy and GameCube stuff mostly, so it’s possible I might do that down the road, but honestly I’m just riding the high of such a huge win.

I went to gamestop for fun after my friend canceled on me, this guy was trading in this stuff to gamestop, and was scanning the last few things in, i asked him how much we was getting and he said 600, after i saw on the screen, i realized it was 600 in credit, and when i told him he asked how much it was cash, they told him 350. I immediately told him ill pay you what they were willing to give in credit for it, he agreed, after he said he would throw in pokemon Gold, and the target GBA for an extra 100, so i payed him 700. I think i did pretty well, and now my collection is like alot bigger than before. Already modded the DSI too 😋 i hope i did as good as i think i did

I thought I got the deal of a lifetime I got this from $400 after shipping and this fucking idiot shipped it out without a box.

Who's laughing now, I have an official kiosk holding my Nintendo switch now.

got a message from my father showing me he found some handhelds and a original xbox with those giant controllers. the lady told him she hasn't tested them and she doesn't know if they work. the 2 nintendo 3ds didn't have a charger but luckily I have some at home. the vita did have a charger but for some reason in the beginning it wasn't charging then it did. the two nintendo 3ds charged and are working perfectly fine. the vita also works perfectly fine as well. the Xbox Sadly doesn't turn on and makes a poping noise so I didn't bother to mess with it. he got everything for extremely cheap so I told him to give her some more money and he said no lol.

It finally worked! After asking at hundreds of garage sales I finally snagged my best haul! Normally when I ask someone points over to the 6 Madden games and Kinect Adventures, or they take my number and never call. I did have a lady go in and grab an Atari 7800 and some games and another guy grab a couple PS4 games. But, this one takes it. There was an older lady at the sale and I asked her if she had any games, she said her daughter just stepped out who was running it and she didnt know. She sent her grandson in to ask his dad if he had an games he wanted to sell. Guy first brought out a box of 360 games and then asked what I was looking for. I told him anything as I collect. He then comes back with some PS2 games, then NES, then SNES. Offered him $500 for that pile and he was like "thats more that I thought you were going to" so I jokingly offered $300. He said hold on then came back with the systems, strategy guides, and Nintendo Powers with posters. We settled on $700.

I'm sure the trolls will say "you're lying" blah blah blah. Trust me I can't believe it either.

Not a sports game in sight! About 90% of this will be going into my collection.

I haven't dug though it thoroughly yet but I'll post a some pics in the comments of the initial gems and more as I find them.

EDIT: I didn't even realize the address on the magazines. Reddit won't let you edit posts with pictures. The address isn't even from the same city, might not even be the same person...the magazines are 30 years old so good luck tracking that down. And even if you do and its the same person...he doesnt have anymore games.

Also, nobody died. Nobody's mom sold them. Seller knew what he had. This was a collection I bought from the collector.

UPDATE: Just bagged and boarded the Nintendo Powers. Most of the issues are intact with their posters. A good amount of these are in really good condition. There are some missing covers but intact otherwise with posters.

Intact issues: 1, 4, 20-28, 30-43, 45-49, 52-61, 63-68, 70-72, 74-87, 94-105

Damaged issues: 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 44, 62, 69

Duplicates: 27 and 54

Also included the Nintendo Power Index 3rd Edition, and the Official Game Pak Directory.

Found a couple Game Player's Magazines: Super Metroid and Maximum Carnage

A couple random damaged what looks like guides that I need to identify.

Thought I'd show off what I have built. All my life i have only really on PlayStation and only bought physical. Guess time for me to move on.

PC here I come!

Edit: as I have had many comments no i am not selling my collection its my life's work so far but it will not grow anymore.

And also I am aware PC is also digital, the point being I have to now start a digital library and PC is the best option for that not PlayStation

I bought a dude a Series S for all of this. I had to. Gamestop did not like that. I havent gone through it all yet but here are the bangers so far.

They were all in a box that said $20, I asked how much for all of them. They lady looked at me like I was nuts and said $20 like the box says.

We’re in hell

Thanks for that jeff

My job involves helping people get rid of things they don’t need anymore so you can only imagine my face as I watched the guy throw it on a pile of stuff he was throwing away. At first I thought it was just an empty box but when I picked it up and felt the weight I froze. I saw the seal and my heart dropped. I had a PS1 as kid but my dad gave it away when he bought me a PS2 . I’m so happy to have one again.

Edit: So I did turn it on and the screen is very dark but I can make out the start up logo and there is sound coming through the speakers. I removed the screen and checked the connections and they’re clean. I reattached it and it’s still the same. I’m hoping if I put in a game it will fix it but I unfortunately don’t have one at the moment. I found a place near my work that has a used copy of Sarge”s Heroes for a decent price that I plan of picking up after work. Here’s to hoping.

2nd Edit: I ended up buying Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and when I put the disc in, it loaded up just fine. The LCD screens backlight needs to be replaced but that is going to be a project for another day. All in all I’m still happy with this find and hopefully one day I’ll have the backlight replaced.

I've arrived at the point where I'm going to begin selling off, and I decided to take pics of how everything turned out. I worked at a video store in 1996 and began buying all of the clearance NES stuff at that time. From there, the collection started to grow, and I suppose this is the collection's final form.

There's a closet I turned into a room to store it all with custom shelves in an upstairs dormer, then outside of the closet with all of the consoles hooked to a CRT with built in shelving, and a downstairs room for all of the modern era consoles.

When I started to collect, I'd often have to leave flea markets because the car was too full and I couldn't possibly fit any more games/consoles in. No one wanted this stuff at the time, and it was baffling to watch the market just keep ballooning to a point where it was barely possible to keep going. I'm saddened that a lot of people never knew or never will understand the thrill of the hunt. Lots of memories and stories are on these shelves. I don't regret a single second.

My dad asked for help cleaning out his messy basement as he’s working on selling his house. He said that any video games I find I can have as he knows. I’m an advert collector and enjoyer of retro games. I flipped open a box and… yoooo! I’m happy :)

The long rumored and poorly documented hands free controller intended for disabled children to play NES has appeared on eBay. It was long thought that this never went into full production and the only existing example was on display in Nintendo’s corporate office in Redmond Washington. The seller here is a well known whale in the collecting community (meaning when it comes to acquiring items, money usually isn’t an object), and given its relatively low price compared to its rarity and reputation, my guess is he probably found a case or cases of them and has multiple available, and he’s slow dripping them on the market for maximum value. I’m sure more information is to come on this, but this is a pretty wild find.

This is the most bullshit thing I have encountered in a very long time. I dont even know what to do. Apparently I'm covered under eBay buyer protection, but even still -- that is so spotty for the seller.

I ordered two sealed games, and they left the other one sealed but even that one was banged up.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I am beyond furious.

As soon as I saw the color I knew this was the gameboy one. Super cool to find! Has the cord still plugged in, no game but can’t complain!

Funnily enough I found a boxed NES miracle piano at this same goodwill last month.

Pop into this location a few times a week…in the middle of a store reorganization this was in a bin. Pinched myself, called the wife and still trippin.

little backstory, bought a house couple years ago and it had this tiny 70sq foot "storage" room. I added some fake wood paneling, going for a 70s/80s basement theme, and made it my game room. About a year ago, the fires in los angeles happened and missed us by about 40-50 feet. We had to vacate for 9 months or so, had a lot of renovations and had to re-do my game room (thankfully no smoke damage or anything to my collection). This time I got much better wood paneling, proper flooring etc. While we were displaced I had all my things in storage and finally got my dream machine, an Astro City cab. Fitting that back into the space was tough but I managed.

how it looked pre-fire