A Video Game Collection

Another crappy picture, but then it’s tough to get good shots down in the little hole where I used to keep my active systems. This is a launch Xbox, a little bit worse for wear but if I cleaned it up a bit it’d look good as new. The hard drive in it screams like [...]

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Now, here’s an example of why every collector should visit Japan at least once, and preferably multiple times, with as many empty duffle bags as you think you can carry full on the way back. I’m lucky enough in that I have family there now so I’m actually required to visit every now and [...]

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I picked this system up more or less on a whim, but it’s become one of the pride and joys of my collection. This is an original 1977 Sears Video Arcade - the “heavy sixer”. Atari made these both under their own brand name and under the Sears brand name in order to be sold [...]

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This is another interesting Sears-branded Atari system, although unfortunately (for me, anyway) this is one of the few unboxed systems that I have, and one of the controllers has a busted spring. It’s a really cool system but I probably will replace it at some point.
The Sears Video Arcade II is actually just a [...]

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Well, here you go - the system that started it all for a lot of people. I never owned one of these when it was new but this was the first system I bought when I started getting nostalgic in the 90’s. Paid $15 for it with 13 or so games in the early days [...]

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I don’t really have that much to say about this system, as it’s just not one that I’m personally very attached to and I don’t even know all that much about it. I do know that it’s the US version of the Japanese PC Engine, a legendary system in Japan that’s more than just [...]

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Back in the early 1990’s, Sega had shockingly dethroned Nintendo from their perch at the top of the home console arena - at least in the United States. Sega put Nintendo in an awkward position, forced to either prematurely kill their successful Famicom in Japan, or cede the 16-bit era to Sega in the United [...]

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