Every toy aisle in 1986 had a wall of pegboard, and every NES box hung from it by a little cardboard notch punched into the
Somebody finally lists a real copy of Little Samson, and you jump on it before you can talk yourself out of the price. It shows
Somebody posted a Super Mario Bros. cartridge graded a flawless CGC 9.8 last month and watched it sit for two weeks without a real offer.
Pull a graded NES game out of its case and you’ll find one big number on the label. Most buyers stop reading right there. That’s
You knew a kid whose game stayed in the closet, still wrapped in plastic, untouched since some Christmas in the late 1980s. Nobody dared open
Picture a kid in 1990 walking into a mall, seeing a line wrapped around a Sears or a Toys “R” Us, and finding out the
In July 2021, a sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold at auction for $1.56 million. It was the biggest number retro gaming had ever
Two copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 show up in the same online auction. Same title, same box art, same rough shelf-wear from a photo
Part of our original business plan included the statement that competition is good for the hobby. It didn’t take long for even more competition to