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Old Consoles = Problems

So my lovely old, retro NES arrived last week. I was eager to play on Mario 3 with the tiny square controllers so I hooked up the machine, slid in a game and hit the power button………
Nothing! Just a white screen.
I did what all people who have experienced a Nintendo games console would have [...]

eBay Success

Finally!!!
The days has come. After looking on eBay for an old NES for approaching a month now I finally managed to seal a deal. The thing is I was actually outbid on the item and only got offered the system on a 2nd chance offer. I’m just thankful for little boys using their parents account [...]

eBay is hard!

I must have bid on 15 auctions for either a PSOne with screen or NES Console and was outbid on everyone of them. I started to think of other ways to get an old console but when I first considered the project I thought it would be easy to win one on eBay. Anyway I [...]

eBay Auction- Not Won!

The “project” took a step sideways the other day, the auction for the NES console closed with the final bid being about $30 more than I’d hope to have paid. Thinking about it I would love to have an old style NES and not chop it up so maybe the NES to portable challenge may [...]

How much can your old stuff get you?

When I was looking at buying the old NES and SNES consoles I came across a web site called RarityGuide.com - Price Guides, the site is great to look up old games for both of these consoles as well as Playstation 1 & 2 games and the consoles themselves along with a load of other [...]