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segaThe Mega Drive Is the Smartest Way to Start a Sega CollectionPick up a PAL copy of Streets of Rage 2 and the case still snaps shut the way it did in 1992. That one detail – Sega shipping games in hard plastic clamshells while Nintendo was still using cardboard – is half the argument for the Mega Drive as your first serious Sega collection. The other half: this was Europe's 16-bit machine, and today's PAL supply reflects it. Sega won Europe with the Mega Drive in a way it never managed in Japan. For a collector, that dominance means abundance: consoles, l
Condition & GradingSpotting Repro Carts and Resealed Boxes Before You PayFlip 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 open with a screwdriver from your kitchen drawer. That single detail has saved plenty of buyers from dropping real money on a fake. Reproductions and resealed boxes have gotten good enough that a phone photo won't always give them a
Buying & SellingHow to Buy Retro Games Without Getting Burned by ReprosThat 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're probably looking at a repro. And once you know what a fake Game Boy cart looks like, you start seeing them everywhere. The reproduction market has gotten good. Really good. Chinese factory boards now come with proper battery-backed saves, silkscreened