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  MarkkinanäkymätWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Eating the Retro MarketAsk anyone who tried to buy an original Super Nintendo last year and they'll tell you the same thing: a decent boxed console isn't the casual pickup it was five years ago. Loose consoles still turn up cheap, but clean examples with the right cables and a working RGB-capable board have crept steadily upward. And here's the thing collectors are only now admitting out loud — a growing chunk of players have stopped chasing the original hardware altogether. The reason is sitting on a lot of shelves
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  nintendoBuying a Game Boy Advance Without Getting a Fake CartTwo cobalt-blue Game Boy Advance SPs on the same shelf: same clamshell, same honest scuffs, same price. Flip them over and read the sticker on the bottom — one says AGS-001, the other AGS-101. That middle digit is the whole ballgame, and if the seller hasn't mentioned it, you should be the one who checks. The GBA is the rare platform where the hardware revision routinely matters more than the game in the box. It's also — less charmingly — home to some of the most counterfeited cartridges in all
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  nintendoThe Wii is everywhere, so what's actually rare?Somewhere in a drawer near you, a white Wii is resting under a tangle of cables, its sensor bar wrapped around a remote with a slightly chewed silicone jacket. Nintendo shipped over 100 million of these things, and it sometimes feels like half of them were donated, boot-saled or handed to a nephew before 2013 was out. That glut is exactly what makes the Wii interesting to collect: the hardware is nearly free, so all the collector attention concentrates in the stuff that isn't. Flip it over fir