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  nintendoThe N64 Condition Checklist Every Collector Should RunGrip the analogue stick and rotate it slowly before you look at anything else. If it wobbles in its socket like a loose tooth, sits low, or crawls back to centre like it's exhausted, you've just learned more about that console's life than any listing photo will tell you. The N64 stick is the most honest condition report in retro gaming – which is why it's step one on this checklist. Why the stick test comes before everything else The original N64 controller stick rides on plastic gears inside
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  SanastoWhat CIB, Loose and Sealed Really Mean on a Game ListingSet two copies of Rayman for the original PlayStation side by side. The early North American printing lives in a tall cardboard long box, roughly the proportions of a VHS tape. The PAL copy sits in a standard CD jewel case. Both sellers can honestly describe theirs as “complete” – and they'd be promising you entirely different stacks of cardboard and paper. That's the trouble with collector shorthand. CIB, loose, sealed, NIB – the words sound precise, but what they actually cover shifts with pl
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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